NXT Superstar Johnny Gargano was interviewed by AZ Central where he talked about his career and how he considers himself a nerd, as well as his relationship with his wife Candice LeRae. Here are some highlights from the interview.
Johnny Gargano on his and Candice LeRae’s mutual love of geeky things:
“I’m looking around our apartment, and there’s landspeeder there, there’s a lightsaber there, all kinds of ‘Star Wars’ stuff. I just went crazy on ‘Spider-Man’ the animated series, like old-school action figures from the early ’90s, I bought all those. So our apartment is glass cases filled with toys and helmets and things like that.
On how he met her:
“I remember she brought her cousin to the back, and they were just hanging out talking, and I decided I was going to try to get to her by talking to her cousin about her cellphone. It didn’t really work that well, but we developed a friendship.”
On the couple being nerds at heart:
“Toys‘R’Us was going out of business, and my wife wanted one of the landspeeders. And I was like, ‘I don’t think you’re going to fit in it,’ because it’s for little kids. But she’s like, ‘No, I only weigh like 110 pounds, I can definitely fit in that.’ So I said, ‘OK, if it gets slashed to 50 percent off,’ I’ll go buy you one of those little-kid landspeeders that you can drive around our apartment. And she actually does.”
