Johnny Gargano took part in a Q&A with Reddit with fans in order to promote the NXT TakeOver: New York event takes place on Friday, April 5, 2019 in Brooklyn, New York at the Barclays Center and will air on the WWE Network.
At this show, Gargano is slated to take on Adam Cole in a 2 out of 3 falls match for the vacant NXT Title, which will likely headline the show. During the Q&A, Gargano talked about comparisons between the WWE main roster – Monday Night RAW and SmackDown Live – and NXT.
Gargano made his main roster debut on the February 18, 2019 episode of RAW that saw he and Tommaso Ciampa defeat former rivals The Revival. He has since been pulled from television on the main roster once Ciampa went down with a neck injury that required surgery.
“I get asked the question a lot of when I’m going up to the main roster, and I got a taste of that with Raw and SmackDown, and obviously you get into wrestling, your dream is to wrestle at WrestleMania and one day I hope to make that happen. But for me, I feel like in my heart, NXT is my main roster. It’s everything I ever wanted out of professional wrestling and my goal with NXT is to make people forget the question “When are you going up to the main roster?” NXT is a viable brand on its own. We sold out Barclays Center again. I put our locker room up against any locker room in the world, and tomorrow night at TakeOver, we’re gonna set the bar for WrestleMania weekend.”
Gargano also shared two stories involving Triple H, who oversees the running and creative of the NXT brand. He talked about one time being used to show security guards how to hold people and the other was about sending Triple H a get well soon card.
“The craziest thing for me, since I’m a huge wrestling nerd at heart, I remember we were going through an area where security was going to hold me back, and Triple H had to show security guards how to hold people back properly. At one point Shawn Michaels got involved too. So at one point, Triple H is holding my waist, and HBK is holding my arms. I couldn’t fathom in my wildest dreams where D-Generation X would be pretending be security guards with me at the center. Another great story is after Triple H tore his bicep, I Photoshopped a special “get well soon” card with me and Tommaso’s faces on the card and texted it to him.”
