Karl Anderson: There Was ‘Zero Negative’ When The OC Got The Call About NXT Run, We Had Fun

Karl Anderson discusses the O.C.’s run in NXT.

Karl Anderson discusses the O.C.’s run in NXT.

Former Raw Tag Team Champions Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows made a surprise return on the February 20 episode of WWE NXT. They continued to appear on NXT TV over the next few weeks as they chased the NXT Tag Team Championship. However, the duo failed to win the gold.

Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Karl Anderson was asked about the O.C.’s run in NXT.

“That was fun. Having the opportunity to go down there and seeing guys that are truly new to professional wrestling, a couple of the kids that we worked about a month ago, that we wrestled with, they’re only two years in pro wrestling and only two years into training. So being able to talk with them about talking through a match and talking inside the ring about a match, and then after the match, talking to them about the match, it was kind of fun to be able to talk to legitimate kids that are 23, 24,25 years old that are hungry, and they’re really hungry because they’re passionate about the business. It’s been cool to go down there and see that,” Anderson said.

Bully Ray then wondered how Anderson and Gallows felt when they got the call. He stated that they probably felt like they were not getting used as much as they thought they should on the main roster, so he asked whether they viewed going to NXT as a negative.

“I don’t know so much that it’s not being used the way we think we should be used. It’s just, WWE, sometimes you gotta sit, and you gotta take your time, you gotta be patient, and you gotta wait. We’re competitive guys, right, so we always want to be used. We always want to be on TV, we’re always ready and willing to go. We want to be on Raw, we want to be on SmackDown. We want to be on all the PLEs. But sometimes you gotta take a step back because there’s a lot of guys there, a lot of girls there, a lot of stuff going on, especially with the last year, the last couple years, especially with the way it’s been. So you gotta be patient. Also, getting the call to go to NXT, zero negative. If anything, we got the text, I believe we were actually driving to SmackDown that day. We got the group text about going to NXT from one of the writers, and it just excited us. We’ve been doing this a long time, over 20 years, for us to get in the ring, talk wrestling, talk about promos, talk about storylines, and physically get in the ring and do it, it still excites us. It’s the only thing that really gets me going anymore in the world, besides watching my kids hitting a home run or something. So being able to go to NXT, total positive. We did it for about a month, I think it was a month or five weeks or whatever it was, and I wouldn’t mind it being more. Any chance we get to be in a pro wrestling ring, we’re just ready,” Anderson said.

During the interview, Anderson discussed Tama Tonga’s arrival in WWE. Check out his comments here.

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