![]() ![]() In 2014, Wheeler joined the WWE Performance Center, and on his very first day of promo training, performed a promo with Dawson WWE producer Dusty Rhodes immediately became convinced that the two needed to become a team. Wheeler had hoped to join WWE, with the two also hoping to form a tag team there. In 2012, Harwood was hired by WWE based in part on a match he previously had with Wheeler, and performed there under the name Scott Dawson, mostly in tag team matches on NXT and live shows. Wheeler and Harwood were longtime friends before being made into a team, and had wrestled together on the independent circuit. History WWE Origins and formation (2014–2015) 2 Professional wrestling style and persona.1.3 New Japan Pro-Wrestling (2022–present). ![]() 1.2.3 Championship glory (2021–present).1.2.1 Debut and World Tag Team champions (2020-2021).That year, Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked them number one on their inaugural PWI Tag Team 50 list. They made their AEW debut on the May 27, 2020, episode of Dynamite, winning the AEW World Tag Team Championship the following September at AEW's All Out pay-per-view. The initialism is also a reference to "Fuck the Revival", an inside joke and catch-phrase coined by the Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes on the YouTube series Being the Elite. Between WWE, AEW, ROH, AAA, and NJPW, FTR are seven-time World Tag Team Champions.Īfter being granted their releases by WWE in April 2020, the duo took the name of FTR, alternately using the letters to mean "Forever The Revival" as WWE had ownership rights to the name "The Revival". They are also the only people to have jointly won the WWE 24/7 Championship. They are the first team to have won WWE's Raw Tag Team Championship ( held twice), SmackDown Tag Team Championship ( once), and NXT Tag Team Championship ( twice), and are recognized by WWE as being the company's first-ever WWE Tag Team Triple Crown winners. The team uses the phrase "No flips, just fists" to convey their more traditional, mat based in-ring style in contrast to the more high flying style of some contemporary teams. The team adopted the name The Revival in 2016, referencing reviving the classic tag-team wrestling style of the 1980s, which has led to the two being compared favorably to the Brain Busters ( Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) and The Midnight Express, particularly the Condrey/ Eaton version, two of the top teams of all time. The team was created by Dusty Rhodes in 2014, then as The Mechanics, and later simply Dash and Dawson when they made their television debut on WWE NXT. Before coming to AEW, they were known for their time in WWE as The Revival, under the ring names Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson, respectively. The team is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where they are currently triple tag team champions in their first reign each with the ROH World Tag Team Championship from AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), the AAA World Tag Team Championship from AEW's Mexico based partner promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), and the IWGP Tag Team Championship from another AEW partner promotion, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Dax Harwood (left) and Cash Wheeler (right) in June 2022įTR (often stylized as #FTR) is an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood. ![]()
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