WWE SmackDown Live General Manager Daniel Bryan, who will make his in-ring return at tomorrow’s WrestleMania 34 pay-per-view after being medically cleared to wrestle, noted in an interview with Cathy Kelley at today’s WrestleMania AXXESS session that he wants Johnny Gargano to lose at tonight’s WWE NXT Takeover: New Orleans event as he wants Gargano as part of the SmackDown Live roster.

Gargano faces former friend turned enemy Tommaso Ciampa at tonight’s WWE NXT Takeover: New Orleans event in an Unsanctioned Match. If Gargano wins, he is reinstated to the WWE NXT roster, however if he loses, he is banished from WWE NXT in any capacity forever.