Candice LeRae Gargano is an American professional wrestler signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand.
46 Facts About Candice LeRae
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Candice LeRae is a former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion and was a member of The Way.
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In 2020, Candice LeRae joined Gargano, Indi Hartwell, and Austin Theory to form the villainous faction The Way, until it dissolved the following year.
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Candice LeRae left the company in May 2022 and returned in September.
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Candice LeRae grew up watching professional wrestling with her two brothers and fell in love with the profession.
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Candice LeRae spent the first two years of her career wrestling for the Empire Wrestling Federation and the International Wrestling Council.
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Candice LeRae appeared as a substitute in a round one match at the ChickFight tournament in 2004, replacing the injured Miss Chevius, but lost in the first round to Princess Sugey.
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Candice LeRae continued competing for the promotion throughout 2006, while wrestling for All-Pro Wrestling and Ground Zero Wrestling.
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Candice LeRae had two matches for ROH in August 2007, losing to Sara Del Rey and Daizee Haze in dark matches on August 10 and 24, respectively.
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Candice LeRae began wrestling for the Alternative Wrestling Show promotion in December 2007.
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Candice LeRae appeared for the National Wrestling Alliance, and unsuccessfully challenged Amazing Kong for the NWA Women's Championship in 2008.
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Candice LeRae debuted in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla in 2006, when she put together a team to face a team managed by Jade Chung in an eight-man tag team match, with fellow future WWE superstars Seth Rollins, Chris Hero, and Kevin Owens where her team was victorious.
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Candice LeRae lost the match by disqualification when Hero, who was banned from ringside, came to the ring to aid her.
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Candice LeRae continued to be involved in the storyline between Hero and Tornado over the next few months.
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In 2009, Candice LeRae entered a feud with Christina Von Eerie when Candice LeRae defeated Von Eerie in the first women's match in PWG in more than a year.
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At Kurt RussellReunion 2 in January 2011, Candice LeRae was on the winning side of an eight-person tag team match.
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At PWG's DDT4 event on April 3,2011, Candice LeRae won a Joey Ryan invitational gauntlet match to advance to a number one contenders match for the PWG World Championship against Ryan later that same night, which she lost.
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Candice LeRae wrestled only sporadically in PWG in 2012 and 2013, mainly in six and eight-person tag team matches, which included being on the winning side of an eight-person tag team match at Kurt RussellReunion 3 in January 2012.
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Candice LeRae began teaming with Joey Ryan in October 2013, with a loss to The Young Bucks, and in January 2014 they participated in the 2014 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament, but were eliminated in the first round by Adam Cole and Kevin Steen.
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On March 28,2014, at Mystery Vortex 2 Candice LeRae unsuccessfully challenged Adam Cole for the PWG World Championship.
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Candice LeRae debuted for Japanese promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling on January 3,2016, teaming with Joey Ryan to defeat Golden Storm Riders.
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Candice LeRae toured with DDT in March 2016, unsuccessfully challenging Sasaki and Shuji Ishikawa for the KO-D Tag Team Championship along with Joey Ryan on March 26 and defeating Makoto Oishi and Danshoku Dino the following day.
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Candice LeRae returned to DDT in January 2017, losing to Sasaki on January 3, but teaming with Kouki Iwasaki and Kazusada Higuchi to defeat T2Hii on January 9.
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Candice LeRae has competed for DDT's all-female sister promotion Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, defeating Yuka Sakazaki in her debut on January 4,2016 and losing to Mil Clown exactly one year later on January 4,2017.
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In 2011, Candice LeRae began competing for NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood, where she developed a feud with Buggy.
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In September 2013, Candice LeRae debuted for Combat Zone Wrestling, teaming with Greg Excellent in a loss to Cherry Bomb and Pepper Parks.
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Candice LeRae returned to CZW in February 2014, losing a singles match to Kimber Lee.
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Candice LeRae first began appearing for Family Wrestling Entertainment in late 2013 as the mystery tag team partner of Joey Ryan at the Open Weight Grand Prix Final event.
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Later the same night, Candice LeRae issued a challenge to Ivelisse Velez, and defeated her to win the FWE Women's Championship for the first time.
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Candice LeRae successfully defended the title against Veda Scott at No Limits in February 2015.
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Candice LeRae appeared for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling at Turning Point on November 21,2013, in a losing effort to TNA Knockouts Champion Gail Kim.
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Candice LeRae competed at Shimmer Women Athletes' Volume 62 taping in April 2014, losing to Athena.
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Candice LeRae appeared for Full Impact Pro on June 22,2014, teaming with Ivelisse Velez to unsuccessfully challenge The Lucha Sisters for the Shine Tag Team Championship.
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Candice LeRae made her first appearance on the December 14,2016, episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, in a losing effort against Deonna Purrazzo.
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Candice LeRae defeated Renee Michelle in the first round and Nicole Savoy in the second round, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Shayna Baszler.
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On January 16,2018, WWE announced that Candice LeRae had signed a contract with the company.
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Candice LeRae was inserted into her husband Johnny Gargano's feud with then-NXT Champion Andrade "Cien" Almas and his manager Zelina Vega as an equaliser from Vega's interferences and attacks during their matches.
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Two weeks later, now working as an active competitor, Candice LeRae lost to Bianca Belair, suffering her first loss.
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The next night at Survivor Series, Candice LeRae competed as part of Team NXT, in the first-ever 5-on-5-on-5 Women's Survivor Series elimination match, where she was one of the survivors alongside Rhea Ripley and Io Shirai.
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Gargano and Candice LeRae began appearing together more frequently as a power couple as they feuded with Mia Yim and Keith Lee.
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Candice LeRae teamed up with Gargano the following week in a "Champions vs Challengers" tag team match against Shirai and Damian Priest, where the former were victorious.
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Candice LeRae remained under contract with WWE while on maternity leave until May 6,2022, when her contract expired after deciding not to renew it.
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Candice LeRae made her video game debut as a downloadable character in WWE 2K19 and returned for WWE 2K20, WWE 2K22 and WWE 2K23.
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Candice LeRae married fellow professional wrestler Johnny Gargano at Disneyland on September 16,2016.
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Candice LeRae is an avid fan of Disney movies, as well as NHL team the Anaheim Ducks.
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Candice LeRae has three brothers, one of whom was adopted by her parents when she was in high school.