FTR (professional wrestling)

"The Revival (professional wrestling)" redirects here. For other uses, see Revival.

FTR
Dax Harwood (left) and Cash Wheeler (right) in June 2022
Tag team
MembersCash Wheeler/Dash Wilder[1]
Dax Harwood/Scott Dawson[2]
Name(s)Dash and Dawson
FTR
#FTR
The Mechanics
The Revival
Las Super Ranas
Super Frogs
Billed heights5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) each[1][2]
Combined
billed weight		446 lb (202 kg)[1][2]
Billed fromAsheville, North Carolina
Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina[1][2]
Former
member(s)		Tully Blanchard (manager)[3]
DebutJuly 17, 2014
Years active2014–present

FTR (often stylized as #FTR; standing for Fuck The Rest[4]) is a professional wrestling tag team of Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood, who are signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and are former two-time AEW World Tag Team Champions. Before coming to AEW, they were known for their tenure in WWE as The Revival, under the ring names Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson, respectively.

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. 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 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.

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.[5] After being released by WWE in April 2020, and signing with AEW the next month, 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.

In 2022, due to AEW co-owner Tony Khan's purchase of Ring of Honor (ROH), and AEW's partnerships with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Mexico's Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), FTR would win the ROH World Tag Team Championship, NJPW's IWGP Tag Team Championship, and the AAA World Tag Team Championship - holding all three titles simultaneously for the bulk of the year. All totaled between WWE, AEW, ROH, AAA, and NJPW, FTR are eight-time world tag team champions, making them the only team to have held championships in all five promotions. They are also the only people to have jointly won the WWE 24/7 Championship and are hailed as one of the greatest professional wrestling tag teams of all time.[6][7][8]

Upon arriving in AEW, 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". The initialism is also a reference to "Fuck the Revival", an inside joke and catch-phrase coined by Cody Rhodes on the YouTube series Being the Elite.[9][10] It was later revealed that it stood for Fuck The Rest, as noted in their shirts and their theme music video.[4] That year, Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked them number one on their inaugural PWI Tag Team 50 list.

  1. ^ a b c d "Dash Wilder Profile". WWE. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Scott Dawson Profile". WWE. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  3. ^ Harwood, Dax [@DaxHarwood] (August 22, 2020). "Fear The Revelation #FTR #AEWDynamite" (Tweet). Retrieved August 22, 2020 – via Twitter.
  4. ^ a b Gagnon, Joshua (May 28, 2020). "AEW Reveals What FTR Stands For". wrestlinginc.com. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference TripleCrown was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Admiring the Greatness of FTR – TJR Wrestling". August 17, 2022.
  7. ^ "FTR is the Best Tag Team in Wrestling & It's Not Even Close". April 11, 2022.
  8. ^ "The Usos are the #1s in PWI 100 best tag teams, FTR acknowledges them". December 6, 2022.
  9. ^ Harris, Jeffrey. "FTR Address The Young Bucks Making Jokes About Them Without Their Consent, How Cody Rhodes Insulted Their Work". 411Mania.com. 411mania.com, LLC. Archived from the original on July 12, 2021. Retrieved July 12, 2021.
  10. ^ Chowdhury, Faiyaz (April 16, 2020). "AEW and the Revival - Everything We Know So Far". CBR.com. Archived from the original on July 12, 2021. Retrieved July 12, 2021.