![]() ![]() They were notably told that they would not get to do many promos, although Rhodes, a fellow resident of North Carolina, insisted that they should. Wheeler and Harwood, who were both from North Carolina, acknowledged that their southern accents contributed to the lack of faith some coaches had for them at the Performance Center (with WWE chairman Vince McMahon's dislike for southern accents being well-known backstage). According to a May 2020 interview of the duo, Rhodes was not only highly influential in both the creation and development of the team, but had "unwavering faith" in them even as some of the other coaches had doubts, and was their "biggest supporter and pushed for harder than anybody" until his passing in 2015. In 2014, Wheeler joined the WWE Performance Center, and on his very first day of promo training, performed a promo with Dawson WWE producer Dusty Rhodes immediately became convinced that the two needed to become a team. Wheeler had hoped to join WWE, with the two also hoping to form a tag team there. In 2012, Harwood was hired by WWE based in part on a match he previously had with Wheeler, and performed there under the name Scott Dawson, mostly in tag team matches on NXT and live shows. Wheeler and Harwood were longtime friends before being made into a team, and had wrestled together on the independent circuit. That year, Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked them number one on their inaugural PWI Tag Team 50 list. ![]() It was later revealed that it stood for F*ck The Rest, as noted in their shirts and their theme music video. The initialism is also a reference to "Fuck the Revival", an inside joke and catch-phrase coined by the Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes on the YouTube series Being the Elite. Upon arriving in AEW, the duo took the name of FTR, alternately using the letters to mean "Forever The Revival" as WWE had ownership rights to the name "The Revival". They are also the only people to have jointly won the WWE 24/7 Championship and are hailed as one of the best professional wrestling tag teams in the world. All totaled between WWE, AEW, ROH, AAA, and NJPW, FTR are 10-time world tag team champions, making them the only team to have held championships in all five promotions. In 2022, due to AEW co-owner Tony Khan's purchase of Ring of Honor (ROH), and AEW's partnerships with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexico's Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), FTR would win the ROH World Tag Team Championship, NJPW's IWGP Tag Team Championship, and the AAA World Tag Team Championship - holding all three titles simultaneously for the bulk of the year. After being released by WWE in April 2020, and signing with AEW the next month, they made their AEW debut on the May 27, 2020, episode of Dynamite, winning the AEW World Tag Team Championship the following September at AEW's All Out. ![]() They are the first team to have won WWE's Raw Tag Team Championship ( held twice), SmackDown Tag Team Championship ( once), and NXT Tag Team Championship ( twice), and are recognized by WWE as being the company's first-ever WWE Tag Team Triple Crown winners. The team uses the phrase "No flips, just fists" to convey their more traditional, mat based in-ring style in contrast to the more high flying style of some contemporary teams. The team adopted the name The Revival in 2016, referencing reviving the classic tag-team wrestling style of the 1980s, which has led to the two being compared favorably to the Brain Busters ( Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) and The Midnight Express, particularly the Condrey/ Eaton version, two of the top teams of all time. The team was created by Dusty Rhodes in 2014, then as The Mechanics, and later simply Dash and Dawson when they made their television debut on WWE NXT. Before coming to AEW, they were known for their tenure in WWE as The Revival, under the ring names Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson, respectively. Dax Harwood (left) and Cash Wheeler (right) in June 2022įTR (often stylized as #FTR standing for Fuck The Rest ) is a professional wrestling tag team of Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood, who are signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and are the current AEW World Tag Team Champions in their record-tying second reign. ![]()
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