Dax Harwood Reveals He’s Been Trying to Hire Stokely Hathaway for Years

FTR’s alliance with Stokely Hathaway has given the tag team a fresh coat of paint and a new attitude. On the Beyond The Bell podcast, Dax Harwood revealed that the partnership was years in the making—and that he first tried to get Hathaway hired as FTR’s manager in WWE.

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“The crazy thing is, is when we were with the other company… We were asking for our release,” Harwood recalled. “I had a meeting with the head of creative, and he asked me what I wanted to do. I said, Stokely his name. I said, I’d love to have him as our manager.”

The pitch was considered but ultimately denied. “And the head of company said, ‘Okay, that’s not a bad idea, but he’s going into something else.’ Stokely was going into som

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