Doc Gallows on Vince McMahon’s 2023 WWE return: ‘Everything certainly got weird’

Doc Gallows says it got weird backstage in WWE when Vince McMahon returned to the company in January 2023.

Gallows and his longtime tag partner Karl Anderson were released from WWE in April 2020 but returned in October 2022, a few months after McMahon announced his retirement that summer. McMahon then returned three months after Anderson and Gallows did. That’s when Gallows says you could feel “the winds of change” backstage.

 Gallows said to PWMania.com’s Lee Tarrier:

“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 from WWE again in February. Including his 2010 release, it marked the third time Gallows has been cut from the company. He says he holds no bitterness.

“Not at all. There’s no bitterness, no hard feelings. You just keep on trucking. That’s what you do.”

Up next for Gallows, he and Anderson are scheduled to appear at Scott D’Amore’s Maple Leaf Pro Sacred Ground show on September 5.

Gallows also discussed his time as a member of CM Punk’s Straight Edge Society, The Club, and other ventures outside of wrestling. The full interview is below: