For Doc Gallows, the good vibes of his WWE return in late 2022 came to an abrupt halt in a parking garage. Just a few months after he and Karl Anderson made their comeback to what felt like a “fresh” and “new” environment, Gallows witnessed the moment that changed everything: the return of a mustachioed Vince McMahon.
In a new interview with Lee Tarrier of PWMania, Gallows pinpointed that specific event in New York as the turning point for the company’s backstage atmosphere.
“Yeah, when we came back in October of 22 it felt great. It felt fresh. It felt new. And then, you know, 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 happen to see him in the parking garage. And 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 the eventual sale to TKO and however that timeline worked, but you know, you could feel again, the winds of change.”
Those “winds of change” ultimately led to Gallows and Anderson becoming creatively stagnant. In a previous interview, Gallows described their final year under contract as being like “golden handcuffs,” where they were being paid well but were frustratingly left off television.
The situation concluded earlier this year when both men were released from their WWE contracts on February 8, 2025. This marked the third time the company has let Gallows go, following previous departures in 2010 and again in April 2020.
Despite the repeated releases and the strange final year, Gallows insists there is no animosity. He confirmed in the same interview that there’s “no bitterness, no hard feelings,” a sentiment he has echoed before when he described the release as an opportunity for a “resurgence” for The Good Brothers.
Now fully clear-headed and motivated, Gallows and Anderson have hit the ground running. They returned to NJPW back in May at Resurgence and have also begun working for Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling. Looking ahead, the tag team is scheduled to appear at Scott D’Amore’s Maple Leaf Pro event, Sacred Ground, this Friday, September 5.