Last fall, AEW gave FTR (Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood) new entrance music that is an obvious nod to ’80s tag team wrestling legends, The Midnight Express. The song used by Dennis Condrey, Stan Lane, Bobby Eaton and their manager, Jim Cornette, was Giorgio Moroder’s “Chase,” which was released in 1978, and FTR’s music, “Darkside of TR,” is heavily based on the song. Last week, the Twitter account @UndeadMedia began dubbing “Darkside of TR” over funny internet videos and even some iconic movie scenes including clips from “The Breakfast Club,” “Dirty Dancing,” the original “Batman” television series, and perhaps most successfully so far, Jean Claude Van Damme’s drunken dance scene from “Kickboxer.”
When the series of clips started, @UndeadMedia wrote: “Day 1 of posting an FTR dance until I forget or they follow me.” Harwood replied: “Imma need about 5 days of this until I consider following.” Wheeler wrote after the initial post: “I’m sorry but I can never follow you now. But you can tag me in these everyday until you forget.” Either Dax or Cash has re-tweeted and/or commented on every video so far. Wheeler especially liked the Van Damme post: “I’ll be honest, I didn’t think there was anyway you could top the way Fenix’s bangs were bouncing in the video yesterday, but I will be damned,” he said referring to the first post in which Andrade’s manager, Jose The Assistant, joked that it was “Fenix unmasked.” “You did it,” Wheeler continued. “You really did it. I can’t express how much I love this video.”
Six days worth of clips can be viewed below. FTR is widely considered one of the best tag teams in wrestling and the duo had two match of the year contenders in the same week beating the Briscoes at ROH Supercard of Honor and The Young Bucks on AEW Dynamite. They worked for WWE from 2014 to 2020, and Fightful Select reported that the company is interested in bringing them back. “WWE has expressed interest internally about possibly bringing back the team formerly known as The Revival. In 2019, the two passed up what were then huge offers of $850,000 each, with Mark Carrano even mentioning that he could possibly get them to $1 million each before they left for All Elite Wrestling. WWE is unable to approach FTR directly.” FTR won every tag title possible with the WWE, are former AEW World Tag Team Champions and current Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champions and AAA World Tag Team Champions.
