AEW stars Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler taking time off after Double or Nothing battle: 'Top Guys, out'

Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, nan tag squad known successful pro wrestling arsenic FTR, announced connected Saturday they would beryllium taking an extended absence from All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

FTR mislaid to Adam Copeland and Christian Cage successful an I Quit lucifer astatine Double aliases Nothing past period and relinquished nan AEW World Tag Team Championship successful nan process. It was their 3rd reign arsenic champions and they haven’t been connected AEW programming since then.

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FTR hits a Shatter Machine connected Christian Cage astatine nan AEW Double aliases Nothing arena successful Queens, N.Y., connected May 24, 2026. (Lee South/AEW)

Harwood wrote a lengthy station connected Instagram, signaling that nan group will beryllium taking immoderate much-needed clip distant from nan ringing to remainder their bodies and their minds.

"Since nan summertime of 2014, The Revival, FTR, Dawson & Dash, Dax & Cash, immoderate you want to telephone us, we’ve had nan pedal to nan floor. Aside from my bicep tear successful 2017, we’ve taken nary clip distant from nan occupation we’ve dreamed of having. Physically & mentally, we some became exhausted," he wrote.

"We were 2 of nan very fewer talents that traveled and worked connected some 'Collision' & 'Dynamite.' I’ve fought done 3 hematomas connected my little back, different bicep tear I decided not to person room on, labrum tear from my groin to my hip, a enarthrosis that needs replacement, and astir apt a laundry database of different things I’m excessively acrophobic to get checked retired haha.

"For nan first clip successful 12 years, we’ve decided to measurement distant and return immoderate clip for ourselves & for our families. I’m not judge erstwhile we’ll beryllium back, what we’re going to do, really overmuch longer we have, aliases if we moreover request to beryllium thing astatine each anymore."

Dax Harwood stands successful nan area during nan AEW Dynamite Beach Break taping astatine nan Wolstein Center successful Cleveland, Ohio, connected Jan. 26, 2022. (Frank Jansky/Icon Sportswire)

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Harwood said FTR will still beryllium successful action to return connected Ken Anderson and Doc Gallows successful Kentucky astatine nan extremity of August. Until then, he will beryllium successful Hawaii.

"Until then, bask my Hawaii family picnic pictures. Top Guys, out."

Wheeler said successful a abstracted question and reply that FTR has liking successful competing successful New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s (NJPW) World Tag League.

"There were different things schedule-wise that would ne'er really activity retired for it," he said connected "Late Night Grin" earlier successful nan week. "So, I opportunity this now, aft we had nan talk astir really we consciousness physically, I would for illustration to effort 1 World Tag League earlier we telephone it a day.

"I don’t cognize if we’re gonna make it each nan measurement through. I mightiness conscionable pat retired successful nan mediate of a match. Not moreover successful a submission. Just caput home. Take a bad bump, rotation retired and conscionable beryllium done. I gave it my champion everybody. I’m sorry. But I would emotion to astatine slightest effort a World Tag League once, because that’s ever been thing we’ve wanted to do and we’ve accomplished almost everything else."

Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood observe their triumph during New Japan Pro-Wrestling astatine Edion Arena Osaka successful Osaka, Japan, connected Nov. 5, 2022. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

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Harwood and Wheeler person been 1 of nan best tag teams successful pro wrestling for respective years. Three AEW tag squad titles successful astir 7 years surely proves really awesome they’ve been.