Multiple Released WWE Stars Compete At NJPW Resurgence

There were some former WWE stars in action at the NJPW Resurgence event in California.

At the NJPW Resurgence event in Ontario, California on May 9th, The Young Bucks duo of Matthew & Nicholas Jackson had some familiar teammates in an eight-man tag team match.

Former WWE Tag Team Champions Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows, released by WWE in February, teamed up with the Bucks against the War Dogs in a tag team match. Karl Anderson got the win for his team with the Magic Killer.

The team of Anderson & Gallows has a long history in New Japan and was part of the Bullet Club stable with The Young Bucks for many years, so there was a lot of familiarity there.

While speaking to Fightful recently, Anderson said he wanted the WWE release to happen because he wasn’t enjoying his time there.

“I look at it like this. If you know us, our happiness in the last two and a half years wasn’t really there. In the last two and a half years, looking at different avenues to take to get out of what we had gotten into just because of where we wanted to be. What we signed up for wasn’t what came to be.

The things we were thinking on ways to get out and ‘how do we do this? This isn’t working out. We want out of here anyway.’ To get that call anyway, everything about this, I’m not a super religious man, but I was saying prayers about stuff or throwing up vibrations to places, and it all worked out.

There is zero resentment towards it. It happened for a reason. I’m glad it happened. It needed to happen. I wanted it to happen. I don’t have anything to say about it besides the fact that the last two and a half years happened, I’m gone from it, it’s barely in my thought process.”

Former WWE Superstar Blair Davenport Also Competes At NJPW Resurgence

WWE also released Blair Davenport in February, and she made a surprising, unannounced appearance at NJPW Resurgence.

Davenport used her pre-WWE name of Bea Priestley as she issued an open challenge while noting that her 90-day non-compete clause had expired on that day. Priestley’s open challenge was answered by Viva Van and Priestley went on to win a short match.