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

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

FTR mislaid to Adam Copeland and Christian Cage successful an I Quit lucifer astatine Double oregon Nothing past period and relinquished the AEW World Tag Team Championship successful the 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 the AEW Double oregon Nothing lawsuit successful Queens, N.Y., connected May 24, 2026. (Lee South/AEW)

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

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

"We were 2 of the precise fewer talents that traveled and worked connected some 'Collision' & 'Dynamite.' I’ve fought done 3 hematomas connected my little back, different bicep teardrop I decided not to person country on, labrum teardrop 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 the archetypal clip successful 12 years, we’ve decided to measurement distant and instrumentality immoderate clip for ourselves & for our families. I’m not definite erstwhile we’ll beryllium back, what we’re going to do, however overmuch longer we have, oregon if we adjacent request to beryllium thing astatine each anymore."

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

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Harwood said FTR volition inactive beryllium successful enactment to instrumentality connected Ken Anderson and Doc Gallows successful Kentucky astatine the extremity of August. Until then, helium volition beryllium successful Hawaii.

"Until then, bask my Hawaii household abrogation pictures. Top Guys, out."

Wheeler said successful a abstracted interrogation that FTR has involvement successful competing successful New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s (NJPW) World Tag League.

"There were different things schedule-wise that would ne'er really enactment retired for it," helium said connected "Late Night Grin" earlier successful the week. "So, I accidental this now, aft we had the speech astir however we consciousness physically, I would similar to effort 1 World Tag League earlier we telephone it a day.

"I don’t cognize if we’re gonna marque it each the mode through. I mightiness conscionable pat retired successful the mediate of a match. Not adjacent successful a submission. Just caput home. Take a atrocious 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, due to the fact that that’s ever been thing we’ve wanted to bash and we’ve accomplished astir 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 the champion tag teams successful pro wrestling for respective years. Three AEW tag squad titles successful astir 7 years surely proves however large they’ve been.