Luke Gallows Recalls Vince McMahon Returning to WWE in Early 2023

Luke Gallows compared Vince McMahon returning to WWE in early 2023 after retiring in July 2022 to feeling “the winds of change,” noting how “everything certainly got weird” at that time. Speaking to PWMania.com’s Lee Tarrier, former WWE Superstar Luke Gallows, of The Good Brothers, discussed his WWE release in 2000 shortly after the Boneyard Match, Vince McMahon making a surprising return to WWE, getting released by WWE again earlier this year, and more. Below are some highlights provided by PWMania:

Gallows on being released by WWE days after the Boneyard Match at WrestleMania 36: “It really was a whirlwind. We came back in 2019, reunited as the OC, and went into WrestleMania for The Undertaker’s last match. I got thrown to my death, Carl took the final Tombstone ever—and then, just 11 days later, we were unceremoniously fired.”

Luke Gallows on Vince McMahon making a surprise return to WWE in early 2023: “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.”

On if there’s any lingering bitterness over his recent WWE exit: “Not at all. There’s no bitterness, no hard feelings. You just keep on trucking. That’s what you do.”

The acquisition of WWE and merger with UFC into TKO became official in September 2023. McMahon later resigned as Executive Chairman of the Board of TKO in January 2024 after allegations of sexual misconduct and trafficking surfaced by former WWE employee Janel Grant, who filed a lawsuit against McMahon and WWE.