Wheeler Yuta Discusses Daniel Garcia Joining Death Riders: “It’s Always Been Great To Have Him To Motivate Me”

Yuta speaks about his history with Daniel Garcia.

Casual Conversations with The Classic pushed out a new interview with Wheeler Yuta. The topic of conversation shifted over to Daniel Garcia being a member of the Death Riders.

Yuta dove into that and opened up about his history with Garcia that dates back to them being on the independent scene together.

“It’s fun to sort of continue that competition (with Daniel Garcia). Even when we were on the independents, I kind of always looked at what he was doing and I’m sure he looked at what I was doing, and we always felt like we were sort of modern contemporaries, and we didn’t actually wrestle much on the independents. It might have just been that one time that we wrestled for an hour-long draw, when I was the IWTV Champion… We’re looking at each other and then, it almost felt like, we get to AEW and then, he goes to the Jericho Appreciation Society, I go to Blackpool Combat Club. It almost felt like we were guys that played at rival colleges and now we just got drafted to the majors but we got drafted to rival team(s). That’s sort of what it felt like so we’ve always had this thing where we’re competing against each other but, I think it’s just made the both of us better. It’s just made us better wrestlers and now that we’re on the same side, maybe we’ll even develop more of a friendship I guess instead of just competing with each other but, it’s always been great to have him to motivate me.”

In late November, Garcia and Yuta made their way to CMLL and challenged for the company’s World Tag Team Titles.

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