Tony Khan: I Hope To See FTR Back In AEW, They Need Some Time To Heal Up

Tony Khan comments on FTR’s status with AEW.

FTR’s Dax Harwood recently shared on his podcast that he and Cash Wheeler would take a break for the next few months to heal their bodies after a whirlwind year in 2022. Throughout 2022, FTR competed in AEW, AAA, NJPW, and ROH and took select independent bookings, including Ricky Steamboat’s final match.

Now, Tony Khan is commenting on FTR’s status with AEW. During a recent appearance on the In The Kliq podcast, Khan said that he hopes to see FTR back in AEW one day but knows that they need to heal their bodies.

“Well, I do hope to see FTR back,” Tony tells Baby Huey. “They need some time to recover from what was one of the most intense years of wrestling any team has ever done. The schedule they went through, all of the different places they worked — they worked all over and won championships all over the world.

“This is a team that competed in AEW, but also competed at the top of Ring of Honor, and New Japan Pro-Wrestling,” Tony continued. “They were defending championships all over the world. The U.S., in London, Japan, and in Mexico as the AAA Lucha Libre champions, they really were globetrotters. In addition to being hard-hitting wrestling matches, they went through all kinds of stuff, including this barbaric dog collar match at Ring of Honor Final Battle against The Briscoe Brothers. That was, to me, one of the most savage, barbaric wrestling matches I’ve ever seen, and that was for the Ring of Honor Tag Team Championship. That was following a lot of other crazy matches for FTR. So, I think, for those guys, we want to see them back in AEW and want to see them heal up and come back at 100%. We’re really looking forward to that, hopefully. I think they’re a great team, and we’d love to have them back.”

On television, Austin and Colten Gunn recently held a pseudo-funeral for FTR, declaring that they would never wrestle in AEW again.

Before announcing their hiatus, Dax Harwood revealed FTR have considered taking a year off from wrestling. Read more here.

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