Vince McMahon didn’t want to lose Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson, now known as Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood, when they were in the WWE. He turned down their requests to be released and would offer them each $750,000 to re-sign when their contracts were getting close to expiring. McMahon also took the time to personally create new a gimmick for the duo, which involved them wearing garish colors, having tassels, waving glowsticks, and Wilder wearing a “Shatter Machine” chain necklace. The pair objected to this, and were still unhappy with WWE’s portrayal of the tag-team division, citing Braun Strowman and a 10-year old winning the Raw Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania 34 as their example.
Now in an interview with Inside The Ropes, Dax Harwood has shared that Vince McMahon actually apologized to them during their final meeting with him for WWE creative system being broken.
Our last meeting with Vince, he apologized because we had been sending all these pitches in, and he had never seen them because the writers were too afraid to approach him with different ideas, and he apologized for the system being broken.Dax Harwood
Hopefully, since then, Vince McMahon has taken steps to address this, because allowing talent to have an input on their characters and angles can only improve the product.
