Dax Harwood On Receiving Death Threats, Negativity Surrounding His Podcast
In light of controversy and negativity constantly surrounding his podcast, Dax Harwood announced on the latest episode of “FTR with Dax” that he will be ending his podcast.
In regard to his statement on a recent episode where he suggested FTR and a returning CM Punk facing The Elite at AEW All In 2023, Harwood has received tons of backlash from a certain section of wrestling fans. He also addressed dirt sheets portraying him and his podcast in a negative light and the amount of toxicity he has been dealing with lately, even receiving death threats over the past few weeks. He said,
“There were some negative things that I was reading, and I didn’t understand why. I couldn’t understand why, and it was all because of my friendship with Punk. All I said was if this is my dream match, I want it to be me and my two best friends in the business, CM Punk and Cash Wheeler against The Elite and The Young Bucks. That’s all I said. I never said that one individual is a piece of shit. I never said one was a pu**y ass b*tch or anything like that. I never said we’re better than they are. All I said was my dream match, and for some reason that got brought up and as me gaslighting The Bucks and their fans, The Elite and their fans.”
“I scrolled through this, and I saw people say that I was a piece of shit, and that they wished I would lose my job. They wish I’d get released, that I am a drunk, I’m an alcoholic, and I also heard people say he should just die. I’m thinking to myself, man, all this because of wrestling. All this because I said I wanted to have a dream match with my two best friends in the business and three guys that I think that we can, one, draw the most money with, but two, tear the fu**ing house down with, and that’s the response that I get is death, joblessness, and people calling me a drunk.”
“I always thought I was mentally tough, and I can handle this. I told you the outset, ‘Hey, Dude, I can handle the heat. The heat, I can handle that’, and I guess I’m not as tough as I thought I was because, imagine waking up every day and getting on Twitter. Let’s just say one person says it, but you get it every single day. I wish you were dead, or I wish you didn’t have a job, or wrestling would be better without you.”
“I hope she never hears this; I don’t think she will, I don’t think Finley will, but I showed my wife this yesterday. Someone called my daughter a whore, my nine-year old daughter, in three days, she’ll be nine years old, a whore. I read that my wife and my daughter should be disappointed in me. Like, imagine reading that every day. At first, it’s like, you know, this idiot, okay, that’s funny, whatever, whatever. But then by day 37, you’re like, holy shit. Maybe I am a terrible father. Maybe I am an alcoholic. Would this world be better if I weren’t here? It gets stuck back there and that’s all you can think about every single day. The last few days have not been very good.”
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