Top AEW Tag-Team "Wanted To Quit Wrestling" Last Year

Can you imagine the current AEW landscape without these tag-team experts?!

by Jamie Kennedy
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FTR member Cash Wheeler has sensationally admitted that his partner Dax Harwood almost quit pro wrestling last year.

Wheeler told 'The Walkway To Fight Club' podcast that he and Dax shared an emotional moment over the phone - this came shortly after Cash had ripped his arm open on an exposed hook in-ring. He was dealing with that, and Harwood was going through some real anxiety issues that left him questioning his wrestling future.

Together, they wondered if their time as a team had come to an end. Dax told Wheeler that he didn't want to "hinder [Cash] or his family", but that he was "not having fun" anymore. Their separate contracts with AEW meant that Wheeler could've kept going solo had Harwood decided to announce his retirement.

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Thankfully, it didn't come to that.

Both men managed to fight back from the brink of stepping away to enjoy even more success in 2022. In fact, Wheeler believes this year has been "the most fulfilling, successful year of [FTR's] careers".

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Imagine what the landscape of tag-team wrestling would look like without FTR? It doesn't bear thinking about.

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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.