As noted before, FTR’s Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler are believed to have recently signed new long-term contracts with AEW to stay in the company for the foreseeable future.
A recent episode of the FTR with Dax Harwood podcast featured host Harwood’s thoughts on the recent report from PWInsider of FTR signing new deals with AEW. Harwood stated that the reports of them signing new deals are wrong and instead “zero has changed” in regards to their current contract status with the company. Harwood also stated that FTR’s contracts are still set to expire at the end of this April.
“Zero has changed, let’s put it that way. We got a call from Tony and this was, maybe, five days before the pay-per-view, maybe, it could have been four days before the pay-per-view. I don’t know and I’m just guessing that he either heard a clip, listened to the podcast, or read one of the headlines where I said we were ready to come back, our bodies were healed, we were just waiting for the call and we wanted to do what was right by the business because we are contracted through April.
Our choice right now is strictly on happiness, that’s all. The pros of staying in AEW is a great schedule where I can come home and be with my family. The pros of WWE is they are the number one, at least and for the foreseeable future too, they are the number one money-making profession wrestling company in the world and monetarily, they could offer us a great deal too. But WWE, I don’t feel like we would have the kind of schedule that we would like. Another pro for AEW is, unless Tony changes his mind come April, we will be able to do independent bookings, great relationship with New Japan where we can go.
Doing New Japan, doing the independents, going out and being able to do comic-cons and things and meeting some of our fans, those are the pros in AEW. WWE, they are on a creative high right now and I think that they could be able to keep that creative high up.”
Harwood also gave his thoughts on the status of FTR’s current working relationship with AEW following this past Sunday’s AEW Revolution 2023 event.
“Nothing has changed and please allow everything to play out because come April you will be able to understand what we’re doing and where we are going.”
Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com
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