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

2. Is Johnny Gargano Dead?

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.