Johnny Gargano: Former WWE star reveals scrapped plans for WrestleMania

Johnny Gargano has revealed that there plans for him to appear at WrestleMania 35 before they were scrapped due to Ciampa’s injury. 

Gargano was a shock call-up to Monday Night Raw in February 2019, alongside Tomasso Ciampa and Ricochet as fresh call-ups from NXT. 

On the show Gargano teamed with Ciampa, despite the pair being embroiled on a heated rivalry on NXT. The duo bested The Revival before going over to SmackDown and downing The Bar on their blue brand debut. 

Speaking to Inside the Ropes during Starrcast V, Gargano says the story was meant to continue and he and Ciampa were at one point set to be in a tag team match at WrestleMania. 

However, those plans were later scrapped when Ciampa suffered a knee injury and Gargano was sent back to NXT rather than continue on the main roster. 

“We found out about that Raw appearance maybe two days before it. I got a phone call saying ‘you’re gonna be on Monday Night Raw on Monday, you’re called up.’ And I’m like ‘What? We’re in the middle of this story, what is happening?’

It was all completely last minute, I don’t know if there was really any plan. I think the ultimate end game was gonna be us teaming at WrestleMania, I think. But they were also saying that ‘We’re gonna let you finish your story with Tommaso’ and things like that. So I don’t know how that was going to play out again, that’s above my head. I just do what I’m told, in certain areas.

But we’re on Raw and SmackDown, we find out about Tommaso’s neck surgery that he needs. So Tommaso is going to go away and get neck surgery.

I say, ‘Hey, look, there’s obviously not like a plan here. If the plan was for me and Tommaso to be together as a team, in my head there’s still another TakeOver coming up. The Johnny