Bullet Club
Bullet Club (バレットクラブ, Barettokurabu), stylized as BULLET CLUB and sometimes shortened to BC, was a professional wrestling stable primarily appearing in the Japanese promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In the United States, the group appeared on events run by the company's U.S. subsidiary, New Japan Pro-Wrestling of America, as well as U.S. partner promotions Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA, formerly Impact Wrestling), All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and Ring of Honor (ROH). The group also previously appeared on events promoted by Tamashii, NJPW's Australasian affiliate, as well as on events of other Australasian independent promotions, on Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) events in Mexico, and on Revolution Pro Wrestling (RevPro/RPW) and TNT Extreme Wrestling (TNT) events in the United Kingdom, as well as many other independent promotions around the world.
The group was formed in May 2013 when Irish wrestler Prince Devitt betrayed his Japanese partner Ryusuke Taguchi and came together with American wrestler Karl Anderson and Tongan wrestlers Bad Luck Fale and Tama Tonga to form a villainous stable of foreigners, which they subsequently named Bullet Club. Before the end of the year, the stable was also joined by three other Americans, The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) and Doc Gallows. Wrestlers from the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion have also worked tours of NJPW as members of Bullet Club, which led to the formation of an offshoot group named Bullet Club Latinoamerica in CMLL in October 2013. The stable marked a major turning point for the career of Devitt, a longtime fan favorite, who began his ascent out of the junior heavyweight division and into the IWGP Heavyweight Championship picture.
In April 2014, Devitt left NJPW and was replaced in Bullet Club by American wrestler AJ Styles. The following month, Styles captured the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The stable continued adding members, most notably Canadian wrestler Kenny Omega, who became the group's third leader in early 2016 when Styles, Anderson and Gallows all left NJPW. After a "civil war" between The Elite and OG factions within the stable, Omega, Cody, Marty Scurll, Adam Page and The Young Bucks quietly left the faction in October 2018 to continue on their own as The Elite and to later form All Elite Wrestling (AEW) with New Zealand wrestler Jay White taking over as the fourth leader of the group. Due to COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions in 2020, Evil becoming a temporary top representative member of the group in the Japan-based contingent of the group. In March 2023, David Finlay became the fifth leader of the group following Jay White's exit from NJPW. On January 5, 2026, David Finlay and Yota Tsuji announced the dissolution of the stable, officially merging both War Dogs and Unaffiliated into the new Unbound Co. stable.
During the 13 years of Bullet Club, the stable held every NJPW title, with a total of 74 title reigns, including 5 reigns with the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and one reign with the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. Bullet Club members also won several NJPW tournaments, like Best of the Super Juniors, World Tag League, Super Jr. Tag Tournament, New Japan Cup and NJPW most prestigious tournament, the G1 Climax. Outside NJPW, Bullet Club also won championships in promotions like Impact Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre or Ring of Honor. Several members also won awards from several publications like Wrestling Observer Newsletter or Tokyo Sports.
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