WWE Cancelled Tommaso And Johnny Gargano’s Reunion Months Ago

WWE fans saw Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano reunite on RAW this week, and it was a long time coming.
It turns out that WWE actually canceled the reunion plans a long time ago.

Sean Sapp notes behind Fightful’s paywall that there were plans for a DIY reunion last summer, but “they were canceled pretty late”.

“Fightful Select has learned that there were active plans this Summer to reunite Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa on WWE TV,

as hinted at on episodes of WWE Raw. However, this was one of many stories that got nixed and effectively dropped.

The June 19 episode of WWE Raw saw many changes, including a planned World Heavyweight Championship Open Challenge match.

We’d 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’d reported that, many readers said that Ciampa’s return shouldn’t have resulted in an immediate loss.

However, that was far from the end of the story”.

Ciampa was to answer the open challenge, and the match would be ruined fairly quickly by Judgment Day. A returning Johnny Gargano – who was backstage in his hometown of Cleveland – would then make the save, reuniting DIY.

Some fans think they sense this was teased a few months ago and they were right in assuming that.

It turns out that the June 19 episode of WWE RAW was supposed to be Team DIY’s big return to television.

That changed, along with a few other things that night.

It was also reported that Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa’s plans underwent significant changes in the days leading up to their match, ultimately leading to the fight being cancelled. Some stakeholders have expressed disappointment with these changes.

After its cancellation, Johnny Gargano was absent from television for more than three months until his return on October 2.

During his absence from television, there were rumors that Gargano might be injured again, as well as false claims that he had not been medically cleared.

However, WWE sources have repeatedly confirmed that he has been released since the end of April but has not been used. Gargano returned at a WWE live event in Fort Myers in late July, where he faced Omos.

Now that Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano are back together, it looks like WWE fans have a lot to look forward to.

Only time will tell how things play out, but they’re finally back as a team on WWE television and that’s what matters right now.