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

Will Ospreay spoke to reporters at the AEW Double or Nothing post-show scrum on May 24, 2026.

Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler, the tag team known in pro wrestling as FTR, announced on Saturday they would be taking an extended absence from All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

FTR lost to Adam Copeland and Christian Cage in an I Quit match at Double or Nothing last month and relinquished the AEW World Tag Team Championship in the process. It was their third reign as champions and they haven’t been on AEW programming since then.

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FTR hits a Shatter Machine on Christian Cage at the AEW Double or Nothing event in Queens, N.Y., on May 24, 2026. (Lee South/AEW)

Harwood wrote a lengthy post on Instagram, signaling that the group will be taking some much-needed time away from the ring to rest their bodies and their minds.

"Since the summer of 2014, The Revival, FTR, Dawson & Dash, Dax & Cash, whatever you want to call us, we’ve had the pedal to the floor. Aside from my bicep tear in 2017, we’ve taken no time away from the job we’ve dreamed of having. Physically & mentally, we both became exhausted," he wrote.

"We were two of the very few talents that traveled and worked on both 'Collision' & 'Dynamite.' I’ve fought through 3 hematomas on my lower back, another bicep tear I decided not to have surgery on, labrum tear from my groin to my hip, a shoulder that needs replacement, and probably a laundry list of other things I’m too afraid to get checked out haha.

"For the first time in 12 years, we’ve decided to step away and take some time for ourselves & for our families. I’m not sure when we’ll be back, what we’re going to do, how much longer we have, or if we even