Tommaso Ciampa has a specific goal in mind for DIY’s reunion.
On Monday’s edition of RAW, Tommaso Ciampa would take on Intercontinental Champion Gunther with the title on the line. After the matchup, Imperium would beat down the challenger until Johnny Gargano would hit the ring, making the save for his former tag team partner. The pair would push back Imperium, hugging it out.
Speaking on WWE After The Bell, Ciampa commented on the DIY reunion.
“Unfortunately, I know the feed cut a little bit before the finale, him and me meeting in the middle. The silver lining to it, to not only having him back, but the cool thing for both of us was DIY never really got going on the main roster. We have a couple of matches a couple of years back and it’s never been talked about. I came up, I was doing stuff with Miz and got a little rub with the US Title opportunity and then I went for surgery. By the time I’m gone, Johnny is coming up, he’s doing his own thing. Together, there has been no tease for DIY. The fact that Johnny could come out and San Jose could chant ‘DIY’ and give the reaction they gave when we hugged, and after the show ended, I got on the mic quickly and when I shouted ‘WE ARE!’ to have the whole place saying ‘DIY!’ It was one of those moments where I was like, ‘Wait, we’ve done nothing to train you.’ In one night, we tried to build me as a viable contender and then we just brought Johnny up. No build, no expectation. To have that crowd react and go ‘we know they are DIY.’ To me, that’s a bis success because it was like, ‘that’s with nothing. That’s with no machine behind us.’ If we start to go now and they start to see us on a weekly basis together, whether it be backstage promos and interactions because we can have a lot of fun that way, or matches that get time, because that’s really what DIY was in NXT, just two dudes thrown together. It wasn’t like the rocket was strapped to us,”
“It’s cool and it’s funny because we would always do the ‘WE ARE NXT!’ and we’d always do it with ‘WE ARE DIY!’ and it’s this group effort because the fans are the reason. When we came to NXT, we didn’t have contracts, we were just these two guys, ‘we’ll give them extra work and see if it gets over.’ It got over and it’s the fans who turned us into what we’ve become. We have this real good relationship with our niche audience. Now, the goal is to say, there is this global audience, this main roster audience that is bigger and crazier and beyond our imagination, how do we get them to buy in? We need to get them to buy in and grasp that we can win the titles, we can be main eventers. I’m excited for the possibilities. I’m excited for the fresh match ups. We’ve never done stuff with New Day, Viking Raiders, Imperium, Pretty Deadly. All new. KO [Kevin Owens] and Sami Zayn is a dream match that I see a lot of people bring up. There are a lot of possibilities. For anyone who is a performer, but still a fan, that’s fun and exciting,”
Tommaso Ciampa
We will have to wait and see if Ciampa’s desires will become reality, but the crowd are certainly already behind the team if Monday’s RAW is any indication.
Gargano has been off WWE television for quite some time while awaiting this reunion.
We will have to wait and see what comes next for the former NXT Tag Team Champions.
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