Jack Perry has vowed to retire the FTW Championship on next week’s episode of AEW Dynamite, and Tommy Dreamer discussed the matter on a recent edition of the “Busted Open Radio” podcast.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the title being retired: “I don’t think AEW needs to have another title. I like that title being special for what it was when Taz had his group. I think it’s really, really cool for HOOK to have held it.”
On how he’d retire it: If I’m going to do it where if I’m HOOK who doesn’t talk a lot, but I also have my father as my very, very good talker, I have the match for the FTW Title. I put HOOK over and son goes to his father, and [says] like ‘Here, Dad, I brought the title home.’ Then your father is like, ‘You know what? I put a lot of pressures on you to be the best, and I still want you to be the best, but this title puts you in a situation that I never want to see in you again. I saw you get hurt, and I don’t want you to get hurt defending my legacy. I’m proud of my legacy. I’m proud of you.’ The guy who created this title, [says] ‘I’m retiring this title. Thank you all for supporting me and thank you all for supporting my son.’”
“[Then a heel interrupts and they have one more title match.] HOOK goes over, you’re in, you’re out, you’re done. The FTW Title is with the owner, the guy who created it, and it served its purpose in professional wrestling.”
