FTR has been on quite the journey over the last few years as they’ve made the jump from WWE to AEW and they’ve also wrestled for a number of other companies as well. Currently the former AEW Tag Team Champions are sitting on the sidelines while they contemplate their next move, but Dax has been sharing a lot of interesting stories on his podcast.
During a recent episode of FTR with Dax Harwood, Dax reflected on the team’s WWE run and he revealed that at one point Bruce Prichard pitched the idea of having them work as a comedy duo that dressed up as other tag teams from the past.
“Before the clown outfits were presented to us, the initial idea was, Cash and I were going to be a different 80s wrestler or tag team every week. Bruce (Prichard) told us this. He tried to sell us, ‘this is the greatest thing in the world. Week one, you’re going to come in as The Fantastics. We’re going to give you the little trunks with your ass cheeks hanging out. You’re going to wear coattails and high-top hats, you come strutting out, sequins everywhere. Next week, you’re gonna be the Bushwhackers, you come out and lick each other’s heads and do the walk. The next week, you’re going to come out in tassels and wearing old rock n roll headbands, you’ll be the Rock N Roll Express. The following week, you’ll be Bobby (Eaton) and Dennis (Condrey), and we’ll give you mullets.’
“You think this is money? This was when we had turned down the contracts. You’re going to waste television time to have us do this, just to embarrass us? That’s the part to me that’s stupid. Not giving us the characters that is stupid, you’re going to waste television time to embarrass us, why, to make Vince (McMahon) laugh? Bruce is going to call us in his office to try to sell us on it, as it’s this great visionary idea. I looked at Bruce, we kind of had words, ‘You think this is good?’ ‘This is great for you guys, it’s what you need.’ I’m going to be making fun of the people that I think have built this business and legacy. We’re not only going to shit on me and Cash, we’re going to shit on them too, ‘the Rock N Roll Express are nothing but jokes. The Fantastics and Fabulous Ones were corny 80s wrestling.’ These are my heroes. The next week they told us that, they gave us the verbiage of ‘going down yonder to sit on the creek with our grandma and grandpa to shoot some muskrats.’ Whatever they think rednecks say. I had the mic to say the verbiage and I said, ‘this is some real Martin Scorsese s**t,’ and I threw it down.”
There’s currently no word on what’s next for FTR as Dax Harwood has confirmed that their AEW contracts are up in April. Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
H/T Fightful
