As PWMania.com previously reported, AJ Styles did a live stream and talked about how Paul Heyman was a “bold-faced liar” but said Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows would go into more detail during their Talk’N Shop podcast.
During the podcast, it was noted that Styles heard from a WWE source that Anderson and Gallows being released from WWE was a decision inspired by Heyman. Anderson said that Styles approached Heyman and Heyman denied the claim. Styles then went to Vince McMahon and McMahon stated that Anderson and Gallows were not on his [Vince’s] list of people to be released but Heyman had brought up to people how much money the team was making. Anderson believed that the seeds were planted for them to be released when people “higher on the card… some agents, people like Jamie Noble, Michael Hayes, probably started to hear the rumblings of that money and probably didn’t like it.”
Gallows talked about how Styles decided to move to Smackdown to get away from Heyman and said the following:
“I think [AJ] felt a little guilty. I think Allen felt like it all fell on his shoulders and that’s why he publicly spoke about Paul a couple of times, and all that. Because, in his mind, he’s like ‘F*ck, I told these guys to stay and go against, not just our friends, but his other friends too. Not go against them. But, like, ‘Hey, stay here with me. There’s gonna be a lot of money on the table. Things are going to be great for us.’ Then the bottom falls out for us and he’s like, ‘that couldn’t have went worse.’”
“I have permission to speak freely on this and he said f*cking bury Paul and tell the truth about it. That’s why he said he couldn’t work with him and that he had to be moved, because Paul’s a f*cking liar. It doesn’t matter that he lied to us. For his friends, yes … but, probably career-wise, he can’t trust the guy either if you’re AJ still in that spot and you don’t want to work with a guy that you know is a f*cking liar.”
In the video below, Anderson and Gallows talked about how they thought they were on good terms with Heyman.
(quotes courtesy of ProWrestlingSheet.com and F4WOnline.com)
