Former WWE Star Dresses Up As Sid Justice At Indy Event, Luke Gallows Reveals What Happened In Vince McMahon’s Office When He Was Given The Festus Gimmick

By AG

Posted on January 1, 2018

• OLD SCHOOL VIDEO HISTORY (January 1, 1984) – Gene Okerlund Comes To The WWF

On this day in 1984, the WWF aired what is known as one of “Mean” Gene Okerlund’s first appearances on World Wrestling Federation TV, after leaving Verne Gagne’s AWA at the end of 1983.

• Luke Gallows Reveals What Happened In Vince McMahon’s Office When He Was Given The Festus Gimmick

During a recent appearance on the Steve Austin Show podcast, Raw Superstar Luke Gallows revealed what happened in Vince McMahon’s office when he was given the Festus gimmick:

“So we go to Vince’s office and I’m 23 and this is Vince McMahon and I’m like, ‘I can’t be a mark, but this is some s–t right here.’ I’m looking at Vince and he goes, he starts telling me a story, ‘I knew this kid in school and he looked like this’ and he did this face.

‘This is the way he looked and when something would happen, he’d lose his mind like crazy!’ And I’m looking at him, going, ‘I can do that – that’s not a problem.’ So he goes, ‘do this face!’ and I do the Festus open mouth, tongue out face and he looked at me and he goes, ‘can you do that?’ And I start doing it and then we start doing it back and forth. And Vince is like, ‘not like that! Like this! Make you jaw more slack!’ And I’m like, ‘oh my God! I must make Vince happy!’

When you’re that young and then they call you up, you’re just like, ‘I’m going to do this and good as I can and hope that they keep me for a minute,’ so that’s what I did, and had a pretty good time doing it, and the kids liked it and stuff.

It was what it was, but I don’t look back on that stuff at all. I feel like a lot of wrestlers would get bitter about that stuff. I thought that was a good experience.”