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Bullet Club has become a widely recognized brand that has almost crossed over into mainstream appeal outside of the wrestling world. It all started with four dojo boys and the brotherhood of the Gaijin living together and trying to make a name for themselves in Japan. But he wasn’t making much of an impact as a character, and towards the start of 2013, he had started losing all of his big singles matches. In the lead-up to Dontaku, he had been teaming with Tama Tonga in tag matches before the game-changing formation at the event. "Bad Boy" Tama Tonga Bullet Club original, Tama Tonga, in 2013 He then trained to wrestle under the Dudley Boys at their school, Team 3D Academy, making his debut in 2008, and eventually finding his way to Japan in 2010 to become a young boy in the dojo system where he became friends with the other three members. Devitt and Karl really helped us grow as wrestlers to teach us the American style and still the Japanese style. We became really, really close, where we were drinking together, eating together every day, and working together.

Devitt would enter into the Japanese dojo system, becoming a "young boy" in their developmental system, the first Gaijin to train this way for 20 years.

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And it was so intimidating, all the boys were sat there around the ring, and I was in working on the fly against Taguchi. This was before the show and basically just a try-out for me. I guess it was a five-minute match, and we finished up, and the booker at the time pulls me over and was like: However, during these years, Devitt received many offers to join WWE’s developmental system, but he was reluctant to go, feeling he had unfinished business in New Japan. Devitt wanted to make his way to the top of the card in New Japan. It began with four foreign dojo boys in Japan who became friends and tried to make a name for themselves in a company that generally didn’t provide many opportunities for foreigners. This is the surprising tale of the creation of the Bullet Club! This caused an outrageous amount of heat from the Japanese fans, who were outraged that someone would cheat to win the prestigious tournament. Originally a hand signal used by The Kliq in the mid-nineties, Bullet Club started using the "Too Sweet" gesture early in their formation, and it had begun to catch on. You could start to see fans doing the hand signal during Bullet Clubs’ entrances.

So, in the blink of an eye, Devitt had his new ring name that he would wrestle under for the next eight years in Japan. In 2006, Fergal Devitt made his official New Japan Pro Wrestling debut, initially facing some resistance from the Japanese management over his name "Fergal." It changed everything. Before, nobody really took notice of us. But when we got this chance, we knew we had to take it, and we had to make people hate us. A lot of people don’t like being hated but look, figure it out, man. You’re either cheered and remembered, or you’re hated and remembered. We understood the situation." We were a group to ourselves every tour already. So, since we were already working, living as a group together, it only made sense." Becoming The Bullet Club Bullet Club "Too Sweet" Over TanahashiDEVITT: We’d be on these six- to eight-hour bus rides on the New Japan tour bus, going from Tokyo to Osaka or Kyushu, and absolutely going insane on the bus and trying to think of ways to entertain ourselves. We went through this phase of quoting all the Attitude Era stuff. Despite their founder and leader’s departure, Bullet Club is still going strong today! These stories may also interest you: The way I see it, it was four Gaijin, in the land of the rising sun, that were brothers, that ARE brothers. It was only us Gaijin, and the rest were Nihongo (Japanese). So, we became brothers, friends, best friends, because all we had was each other, to speak to each other in English. We had Devitt and Karl, who were our Sempais, and then me and Fale came in as young boys. Devitt went on to win the Best of the Super Juniors, defeating Kenny Omega in the semi-finals and Alex Shelley in the final to win the tournament, with a great deal of interference and help from the other members of Bullet Club.

Devitt recalls, "We were the only people who were really working proper heel. I went from being this super straight-laced babyface doing all these high-spots and dives to like, I completely changed my offense to eye-pokes, nut-shots, and I wouldn’t do any of the fancy stuff anymore. We met at the Los Angeles Dojo in California, where New Japan had like a feeder system. Then, me and him came through the Dojo in New Japan. We started in New Japan as absolute young boys, on small money, and we had to train every day, stay there for 3 or 4 months at a time.And I was like, ‘Okay, cool.’ I had no choice, you know? But I guess in the week they mulled it over and said, ‘Oh well, he’s only 24. He’s not old enough to be a king yet. He’s only a mere prince,’ ya know? And that’s how the name came about. Just in the blink of an eye." He would train, wrestle, and teach in his home country until 2005 when he moved to California to train in the New Japan Inoki Dojo (where he would meet Karl Anderson), before signing with New Japan officially in 2006, moving to Japan in the process. Karl Anderson (real name Chad Allegra) had been wrestling eight years before he first signed with New Japan, after training in their California-based Dojo, in which he met Devitt, before signing a contract with NJPW in 2008. Bullet Club original members: Karl Anderson and Prince Devitt Devitt recalls, "I would always wrestle as Fergal Devitt. That’s my real name. I got to Japan, and they have problems pronouncing Rs. Problems pronouncing Fs. Problems pronouncing L’s. I think I was there for about three weeks, and they made me have a try-out match before one of the shows in Sendai. Tama Tonga (real name Alipate Aloisio Leone) grew up in the wrestling business as the adopted son of the Legendary WCW and WWF talent King Haku. Still, he never actually started wrestling until he was 25, after spending six years serving in the United States Air Force.

Initially, it was me and Ferg (Devitt), and the idea was for me to help make him legit as a heavyweight. When he turned [on Apollo 55 partner Ryusuke Taguchi], it just exploded, and we knew we were onto something. The pair eventually faced each other at Kizuna Road in 2013. However, this time, Devitt was unable to get the win despite lots of attempted interference from the rest of the Bullet Club. Okada had retained the IWGP Heavyweight title, and Devitt would only get another chance if he entered and won the G1 Climax, a tournament typically reserved for Heavyweight only. ANDERSON: We loved The nWo. We loved Scott Hall. We loved Kevin Nash. It was just kind of our thing. Devitt explains on Talk Is Jericho, "I was a full young boy. I would be woken up at 7.30. We’d have to clean the toilets, go out, clean the ring, sweep the streets, hose it down because of all the cat pee on the street outside. ANDERSON: It started for sure with me and Finn in 2006, in Santa Monica in the New Japan Los Angeles Dojo. We were just buddies and would Too Sweet each other for the hell of it because we thought it was fun. Then, as we progressed and moved into New Japan Pro Wrestling, we always did it to each other on the bus. It was part of our handshake.The team used this real-life camaraderie when they formed at Dontaku 2013 and became a natural fit. After vanquishing the Ace of New Japan at Dominion, Devitt set his sights on the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. Later on in the show, after the reigning champion, Okada finished his match. Bullet Club walked to the ring, and Devitt stood toe-to-toe with the champion, challenging him to a title match. Devitt challenges Okada for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.