For those who do not know, in January of 2021 Daniel Garcia competed in a try out match for the WWE on the NXT brand.
Daniel Garcia has had a hell of a run in AEW, with him being one of the highly touted young talents in pro wrestling. He is currently feuding with Wheeler Yuta on AEW Dark and will likely take part in the upcoming Blood and Guts event.
Garcia recently appeared on Talk is Jericho and shared some interesting information with regard to his WWE tryout.
“I think, a year into wrestling, I did actually work for WWE. I wrestled Drew Gulak on WWE 205 Live in a 15-second match, he beat me up pretty bad. It was pretty nasty, pretty ruthless. Then I had a WWE tryout in January of last year and I had a match on an NXT right after the tryout,” Daniel recalled. “They asked me to stay another day to go and have a squash match against Tyler Rust. He was in Diamond Mine with Roderick Strong. The match went really well. I went through the back and Shawn Michaels loved it, Road Dogg loved it, A-Train loved it, Triple H shook my hand and said, ‘Welcome to the team!’ I think he thought I was signed, but I wasn’t at the time.
“In my mind, I’m like, ‘I guess I’m going to NXT. Mom, I’m moving to Orlando,” Garcia carried on. “I talked to Canyon Ceman right before I left and he said, ‘Hey, let me know if any other if any other place has an interest in you because we will sign you sooner.’ In my mind, that’s disrespectful to me. If you want to sign me, just sign me. Then, I remember, I was like, ‘Okay, he wants to play that. I’ll play it back to him.’ He said, ‘So if you’re gonna sign anywhere else, talk to me sooner and at the time,’ I had like, interest from Ring of Honor and I knew AEW wanted to bring me back in for extra work. But I was like, I’m gonna make this seem bigger than it actually is. So I said to him, ‘Well, with that being said, I’ll talk to you very soon.’ I think he got kind of hot me for that. I think that shook him up a little bit and they emailed me a couple of weeks later, kind of saying like, ‘Oh, like we’re gonna stay in contact,’ blah, blah, blah. Then that kind of made me mad and I went on a crazy indie run that got me signed with AEW.”
Daniel Garcia on Talk is Jericho
Garcia is currently part of the Jericho Appreciation Society in AEW despite many calling for him to enter the Blackpool Combat Club.
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