WWE News: WWE scrapped a plan for #DIY’s return last summer
The last episode of Monday Night Raw left us with a great main event, with Gunther defeating Tommaso Ciampa in a disputed match whose victory.
Would finally be awarded to the Austrian to continue prolonging his historic reign as Intercontinental Champion. However, the show still had a surprise.
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In store for fans before its conclusion. Once the fight was over, Ciampa was attacked by Ludwig Kaiser and Giovanni Vinci while Gunther.
Headed backstage, leaving his teammates to finish off his fallen rival. At that moment, Johnny Gargano made his return to the red brand to join his old friend.
Even executing his well-known combined finisher (Meet in the Middle) on Vinci in the last moments of the broadcast. These events seem aimed.
At the return of #DIY, the team formed by Ciampa and Gargano in NXT, with which they would go on to win the brand’s Tag Team Championships.
A plan, on the other hand, that would have been discarded by WWE a few months ago, according to what the specialized media Fightful has learned.
“Fightful Select has learned that there were active plans this summer to reunite Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa on WWE television programming.
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As hinted at in episodes of WWE Raw. However, this was one of many stories that did not prospered and was effectively discarded,” the outlet wrote.
“The June 19 episode of WWE Raw saw many changes, including an Open Challenge for the World Heavyweight Championship.
We had reported at the time that Tommaso Ciampa was scheduled to answer the open challenge, but there was much more to it than that.
When we reported this, many readers said that Ciampa’s return should not have resulted in an immediate defeat. However, that was far from.
The end of the story. Ciampa was going to respond to the open challenge, and the match would be ruined pretty quickly by an intervention from Judgment Day.
The return of Johnny Gargano, who was backstage in his hometown of Cleveland, would make the save, reuniting #DIY,” Fightful wrote.
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“Plans began to change strongly in the days leading up to it, before being canceled entirely. People we spoke to said several involved were frustrated.
By the change. For more than three months after that, Gargano remained out of the picture. television programming until it returned on October 2.
Many thought that the fact that Johnny Gargano was once again off television was because he was injured again, as there were incorrect rumors.
That he was not cleared. WWE sources confirmed to us repeatedly that he has been medically cleared since.
The end of April, and that he simply was not used. “He returned at a WWE live event in Fort Myers in late July, battling Omos,” the outlet wrote.
