FTR Comment On Being Left Off AEW: Fight Forever Roster

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AEW has been releasing more gameplay for the upcoming AEW: Fight Forever video game recently, with the game still planned for a 2022 release later in the year.

Several of the top stars in All Elite Wrestling, such as CM Punk, Kenny Omega and Chris Jericho, are set to feature in the game, but with AEW’s roster ever-growing, there will be numerous notable omissions from the roster.

The first two confirmed omissions were revealed yesterday, when Fightful Select reported that current ROH, AAA and IWGP Tag Team Champions FTR, Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, will not be a part of the roster.

Both Dax and Cash spoke to Give Me Sport, where they addressed the report of them not making the video game.

Cash said that the main issue with them missing the game was that they were blindsided by the announcement, saying:

“For us, the only real issue is we were kind of blindsided by it. We found out, not how you would expect. When you find out something like that, something major like being taken out of a video game, your mind automatically assumes the worst. For us, it was like, ‘is this something we need to worry about? Should we read between the lines here. Were we not told for a reason? Now that we are aware and we are out, what is that reason? Is it something we should worry about?’ We got an answer, it made a lot of sense, a very logical answer. Okay, cool, as long as we don’t have to worry about it, non-issue. That’s what it was. We’ve known about it since May, June, I don’t know how long, but for months. The fact that it came out yesterday, no idea why. Don’t know exactly what happened yesterday, don’t know why it just now became a headline, but we’ve known about it for a while, we got answers on it a while ago and for us, it’s not even an issue or thought about,”

Dax then spoke on the situation, noting that neither he or Cash blame anyone for pulling them from the game.

He said:

“The headline (for this) can be, ‘FTR is not upset, FTR does not blame anyone for pulling us out of the game.’ We heard about this, I want to say March, it was before the Briscoes match (at ROH Supercard of Honor) and we heard about it a long time ago. I had someone message me, one of the journalists messaged me and said, ‘Is this true?’ I thought I did respond to him. The first thing I did is text Cash, obviously. ‘Have you heard about this?’ ‘No, let’s text Tony (Khan) and find out.’ We text Tony, we went through the right chain of commands. We text Tony, talked to him. Legal texted us, talked with them a bit, we got our answer, and it was a non-issue. We wanted to make sure we weren’t doing something wrong and if there was something we could do to correct that, let us know. Months later, this article comes out, I couldn’t believe it didn’t come out in March. It blindsided both of us. I don’t care to be in the video game. My worry is leaving a legacy, having fun with my best friend, and on top of all that, taking care of Maria [Wife] and Finley [Daughter].”

The demo for AEW: Fight Forever won the award at Gamescom for Best Sports/Racing Game featured at the event.

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