Triple H Tried To Convince Major AEW Stars To Return To WWE NXT

During an interview with talkSPORT‘s Alex McCarthy, FTR’s Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood spoke about their respective releases from WWE and how Triple H tried to get them to return to NXT.

Ahead of their match with The Young Bucks at Full Gear, FTR spoke to talkSPORT about how Triple H made them offers to rejoin NXT and explained why they turned the opportunity down:

Dax Harwood: “There were talks with us and Triple H to go back to NXT and they tried very hard to keep us. It was all professional and all respectful and we were very gracious to the offers we got and to what Triple H was going to provide for us, but ultimately, we knew that our time in WWE was over at that time. We knew it was time for us to move on because money is great, and I am so fortunate and lucky to take care of my beautiful wife and perfect little six year old daughter because of professional wrestling… If we stayed with the uncertainly that would have been for The Revival, we would have done a disservice to ourselves and professional wrestling. We never want to do that.”

Cash Wheeler: “Once we got pulled from all of our dates on the main roster, it was down to NXT as the option and we talked to Hunter at length, there were offers on the table that were very tempting because we loved NXT and we loved our time there, but at the end of the day like Dax said, we knew that our time there was done. We didn’t want to go back to the past – we’d done that. We wanted to come here [AEW]. We wanted to travel the world. We wanted to be doing something that makes a difference and impacts wrestling for the better and there we were just going to be cogs in the machine.”

Prior to their departure from WWE and in the build-up to Survivor Series last year, FTR (then The Revival) returned to Full Sail University for a one-off dream match with Undisputed Era.

Also ahead of Full Gear, WrestleTalk also had the opportunity to speak to FTR where they opened up about their frustrations with The Bucks feud and how a current WWE star is the best wrestler right now. You can check that out below.

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