Throughout their profession as a tag team, FTR have had quite a few “third men” join them as a part of their team. From CM Punk to Adam Copeland, a complete host of fine quality performers have joined forces with Money Wheeler and Dax Harwood. Nonetheless, there may be one man who Wheeler particularly would have loved to have worked with more, and through a recent interview on the “Late Night Grin,” he revealed which WWE Superstar still seems like a missed opportunity.
“Randy [Orton],” Wheeler said. “That is the one I missed essentially the most so far as like what might have been. I assumed that we actually could do something cool with him, and Randy was a giant proponent of pushing for it and I’ve said before, and I’m sure I’ve said on record before, but when not here we go. But I feel that was the ultimate straw for us once we knew we desired to ask for our release was once they put–I need to say they drafted us to SmackDown and Randy to Raw at that time. That was within the midst of, I feel he had just lost to Kofi [Kingston] or something along those lines, but we still thought we were going to get a probability to do stuff together, and we knew in the event that they killed that, that they didn’t really have any expectations or plans for us.”
Wheeler reiterated that he has never once regretted requesting his release from WWE, but he continues to be upset in regards to the undeniable fact that FTR and Orton never got the prospect to have the run that they all the time wanted. It’s now reached the purpose where FTR and Orton may never team up again as Dax Harwood recently announced that the duo could be taking a hiatus from wrestling, though it’s price noting that FTR’s contracts expire in 2027, and there may be more likely to be interest from WWE when their deals are up.
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