Everyone knows that NXT is Triple H’s baby, and the brand has helped to launch the careers of quite a few names over the last few years.
Unfortunately not everyone who gets called up to the main roster finds success, and The Revival, now known as FTR, had a bit of a lackluster run after they were called up. The duo were granted their release earlier this year, but before they parted ways with the company Triple H tried his best to get them to star.
During a recent interview with talkSPORT the current AEW World Tag Team Champions explained that they were in talks with Triple H, and he made them a tempting offer to return to NXT.
Dax Harwood: “There were talks with us and Triple H to go back to NXT and they tried very hard to keep us. It was all professional and all respectful and we were very gracious to the offers we got and to what Triple H was going to provide for us, but ultimately, we knew that our time in WWE was over at that time. We knew it was time for us to move on because money is great, and I am so fortunate and lucky to take care of my beautiful wife and perfect little six year old daughter because of professional wrestling… If we stayed with the uncertainly that would have been for The Revival, we would have done a disservice to ourselves and professional wrestling. We never want to do that.”
Cash Wheeler: “Once we got pulled from all of our dates on the main roster, it was down to NXT as the option and we talked to Hunter at length, there were offers on the table that were very tempting because we loved NXT and we loved our time there, but at the end of the day like Dax said, we knew that our time there was done. We didn’t want to go back to the past – we’d done that. We wanted to come here [AEW]. We wanted to travel the world. We wanted to be doing something that makes a difference and impacts wrestling for the better and there we were just going to be cogs in the machine.”
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