John Anthony Nicholas "Johnny" Gargano (August 14, 1987) is an American professional wrestler, signed to WWE and performing in its developmental branch NXT, where he is a one-time NXT Tag Team Champion along with Tommaso Ciampa. After making sporadic appearances for WWE early in his career, Gargano took part in the company's tryout camp in June 2015. Afterwards, he began appearing regularly for WWE NXT, eventually signing a contract in April 2016.