The top stable in New Japan Pro Wrestling (for Westerners), the Bullet Club is a heel faction of (mostly) gaijin who love to cheat. In a lot of ways, they’re like a modern version of the nWo, complete with a cool T-shirt and the Kliq “Too Sweet” kissy-wolf hand gesture greetings.
And, just like the New World Order, the Bullet Club has had loads of members thanks to both various inter-promotional working relationships and the tendency of WWE to sign every notable wrestler across the globe. As a result, there are a number of Bullet Club members fans have totally forgotten about. Here are ten of them.
10 Cody Hall
A member of the BC for a year and some change, Cody Hall is not only the son of nWo founder Scott Hall but also the faction’s devoted Young Lion. As such, he was mostly there to take the pin in tag matches but ended up getting injured just as he was beginning to gain some traction as a competitor.
He’d eventually leave NJPW in 2017 and spend the rest of the decade performing for Pro Wrestling NOAH and DDT Pro Wrestling.
9 Jeff Jarrett
For the three years or so it existed, Jeff Jarrett’s new promotion, Global Force Wrestling, seemed like it was putting together something ambitious, organizing working relationships with NJPW, AAA, and other international promotions, and even got Wrestle Kingdom 9 on American PPV.
As part of that relationship, Jarrett would not only join Bullet Club but also join the group in the most Jeff Jarrett way possible: by smashing a guitar with the Bullet Club logo across the back over Hiroshi Tanahashi’s head.
8 Rey Bucanero
NJPW has a working relationship with the Mexican lucha libre promotion CMLL, and will often bring CMLL talent on tours together. As a result, Rey Bucanero found himself on tour with NJPW in 2013, teaming with Tama Tonga and becoming part of a BC subfaction called Bullet Club Latinoamerica.
Together, Bucanero and Tonga won the CMLL World Tag Team Championships from Tanahashi and Jushin Thunder Liger. However, they would lose the title due to Bucanero getting injured, and his stint with BC only lasted a month.
7 King Haku
Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa are the children of King Haku (a.k.a. Meng in WCW), so naturally, he went along with what his kids were up to, no stranger to being a heel.
Joining the Bullet Club in 2016, King Haku wrestled multi-man tag matches with his sons here and there and was alongside Tonga and Loa when they turned on Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks, creating the BC Firing Squad that broke from the original Club.
6 Stephen Amell
Friends with Cody Rhodes, Stephen Amell, star of The CW’s Arrow, joined the Bullet Club in 2017 at Ring of Honor’s Survival of the Fittest, taking part in a multi-man tag match.
He even had his own devoted Bullet Club shirt that read VIGILANTE CLUB. He never made any appearances on NJPW television and left the group in 2018. Still, Amell is considered very much a member of the Bullet Club.
5 Robbie Eagles
Known for his work in the Australian pro wrestling scene, Robbie Eagles had some matches during NJPW’s tour of Australia, eventually leading to a spot in the Super Jr. Tag Tournament in 2018 alongside Taiji Ishimori, establishing Eagles as a member of Bullet Club.
His membership would last about eight months before he defected to the CHAOS stable, making Robbie Eagles one of the few wrestlers to turn on Bullet Club.
4 La Comandante
A veteran of lucha libre who gained notoriety in the Japanese Joshi scene, La Comandante was also part of the CMLL/NJPW super group Bullet Club Latinoamerica, managing the group of Tama Tonga, Rey Bucanero, and El Terrible, as women’s matches in NJPW are rare.
Joining the Bullet Club in October of 2013, La Comandante’s stint with the group would last a couple of months until mid-December of the same year.
3 Frankie Kazarian
Best known these days for being in the AEW stable SCU, Frankie Kazarian was a member of Bullet Club for about a month in the spring of 2017.
However, this stint with the BC was just part of an elaborate plot to get close to the group and -- at a pivotal moment -- help his long-time tag team partner Christopher Daniels win the ROH World Title from Adam Cole.
2 El Terrible
Another member of Bullet Club Latinoamerica, El Terrible would also team with Tama Tonga to win the CMLL World Tag Team Titles, holding them for 234 days until losing to Tanahashi and Liger.
Despite being a member of Bullet Club, El Terrible would go on to join the original CMLL version of Los Ingobernables, wrestling alongside Los Ingobernables de Japon at NJPW’s annual crossover tour FantasticaMania as well as teaming with Shingo Takagi in 2019’s World Tag League.
1 Adam Cole
At the 2016 Ring of Honor/New Japan crossover event Global Wars, The Young Bucks caused a no contest in the Jay Lethal vs. Colt Cabana main event for the ROH World Title, announcing Adam Cole as the latest member of Bullet Club.
His stint with the BC lasted a year until his loss of the World Title to Christopher Daniels resulted in the group kicking him out, replacing Cole with Marty Scurll. Shortly after, Cole would sign with WWE.