Karl Anderson and Gallows

Karl Anderson and Gallows
Tag team
Members Karl Anderson
Doc/Luke Gallows
Name(s) Bullet Club[1]
Gun(s) and Gallows[2][3]
Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows
Heights Anderson: 6 ft 0 1⁄2 in (1.84 m)[4]
Gallows: 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)[5]
Combined
weight		 544 lb (247 kg)[4][5]
Debut November 23, 2013[6]
Years active 2013–present
Promotions GFW[7]
NJPW
PWS[8]
ROH[2]
RPW[9]
WM[10]
WWE[11]
wXw[1]

Karl Anderson and Luke/Doc Gallows are a professional wrestling tag team, signed to WWE. They worked in the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and have also worked as a tag team in the United States for Ring of Honor (ROH) and various promotions on the independent circuit.

Anderson and Gallows were first put together by NJPW in 2013, working as a tag team within the larger Bullet Club stable. Over the next three years, the two won the IWGP Tag Team Championship three times, while also winning the 2013 World Tag League. In February 2016, the two left NJPW to sign with WWE, becoming a standalone tag team, not affiliated with Bullet Club or any other stable.

History

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2013–2016)

Main article: Bullet Club
Karl Anderson as one half of the IWGP Tag Team Champions

On November 11, 2013, New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) announced the participating teams in the 2013 World Tag League. Included was a team representing the Bullet Club stable, made up of founding member Karl Anderson and the debuting Doc Gallows.[12] Anderson had been working for NJPW regularly since 2008,[4] while Gallows, a former WWE performer, had most recently worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).[5] The two ended up winning their block with a record of four wins and two losses,[13] and on December 8, first defeated Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma in the semifinals and then Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Satoshi Kojima in the finals to win the tournament.[14] This led to a match on January 4, 2014, at Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome, where they defeated K.E.S. (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship.[15] Anderson and Gallows ended up holding the title for a full year, successfully defending it six times.[16] In December 2014, the two made it to the finals of their second consecutive World Tag League, but were defeated there by Hirooki Goto and Katsuyori Shibata,.[17] who then went on to defeat them for IWGP Tag Team Championship on January 4, 2015, at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome.[18]

On February 11 at The New Beginning in Osaka, Anderson and Gallows defeated Goto and Shibata in a rematch to regain the IWGP Tag Team Championship.[19] Their second reign ended on April 5 at Invasion Attack 2015, where they were defeated by The Kingdom (Matt Taven and Michael Bennett) in their first defense.[16][20] Anderson and Gallows won the title for a third time on July 5 at Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall by defeating The Kingdom in a rematch.[21] After a six-month reign that saw Anderson and Gallows successfully defend the title once,[16] they lost the title to 2015 World Tag League winners Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma on January 4, 2016, at Wrestle Kingdom 10 in Tokyo Dome.[22]

Doc Gallows as one half of the IWGP Tag Team Champions

In the midst of rumors they were leaving NJPW,[23][24] Anderson and Gallows received a rematch for the IWGP Tag Team Championship, but were again defeated by Makabe and Honma on February 14 at The New Beginning in Niigata.[25] Anderson and Gallows wrestled their final NJPW match on February 20 at Honor Rising: Japan 2016, where they teamed with their Bullet Club stablemates Bad Luck Fale and Tama Tonga in an eight-man tag team match, where they were defeated by Bobby Fish, Hirooki Goto, Katsuyori Shibata and Kyle O'Reilly.[26][27]

Ring of Honor (2014–2016)

Anderson and Gallows made their debut for American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion on May 17, 2014, during the War of the Worlds event, which was co-produced by ROH and NJPW, successfully defending the IWGP Tag Team Championship against The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe).[28] They also appeared for ROH in 2015,[29] and on January 23, 2016, took part in an eight-man tag team match, where all three of the promotion's titles were on the line. In the match, Anderson and Gallows, teaming up with Bullet Club stablemates The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), were defeated by ROH World Champion Jay Lethal, ROH World Television Champion Roderick Strong and ROH World Tag Team Champions War Machine (Hanson and Ray Rowe), who all retained their titles.[30]

Other promotions (2014–2015)

On December 20, 2014, Anderson and Gallows made their debut as a tag team on the American independent circuit, defeating Reality Check (Craven Varro and Devon Moore) at a Pro Wrestling Syndicate (PWS) event.[8] During the summer of 2015, the two worked several Global Force Wrestling (GFW) events,[7] where they took part in the GFW Tag Team Championship tournament.[31] In October 2015, Anderson and Gallows took part in a Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW) event in Reading, England, which also featured several other NJPW wrestlers.[9] That same month, they also took part in German promotion Westside Xtreme Wrestling's World Tag Team Tournament, where they made it to the quarterfinals, before losing to Big Daddy Walter and Zack Sabre Jr.[1]

WWE (2016–present)

"Anderson and Gallows have nearly had all the luster removed from them since their debut ... [They] appear to be just another tag team that gets used as fodder whenever a main event story crosses their path ... Roman Reigns gains next to nothing from beating Karl Anderson without first establishing that as an accomplishment."

Pro Wrestling Dot Net writer Jake Barnett after the May 5, 2016, episode of SmackDown[32]

On the April 11, 2016, episode of Raw, Anderson and Gallows (who returned to his Luke Gallows ring name) made their debut for WWE, attacking The Usos (Jey and Jimmy Uso). The duo's NJPW background was acknowledged by WWE announcers.[11] On the following week's Raw, WWE began teasing an alliance between Anderson and Gallows and their former Bullet Club stablemate A.J. Styles. After meeting Styles in a backstage interview, Anderson and Gallows attacked his Payback opponent Roman Reigns in the ring. Styles, however, did not seem pleased with the attack.[33] Anderson and Gallows wrestled their first WWE match on the April 25 Raw, defeating The Usos.[34] Over the next weeks, Anderson and Gallows continued teasing an uneasy alliance with Styles, while having several face offs with The Usos and Reigns, including at Payback, where the two failed in their attempt to help Styles capture the WWE World Heavyweight Championship from Reigns,[35] and the following week's SmackDown, where the two suffered their first WWE loss, when Reigns pinned Anderson in a six-man tag team match.[32]

In wrestling

Anderson and Gallows performing the Magic Killer on Togi Makabe

Championships and accomplishments

See also

References

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