Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows are considered one of the top tag teams in the world. The Good Brothers have had success in America and Japan, leading them to become favorites for not just their in-ring work but their rapport as a duo.
Their chemistry as a team has given them success beyond inside the ring. The duo host the popular Talk’n Shop podcast which has spawned two “successful” (depending how you view it) pay per view events, have managed to open the door to hosts of marketing ideas, and have even developed their own bourbon together.
It almost didn’t happen.
Anderson talked about this on this week’s Talk’n Shop podcast, and he brings up how things started with he and Gallows. Anderson was in the middle of a successful singles run that had been born out of his former tag team partner returning to America. Anderson had been part of the very successful Bad Intentions tag team with Matt “Giant Bernard” Bloom and began working a singles push that had seen him even manage to make the finals of the 2012 G1 Climax tournament, losing to Okada. It was that wave of success that made him not want to return to the tag team division, despite suggesting New Japan bring in Gallows.
“So let me explain something. So I was getting a big ass push in New Japan Pro-Wrestling as a singles brother. I mean I was getting some hot stuff. I’m talking about pay-per-view main events in front of like 8,000, 10,000 people. I just thought about this one in Hiroshima where I had this bad ass main event with [Hiroshi] Tanahashi, and it was hot. I was getting a big ass singles push in New Japan. All of a sudden, they show me a video of [Doc] Gallows. I said, ‘Yeah, sh*t, he’s good. We should book him’ because I don’t wanna hamstring anybody. If somebody’s good, let’s do it, and the Japanese booker looks at me and goes, ‘Yeah, looks kinda like you but taller. Maybe good tag team?’ I was like, ‘Hold on a second, the f*ck? Nah f*ck that. F*ck that and f*ck him. No, no, no, no. I don’t need that. I’m doing good. I don’t need that motherf*cker.’”
In the end, Anderson didn’t get his way and Gallows became his tag team partner. While we may never know what would have come from that singles push, Gallows and Anderson have reached amazing success as a team.
h/t to Post Wrestling for the quote
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