Daddy Magic: I Promised Daniel Garcia’s Mother That I’d Have His Back

Matt Menard reveals a promise he made to Daniel Garcia’s mother.

Matt Menard discusses Daniel Garcia’s match on the January 27th AEW Collision.

Over the course of Daniel Garcia and Daddy Magic’s runs in AEW, the pair have been tied together throughout. Since the break up of the Jericho Appreciation Society, this partnership has only been highlated further. Throughtout Garcia’s run in the recent Continental Classic, Menard would feature on commentary for his bouts, offering his unwavering support to someone he has spoken of like a son consistently in recent months.

Before AEW Collision on Saturday, AEW cameras caught up with Daddy Magic, who would discuss Garcia’s trios steel cage match scheduled for the show. He would begin by noting that his wife has asked him why he continues to protect Daniel.

“I come home two weeks ago, come home from collision, and I go to pick up my son. And I’m struggling, I can’t, it’s having a hard time, my wife looks at me. How is it, she says this, how is it that you leave to commentate wrestling matches, you come home in worse shape than you would be had you wrestled the matches yourself? Why is it that you feel the need to protect Daniel Garcia like this? And as we were looking at my son, I said, don’t you wish that in 25 years, if Jack finds himself in an industry filled with dogs, alone, his back against the wall, that somebody is going to have his best interests at heart, that somebody’s going to protect him or do everything they can to protect him so he doesn’t feel so alone. And of course she agreed with that. Of course she didn’t want that. They didn’t want that for their son.”

Menard continued, revealing that he had made a promise to Garcia’s mother that he would have the young stars back.

“But even deeper than that, you know, I made a promise. Daniel doesn’t know this. He’ll find out when he sees this. I made a promise to his mother. I made that exact promise to his mother. That no matter what happens, that I’d have his back. That I’d act with his best interests. at heart that I try to guide him and support him the best that I could so that he’d never be alone. She did a great job, she did a great job raising a young man, a single mother. I can’t imagine the burden of that and to watch your son blaze this path in professional wrestling.” 

Menard would finally look at how Garcia is finally realizing his potential, and that has led to him being attacked by the House Of Black.

“And to watch everything that he goes through, the bumps and the bruises, the pain and the heartbreak. To watch him overcome in the Continental Classic. Everybody saw the potential of Daniel Garcia from the second he walked through the door here in AEW. And everybody loves a guy on the way up, right, everybody? Everybody loves a kid who’s full of potential. Until he starts to realize it, until he starts to realize that potential, that’s when the knives come out. And I know this, right? I know this. I expected it. The second he beats Brody King, he gets attacked. And now we’re in this thing with House of Black. And FTR is at our side, at Daniel’s side. I don’t even know how we got here, honestly. But I look at this cage match, I look at this cage match on Saturday night and, I don’t know, man. I just don’t know. I just don’t know how I would keep that promise to his mother, you know.”

Our cameras caught up with @TheDaddyMagic to give his thoughts on @GarciaWrestling‘s involvement in the HUGE Escape The Cage Elimination Match tomorrow night on #AEWCollision! pic.twitter.com/JldWiGCzQ2

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) January 27, 2024

Garcia is scheduled to compete in the matchup on Saturday evening alongside FTR who will take on The House Of Black in an Escape The Cage Elimination Match.

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