A biography for Johnny Garganohasn’t been written yet.
“I'm a huge wrestling video game fan. I grew up on wrestling video games.”
“We've got a bunch of guys who have been travelling around the world for over 10 years, scratching and clawing, fighting, just trying to live their dream, just trying to prove people wrong, just trying to show that we belong, and that's kind of the essence of NXT.”
“I didn't have a contract for the first year of my time in NXT, and that was very stressful.”
“I play my Switch a lot when I'm traveling, when I'm on the bus or things like that.”
“I saw 'Infinity War' in theaters four times.”
“Sometimes you have to fall lower than you've ever been to stand taller than you ever could.”
“I'm an NXT Superstar and the current NXT Champion.”
“It seems like all of my biggest life events happen when I'm actually at home in Cleveland around my family.”
“My mom made me a Shawn Michaels costume when I was a kid. I wore it every day and ran around the house dancing like him.”
“I was a socially awkward 8-year-old kid who fell in love with wrestling when he felt like the whole world was against him. That's the key word: love. I don't do this for revenge; I do this because I love it. That's Johnny Wrestling.”
“When I was younger, my favorite wrestlers were Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho. I relate to them. I don't know what it was.”
“For me, I am not a fan of any of my own matches, and it's both a blessing and a curse. Because I'm never satisfied, I'm always looking to improve in every area.”
“I've been lucky to combine my two loves quite frequently: that of Marvel Superheroes and Sports Entertainment.”
“NXT in my head is something I'm trying to help build, get it to its peak. I will do whatever I have to: I will strap NXT to my back and carry it up a cliff if I have to.”
“The fact that I'm still able to wrestle on the indies and yet still do my stuff in NXT, and the fact that I wrestled in front of 15,000 people at the Barclays Center at TakeOver, and then, the following weekend, I was still doing indie shows, is wild.”
“I've main-evented the most matches in NXT history.”
“I realized in myself, look, I'm a small guy. I'm never going to be 250 pounds - I'm never going to be 6'5'' - but I can get as jacked and as lean as humanly possible.”
“I think NXT is kind of like the Cleveland, Ohio, of professional wrestling. We're that underdog whose hungry, who's always out to prove people wrong, and that's kind of what our locker room represents.”
“Outside the ring, I am a huge Marvel fan and don't hide my overwhelming nerd-dom by any means.”
“If you watch the Cruiserweight Classic, you want different professional wrestling. You want guys who are going to go out there, put their bodies on the line, and show you passion.”