10 Wrestlers AEW Plucked From Complete Obscurity
5. Daniel Garcia
Carving out a spot as something as an indie darling long after the term was made redundant by social media feeds fostering just about any piece of contemporary wrestling footage you could wish for, Daniel Garcia still felt like a hidden gem in spite of a) dominating the scene and b) very briefly cameoing for WWE in January 2021.
Cast as the hard nut mate of fellow black-and-gold alumni 2point0, Garcia will eventually break away from the loudmouth duo, and could easily, easily carry himself as a genuine threat to the TNT Title as either a heel or babyface in the process.
It's not just that he's been booked to go measure for measure with the likes of CM Punk, Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston, but that these men have seen the potential in elevating someone so young in such a fashion too. He loses almost all the time at present but then proceeds to hyper analyse the nature of his defeats on Twitter after the fact.
This is multi-dimensional character building, and the sort a television platform benefits exponentially. In a year that brought back Punk and Christian Cage and signed Adam Cole and Bryan Danielson, securing Garcia's signature might prove to be the shrewdest deal of the year.