AEW Star Hoped Top WWE Stars Would Leave With Them In 2019

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FTR are widely regarded as one of the top tag teams in professional wrestling dating back to their days as the Revival in NXT.

Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler left WWE in 2020, before going on to sign with AEW later that year, where they went on to hold the AEW World Tag Team Championship and face off against the Young Bucks in a tag team dream match.

Alongside FTR and the Young Bucks, the Usos are another team considered by many to be among the best in the world, so can you imagine if all three teams were in the same division.

Well, if you speak to Dax, he was hoping that it would happen back in 2019.

Speaking on his FTR with Dax Harwood podcast, Dax discussed the Usos, and how their WWE contracts came up at the same time as FTR’s, and how he was hoping that they would also leave with he and Cash.

He said:

“Yeah, I remember when they re-signed, and we were pretty open about the contract statuses and stuff of each team. At that time, we knew what we were going to do, we weren’t going to sign the contract they had offered us a really good amount of money there, and we were turning it down. They would eventually offer us even more, and that’s the one where I had to start thinking, but we kind of had an idea at that point of what we were going to do.

“And it was exciting to us before they signed, thinking that maybe they would follow us to what became AEW or whatever. Because if we went to AEW, and AEW had The Young Bucks, had The Usos, and had us, that would have been the three top tag teams in the world being able to finally work together and being able to finally, without any kind of training wheels on we’d be able to go full bore, and it was an exciting time for me.

“But they did what’s best for them and their families. And they do owe WWE and Vince [McMahon] at the time they owed them a lot for giving them a chance, and they have absolutely made the most of all the chances they’ve been given.”

The future of FTR has been in question recently, with their AEW contracts set to expire in April.

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