In an interview with Mike Wexler as part of the Your Story With Mike Wexler podcast, former WWE NXT Champion Johnny Gargano responded to Blake Christian calling him out as part of the GCW Paranoid event on Saturday.

“So, Blake is a guy obviously I’ve known, he was in NXT for a bit as well, but Blake is a guy that I’ve had my eye on for a very, very long time, I think he’s an incredibly talented young man and the fact that he uses the nickname ‘All Heart’, which you know, I kind of had that nickname back in like 2005, but I’m not going to say that or anything. Anyway, his song is ‘The Bomb Dot Com’, which some people say sounds lot like ‘Rebel Heart’ as well, but you know, I mean not anything here or there, but he is a guy that I think is immensely talented and if I come back and I do a few matches here and there on the indie scene, taking on Blake Christian in GCW, if the fans would like to see that, if you the fans would like to see me versus Blake Christian in a GCW ring, let me know. I say all the time, and I do mean this, if you chant ‘Johnny Wrestling’, I will hear it, so you never know what could happen.

I mean, all of my options are open right now, I’m very open about that, I don’t know what I want to do next and it’s one of those things where I’m kind of in a time period of my life where I’m figuring that out, I’m figuring out what my goal is, what lasting legacy I want to leave and I do have a lot of unfulfilled things in WWE that I do want to accomplish, so there’s WWE, there’s AEW, there’s New Japan, there’s doing a run on the indie scene, there’s a lot of things that I’m kind of debating working on right now. I don’t know when, and I don’t know where I’m going to return, but I promise you when I do, you all will know.”

The full interview is available at this link.