The Chad Dukes Wrestling Show sent out the following:

Chad Dukes of CBS Radio Washington DC 106.7 The Fan and ChadDukesWrestling.com spoke with former WWE and TNA star Luke “Doc” Gallows, who is currently wrestling for New Japan Pro Wrestling.

Highlights of the interview are below:

On being in Aces & 8’s in TNA and his opinon of BULLET CLUB: “As evidenced by my career, I’m a bit of a faction man. That was just a really neat time, I really dug the vibe of it, I got to be myself a little bit for the first time, which translated into what I think became the BULLET CLUB success for me and stuff. I don’t know if a lot of people know this, but Mike Knox is probably my very best friend in wrestling, best friend since we laid eyes on each other, he’s my dude and getting to do that and be on TV with him. At one point, there was talk of making us more of a TV tag team and running us for the tag belts and stuff, which never came to fruition. It was a great group of guys, Devon, I’m completely fond of him, we bcame friends, D’Lo Brown, he’s my boy as well, just the whole thing, Garrett and Wes, no matter what you think of those guys in-ring or otherwise, it was a great group of guys, we had each other’s back, we were friends outside the ring and anytime you do that, it’s kind of like at WWE, Mercury, Punk and I as the Straight Edge Society, anytime that you have that with guys, like we have now in the BULLET CLUB, it translate and people get it, it has a real feeling because it is real.”

On CM Punk’s opinion regarding his later years in WWE and his decision to join UFC: “I know his opinions, because I’ve heard them out of his mouth on the phone before, but I wasn’t there anymore and it was a different time. All I know is, I felt like in 2010 when the Straight Edge Society faction ended that it was a shame because we had some real momentum, we came into SummerSlam 2010 and whatever mistakes Serena Deeb made, I don’t know, I can’t care to comment on, she got fired and Joey Mercury tore his pec in that match we had with The Big Show, so it was kind of like the Straight Edge Society imploded in one night, so we never got to finish the storyline, which I always thought was a shame.

On his thoughts on Joey Mercury: “If there was ever a guy who knew this business from the inside out and could teach it to other people and knew how to convey it, it was Joey. I was in my mid-20s when Straight Edge thing was going, 25 or 26 years old. Who better to stand on the ring apron and tag with, who better to second out to a match CM Punk. Joey and I tagged on six or seven overseas tours, we tagged on all the house shows and I just think the world of both Joey Mercury & CM Punk as in-ring performers, as entertainer and as people. Getting to be with those guys it was kinda like going to medical school after college or something.”

On Finn Balor (the former Prince Devitt) joining NXT: “I was on the fence about it, but then I watched his entrance at NXT R Evolution and said, ‘Ok, this is the real deal. They have to go all the way with this.’ I’ve seen him, I’ve tagged with him, been on the apron with him, knew how good he was, but I didn’t know if they would get it because I think sometimes guys who come from other places it goes over their head. Not to just keep crediting my friends but Joey Mercury, a guy who’s in a position and knows stuff like that, is the kind of guy who gets it. I think that’s why Hunter’s building a team of people like that. I think that’s why you see Kevin Steen in WWE now, that’s why Rollins is the star that he’s become. He’s a guy who can go, he has a charisma, not so much a charisma but he has mystique and I think that when mystique’s gone, like now in a lot of cases, that it hurts, but if you look at like a Bray Wyatt and there’s mystique there, I love him, huge fan of him, he’s a friend of mine, and I love what he’s doing and what they’ve done with him and I think that Devitt, if they can capture him just right, he’s gonna be able to captivate an audience and be a major league, big fight feel superstar in that company.”

The interview is available in full at this link.