Daniel Garcia says Jon Moxley “turned the ship around” for AEW
While speaking to Thrive with Alex Sagot, Daniel Garcia commented on AEW gaining momentum in 2026. Garcia gave credit to Jon Moxley for turning things around…
“I would say a year or two ago, AEW was in an interesting spot where I feel like it had lost a lot of goodwill with the fans. A lot of the fans didn’t really feel like it was the AEW that first belonged to them.
AEW was brought into the wrestling world as an alternative—something different from WWE. I feel like AEW got to a place where the fans felt like we weren’t really an alternative anymore. We were just kind of falling into the same patterns that other wrestling companies have fallen into.
Mox, in my opinion, turned the ship around.
He turned the ship around. I won’t share his story completely because it’s amazing. I’ll tell you off camera. It’s amazing what he told me about this. But he really decided that he needed to take control and turn the ship around, and he did exactly that. AEW is in a much better place right now than it was when it was a year ago.”