Dax Harwood Says They Wanted Terry Funk Involved In Stadium Stampede 2021

AEW Double or Nothing 2021 was headlined by the Stadium Stampede bout between The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana and Ortiz) and The Pinnacle (Cash Wheeler, Dax Harwood, MJF, Shawn Spears and Wardlow). 

FTR broke off in the bout into a brawl with Santana & Ortiz that took place in a bar. 

Konnan served as the DJ at the bar, but one more legend was supposed to be involved in the scene. 

“We were supposed to film a scene where Cash and I were walking in the bar with Tully (Blanchard), we had just ran away from Ortiz and Santana, we were walking in the bar. Sitting at the bar was someone by himself, with his back to us, and we got the ‘okay’ from Tony (Khan) to do this, we just had to get up with him. We walk up to the bar, we sit down at the bar, and the guy at the bar was going to be Terry Funk. He was supposed to say a line from ‘Roadhouse,’ I can’t remember what it was. He was supposed to say a line and we were going to take a drink with him, then in comes Santana and Ortiz, then we go into the brawl and we see Konnan. We see Konnan, we flip the table over to start the brawl, and when we flip the table over, it was supposed to hit the first few seconds of DMX ‘Party Up’ and that starts the big brawl. That got ixnayed, I don’t know why,” said Dax on his FTR with Dax and Matt Koon podcast.

Chris Jericho previously revealed that DMX’s family wouldn’t sign off on the song being used. 

Elaborating more on Funk’s involvement, Dax said, “We called Terry, Cash did, and we couldn’t get a hold of him. Called him again, left him a message, couldn’t get a hold of him. Maybe a week later, if that, Cash gets a phone call and it says, ‘Terry Funk.’ Cash answered and explained everything to him. Terry said, ‘I would love to do that.’ ‘We’ve already filmed it.’ Terry was very apologetic. He was down to do it, he just called back a bit too late.”

The Inner Circle was victorious in the bout against The Pinnacle. 

Elsewhere during the podcast, Dax explained why the Pinnacle was DOA. You can find his full comments by clicking here. 

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