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What's the story?
Today, May 3, 2018, marks the five-year anniversary of one of the most popular professional wrestling stables, the Bullet Club.
It is a stable that started in New Japan Pro Wrestling, but through time, partnerships, and moving companies, the Bullet Club is prominent in Ring Of Honor and the WWE as well.
In case you didn't know...
The Bullet Club is mainly a heel stable made up of foreigners; however, there have been a couple of Japanese wrestlers who have joined the stable such as former member Bone Soldier and current member Yujiro Takahashi.
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The heart of the matter...
The Bullet Club was founded on May 3, 2013, when Prince Devitt (now known as Finn Balor) turned on his longtime tag team partner Ryusuke Taguchi and joined Karl Anderson, Bad Luck Fale and Tama Tonga to form the stable.
Their actions seemed to be a combination of Degeneration X and the nWo; which made them very popular and would bring a lot of new fans to New Japan Pro Wrestling.
Fale and Tonga still remain in the Bullet Club to this day leaving them as the only members to have been with the group the entire five years.
The Young Bucks have the longest tenure after Fale and Tonga as they joined the stable five months after the inception in October 2013.
To date, there are currently 14 members of the Bullet Club with Stephen Amell being the last one to join in November 2017.
There have been five anointed leaders of the stable since the inception as well and they include Prince Devitt, Karl Anderson, AJ Styles, Kenny Omega, and now Cody Rhodes.
What's next?
Dontaku is next up on the schedule for New Japan Pro Wrestling as it takes place this Friday, May 4th.
The Bullet Club is going to be facing each other in a civil war of sorts when they are in a ten man tag match.
Author's take...
I definitely cite the Bullet Club as the singular reason that drew me to New Japan Pro Wrestling, and I am very happy for that fact. They were something different that pro wrestling needed five years ago.
Now that I got my foot the door of New Japan, I've been able to enjoy all of the wrestlers they have to offer and also witness some amazing shows thanks to New Japan World.
