Dax Harwood Denies Jake Hager’s Claims, Says That FTR Has Never Refused To Come To TV And That Tony Khan Did Not Interrupt Talent Meeting

Skylar RussellAugust 26, 2025, 12:35 pm

Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler respond to Jake Hager’s comments.

On Tuesday, August 26, Chris Van Vliet released a new interview with Jake Hager. In the chat, Hager was asked why he doesn’t love wrestling anymore.

This prompted the 43-year-old to go on a huge tangent about his contract negotiations and how they didn’t go well. Hager also claimed that Tony Khan stormed into a locker room meeting backstage, saying that he yelled about FTR (Dax Harwood & Cash Wheeler) refusing to show up to TV.

“Like we – like after all the Punk shit that went down, the boys got together and we had a meeting and this was the boys only, no office, right? We’re all like- Stings in there, (Big) Show, Jericho, Bryan, Mox, they’re all standing at the front kind of like talking us through this shit and lo and behold, who comes into the room storming in? Daddy’s little billionaire. He’s like yelling at us because I think it was Dax and Cash, Cash and Wheeler didn’t want to come in. They didn’t like the storyline. So they refused to come to TV that day, and he was like, ‘listen, I’ll put you in a six man, six minutes before the show and you’re going to do it.’ and we’re all feeling disrespected.”

In response, Harwood responded to Hager’s claims, saying that he and Cash Wheeler were indeed at the talent meeting. After saying that Tony Khan did not interrupt the meeting, Harwood made it clear that he and Wheeler have never refused to show up to work before.

Cash and I were at the all-talent only meeting that was called by Bryan, Jericho, and Mox.

Tony never interrupted.

Cash and I have NEVER refused to show up to work and, I’d to dare say, if you look at our schedules since Collision started, we’re the most consistent talent that… https://t.co/Hf9mPtyZfe

— Dax FTR (@DaxFTR) August 26, 2025