FTR holds practically all the gold, and they continue to back up they’re claim that they’re the best tag team of all time.
Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler were already the reigning tag team champions in AAA and Ring of Honor before AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door. There, they won the IWGP Tag Team Championship by defeating United Empire and Roppongi Vice in a Winner Take All Match.
During an interview with the Culture State Podcast, Wheeler admitted that the level of success they have reached is “crazy” because, on paper, it shouldn’t be possible. He noted that they are now legitimate world champions as they hold the gold in the United States, Mexico, and Japan. Wheeler went on to say that he would have liked to win the IWGP titles at a NJPW show because the team has dreamed of doing that, but their triumph at Forbidden Door was still very special. He then made it clear that he believes that FTR has revitalized tag team wrestling, and that’s been their goal all along.
“It’s crazy for me to even realize what kind of history we have made at this point right now,” said Wheeler. “Just currently, not even what we’ve done in the past but currently, AAA, IWGP, and Ring of Honor, like if you think about it, I won’t go into everything, but that shouldn’t be possible, but we’ve done it. Now we are legitimately world champions. Mexico, US, and Japan. And one thing that we’ve always said we wanted to do, especially once we left and we started making this journey was that we wanted to go to Japan. And Forbidden Door was a dream come true. Winning them in Japan I think would have been something that would have been, not like it’s a bad thing, but winning them in Japan, for me, just to go to Japan and perform and win them there would have been really cool.
“But what we did at Forbidden Door is just as cool for me, and it’s not ever gonna be lost on me that we’re doing these things. Like you said, I think it’s revitalized tag team wrestling. Tag team wrestling is being talked about a lot right now. We’re getting more interview requests than we’ve had probably our whole careers, talking about tag team wrestling. There’s people saying they wanna see us and the Bucks main-event a pay-par-view for tag team wrestling. That is what we’ve always wanted. Yes, we want to be the best, yes, we want to go in history. But more importantly, we want to make tag team wrestling the best thing that it could ever be. And I think we’re finally getting to see this come to fruition.”
Harwood emphasized that the titles mean a lot to them because they represent the trust that the three major promotions have in the duo.
“Some people think the belts are props, but it means a lot to us because these three different companies have put faith in us to give us the belts,” said Harwood. “Ring of Honor, who’s owned by Tony Khan, AAA, who I’ve talked to just recently on Twitter, Ms. Peña, they put the AAA belts on us with Konnan in the lead there, and then Gedo and New Japan. That’s pretty cool to think three of the biggest wrestling companies in the world trust us enough to put the belts on us.”
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