The WWE Tag Group Championship belts are actually across the waists of Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano, who defeated Grayson Waller and Austin Idea on Friday’s episode of “WWE SmackDown.”
In a brand new video for WWE’s social media channels, Gargano and Ciampa mirrored on successful the tag titles eight years after successful the WWE NXT Tag Group Titles in the identical constructing at NXT TakeOver: Toronto. Gargano quoted the well-known Paul Rudd “Have a look at us, who’d have thought?” meme to point out how far he, his companion, and even WWE interviewer Cathy Kelley have come previously eight years since being in WWE’s developmental league.
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EXCLUSIVE: @CiampaWWE and @JohnnyGargano speak about turning into the WWE Tag Group Champions eight years after successful the #WWENXT Tag Group Championship in the identical constructing.#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/YQuTQBpdbc
— WWE (@WWE) July 6, 2024
“Clearly successful the NXT Tag Group Championship was large for us, it made our careers, however [the WWE Tag Team Championships] had been the endgame,” Gargano gushed, additionally mentioning that he and Ciampa had begun in “NXT” as part-time enhancement expertise, who had been seemingly by no means meant to be WWE superstars within the first place. “Tonight we proved [the doubters] flawed.” Ciampa declared the belts “the prettiest titles in WWE” and that he could not wait to introduce his new title belt to his daughter Willow.
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Ciampa and Gargano, each former WWE NXT Champions, defeated Idea and Waller, who had been the primary “WWE Tag Group Champions” beneath the titles’ new moniker and design. They received the titles because the “WWE SmackDown Tag Group Championship” at WrestleMania 40 in a ladder match which was additionally for the WWE Uncooked Tag Group Titles (later rechristened the WWE World Tag Group Championship), with the titles rechristened and redesigned not lengthy after their win.
