Bullet Club: 10 facts you might not know about them

The Bullet Club has risen to remarkable popularity in a short period of time.The Bullet Club has only been around officially for a couple years, but the group has left its mark on international professional wrestling. The faction of varying size has become so popular, WWE is making its second grab at Bullet Club members.With information readily available on the Internet, it would be tough not to know anything you’d want to know about a group like the Bullet Club, but there are some interesting facts and connections to be made.Here are 10 such facts about the Bullet Club from its nearly three-year existence:

#10 Multi-cultural members

Many wrestling stables involve wrestlers of one or two nationalities, and some even base their gimmick around being culturally homogenous. But that isn’t the case for the Bullet Club, and it never has been.

As currently constituted, the group has members of four different nationalities – American, Canadian, Tongan and Japanese. In the past, the Bullet Club has had members of Mexican and Irish descent, bringing the total of nationalities represented by the faction to six.

That’s yet another way that the Bullet Club has become an international phenomenon.

#9 KO Connection

If more Bullet Club members are indeed headed to the WWE, it won’t be Kevin Owens’ first dealings with the group’s members. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, given Owens’ vast experience across the globe as Kevin Steen before coming to the WWE.

Owens, then Steen, feuded and even teamed with the Young Bucks in New Japan Pro Wrestling and elsewhere. The group, known as the Mount Rushmore of Wrestling, had questionable fashion judgement, but that’s a load of talent in one stable, which has become a staple of the Bullet Club.

#8 Belts across promotions

For WWE performers, once you sign on the dotted line, you perform only in WWE programming, and that’s the type of arrangement most American fans are familiar with. But that isn’t the case for other promotions, particularly overseas.

In fact, the Bullet Club, which operates primarily out of NJPW, has won belts in four different promotions as a group and countless others if you include indy work and AJ Styles’ successful run with TNA before coming to Japan.

#7 Young Bucks in WWE

The Young Bucks are known for their work in New Japan Pro Wrestling, mainly, and coupled with a run with Ring of Honor, the team has won five tag titles between the two promotions. The Young Bucks have also won in multiple independent promotions, but they’ve also appeared on WWE programming.

Before the Bullet Club formed, Matt and Nick Jackson appeared as jobbers on various WWE shows, even mimicking Triple H and Shawn Michaels for a segment at one point.

#6 Four leaders

Unlike most pro wrestling groups, the Bullet Club has continued to exist instead of breaking up when a leader breaks off from the team. As a result, Kenny Omega is the Bullet Club’s fourth leader after Prince Devitt (now Finn Balor), Karl Anderson and AJ Styles.

Perhaps even more interstingly, if rumors are true, being the leader of the stable is a direct line to the WWE, as Balor is NXT champion and Anderson and Styles have been said to be headed to the WWE.

#5 Five Golden Rings

AJ Styles was recently ousted from the Bullet Club, but before that, he was the group’s leader and has been widely regarded as one of the best professional wrestlers in the world. He’s crafted that reputation during stints with New Japan Pro Wrestling, Ring of Honor and TNA.

As a matter of fact, Styles also appeared on WCW programming as part of the Air Raid tag team, so if he does make his debut on WWE programming, he’d join Ric Flair as the only men to do televised work for WWE, WCW, ROH, NJPW and TNA – or the “five golden rings” of modern wrestling.

#4 Son of Haku

There are several connections to the past within the Bullet Club, including a family tie to a man widely regarded as one of the toughest in the business in real life: Haku or Meng. He worked in both WCW and WWE, and most recently joined the Bullet Club in January 2016 as King Haku.

His adopted son is full-time Bullet Club member, Tama Tonga, who was part of the group’s victorious six-man championship team with Bad Luck Fale and Yujiro Takahashi at the same event where his dad put on the black and white.

#3 Cody Hall

Why not do one more connection between the NWO and the Bullet Club, and this one should be fairly obvious. Current Bullet Club member Cody Hall is built like, and carries some of the mannerisms of his father, WWE and WCW legend Scott Hall.

That’s not a bad lineage to connect with. During his heyday, Hall was one of the top performers of the Attitude Era and beyond. Further, he’s had matches widely regarded as some of the WWE’s best, so the Bullet Club would be fortunate to get that out of Cody.

#2 Double J Double Dip

Hand signs aren’t the only connection the Bullet Club has with the New World Order. Jeff Jarrett associated with the group in 2014 as he was forming his current promotion, Global Force Wrestling.

Since Jarrett was a member of the oft-forgotten NWO 2000 stable during the WCW’s last days, that makes him a member of both groups that have used the signature “Too Sweet” hand sign. Essentially, connecting with Jarrett is the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" of modern professional wrestling.

#1 Too sweet to be original

The Bullet Club’s “Too Sweet” hand gesture has come under legal scrutiny because, quite frankly, it isn’t original. The gesture, with pinky and index fingers extended and hand shaped like a wolf, was first used by “The Kliq” in WWE and later the NWO in WCW when Scott Hall and Kevin Nash started that faction.

Reportedly, Nash has given the Bullet Club his blessing, and if you were going to copy a group of wrestlers, the NWO isn’t a bad stable to emulate.