Did Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson make a mistake by signing with the WWE?

I’ll put it straight on the table- Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson are the best tag team in the business today. They have established a name for themselves and they made a statement when they made their debut by attacking the Usos. The former 3-time IWGP Tag Team Champions were well received by the WWE Universe, given the fact that the WWE booked them as heels. But, have they made a mistake by coming over to the WWE?

In simple words, the WWE’s tag team division sucks. It’s bad and is in a dire need of a “Revolution”. With the return of the Dudley Boyz, the WWE thought that it will inject some life into their dying tag team division, but it unfortunately hasn’t shown any remarkable effects.

The week after WrestleMania, WWE got Enzo and Cass (sans Carmella) and The Vaudevillains to the main roster and now, the two teams are going to fight it out with the #1 Contender Spot on the line to the New Day’s Tag Titles. Both the teams were well-received but the thing is, one’s gain is going to come at the expense of the other.

Now, there have been rumors that Vince McMahon is having second thoughts on The Vaudevillains, so it becomes obvious that Enzo and Cass will win. But how do Gallows and Anderson fit into the whole tag team situation?

This past week on Raw, They attacked Roman Reigns and reunited with their former Bullet Club leader AJ Styles (well, kinda). Now, a storyline with AJ looks imminent, but still, what are they going to do? Are they going to be the Muscle of the group? Are they gonna be inserted into the Tag Team Division?

WWE has a good record of screwing Tag Teams. Even if they win the Tag Titles, the WWE can screw them up. Now coming to the WWE is a mistake because they would have been Huge on the independent circuit (not that they already aren’t) and the fact that they were IWGP champions is an accomplishment itself. The WWE Tag Team Titles aren’t so prestigious today than they used to be years ago.

If WWE plans to form a stable with Gallows, Anderson, Styles and Finn Balor, the stable will be big for like 3 years. We all know how stables have end up in the WWE. Some wrestlers, once leaving the stable, succeed, while most of them, have failed. If the WWE breaks the stable up or maybe has Gallows and Anderson go as singles wrestlers, they won’t be successful because they will be overshadowed by the current main eventers.

Let me give you an example - in 2010, David Hart Smith Jr. and Tyson Kidd were touted as the next big thing in the WWE. By 2012, Smith had left the company and Kidd was an unsuccessful Singles Wrestler. He wrestled in NXT and attained relevance when he formed a tag team with Cesaro. It somehow worked and got both the wrestlers over with the fans.

But the WWE didn’t use them to build their tag team division and the same will happen with Gallows and Anderson once they split up. The WWE will split them up, if they are not successful as singles competitors, they will put them in different tag teams and basically, screw them.

But the thing with both these men is that, they have done well without partnering with each other. The NJPW (the Company they used to work for before WWE) hosts a tag-team tournament called the World Tag League; Anderson and Gallows won the tournament in 2013.

However, Anderson has won this tournament before with two different partners on two occasions (2009 and 2012). This proves the fact that he is an exceptional tag team wrestler. Gallows was a part of the WWE from 2007-2010 first as Festus and then as Luke Gallows and he was a part of CM Punk’s Straightedge Society.

WWE didn’t see him as a major star and he released in 2010. Fast Forward to 2015, he becomes the biggest thing in Pro Wrestling and he comes under WWE’s radar which means he would have done something right. It will actually be interesting and at the same time, annoying to see how the WWE messes them up.

Whether the WWE has solid plans for Gallows and Anderson is still a mystery and this mysterious element is the reason why people are skeptical over the future of the two. They are incredibly gifted and it will be a shame if they aren’t used to the best of their abilities. It all comes down to Vince McMahon’s mood swings.