CM Punk and Luke Gallows

On the November 27 edition of Smackdown, CM Punk announced Luke Gallows (Festus) as his accomplice and partner. Gallows has managed CM Punk in matches. They soon started teaming together in single tag matches facing R-Truth and Matt Hardy or in six man tag matches. On January 15, they won a fatal four way tag team match, to claim the No. 1 contender for the Unified Tag Team Championship.