Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler of FTR don’t believe being the best tag team in the world has anything to do with star ratings.
All Elite Wrestling‘s FTR were recently interviewed by Web is Jericho to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about the year, they are having and the star rating system that has been popularized in professional wrestling, Harwood said he doesn’t believe being the best in pro wrestling has anything to do with star ratings.
“Being the best has nothing to do with star ratings,” Dax Harwood said. “I’ve been in the business for 18 years, and I have never once thought about, ‘Will this get a 5-star rating?’ Some of our bosses might disagree and might not like this, but I’ve never wrestled for that. I’ve wrestled for what I feel is right. And I wrestled for what I feel the fans are going to feel, and that’s it. In that moment, I want them to feel, and then two months down the road, I want them to watch that match again and have that same feeling.”
Cash Wheeler also spoke on the fact that he never thought FTR would work as a babyface tag team and how surreal it is to be getting the crowd reactions they’re getting right now.
“My circle of friends and people I talk to was always a little smaller,” Cash Wheeler said. “We got into wrestling, and we wanted to be the best bad guys. So I had legitimately told multiple people, ‘We’ll probably never be good guys.’ My mom would say, ‘When are you guys gonna be good guys?’ I’m like, ‘Mom, probably never.’ To see it start to slowly change without us even trying to get it to change, it just kept getting more and more surreal — to the point the match with The Briscoes was insane. The match with The Bucks the following week was insane. And to have them start showing and vocalizing that much support when we’re not even on the screen or being talked about or anything like that … I was in the locker room watching on the TV we have in there, and I’m like, ‘Oh. Are they chanting for us?’ To see it back was just really wild. I don’t understand what’s going on right now.”
During the interview, Dax Harwood also confirmed he’s dealing with a torn labrum that goes from his groin to his hip and said it happened before the first Briscoes match at Supercard Of Honor in April.
“I got that right before the match with The Briscoes,” he said. “I took a suplex on the floor, and it’s still very uncomfortable just to sit down. To walk or to run it doesn’t bother me, but to sit down, it just kills me. Every match you have, I don’t care how old you are or how young you are, every match is gonna take a toll on your body.”
Harwood’s last match was a six-man tag team win over Max Caster & The Gunn Club on June 29. Harwood did not indicate which match the injury happened during, but he’s worked 23 matches in total this year.
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