Tommaso Ciampa comments on the DIY reunion.
DIY reunited on Monday's WWE Raw as Johnny Gargano made his return to television, saving Ciampa from an attack by Imperium. Ciampa had just lost to WWE Intercontinental Champion Gunther in the main event, and after the bout, Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci put the boots to Ciampa.
"Rebel Heart" hit and Gargano made the save, bringing DIY back together.
Speaking on WWE After The Bell, Ciampa commented on the DIY reunion.
"Unfortunately, I know the feed cut a little bit before the finale, him and me meeting in the middle. The silver lining to it, to not only having him back, but the cool thing for both of us was DIY never really got going on the main roster. We have a couple of matches a couple of years back and it's never been talked about. I came up, I was doing stuff with Miz and got a little rub with the US Title opportunity and then I went for surgery. By the time I'm gone, Johnny is coming up, he's doing his own thing. Together, there has been no tease for DIY. The fact that Johnny could come out and San Jose could chant 'DIY' and give the reaction they gave when we hugged, and after the show ended, I got on the mic quickly and when I shouted 'WE ARE!' to have the whole place saying 'DIY!' It was one of those moments where I was like, 'Wait, we've done nothing to train you.' In one night, we tried to build me as a viable contender and then we just brought Johnny up. No build, no expectation. To have that crowd react and go 'we know they are DIY.' To me, that's a bis success because it was like, 'that's with nothing. That's with no machine behind us.' If we start to go now and they start to see us on a weekly basis together, whether it be backstage promos and interactions because we can have a lot of fun that way, or matches that get time, because that's really what DIY was in NXT, just two dudes thrown together. It wasn't like the rocket was strapped to us," he said.
When host Corey Graves commented that DIY is an appropriate name for the duo, Ciampa agreed.
"It's cool and it's funny because we would always do the 'WE ARE NXT!' and we'd always do it with 'WE ARE DIY!' and it's this group effort because the fans are the reason. When we came to NXT, we didn't have contracts, we were just these two guys, 'we'll give them extra work and see if it gets over.' It got over and it's the fans who turned us into what we've become. We have this real good relationship with our niche audience. Now, the goal is to say, there is this global audience, this main roster audience that is bigger and crazier and beyond our imagination, how do we get them to buy in? We need to get them to buy in and grasp that we can win the titles, we can be main eventers. I'm excited for the possibilities. I'm excited for the fresh match ups. We've never done stuff with New Day, Viking Raiders, Imperium, Pretty Deadly. All new. KO [Kevin Owens] and Sami Zayn is a dream match that I see a lot of people bring up. There are a lot of possibilities. For anyone who is a performer, but still a fan, that's fun and exciting," he said.
Gargano and Ciampa have not teamed together since 2020.
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