FTR Will Not be in Launch Version of AEW Fight Forever
The last three years has seen AEW go from an upstart professional wrestling company to the number two promotion in the U.S., offering a true alternative to WWE on national TV for the first time since the fall of WCW. A major reason for this has been the incredibly deep roster of talent the young company has been able to foster, with names including CM Punk, Jon Moxley, and Jade Cargill, to name a few. However, a new report confirms one of the company's top tag teams and hottest wrestlers will not be in the launch version of AEW Fight Forever when it releases despite early work already being done for them.
In a report from Fightful Select via WrestleTalk, it was confirmed that the current Ring of Honor, AAA, and IWGP tag team champions FTR will not be in AEW Fight Forever when it releases sometime between late 2022 and early 2023. The report says Yukes had begun work on Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood's respective in-game models when the call came down to pull them from the launch version of the game earlier in the summer. It reportedly didn't go over well with either wrestler, though, as their inclusion would have meant a pay bonus when the game released.
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The exclusion of FTR from AEW's debut game is likely to be the first of many notable omissions from the launch game, though, as previous reports indicated the launch roster would not be that large. At launch, the game's roster will reportedly feature only around 50 members of the over 160 roster members currently signed to AEW. Kris Statlander, Kenny Omega, Britt Baker, Adam Cole, and Chris Jericho are just five of the names already confirmed, though Yukes and AEW have yet to announce the
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