Wheeler Yuta: Becoming A Wrestler Was Just A Childhood Dream, Then I Chased That Dream My Whole Life

Wheeler Yuta discusses how becoming a wrestler was always his childhood dream that he has chased his whole life.

While Yuta has been around in AEW for several years now, it is easy to forget that he is still young in his professional wrestling career. Since his debut in the promotion, he has bounced around factions, beginning with Best Friends before moving onto the Blackpool Combat Club that would later become the Death Riders.

While speaking to Positively Philly in a new interview, Wheeler Yuta spoke about his rise in AEW, noting that it was always a childhood dream for him to become a successful pro wrestler.

“I mean, I guess I’m not new now. I’ve been around for about five years in AEW. But I’ve always grown up wanting to be a professional wrestler. My cousins actually introduced it to me when I was very young. So it was just a childhood dream, and then I chased that dream my whole life. I was able to pull it off, join AEW. I had a lot of great support from- originally there was a group called the Best Friends in AEW, and they’re all from around here, or they all live around here. So it was very nice to have that. That sort of got me into AEW, and then I was able to grow my wings. I joined a group called the Blackpool Combat Club with William Regal, Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, and then that sort of formed into the Death Riders, which is where we’re at now. It’s been one hell of a ride, that’s for sure.”

Elsewhere in a previous interview, Wheeler spoke about Daniel Garcia joining the Death Riders. You can read more about that here.

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