Dax Harwood Slams WWE’s Therapy of FTR, Blames One Man for Ruining the Tag Team Division

Former WWE Tag Team Champion, FTR’s Dax Harwood, just lately spoke about his disappointing stint with WWE, and did not hesitate to share his ideas.

While followers are inclined to surprise why sure expertise by no means reside as much as their full potential throughout the firm, Harwood provided a uncommon look behind the scenes concerning why he and Cash Wheeler felt restricted throughout their time in WWE.

WWE Tag Team Wrestling Once Thrived Until One Man Changed Everything

Harwood took to X to answer a fan who lamented how WWE made tag staff wrestling appear “mid-card.” Harwood agreed wholeheartedly and pointed a finger at a significant artistic affect behind WWE’s decline in tag staff storytelling.

“This. THIS! For YEARS tag team wrestling was top of the card. Then, one man decided he hated it. Fans eventually accepted it because there was really no other choice,” Harwood wrote.

Whereas Harwood didn’t identify the person particularly, it is usually understood he was referring to Vince McMahon, whose artistic selections traditionally have downgraded the tag staff division in favor of singles competitors.

Championships Without Respect

While with WWE, FTR, who was then often called The Revival, gained the NXT, RAW, and SmackDown Tag Team Championships. Behind all of that success, nonetheless, was a a lot bleaker fact. While they managed to wrestle greater than 180 matches inside only a yr, greater than anyone else on the roster, they have been nonetheless the bottom earners, based on Harwood.

He additionally rebuked different wrestlers for being self-absorbed, extra involved with laying out flashy strikes than creating tales. Harwood feels that tag staff wrestling might be probably the most thrilling facet of any present if handled with the artistic respect it is due.

Triple H Breathes New Life into WWE’s Tag Team Division

Fortunately, all of this appears to be turning round. Since Triple H gained artistic management inside WWE, the tag staff division has seen an upswing. It does not all the time exit and shut out pay-per-views, however it’s lastly getting the respect followers and wrestlers have been calling for thus lengthy.

ITR Wrestling remembers a SmackDown episode final April 25 that includes a jaw-dropping TLC Triple Threat match between the Street Profits, DIY, and Motor City Machine Guns.

As for followers, they know the place Harwood is coming from. One Redditor stated that what he skilled was “genuinely depressing.”

“Vince brainwashing fans and wrestlers did long-term damage to everyone, the people that are still convinced of going to WWE because ‘it’s everyone’s dream and much mania moment’ and being pleased with low payment…,” one other Reddit person wrote on the r/AEWOfficial thread.

“What’s nuts about that, and I agree with Dax, is that so many wrestlers not only started as tag teams. But are also remembered fondly as such. Cause tag teams rule,” one other fan stated.