Dax Harwood Reflects On The Anniversary Of The Dog Collar Match Between FTR And The Briscoes

Dax Harwood reflects on the one-year anniversary of the Dog Collar Match between FTR and The Briscoes. 

ROH Final Battle 2022 featured the last match in the trilogy between FTR’s Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler and Mark & Jay Briscoe. The two teams went to war in a Dog Collar Match. 

Unfortunately, this match would be the final Ring of Honor match for Jay Briscoe as he tragically passed away in 2023. 

On Twitter, Dax Harwood reflected on the one-year anniversary of the match, thanking everyone who was involved, and what it meant to his career.

One year ago, today, we the had the greatest match of our career. To me, it encapsulates everything FTR has represented; emotion. 

We couldn’t have achieved that without having our equals there to bring that emotion out of us. The story going into this match proves that, whatever you believe, there HAS to be something bigger than us out there. 

This night, we all 4 sat in the locker room, no one around, bloody from head to toe, each with a tequila in our hand, talking about the end of this rivalry. How we’ll never experience anything like this again. How all four of us, from now until forever, would be connected; and we were ok with that. How years from now, decades from now, we’d be traveling to conventions and meet & greets just to talk about this rivalry and THIS ONE MATCH in particular. 

Then it all changed. 

The picture of Jay, the intensity on his face, a chain wrapped around my mouth, the emotion in Paul, Cash desperately doing everything in his power, even if it means losing, to save his best friend from death while Mark is using every last ounce of energy in his body to block him, is the greatest snapshot of my career. 

Everyone that had a hand in this match & this moment, from Tony, The Briscoes, Cash, Paul, Posey, the camera men, the producers, I can’t thank you enough for what you’ve given me, my career, and my life.

At Ring of Honor’s 2023 Final Battle event, FTR will team with Mark Briscoe in a Fight Without Honor against The Blackpool Combat Club’s Claudio Castagnoli, Bryan Danielson, and Jon Moxley. 

This match will be held in honor of Jay Briscoe. Fans can learn more about the match here.