Last weekend the WWE Elimination Chamber premium live event aired from Montreal, and Beth Phoenix teamed up with her husband Edge to take on Finn Balor and Rhea Ripley of The Judgment Day. During the match Beth Phoenix and Edge used the Shatter Machine which is FTR’s finisher.
When the move was performed Michael Cole acknowledged it on commentary and openly called it the Shatter Machine. During a recent episode of his FTR with Dax Harwood podcast, Dax explained why hearing the name Shatter Machine on WWE programming made him emotional.
“Adam has been off for a little while and he asked me if I would, you know, help him get back into ring shape, so I did. Those two are hall of fame talent and I’m just lucky that they respect me and Cash enough that they wanted to pay homage to us doing that move. I don’t want to give the wrong impression to fans when I say this, especially with our contracts coming up in April. But hearing Shatter Machine, my wife, like, when I watched it for the first time, the Shatter Machine and those guys hit it and heard Michael Cole call it, like, I was watching on my phone and my wife just started recording me and I said it on the film, I didn’t know she was filming me, I said to her, oh, man, I’m so emotional right now. She said, why are you so emotional, was it because they did your finishing move?”
“I said, well, yeah, it was very respectful, but I was more emotional that they called it the Shatter Machine, because that’s the name I came up with, you know. And it was just emotional to me that we have made a little small impact on the business that I have loved and cherished and admired for my whole existence, right. And we made this little bit of impact where we came up with a move, we named a move and they are stilling calling it that move, that is so humbling. Anyway, watching it and hearing it still be called The Shatter Machine, it really made me feel, it made me feel. And I’m really lucky that those guys respect us enough to do it, lucky also that that company respect us enough to still call it because they could have called it whatever they wanted. They could have called it an assisted Codebreaker or an assisted Lung Blower or they could have come up with something and call it, Edge & Phoenix something, I don’t know, they could have done whatever they wanted to, but instead they called it the name I came up with, and that’s beautiful to me.”
FTR’s AEW contracts are currently set to expire in April and there’s no word on what their next move will be. Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
