How WCW Played A Part In FTR's WWE Departure

Yes, World Championship Wrestling...

by Jamie Kennedy
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FTR thought about WCW before trading WWE for AEW earlier this year.

During an interview with talkSPORT, Cash Wheeler said that both he and partner Dax Harwood were flattered when Triple H offered them the chance to make an NXT return before they left the company. However, both men couldn't shake the feeling that they could do something monumental by leaving the WWE nest and joining a revolution over in All Elite.

Wheeler said that AEW's team is doing things "nobody thought was possible since WCW went out of business". That played a big part in their choice to leave WWE behind and "better professional wrestling for the people here now and for generations of wrestlers to come".

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FTR know that viable alternatives outside the WWE machine won't come around every day - they had to back themselves with a leap of faith to AEW, almost like someone might've done back in the 90s when WCW was still around.

The team also didn't want to "do something they'd already done". NXT, whilst tempting, was old news for the then-Revival. Wheeler and Harwood fancied trying something different.

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Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.