Dax Harwood 

David Harwood was born onJune 30, 1984 in Whiteville, North Carolina, United States. Harwood played college football at East Carolina University before transferring to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and getting a degree in business communication. His family’s home in Whiteville, North Carolina was severely damaged by Hurricane Florence.

Harwood made his professional wrestling debut in 2004. He wrestled for a variety of independent promotions as KC McKnight, most notably for CWF Mid-Atlantic, AWA Superstars of Wrestling and a number of NWA-affiliated organizations including NWA Anarchy and Pro Wrestling Zero1. In 2010, he made an appearance for Ring of Honor (ROH) in a dark match prior to ROH The Big Bang!. He also wrestled at various North Carolina independents including United Professional Wrestling Association in Wilmington.

Harwood signed with WWE in 2012 and was assigned to the WWE Performance Center, taking the ring name Scott Dawson. He made his television debut on the March 7, 2013 episode of NXT, teaming with Judas Devlin in a two-on-one handicap loss to Adrian Neville. Dawson made a further appearance in an enhancement role on the April 10 episode of NXT, in a six-man tag-team defeat against The Shield. Dawson formed a team with Dash Wilder, with the two performing extensively at live events under the name The Mechanics. The duo made their debut on the July 31, 2014 episode of NXT, losing to the team of Bull Dempsey and Mojo Rawley.

Beginning in February 2016, the duo began performing under the team name The Revival. On the Raw after the WrestleMania 33 April 3 episode of Raw, The Revival answered an open challenge issued by The New Day. The Revival defeated The New Day, and afterwards attacked Kofi Kingston, who was not participating in the match.

After leaving WWE, Dawson (now known as Dax Harwood) and Wilder (now known as Cash Wheeler) adopted the new name of FTR and appeared at All Elite Wrestling (AEW) shows. They debuted on the May 27, 2020 episode of AEW Dynamite, attacking The Butcher and the Blade. In July 2020, after appearing on AEW television programming for two months despite not being under contract with the company, Harwood and Wheeler signed multi-year contracts with AEW.

In November 2020, Harwood and Wheeler revealed in an interview with TalkSport journalist Alex McCarthy that they wanted to join AEW, despite being offered a huge amount of money to stay in the WWE, because they kept getting pulled from main roster events in the WWE, with Harwood stating “We knew it was time for us to move on because money is great, and I am so fortunate and lucky to take care of my beautiful wife and perfect little six year old daughter because of professional wrestling, but that’s what it’s because of – professional wrestling.”