FrAxiom initially began off on opposite ends, but by the 2024 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, Nathan Frazer and Axiom established themselves as a tag team before occurring to win gold on two occasions in “NXT.”
“I’m so serious; there is not anything that, like right off the bat, we just agree on. Ever,” Frazer said about his relationship with Axiom during an interview on “The Wealthy Eisen Show.” Frazer thinks this adds to the charm of their pairing. “I believe we’re so similar, we have so many similarities, so many little, little things where you go: ‘yeah, these two were meant to be a tag team,’ but additionally, we’re just completely different wrestlers and completely different people.”
Frazer then described their friendship as “brotherly love,” noting how often brothers are likely to fight anyway, who share a love for wrestling. Frazer then looked back at their matches in “NXT 2.0,” specifically the Better of Three rivalry between the 2 of them before their tag team.
“I believe that was our time where we wanted to actually just showcase to everybody how good we were, showcase to just like the fans how good we were, to the office, and to ourselves,” he recalled. “I believe the timing of us becoming a tag team was just form of perfect.”
He further expressed that they immediately clicked within the ring, but when it got here to being a tag team, Frazer admitted that he all the time desired to be a singles star.
“The long-term plan wasn’t ever to actually be a tag team,” he admitted.
The unique story for FrAxiom was originally meant to go in a much different direction
Axiom seems to share Nathan Frazer’s sentiments, adding that he agrees with the notion that their pairing got here together out of nowhere, but not necessarily his view on tag team wrestling.
“But there’s something about tag team wrestling that’s so special, right?” Axiom said. “When you might have these long matches, and the whole lot form of clicks, and the group is de facto into it? There are more people within the ring, like, the motion you possibly can get in tag team wrestling is way higher than in singles wrestling!”
“Getting my mind into it, and applying my holds and submissions, from this creation that was FrAxiom? It was probably the greatest times in our careers, I even have to say,” Axiom claimed. Frazer then interestingly noted that FrAxiom was never meant to be a long-term tag team plan.
“I’m sure you remember, just us, bickering forwards and backwards for, just, what appeared like months on TV,” he reminded Axiom. “The plan was originally meant to separate us.”
Frazer added that he originally desired to develop into a singles heel and that the tag team would’ve eventually led to the classic heel betrays babyface tag team trope.
“Every thing was just clicking and firing on all cylinders, and we just each went to Shawn [Michaels] and were like: ‘Shawn! Don’t do it! Don’t, don’t, please don’t do it,'” he recalled, adding that NXT Stand and Deliver 2023 was going to be a Hair vs. Mask match between the 2 of them.
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