Doc Gallows Says Everything Got Weird After Vince McMahon’s Brief Return To WWE In 2023
Doc Gallows felt the winds of change.
In late 2022, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson made their return to WWE after spending a little over two years with TNA Wrestling. The return started well, as Gallows and Anderson reunited with AJ Styles.
Eventually, the duo ended up having a brief run in NXT before being released from the company again in early 2025.
Speaking with PWMania, Doc Gallows recalled seeing Vince McMahon pop up at a show in New York just a few months after their October 2022 return.
“Yeah, when we came back in October of 2022, it felt great. It felt fresh. It felt new. Then, a few short months later, we’re in New York and we’re getting ready to leave the building and a limousine pulls up and we see a mustachioed man pop out and it was Vince McMahon coming back for the first time, we happened to see him in the parking garage.”
Gallows went on to say that he could feel the winds of change after McMahon’s return.
“I don’t know what goes on behind closed doors there, but from that point on, everything certainly got weird. Whether it was the Vince thing and then the eventual sale to TKO and however that timeline worked. But, you know, you could feel the winds of change. So the last year or so of that contract, we were there, you’re getting paid, you’re doing your thing but it was kind of like golden handcuffs for us because we love to be doing something, we love to be active, we love to be entertainers, and we number one love to be professional wrestlers. So, you’re just kind of spinning your wheels when you’re just kind of on the sidelines. It was what it was, no hard feelings.”
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