FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) took to social media to refute a comment by former AEW talent Jake Hager, that they refused to show up to a AEW show.
During the the latest episode of Insights With Chris Van Vliet, Hager brought up what was supposed to be a wrestlers only meeting on the CM Punk incident with Sting, Big Show, Bryan Danielson and Jon Moxley. Hager, who also took shots at Tony Khan said that FTR refused to come to the show, noting they didn’t like the storyline.
Hager also claimed Tony Khan, calling him “Daddy’s little billionaire”, came in and interrupted the meeting.
“It was the second Blood & Guts we did in Vegas. It was against, uh, Daniel Bryan and Cesaro and those guys, and then Sammy jumped off the cage. My first contract with AEW was up, and after that we were like the negotiation process was very one way. I could tell that- well, anyways, I always find a way to say this every day. So I think everyone should to say fuck Tony Khan. I could tell that he didn’t want me there. He offered me like a year and a half. I was like, bro, I just did Stadium Stampede twice. Like don’t act like Stadium Stampede didn’t put AEW on the map. I was in the debut episode. I was the big spoiler and you offer me 18 months after all that? So it was that and the way that he started running the business that it really, like he wasn’t a professional. Like we- like after all the Punk shit that went down, the boys got together and we had a meeting and this was the boys only, no office, right? We’re all like- Stings in there, (Big) Show, Jericho, Bryan, Mox, they’re all standing at the front kind of like talking us through this shit and lo and behold, who comes into the room storming in? Daddy’s little billionaire. He’s like yelling at us because I think it was Dax and Cash, Cash and Wheeler didn’t want to come in. They didn’t like the storyline. So they refused to come to TV that day, and he was like, ‘listen, I’ll put you in a six man, six minutes before the show and you’re going to do it.’ and we’re all feeling disrespected. I still to this day, wish I would have stood up and said a lot of things, but like you just told Sting that you’re going to put him in a six man and six minutes, but then you’re going to honor him for his retirement? We became his little play things. We had to wait outside his office, his storylines were very good at debuting, but he can never carry anything through and it got to the point where- I’m carrying on, but it got to the point where I couldn’t tell him anything. He couldn’t take criticism. He was fucking up, and we were all just having to deal with it. We all had blood, sweat, and tears put into that company. We were all there at the beginning, we all had our careers behind us that helped build that company. Then we all had to just sit side by side and couldn’t do anything because he wanted to run it the way he wanted to run it.”
Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler both took to social media, refuting Hager’s comments. In a text posted by Wheeler, it shows Hager apologized for his comments to Wheeler, saying he should not have mentioned FTR and should have not said it was them when he did not know for sure.
Hager, who now owns his trucking company in the state of Florida, also told Van Vliet during the interview he felt disrespected when Tony Khan only offered him an 18-month contract after his initial contract had expired.
“The negotiation process was very one-way. And I could tell that — well, anyways, I always find a way to say this every day, so I think everyone should too: say, ‘F— Tony Khan.’ I could tell that he didn’t want me there. He offered me like a year and a half. I was like, bro, I just did Stadium Stampede twice. Don’t act like Stadium Stampede didn’t put AEW on the map. I was in the debut episode [of Dynamite], I was the big spoiler. And you offer me 18 months after all that? So it was that and the way that he started running the business that it really — like he wasn’t a professional.”
You can watch the full interview below: