Johnny Gargano didn’t appear at SummerSlam in Nashville, TN, but the former WWE NXT Champion still made his presence felt over the weekend.
Appearing on his What’s NeXT show at Starrcast V, Gargano discussed his relationships with Triple H and Shawn Michaels.
You can check out some highlights from the show below:
On idolizing Shawn Michaels: “I bought that man cookies for his birthday. What does that tell you? People clapping for me buying Shawn Michaels cookies for his birthday? There you go. Shawn Michaels was painted on my wall as a child. He was painted on my wall. I used to dress like Shawn Michaels for Halloween, a couple of years in a row. Think about that for a minute. I always say, if you’re a wrestling fan, you see this little eight-year-old kid walking around, dressed like Shawn Michaels, ‘That’s Shawn Michaels, that’s awesome. That eight-year-old kid’s dressed like Shawn Michaels. That is awesome.’ If you are not a wrestling fan, if you are just a random human and you see a little eight-year-old [dressed like that], you’re like, ‘Why are these parents letting this little eight-year-old kid dress like a male stripper?’ My mom had to get some dirty looks, I’m sure, because she made the costume as well.”
On Triple H and Shawn Michaels being his ‘wrestling dads:’ “To go from that to him being my NXT dad, being my wrestling dad, him and Hunter are my wrestling dads, is literally wild. I remember when he started in NXT and Shawn started coming around more, he was dipping his toes into maybe helping around NXT a bit, helping out with Hunter. I remember me and Tomasso were walking down a hallway in the Performance Center, and we saw Shawn standing there, and we’re like, ‘We’re not ready to say hi to him yet, we’re not ready to say hi to him yet.’ So we like ran [away] because, for my money, he’s the best to ever do it. I know that’s an opinion-based thing, but for my money, Shawn Michaels is the greatest to ever do it, and to have the greatest to ever do it in my back pocket whenever I need an opinion or something, or whenever I need advice, it’s just such an incredible asset to have, him and Hunter both.”
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