Joe Coffey discusses his Last Man Standing Match, adding members to Gallus & more (Exclusive)

Being from Glasgow, I obviously love the name Gallus. Whose idea was that, and were there any other contenders when you came up with it?

No, no, the three of us put our heads together. I can't remember what we were initially throwing about but we were just trying to think of something that would suit us. I can't even remember who said it, but the three of us all agreed on Gallus.

It's a great word. It suits us down to the ground, do you know what I mean? You're bold, confident, cocky. For that, through our group and what we're about as a firm, there's no better word. For all three of us, being from Glasgow, there's no better word. It's a custom-made glove.

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Now, before WWE, I was most well-versed with your work in ICW. You still wrestle for the company, obviously, but one notable shift in your character is that we don't tend to see you wearing body paint any more in either ICW or WWE.

Aside from probably being less messy, do you feel there's any difference between going out painted or not - do you feel more vulnerable now?

Well, the washing bills are less!

The amount of trunks I go through, the amount of apologies to both promoters or people I'm wrestling... But, no, I think it's different with presentation as well. I've been training a lot harder recently. I don't have paint to hide under.

I make that deliberate effort to make sure my presentation is different because you don't have that gratification of body paint or that mega exciting entrance like that.

It was good for what I was doing at the time but now it really wouldn't fit unless the occasion called for it.

Even wrestling-wise, it lets me get about the ring a lot more because, a lot of times, there was paint in my eyes which probably added some vulnerability at times!

But it was a really fun thing to do, and I think the crowd took to it as well. I got to essentially be a blank canvas and do different artwork on that as well as artwork in the ring.

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