Medical Update On Johnny Gargano Ahead Of NXT Takeover: Toronto

Tonight at NXT Takeover: Toronto, NXT has the chance to steal the weekend before SummerSlam tomorrow night.

The show is set to be headlined by NXT Champion Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano who will go one-on-one for the third consecutive Takeover event, this time in a two-out-of-three falls match.

Johnny Gargano has not wrestled much since NXT Takeover: XXV, where he dropped the NXT Championship to Adam Cole.

Speaking about Gargano’s condition, Triple H had the following to say to the media on a recent call before Saturday’s show:

“He’s fine. Without me getting into medical details of people because I can’t, it was a little lingering thing that if… it’s one of those funny things that in the athletic world, you go, ‘This is sort of nothing.’ … This is just one of those little things where I was like, ‘Let’s take you off of some stuff, even though you’re fine because I don’t want this to become something more than this is.’”

“It’s cleared up and he’s totally fine. It’s just one of those little things that you don’t want to take a risk of becoming something more than it is. Not because it’s a serious thing that could be career-threatening or anything like that, but just because then if you do get to the point, now you do have to take a significant period of time off to get this thing to shut down totally, to be able to have it heal 100%. It was more precautionary than it was anything else, but I would rather take that precaution now, than have it become something more down the line.”

This comes after Johnny Gargano reportedly took up a new role at NXT Live Events while taking some time away from the ring.

Thanks to WrestlingInc. for the transcription.

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