AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, and Luke Gallows go back a long way, and The Good Brothers have been with “The Phenomenal One” across the globe, be it in Bullet Club, The Club, The OC, or whatever you want to call the faction across WWE, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Ring of Honor, or maybe as just legitimate close friends in real life. So, with all that in mind, it stands to reason that Styles would get Anderson’s and Gallows’ backs and vice versa through thick and thin. Such was the case, apparently, when during one round of 2020’s WWE releases, Gallows and Anderson got got, as they say, after it Heyman apparently told him he’d have their backs.

On Styles’ Twitch stream at the time, he said, “I found out that my guys were getting released, I was upset. I wanted to go talk to Vince, but it’s [already in motion]. Paul Heyman pulls me into his office and tells me he had nothing to do with it and knew nothing about it. If he knew Gallows and Anderson were getting released, he would have fought for them and that’s why they didn’t tell him they were getting released. I said, ‘Okay, I appreciate that, it makes a lot of sense.'”

Later on, Styles caught wind of a different narrative, relaying on the same stream that he was later told that his Bullet Club compatriots weren’t on any initial list but that Heyman spoke out against them. “‘We gotta get these guys out of here,'” Styles recalled hearing of the supposed Heyman mandate. “‘We don’t need them, they’re getting paid too much.'”

Eventually, things would subside, as Heyman denied his part in the releases of Gallows and Anderson, and they’d end up rehired and let go once more anyway. These days, it seems as though any beef has subsided. Ultimately, with Styles’ career nearing its end, that’s probably all for the better, as two wrestling dignitaries of their calibre are better off sharing the limelight than quarreling beneath it.