WWE Backstage Officials Happy With Johnny Gargano And Candice LeRae’s Returns, Handled Their Exits With “Incredible Professionalism”
Several backstage in WWE are happy with how Johnny Gargano and Candice LeRae’s returns have been handled. There are also several backstage who have spoken highly of how respectfully they left the company previously.
Candice LeRae returned on Monday Night RAW earlier this week to much fanfare. While it was unexpected, the crowd immediately got into it when they realised who had stepped out from behind the curtain. This was almost exactly how Johnny Gargano returned to WWE TV just a short few weeks ago.
Fightful Select now reports that WWE are not only happy about their returns, but several have spoken highly of the pair and how they initially exited the company.
One WWE source said that Gargano remained on most in WWE’s good side all the way through his contract expiring, not signing a new deal, and even free agency. We’re told that he’d made it clear to WWE that he would return on his time frame, and they were happy to follow that. Several NXT sources said that Gargano handled his exit from the company with “incredible professionalism,” mentioning that he went out of this way to work with and get over young talent like Austin Theory and Indi Hartwell, while helping to establish Dexter Lumis. It was well known within NXT that Gargano took pride in this, especially since he knew that he would be taking time off in December as far as a year ahead of his deal expiring.
We’re told that Gargano and Candice LeRae were talking to “the major companies” in the month prior to Johnny rejoining WWE, though we weren’t given much context outside of that IMPACT Wrestling didn’t seem to be a serious consideration.
When Vince McMahon lost power, several within the company had indicated to Fightful that they felt way more confident that Gargano would be heading back to WWE. They believed that Triple H being in power was a tipping point that accelerated the move.
Several times even before Triple H took power, there was interest in bringing Gargano to the main roster.
Fightful Select Report
Gargano is set to take on Otis on Monday Night RAW, while Candice is scheduled to face Dakota Kai on the same show tomorrow night.
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