Johnny Gargano Says He Was ‘Over The Moon’ When He Found Out About WWE And Disney’s Partnership

Johnny Gargano says he was ‘over the moon’ to find out that WWE would be working with Disney in the near future.

Gargano and his wife Candice LeRae’s affinity for Disney as a whole is well known to wrestling fans, as Gargano has famously worn many gears inspired by Marvel and other Disney owned characters.

While speaking to WDW News Today in a new interview, Johnny Gargano spoke about WWE’s recently announced partnership with Disney.

“Oh, yeah. Immediately. As soon as I found out there was even an inkling of a talk between Disney and WWE and ESPN and things like that, I was over the moon. They sent us like a… me and Candice joke, because they sent us like a questionnaire, like a Disney questionnaire, like just to see like what we’re interested in, and like, as soon as I got that questionnaire, I locked in like never before. I told the people that work for us, I was like, I promise you, you will never get a more detailed answer on this questionnaire than what me and Candice said, and they asked you like, ‘oh, what’s your favorite character?’ I was like, we’re talking subjects in here? Like, is it like Marvel, Star Wars? Is it parks? Is it animation? I… I’ve made my own subsections of the thing. I’m like, okay, here’s Star Wars, here’s Marvel, here’s Parks, here’s this. They’re like, ‘what universe do you want to live in?’ I was like, ‘oh, what universe do I want to live in?’ Okay, hold on. Let me dig into this. So, like, yeah, we were over the moon when we found out this was a possibility, and then, obviously, I’m a huge wrestling nerd as well, and the history of professional wrestling at Disney World and things like that, like, obviously, Nitro being it, MGM Studios or Hollywood Studios, like watching that, and like, I was like, oh, that’s a dream come true. I would love to wrestle at one of my favorite places. So yeah, man, as soon as it came out, we were definitely over the moon over it.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Josh Bishop noted that Johnny gave him the best advice he’s received in pro wrestling. You can read more about that here.

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