7 Ups & 3 Downs From WWE Raw (Sept 5)

3. Johnny Wrestling To Do Just That

Johnny Gargano’s return to WWE a few weeks ago was a big deal for a lot of fans, but if you never followed NXT, you might not know what the big deal is.

That should start to change next week, when Johnny Wrestling will be in action. Gargano announced to the world – and more specifically, Austin Theory – that he would be getting in the ring for the first time in nine months on Raw next week.

Gargano hasn’t been thrust into a heated feud yet, beyond a few encounters with Theory, his former NXT stablemate. The budding rivalry hasn’t taken off just yet, but the pieces are coming together, and sometime soon, they’re going to clash.

The question is, will Gargano manage to wrest the Money in the Bank briefcase away from Theory?

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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.