NXT Superstar Johnny Gargano recently spoke with WWE.com about wrapping up his career in EVOLVE this weekend and more. Gargano was asked about his summer schedule, which included him working indie events, EVOLVE events and touring with NXT.
“It’s really been beyond my wildest dreams. 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’m not saying that I’m unhappy doing indie shows; I love doing them. But, a lot of fans came up to me at an indie show I was on last weekend, in Easton, Pa., talking about how they traveled to Brooklyn, and now they’re standing five inches away from me at the merch table saying hello to me. At the Barclays Center, they were hundreds of rows away. It’s pretty crazy. That sums up 2016. That that kind of thing can happen is exciting and amazing.”
Gargano was asked about his legacy in EVOLVE, which Gargano then explained that he believes his legacy would be that he was a good wrestler but a better person.
“I want my lasting legacy to be that I was a good wrestler, but a better person. I want people to remember me as a good dude. I think that’s very important. A lot of people will be good wrestlers, but not good people. I think being a good person is a little more important. It’s weird. I’d always thought about what it would be like, being one of those guys to leave. I’ve been an independent wrestling fan for a long time, so I’ve seen a lot of those farewells. I could name a lot of names who gave impassioned speeches at their farewells. I always wondered what I would do and say in my final act. I still don’t know. I’m going to take in everything around me and see what happens. I hope that when I leave, people will remember how hard I worked, the matches I’ve had, and that I did whatever it took, no matter how I was feeling, no matter if I was tired, sore or hurt, and gave everything I had. I gave it all away. A lot of me will be left in an EVOLVE Wrestling ring.”
Gargano also talked cruiserweight division on RAW about and more. You can read the entire interview here.
