NXT Superstar Johnny Gargano has been on fire lately. Being constantly put in the main events past the NXT Championship in what most would say has been the most compelling storyline in professional wrestling over the past year, Gargano has been on TV laying it all down on the line with his former best friend, alongside his real life wife, Candice LaRae.

Johnny Gargano sat down with Kenny Lengel from AZ Central to talk about his career and how he is still a nerd at heart, along with his relationship with his wife Candice LaRae, and more. Compete interview HERE, highlights below.

On bonding with his wife over all things geeky….

“I’m looking around our apartment, and there’s landspeeder there, there’s a lightsaber there, all kinds of ‘Star Wars’ stuff,” Gargano says. “I just went crazy on ‘Spider-Man’ the animated series, like old-school action figures from the early ’90s, I bought all those. So our apartment is glass cases filled with toys and helmets and things like that.

On meeting Candice at an independent show…

“I remember she brought her cousin to the back, and they were just hanging out talking, and I decided I was going to try to get to her by talking to her cousin about her cellphone,” he says. “It didn’t really work that well, but we developed a friendship.”

On being nerds at heart…

“Toys‘R’Us was going out of business, and my wife wanted one of the landspeeders. And I was like, ‘I don’t think you’re going to fit in it,’ because it’s for little kids. But she’s like, ‘No, I only weigh like 110 pounds, I can definitely fit in that.’ So I said, ‘OK, if it gets slashed to 50 percent off,’ I’ll go buy you one of those little-kid landspeeders that you can drive around our apartment. And she actually does.”