Former RAW Tag Team Champions Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson were recently guests on WWE Hall Of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin’s podcast, The Steve Austin Show, to talk about several professional wrestling topics. Here are some of the highlights:
Not learning anything new in the NJPW dojo: “Being around guys that were better than me actually helped me. Did they teach me anything that I didn’t know? No, but being around them helped me polish myself.
“It was good being around people who were better than me. Shinsuke Nakamura came there and look where he is now. He came there and we brothered up big time. We drank a lot… we read a lot of novels together. Shinsuke needed to go there too because he needed to brush [up]. He needed to get in there with people who were different and better than him. That’s what I learned a lot. These guys in Los Angeles [California] had different styles, lucha guys, Japanese guys. It’s all different and learning all that s–t’s good.”
How much one of his sponsors has spent on him over eight years: “I would say that one of my guys, his name is Oguchi-san, man, I bet he [has] probably spent, I mean, over the eight years that I’ve known him, he has probably spent $300,000 on me. And that’s for real!”
Nearly signing with IMPACT Wrestling before getting called by WWE: “I remember when Gallows came [to NJPW] and the way we clicked over there, and I said, ‘man, we really, we’ve got to get into America somehow.’ Do you know what I mean? We almost went to TNA. Thank goodness WWE called in the same exact month, but I mean, we knew we had to do something. I wanted to get over here. WWE is the place to be. It’s the place we wanted to be. I wanted that exposure finally.”
You can listen to Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows on The Steve Austin Show by clicking this link here.
H/T Wrestling Inc. with the transcriptions
