Top Guys, Out… For now.
FTR was on top of their game in 2022, capturing tag team titles from all over the world including AAA, NJPW and ROH. Now, after just two weeks into the new year, they have no more gold. They started a small feud with The Gunn Club on AEW, but Colten and Austin Gunn had a eulogy promo on TV where they said FTR will not be back on AEW programming. Dax addressed the future of the team on his FTR podcast with Matt Koon.
I also have the blessing of Tony Khan to talk about this and make a statement about this, Tony has been nothing but top-notch to me and Dan [Cash] since day one. There are things that we haven’t agreed on, as any boss and any employee, even any friend. There are times that I felt the boat was missed on opportunities for us. There were times that I was super happy with everything we were doing, but there has come a time where we are on the tail end of our career. Right now, at this point in our career, is the most important time in our career. I mean that monetarily, creatively, and personally. It is the most important time in our career. With that being said, we have asked and been granted the next few months off of television so we can sit back, reflect, decide, let out bodies heal, and figure out what we’re going to do for the next few years. Whatever we decide to do next will be the absolute last thing we do as far as wrestling. By April, we will have an answer. I have to take my health, my family, my creativity, and I have to take my personal life all in consideration about what we’re going to do next. I know what I want to do, but whatever we do, I just want to be respected. I feel we have done something so special in 2022 and most of that is in part to the fans. We deserve to continue to build on our legacy for ourselves, but also we owe it to the fans to build on that legacy because they made us this past year. I’m not sure exactly how long we’ll be away. It may be all the way until the end of our contract. Our contract is up in April.”
– Dax Harwood via FTR Podcast
For now, FTR is still sticking around in AEW. But, we will have to see if that changes in about three months.
H/T Fightful
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