Daniel Garcia States That ‘Big Reason’ Why He Re-Signed With AEW Was So He Could Wrestle For CMLL & NJPW
Daniel Garcia loves AEW, but does not want to be strapped to one place.
Coming up on November 28th is CMLL’s next Arena México show. One of the matches on the bill is the Death Riders (Wheeler Yuta & Daniel Garcia) challenging Ángel de Oro and Niebla Roja for the CMLL World Tag Team Championship.
Going into the show, CMLL hosted a media call featuring Daniel Garcia. He went on to state that a big reason why he re-signed with AEW is because he loves the company, but he also wanted to have the ability to wrestle elsewhere.
Garcia added that he was supposed to have this upcoming holiday weekend off, but once the opportunity was presented to wrestle for CMLL, he could not turn it down.
“I never just wanted to be somebody that wrestles for one promotion for his entire life, and I feel like it’s very, very important to me… I love being in AEW. I think it’s the best wrestling company in the world. But I really do love the opportunity at AEW to be able to wrestle for CMLL, to be able to wrestle for New Japan, to be able to wrestle for independents, because I just wanna keep learning. I love learning and I love gaining new experience, and that was a big reason why I re-signed with AEW last year is because I remember I had a conversation, and I said, ‘Hey, I love AEW. I do think it’s the best promotion in the world. But a big reason why I re-signed with AEW is so I could wrestle for CMLL, so I could wrestle for New Japan.’ So the fact that I’m able to go actually check that off the bucket list now and wrestle for CMLL, it’s amazing. So I really can’t speak for myself what it’s like for everybody to wanna go wrestle for CMLL. But I know for me, I was supposed to have this weekend off. I was supposed to be at home, in Buffalo, enjoying Thanksgiving with my family. But once I got the opportunity, once they said, ‘Hey, do you wanna come into CMLL to wrestle with Wheeler Yuta and do Arena México, and Arena Coliseo?’ I said, ‘Hundred percent. Screw the family. I’m not missing out on an opportunity to do something that I’ve always wanted to do’ and I hope that it goes well so I can keep getting these opportunities and keep coming back and keep learning and keep gaining new experience, and keep performing in front of the great fans of CMLL.”
Garcia and Yuta both competed at AEW Full Gear in the Casino Gauntlet to crown the first-ever AEW National Champion.
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