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Luke Gallows (left) and Karl Anderson (right) in September 2016
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Tag team | |
Members |
Doc/Luke Gallows Karl Anderson |
Name(s) |
Bullet Club Gallows and Anderson Gun(s) and Gallows |
Heights | Anderson: 6 ft 0 1⁄2 in (1.84 m) Gallows: 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
Combined weight |
505 lb (229 kg) |
Debut | November 23, 2013 |
Years active | 2013–present |
Promotions |
GFW NJPW PWS ROH RPW WM WWE wXw |
Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, often shortened as Gallows and Anderson, are a professional wrestling tag team, signed to WWE and assigned to the Raw brand, where they are currently in their first reign as the Raw Tag Team Champions. As Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson, and as a part of the Bullet Club stable, 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 Bullet Club. 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.
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. Anderson had been working for NJPW regularly since 2008, while Gallows, a former WWE performer, had most recently worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The two ended up winning their block with a record of four wins and two losses, 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. 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. Anderson and Gallows ended up holding the title for a full year, successfully defending it six times. 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,. who then went on to defeat them for IWGP Tag Team Championship on January 4, 2015, at Wrestle Kingdom 9 in Tokyo Dome.