Sami Zayn Came Up With Popular Tag Team Name

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AEW’s Dax Harwood has recalled the origins of his ‘FTR’ team with Cash Wheeler, previously known as WWE’s ‘The Revival’.

Harwood and Wheeler are one of the most decorated teams in modern tag-team wrestling. The duo have held tag-team gold in WWE, NXT, AEW, AAA, ROH and NJPW.

Speaking on his FTR podcast, Harwood (fka Scott Dawson) recalled being paired with Wheeler (Dash Wilder).

Harwood revealed that Sami Zayn actually came up with the ‘Revival’ name, before Triple H tweaked it slightly:

“I remember coming up with it and the person that came up with ‘The Revival’ was actually Sami Zayn.

“We were in the gym in the P.C. together and he was putting me and Cash (Wheeler) over as this great tag team and one of the best tag teams he’s seen working guys in a very, very long time and I could be wrong, but I think Creedence Clearwater Revival was on the radio at that gym or maybe he had just listened to it.

“But he said, you know, ‘This Creedence Clearwater Revival, C.C.R., you could could be T.T.R., Tag Team Revival’ and I was like, ‘Oh! That’s a hell of an idea’ and so we thought about it and we pitched it to Hunter and Hunter liked it, except for he just wanted to call us ‘The Revival’.

“For sure, for brand purposes (it was important to have a tag name). We needed a name to be associated with.

“We can be Dash and Dawson or Cash and Dax or whatever but need something to be associated with, especially if we wanted to go down as a great tag team and we needed that brand and I think that was, again, the genius of Hunter is he understood The Revival is more marketable than ‘Tag Team Revival’.

“I think ‘Tag Team Revival’ would have put us in a smaller box, but just The Revival could have been more marketable and again, that’s the genius of him.”

Harwood and Wheeler are expected to be off TV for a while while they figure out what’s next for them, ahead of their AEW deals expiring in April.

Transcription via POST Wrestling. 

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