FTR has been conspicuously absent from AEW programming since Double or Nothing, and now Dax Harwood has offered some clarity on why.
At Double or Nothing, Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler dropped the AEW Tag Team Championships to Christian Cage and Adam Copeland in an ‘I Quit’ match. The defeat marked the end of what had been a grueling championship run for the duo, and neither man has appeared on AEW television in the weeks since.
Taking to Instagram, Dax addressed the absence directly. ‘For the first time in 12 years, we’ve decided to step away and take…’ he wrote, with the post indicating the pair are choosing to use this period as genuine downtime — something the veteran tag team has rarely afforded themselves over the course of their careers.
For a team that has been one of the most consistently active and celebrated tag units in the world across WWE, AEW, and the independent scene, the decision to voluntarily decompress carries real weight. FTR spent years building a reputation as the hardest-working tag team in the business, rarely sitting out and frequently working through injuries and demanding schedules. A deliberate step back, by their own account for the first time in over a decade, underscores just how much the Double or Nothing match — and the broader grind leading up to it — took out of them.
No timeline for FTR’s return to AEW has been indicated, but with the tag division continuing to evolve around Cage and Copeland’s reign, their eventual comeback figures to be a significant moment whenever it does arrive.
Source: Fightful
