Johnny Gargano Decided To Take Time Off From WWE NXT A Year Ago

Johnny Gargano has been touted as the face of NXT by many fans due to his excellent feuds with the likes of Tommaso Ciampa and Adam Cole. He has had various nicknames such as Johnny Wrestling, Johnny TakeOver and more and they are all for a good reason. It seems he planned on taking time off from NXT long ago.

As seen on a previous episode of NXT 2.0, Gargano made it clear that his status in NXT is up in the air. However, many fans realized that it was truly the end of the line for Johnny Gargano. That turned out to be true as he is now officially a free agent.

On his way out, he was viciously attacked by Grayson Waller, making him the biggest heel in NXT. While speaking on Iron-On Wrestling with Gregory Iron, Johnny Gargano revealed that he had decided to take time off from NXT a year ago.

“I definitely felt very complete. I felt complete for the past year. This wasn’t a decision that came out of nowhere. This was a decision I decided a year ago. Luckily, it worked out to where me and Candice are having a baby. The baby really finalized my decision on what I wanted to do and how I wanted to take this time. I’m very much a guy where I could have stayed comfortable for a very long time and I love NXT, the door is open, I can go back whenever I want. WWE in general, I can go back whenever I want.

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I really appreciate that because I’m so grateful that the company I dreamed of working for my entire life still wants me for a very long time, which is really cool. It’s one of those things where I am a competitive person and I feel like I’ve climbed that mountain. There are other mountains I want to climb and other things I want to try and do, not just in wrestling, but life in general. Other avenues I want to try. I’ve always been enamored with creating content and things like that. Now I have free time to try to do that. I’m very lucky to have a loyal fanbase that has followed me and continues to follow me even though I’m not in NXT and am doing my own thing now.”

Johnny Gargano also recently hinted that his feud with Tommaso Ciampa is not over just yet. Johnny Gargano also recently stated that he will work wherever fans call for him to work. It remains to be seen which pro wrestling company Gargano will call his home next.

h/t to Fightful for the quotes

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