Dax Harwood reveals FTR‘s loss to The Acclaimed last month on AEW Dynamite for the tag titles was exactly what he wanted.
Harwood and Wheeler’s AEW World Tag Team Title match with The Acclaimed was discussed on the latest episode of FTR with Dax Harwood. The All Elite Wrestling star revealed that having that match ahead of their match with The Briscoes at Final Battle was their idea.
“I think that would have been a cool moment. But at that time, again, I hate giving away the magic, but I gotta get with the times, I guess. That was Cash and I’s idea, that match with The Acclaimed,” Harwood said. “We wanted to have that match with them because I felt whenever we were at our most popular in the summer, the opportunity was missed with us. I felt that, and I’ve expressed this to Tony [Khan], and we’ve had talks, and he has his reasons. When he explained his reasons, they were good reasons. But I felt like our opportunity was missed, and there was a time where we could have went over the threshold, and there would have been an opportunity to make us not just the top babyface tag team but maybe the top babyface act in the company, right up there with Punk and Mox. Of course, I feel this way because we’re all egotistical in some way.
“I felt that we should have been the team to topple one of the top heels in the company. And that would have sent us over the top, and I felt we could have helped the company in that aspect, but it never happened. So we wanted to do that, The Acclaimed. We wanted to give them an incredible wrestling match. It was two babyfaces. Also, at the same time being, two babyfaces two polar opposites. One team that’s full of energy and full of life and oozing charisma, and they’re rapping to the ring. And you got the other team with this guy. Here is a 38-year-old male balding mustache, all the typical stuff, but you know is, completely total opposites, but I wanted to give them a great match. And we wanted to make sure they were looked at as the top tag team in the company.”
Later in the show, Harwood admitted that they didn’t want to beat The Acclaimed for the AEW World Tag Team Titles at the time because he didn’t want it to get to a point where the fans felt like they were being shoved down their throats.
“Well, at the time. I know honestly, and I can speak for Cash too, because he told me. At that point in time, we didn’t want the AEW tag belts,” Harwood said. “Because we felt that if we did get the tag belts one, this team that had just like us gotten organically over with the people loved them and cared about them. They may be upset with us, but two, I didn’t want to have, not just because my bags are heavy. But I didn’t want to have four tag team belts walking around because then I felt the people are gonna think that we’re getting pushed down their throats.
“So just like I talked about with the Punk match. I knew that if we lost in the right way, we can make them feel sorry for us and make them love us even more. And Cash does this beautiful thing at the end of that match. When he gets pinned, he lays there. He finds the floor cam he lays there on his back, and he grabs his head and like, oh my god. He just lays there, but it’s not like an over-exaggerated. It’s like, oh my god. And he’s just so shocked. And again, no one knows what the powerbomb into a reverse pin feels like, but they know what that emotion feels like. And dude, I’m getting goosebumps talking about it; that’s one of the reasons why he’s the most underrated wrestler in the world.”
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