Dax Harwood Confirms FTR Have Re-Signed With AEW – According to comments he’s made previously, FTR contracts with the company expired this month. However, Harwood stated on a yet-to-be-released episode of his podcast that they have re-signed and will remain in AEW.
Harwood said:
“As I’ve said a million times. Never did I want a bidding war between WWE and AEW or to play one side against the other,” Harwood said. “I appreciate everyone that reached out to me, through other, no pun intended, endeavors or avenues and were interested in having us back, wanted to have us back, said they made a mistake in letting us go. For me, Cash, Maria (his wife), Finley (his daughter), the best course of action for us was to stick around in AEW.”
Harwood also addressed when him and Wheeler reached an agreement with AEW to return.
“Yes. We have re-signed with AEW,” Harwood confirmed. “If you think…Vince has officially been back in charge since right before WrestleMania? If you think that we put pen to paper as soon as that happened and Tony (Khan) made all the adjustments as soon as that happened. I don’t know if you understand how business or contracts work. If you think we went into the building Wednesday night with no contract signed and said, ‘we’re not going to sign unless you give us these belts.’ You’re so short-sighted. I said on the podcast months ago, we knew what we wanted to do and everything was getting fine tuned. We knew way before Vince came back in charge what was going to happen. Yes, we have re-signed with AEW.”
Harwood continued to say that his relationship with Tony Khan played a role in their decision to remain with AEW.
“I felt that, working for Vince, I was just a number. Vince has taught his minions underneath him into thinking everyone is replaceable and everyone is just an object and he places these objects where he wants to. We’re not. Maybe in wrestling we are objects, but wrestling should be just a percentage, a small percentage, of what your life is. For better or worse, that’s how Vince runs his business. I was just a number, just an object to Vince. To Tony, I am a human being. He cares about me, my feelings, my family. Working for someone like that, obviously, is going to make our decision much easier when comparing and contrasting to a person who just has us as a number.”
FTR won the AEW Tag Team Championships for the second time last Wednesday on Dynamite. Their match with The Gunns carried the stipulation that had FTR lost, they would have to leave the company.
FTR made their AEW debuts on the May 20, 2020 episode of Dynamite. Since signing with the company they’ve won the AEW Tag titles twice, the ROH Tag titles, AAA Tag titles, and the IWGP Tag tiles. They were voted Tag Team of the Year in the 2022 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards and their rivalry with The Briscoes was awarded Feud of the Year.
Dax Harwood Confirms FTR Have Re-Signed With AEW
