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In 2009, he would form a team with his try-out opponent Taguchi, known as Apollo 55. The team would win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships within their first year. It would continue tagging throughout the next four years, cementing Devitt as a popular foreign babyface to the Japanese audiences when combined with the comedic fun-loving Taguchi. He gained a lot of notoriety as a singles competitor throughout 2012, with high-profile wins against Shinsuke Nakamura and Hiroshi Tanahashi, reaching the finals in the G1 Climax.

I remember coming up with this name, Bullet Club, thinking that’s kinda cool. I was trying to tie everyone’s characters together. Despite their founder and leader’s departure, Bullet Club is still going strong today! These stories may also interest you: Anderson mentions the rapid sell-outs also on the Steve Austin Show. "That first shirt they came out with when they sold like eight-thousand in two hours, I said, ‘What’s going on, man? What’s going on?’ That’s when I knew something really got cool. I felt it. 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. 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.

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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! 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 Tanahashi The team found instant success by Prince Devitt entering the Best of the Super Juniors tournament soon after their formation. With the team using their bond to assist each other out in matches, it helped Devitt cheat his way through the tournament — much to the dismay of the Japanese fans not as accustomed to these kinds of heel tactics. 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. In 2006, Fergal Devitt made his official New Japan Pro Wrestling debut, initially facing some resistance from the Japanese management over his name "Fergal."

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. 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. 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 explains, "It was meant to be me turning heel with King Fale as my bouncer, similar to Shawn Michaels and Diesel. But then Gedo (NJPW Booker) had this idea of we might as well lump all the foreign guys together. So, there was Karl Anderson, there was Tama Tonga, and he put us together."

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 2013So, in the blink of an eye, Devitt had his new ring name that he would wrestle under for the next eight years in Japan. DEVITT: 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.