10 Best Wrestlers Under 30 In The World Today
8. Daniel Garcia
Daniel Garcia doesn't just get it; he gets how much he's meant to have got it by just 23.
He's already a masterful technician frighteningly advanced for his age, but he's savvy enough to work his inexperience. He explains the naive strategic errors that cost him matches on social media in a unique way of protecting himself. In the ring itself, he'll gladly jut his jaw in a senior pro's face and take a slap, knowing that he is meant to be a brash, impetuous upstart who doesn't yet have the experience to compete at the highest level. He's a performer who knows exactly what he's doing. He could play the master he almost is already, but where would that leave him when he's 30?
Long-term storytelling isn't just a feud that stretches over a period of a few months. Garcia, playing a Young Lion despite never entering a dojo system, grasps that quite brilliantly.
Narrowly edging out Lee Moriarty, who actually worked a better match opposite Bryan Danielson as part of his prodigy invitational gimmick, Garcia is not yet complete. His tongue-out taunts are a bit hammy, and open to mockery. He looks at times like he's playing a mean wrestler rather than embodying one.
He'll get it. He's so good already that he might well be doing that on purpose.