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Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, the tag team known in pro wrestling as FTR, announced on Saturday they would be taking an extended absence from All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
FTR lost to Adam Copeland and Christian Cage in an I Quit match at Double or Nothing last month and relinquished the AEW World Tag Team Championship in the process. It was their third reign as champions and they haven’t been on AEW programming since then.
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FTR hits a Shatter Machine on Christian Cage at the AEW Double or Nothing event in Queens, N.Y., on May 24, 2026. (Lee South/AEW)
Harwood wrote a lengthy post on Instagram, signaling that the group will be taking some much-needed time away from the ring to rest their bodies and their minds.
“Since the summer of 2014, The Revival, FTR, Dawson & Dash, Dax & Cash, whatever you want to call us, we’ve had the pedal to the floor. Aside from my bicep tear in 2017, we’ve taken no time away from the job we’ve dreamed of having. Physically & mentally, we both became exhausted,” he wrote.
“We were two of the very few talents that traveled and worked on both ‘Collision’ & ‘Dynamite.’ I’ve fought through 3 hematomas on my lower back, another bicep tear I decided not to have surgery on, labrum tear from my groin to my hip, a shoulder that needs replacement, and probably a laundry list of other things I’m too afraid to get checked out haha.
“For the first time in 12 years, we’ve decided to step away and take some time for ourselves & for our families. I’m not sure when we’ll be back, what we’re going to do, how much longer we have, or if we even need to prove anything at all anymore.”
Dax Harwood stands in the corner during the AEW Dynamite Beach Break taping at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio, on Jan. 26, 2022. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)
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Harwood said FTR will still be in action to take on Ken Anderson and Doc Gallows in Kentucky at the end of August. Until then, he will be in Hawaii.
“Until then, enjoy my Hawaii family vacation pictures. Top Guys, out.”
Wheeler said in a separate interview that FTR has interest in competing in New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s (NJPW) World Tag League.
“There were other things schedule-wise that would never actually work out for it,” he said on “Late Night Grin” earlier in the week. “So, I say this now, after we had the talk about how we feel physically, I would like to attempt one World Tag League before we call it a day.
“I don’t know if we’re gonna make it all the way through. I might just tap out in the middle of a match. Not even in a submission. Just head home. Take a bad bump, roll out and just be done. I gave it my best everybody. I’m sorry. But I would love to at least try a World Tag League once, because that’s always been something we’ve wanted to do and we’ve accomplished almost everything else.”
Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood celebrate their victory during New Japan Pro-Wrestling at Edion Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 5, 2022. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)
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Harwood and Wheeler have been one of the best tag teams in pro wrestling for several years. Three AEW tag team titles in about seven years certainly proves how great they’ve been.
Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.
