On the October 28 episode of NXT, Dash and Dawson would attack Amore and Cassady before their match, completely laying out Amore while decimating Cass' knee, leaving him unable to compete. In the following weeks, the team name was changed to "Dash and Dawson". At NXT TakeOver: Respect, The Mechanics were defeated in the semi-finals of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic by eventual winners Finn Bálor and Samoa Joe. The duo resurfaced and picked up their first televised win on the Jepisode of NXT, defeating Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady. They made only one further televised appearance in 2014, losing to Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady on the October 23 episode of NXT, but continued to wrestle extensively at live events.
The two made their on-screen debut on the July 17, 2014, episode of NXT, losing to Bull Dempsey and Mojo Rawley.
In 2014, after returning from injury, Dawson teamed up with a debuting Wilder, with the two performing extensively at live events under the ring name The Mechanics. They were notably told that they would not get to do many promos, although Rhodes, a fellow resident of North Carolina, insisted that they should. Wheeler and Harwood, who were both from North Carolina, acknowledged that their southern accents contributed to the lack of faith some coaches had for them at the Performance Center (with WWE chairman Vince McMahon's dislike for southern accents being well-known backstage). According to a May 2020 interview of the duo, Rhodes was not only highly influential in both the creation and development of the team, but had "unwavering faith" in them even as some of the other coaches had doubts, and was their "biggest supporter and pushed for harder than anybody" until his passing in 2015. In 2014, Wheeler joined the WWE Performance Center, and on his very first day of promo training, performed a promo with Dawson WWE producer Dusty Rhodes immediately became convinced that the two needed to become a team. Wheeler had hoped to join WWE, with the two also hoping to form a tag team there. In 2012, Harwood was hired by WWE based in part on a match he previously had with Wheeler, and performed there under the name Scott Dawson, mostly in tag team matches on NXT and live shows. Wheeler and Harwood were longtime friends before being made into a team, and had wrestled together on the independent circuit. History WWE Origins and formation (2014–2015)
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That year, Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked them number one on their inaugural PWI Tag Team 50 list. They made their AEW debut on the episode of Dynamite, winning the AEW World Tag Team Championship the following September at AEW's All Out pay-per-view.
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The acronym is also a reference to "Fuck the Revival," an inside joke and catch-phrase coined by the Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes on the YouTube series Being the Elite. They are the first team to have won all three of WWE's main brand tag team championships-the Raw Tag Team Championship ( held twice), SmackDown Tag Team Championship ( once), and NXT Tag Team Championship ( twice), are recognized by WWE as being the company's first-ever Tag Team Triple Crown Champions, and are the only people to have jointly won the WWE 24/7 Championship.Īfter being granted their releases by WWE in April 2020, the duo took the name of FTR, alternately using the letters to mean "Fear The Revolt," "Fear The Revelation" and "Follow The Rules".
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. 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 – the latter being their current manager), one of the top teams of the 1980s. 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. They are the current AAA World Tag Team Champions in their first reign as a result of AEW's partnership with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. They are also known for their time in WWE as The Revival, under the ring names Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson, respectively.
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