FTR on If They’d Welcome the New Day to AEW, How Cope & Cage’s Generation Didn’t Have the Depth of FTR

During a recent interview with Uncrowned ahead of AEW Double or Nothing 2026, AEW World Tag Team Champions FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) discussed New Day potentially joining AEW, facing Adam Copeland and Christian Cage, aka Cope and Cage, at tomorrow’s pay-per-view event, and more. Below are some highlights:

Cash Wheeler on The New Day Possibly Joining AEW

“I don’t think we’ve ever really had the chance to go two versus two against those guys without there being any restrictions on us, without there being any sort of — I don’t want to say anything too negative, so, without there being too many things that you’re not allowed to do.”

Dax Harwood on What Separates FTR From Cope & Cage

“Well, I think starting off, what separates us from Adam Copeland and Christian Cage is, yes, they may be the greatest tag-team of their generation, but if we’re being honest, and we’re putting all ego aside, they had two other mediocre tag-teams to compare themselves to: The Hardy Boys and the Dudley Boyz.”

Harwood on Edge and Christian’s Generation Not Having the Talent Depth of FTR

“Their generation didn’t have the depth of talent that FTR does. I mean, you think about it, we will go down as the greatest tag-team of this generation, and we’ve had to compete with American Alpha, the DIYs, the New Days, the Usos, the Young Bucks. You keep the lineage going of tag-team wrestling, the Briscoes, the Motor City Machine Guns. Those are the teams that we’ve had to compete with, and we still come out on top, and we still are at the top of the list when people talk about greatest tag-teams of the generation.”

Wheeler on How FTR Came Into Wrestling

“We weren’t just lucky to be 6-foot-3, 6-foot-4, and really good-looking and get placed into wrestling when it’s at an all-time high. We came in with no plans. We came in with no fanfare. Nobody had high expectations for us, and we just made ourselves undeniable to the point where they had no other choice than these 5-foot-10 guys from North Carolina were the best they had.”

Harwood on Cope and Cage’s Reunion

“The guys have had a great little nostalgic run, and they’ve brought fans a little bit of joy over the last year of them teaming together. And it just so happens that New York City is going to be the last time that anybody will see Cope and Cage together as a tag team. So that’s history in itself for the tag-team match and for FTR. But the mindset is the same — go in there, be the greatest tag-team of all time, and walk out still three-time AEW World Tag Team Champions.”

FTR defends the AEW World Tag Team Titles against Cage and Cope in an I Quit Match tomorrow at AEW Double or Nothing. If Cage and Cope lose the match, they must retire as a tag team.

AEW Double or Nothing 2026 takes place tomorrow at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Queens, New York. It will be broadcast live on pay-per-view. 411 will also have live play-by-play coverage of the event.