AEW: Daniel Garcia on People Speculating About His Career Future, Adam Copeland on Sting’s Son Steven Training for Wrestling Career, Willow Nightingale

Daniel Garcia Comments on People Speculation on Future of His Wrestling Career

As noted before, Daniel Garcia’s contract with AEW is currently set to expire this Fall but he is currently expected to stay in the company.

A recent episode of the Good Karma Wrestling podcast featured Garcia as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Garcia’s thoughts about the public speculation people have been having online over the future of his AEW and wrestling career.

“I won’t lie, I mean, it can be difficult sometimes when every time you open up your phone and it’s somebody assuming something about you and your life. Not even just your career. It’s real-life stuff that people are assuming about. So sometimes it can be a little difficult and it can get into your head and it can make you just question everything and it can be frustrating because you’re like, ‘Where is this information coming from? Where are people getting this information?’ So honestly, it can be a lot to process sometimes but, I think if you just, you know, move with integrity, stick to your guns and have full belief that you’re doing what’s right and that you will do what’s right, I think that’s what matters most. I think if you do that, it can be easier to block out the noise than if you’re not.”

Garcia also gave his thoughts about his current goals for his AEW career.

“Man, I mean, the goal that I’ve had for probably the past two years, it’s really a goal that only one person can do is I really want to be the person to retire Bryan Danielson. That’s something that I really wanna do. To me, that would mean more than any title, any accolade. I feel like that’s the biggest notch in my belt that I could ever get, and that is my main focus and that is my goal.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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Adam Copeland Comments on Sting’s Son Steven Training for Wrestling Career

As noted before, Steven Borden, son of wrestling legend and retired AEW wrestler Sting, has been training for a professional wrestling career since this past May at Darby Allin’s house.

Sports Illustrated held a recent interview with Adam Copeland. One of the topics discussed included Copeland’s thoughts about Borden training to become a professional wrestler and following in his father Sting’s footsteps.

“I think at Revolution there in Greensboro, he got a bit of the itch. He felt what it is. And once you feel that, man, it’s hard to walk away from that. It’s hard to go, ‘Wait, that wasn’t cool.’ You’re going to go, ‘That was really cool and really fun.’

It’s a great gig. So I think he felt that. Also in terms of his physicality, I mean, he’s 6-3. He’s about 230 pounds. He’s probably sitting about eight percent body fat. He looks the part. He’s got a good head on his shoulders, very similar to his dad in how he conducts himself, which is a great thing.

I think now it’s really up to him. What does he want to put into it? Does he want to put in the work that it will take? Because you got to figure it. You might look at it and say, ‘Ok, an easier pathway into the business.’

But once he’s in the business, there’s going to be a big spotlight on him, and with that comes extra pressures. You’re Sting’s son and trying to break out of that. But, he’s smart. He’s smart, and I think if he wants to do it, he absolutely could do it.”

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Willow Nightingale Comments on Years Of Stigma Against Women In Wrestling Being Cause of AEW’s Women’s Division Initial Issues

A recent episode of the Battleground Podcast featured Willow Nightingale. One of the topics discussed included Nightingale’s thoughts about the current state of AEW’s Women’s division and years of stigma against women’s wrestling being cause of its initial issues.

“I think we’ve come a really long way, just in the two years that I’ve been here. I think a lot of the issues initially with the women’s division were kind of stemmed in years and years and years of stigma against women in professional wrestling. I think it’s a lot deeper than just Tony [Khan] saying, ‘I want to give the girls time or I don’t.’ I think it’s much bigger than him just saying that because fans do ultimately have a little bit of say in what we do. This is our company, we’re gonna call the shots, we’re gonna do what we’re gonna do, and we’re gonna make them pay attention, whatever. But it’s hard when there’s years and years of stigma, of being like, ‘This is the bathroom break match,’ and people immediately tune out before they even give us a chance. Over the course of the five years that AEW has been running, you can see that we’ve been getting so much more time, more opportunities, more spots…you’ve seen, over time, that we’ve had more spots on the show, more opportunities, more time, and that’s because over the five years, we’ve forced people to pay attention to us. So with that, we get higher ratings, we get more people trusting us, we get more people paying attention, more equity, and so that is a large part in thanks to what we’ve done and the women who were at AEW before me have done as well. But thank you fans for tuning in. Keep doing that, keep supporting us, keep being very vocal online about how you want to see us in bigger positions. I can’t deny the fact that Mercedes coming to our company has helped us because she has. She’s been an advocate for all of us, all of the division.

Again, progress is something that is very slow, that is something that is bigger than wrestling. When you look at all the social change that our country or different countries have gone through and will continue to go through, progress is slow. So to see that reflected in wrestling, something that already is kind of a little further back socially and progressively as the rest of the world, it’s nice to see us kind of catching and getting there. It’s been five years, which is not a long time, and we’ve already progressed so much. So I am excited and proud and happy to have been a part of that, but of course I would always love to see it more, for a women’s match to main event more regularly or more matches on pay-per-views and these big shows. But it’s happening, it’s happening. So just keep going with what’s working.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com