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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 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.

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. The team used this real-life camaraderie when they formed at Dontaku 2013 and became a natural fit. 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.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.

They decided for me to switch to a heel, which I was really excited about because I hadn’t worked heel out there. I’d been about five-and-a-half or six years as a straight-laced babyface, and I felt like I’d, not peaked, but done all that I could do. I wasn’t as creatively fulfilled anymore, and when they said, ‘Would you turn heel?’ I said, ‘Absolutely!’"

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.

This caused an outrageous amount of heat from the Japanese fans, who were outraged that someone would cheat to win the prestigious tournament.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. 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: 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.

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. 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.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 Then there was Karl Anderson, who was known as the Machine Gun. So, I’m the Real Shooter, and he’s The Machine Gun. How do I tie all this together? We all fire bullets. So then I had Bullet Parade, Bullet League, and then Bullet Club. 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. ANDERSON: We loved The nWo. We loved Scott Hall. We loved Kevin Nash. It was just kind of our thing.