4 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw (Dec 19 - Review)

2. Is Johnny Gargano Dead?

The Miz Dexter Lumis
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Either Miz has learned how to swing a ladder like a sledgehammer, or Johnny Gargano has suddenly developed a glass jaw.

Those are the only two possible explanations for what happened on Raw Monday night, when Miz attacked Gargano during his ladder match against Dexter Lumis. Miz rammed Johnny into the barricade and then knocked him over it with a ladder, and that was the last we saw of Gargano for five minutes (or at least it felt that long).

Johnny wasn’t seen or heard from again as the match unfolded and Bronson Reed debuted to help Miz, which leaves us to believe he was completely incapacitated from that one ladder shot. Johnny Gargano. The guy whose matches with Tommaso Ciampa involved brutality that is tough to describe. That guy went down to a single ladder shot from the Miz.

It’s probably safe to call Gargano’s WWE return a total flop now. He’s not even Lumis’ sidekick at this point. He’s his flunky.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.