JOHNNY GARGANO

I've main-evented the most matches in NXT history.

I kind of watch a guy like Aleister Black go around, and he does whatever he wants. He Black Masses whoever he wants. He beats up security guards; he threatens general managers. Tommaso Ciampa does whatever he wants.

The fact that I'm still able to wrestle on the indies and yet still do my stuff in NXT, and the fact that I wrestled in front of 15,000 people at the Barclays Center at TakeOver, and then, the following weekend, I was still doing indie shows, is wild.

The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.

NXT in my head is something I'm trying to help build, get it to its peak. I will do whatever I have to: I will strap NXT to my back and carry it up a cliff if I have to.

If you're a good person, and you work hard, I believe ultimately things are meant to happen to good people.

Outside the ring, I am a huge Marvel fan and don't hide my overwhelming nerd-dom by any means.

I'm walking around our apartment right now, and I see tons of action figures everywhere. There's Spider-Man stuff, old 1996 WWF figures, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Marvel stuff.

I hate all of my own matches. I hate all of my own work. I am my worst critic.

My mom made me a Shawn Michaels costume when I was a kid. I wore it every day and ran around the house dancing like him.

I have nothing but respect for Adam Cole. I've known him for a very long time, and he's one of the best in the world.

When I moved to Orlando, it was my first time moving from Cleveland. You never know what to expect. But to be able to go and work with Shawn Michaels and learn from him - it's just mind-blowing.

You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that's just how things go.

I'm an NXT Superstar and the current NXT Champion.

Sometimes you have to fall lower than you've ever been to stand taller than you ever could.

I'm very open and very honest about my actions, especially to the NXT universe. I never lie to them. I never do. I am very real with them.

I want my lasting legacy to be that I was a good wrestler but a better person. I want people to remember me as a good dude. I think that's very important.

I'm a huge wrestling video game fan. I grew up on wrestling video games.

Wins and championships - I want it all. I want there to be no doubt who I am. I want there to be no doubt that I'm a winner.

I saw 'Infinity War' in theaters four times.

When I'm in the ring, I can hear the reactions and know the people are enjoying themselves.

I was a socially awkward 8-year-old kid who fell in love with wrestling when he felt like the whole world was against him. That's the key word: love. I don't do this for revenge; I do this because I love it. That's Johnny Wrestling.

We've got a bunch of guys who have been travelling around the world for over 10 years, scratching and clawing, fighting, just trying to live their dream, just trying to prove people wrong, just trying to show that we belong, and that's kind of the essence of NXT.

For the longest time, I was horrified to hear the word 'failure,' but I've come to realize that we all fail. It's just a part of life. We all fall. It's how you rebound that shows the type of person you are.

I get a lot of comparisons to Daniel Bryan, and trust me, I am flattered by all of them because we mentioned New Orleans and WrestleMania; I watched it at home and watched Daniel Bryan in the main event of WrestleMania achieve his dreams.