Former WWE star Luke Gallows has spoken out on how the company changed following Vince McMahon’s first return to the company shortly after he and partner Karl Anderson had also made a comeback.
Initially released from their contracts in 2020 as part of the many budget cuts releases during the pandemic, The Good Brothers made their return in October 2022, shortly after McMahon announced his retirement earlier in the year, following allegations of hush money payments from a former employee.
However, in early 2023, McMahon made his return to the promotion and was re-elected as the Chairman of the Board to begin the process of a WWE sale, which was announced the night after WrestleMania 39.
Recalling his experiences of that time period while speaking with PWMania, Gallows admitted that it was a weird time in the company, along with the point where he realised that McMahon was back:
“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 then the eventual sale to TKO and however that timeline worked, but you know, you could feel again, the winds of change.”
Gallows and Anderson were released for a second time in February 2025, meaning that Gallows has now been let go from the company 3 times. When asked if there was any bitterness on his part, the former Tag Team Champion stated that there were no hard feelings:
“Not at all. There’s no bitterness, no hard feelings. You just keep on trucking. That’s what you do.”
Vince McMahon Gives First Interview Since WWE Exit
Although McMahon did make his return to the company in early 2023, the former Chairman of the Board resigned for a second time approximately one year later due to allegations of sexual assault and trafficking by former employee Janel Grant.
While McMahon has been spotted in public multiple times since his resignation, he gave his first interview since leaving WWE back in August 2025. Appearing as part of a Hulk Hogan documentary, McMahon defended the late Hall of Famer when discussing Hogan’s racism controversy back in 2015.
H/t to F4WOnline for the use of transcriptions.
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