Johnny Gargano reflects on his journey in wrestling.
Johnny Gargano recently got the opportunity to main event WWE Friday Night SmackDown from his hometown of Cleveland on the August 2 episode. Unfortunately, he lost the WWE Tag Team Championship alongside Tommaso Ciampa to Jacob Fatu and Tama Tonga of The Bloodline.
Speaking on the latest episode of Conversations with The Wrestling Classic, Gargano said he believes his younger self would be very proud of how far he's come, including having recently gotten the chance to main event in Cleveland.
"I mean the fact that a little eight-year-old Johnny Gargano, I just brought this up recently. Summertime 1996 was the very first movie show I went to at the Gund Arena, now [the] Rocket Mortgage Field House, and I dreamed of becoming a professional wrestler from that day on and the fact that I just got to main event that building as one-half of Tag Team Champions, I'd like to think that my younger self will be proud of what we've accomplished, what we've turned into, even more so [than] from a wrestling standpoint, but from a human being standpoint, I'd like to think that I try my best, and I've turned out pretty okay. So I'd like to think we did pretty good for ourselves."
Before losing the championships, Gargano spoke with Sean Ross Sapp about what it meant for him to grow up in Cleveland. Learn more here.
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