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Every Bullet Club Member Ever RANKED | partsFUNknown Bullet Club continues to populate the wrestling world and with nearly a decade of history to work with there are plenty of stars who have made their name in New Japan's foreign faction. Who do you think is the best Bullet Club member? Let us know in the comments below!  Every Ring Of Honor World Champion RANKED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSGJR9gQbo8&t=2s  00:00 - Start 01:28 - 30 01:56 - 29 02:17 - 28 02:48 - 27 03:04 - 26 03:30 - 25 03:56 - 24 04:37 - 23 05:00 - 22 05:24 - 21 05:50 - 20 06:10 - 19 06:46 - 18 07:19 - 17 07:45 - 16 08:16 - 15 08:46 - 14 09:15 - 13 09:53 - 12 10:28 - 11 11:00 - 10 11:31 - 9 11:58 - 8 12:28 - 7 13:02 - 6 13:43 - 5 14:33 - 4 15:10 - 3 15:51 - 2 16:35 - 1  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:00 What do you think of when you hear the name "Bullet Club"?

00:03 A dominant faction of foreign heels?

00:05 A YouTube show?

00:06 An iconic t-shirt design?

00:08 The House of Torture having a very apt name when evaluating their matches?

00:11 None of these would be wrong answers of course.

00:13 Yes, since debuting in 2013, New Japan Pro Wrestling's Bullet Club faction has experienced

00:18 its own long journey through the peaks and valleys of wrestling relevancy.

00:22 However, even with interest in New Japan waning following the start of the pandemic, Bullet

00:26 Club still means enough that you can have programming on WWE, AEW, and Impact dedicated

00:31 to the group in some way.

00:33 Whether that be Jay White cutting a pro Bullet Club promo on Dynamite, or WWE having Finn

00:38 Balor and AJ Styles make the llamas kiss while motioning at their hands and going "Eh?

00:43 This is the thing you like, right?"

00:45 A wide reach indeed.

00:46 With such a reach and many years of history to pull from, Bullet Club has amassed a large

00:50 list of roster and alumni with contributions ranging from changing the wrestling business

00:54 as a whole to being a net negative on the group itself.

00:57 It's time for another longer than average list.

00:59 I'm Tempest Hailing from PartsFunKnown, and this is Every Bullet Club Member Ever

01:03 Ranked.

01:05 Also a side note, we will only be including full time members, so no Scott, Norton, Hawk

01:09 Hu, Stephen Amell, or Peter, and I'm not including Marty Scurll, because I don't

01:13 wanna.

01:14 Sorry not sorry.

01:15 But before we crack on, make sure of course to give this video a like and subscribe if

01:18 you like more fun wrestling rankings just like this, and if you especially like the

01:22 rankings, make sure to check out our list of every single Ring of Honor World Champion

01:26 Ever Ranked.

01:28 #30 Bone Soldier The original Bone Soldier is the worst that

01:32 Bullet Club has to offer.

01:33 Kevin Kelly at one point said he was the worst wrestler he had ever seen in his career.

01:37 It must be true, Kevin Kelly wouldn't lie to me.

01:40 He has such a trusting face.

01:42 Wearing a stupid Halloween mask and track pants, not even the other Bullet Club members

01:45 wanted to associate with him.

01:47 He was only in the group from September 2016 to February 2017, where he'd stand on the

01:51 apron sticking out like SpongeBob's grotesquely sore thumb.

01:55 #29 Jotto Once upon a time, Jotto was a capable wrestler.

01:59 He was a multiple-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a solid talent, but

02:04 that was then, and unfortunately now he's practically immobile.

02:08 Just watching him move has been painful since his spinal surgery, but his short run with

02:12 Bullet Club came to a merciful end in 2022, exiting alongside G.O.D.

02:17 #28 Dick Togo There's not much separating WWF Attitude

02:21 Era star Dick Togo from Jotto on this list.

02:24 Dick Togo just doesn't look like he's in pain when he walks.

02:27 Debuting at Dominion 2020 by helping EVIL secure the IWGP Heavyweight and Intercontinental

02:31 titles for the first time, Dick Togo has been a blight on New Japan since then, interfering

02:35 in every single EVIL match like goddamn clockwork.

02:39 It has made New Japan genuinely unwatchable at times, however at least Togo can say he's

02:44 been part of the most influential faction in history.

02:47 Anti of course.

02:48 #27 Gato Similar to the previous two entries, Gato

02:52 is primarily a manager for J.White these days.

02:55 Gato was once a very capable wrestler, working as Jotto's tag team partner, but now he

02:59 adds little to the honor of presentation of the biz-cliz.

03:01 I mean, at least he manages J. instead of EVIL.

03:04 #26 Frankie Kazarian Frankie Kazarian was in Bullet Club, you

03:08 semi-familiar folk all think to yourselves?

03:11 Don't you lie to me.

03:13 In Ring of Honor in 2017, Frankie Kazarian joined Bullet Club, turning on his partner

03:17 Christopher Daniels.

03:18 However, it turned out it was all just a ruse as Kazarian turned on Adam Cole a month later,

03:23 allowing Daniels to capture the ROH World Championship.

03:25 Meaning while Kazarian is fantastic, a classic Bullet Club member, he is not.

03:30 #25 Cody Hall Oh, Cody Hall.

03:33 So much potential.

03:34 The son of the late WWE Hall of Famer Scott Hall, Cody has never lived up to his family

03:39 name.

03:40 He tries to be a big star, but it just hasn't happened.

03:43 Hall was in Bullet Club for a brief time, often assisting the Young Bucks in their matches.

03:47 He was part of the group during some of their most successful times in 2015, but he was

03:51 never the highlight.

03:52 He sure is big though.

03:54 Man, maybe Vince is on to something.

03:56 #24 Evil Each entry to this point has had fairly low

04:00 potential for greatness as a Bullet Club member.

04:02 This one, however, has simply been a disaster.

04:05 Evil was pushed hard as a main eventer in 2020, joining Bullet Club and winning the

04:10 IWGP Double Championship in one weekend.

04:13 His reign was a major step back for the title, and he has since gone on to lead the House

04:17 of Torture subdivision of Bullet Club, which, notably, has also been rubbish.

04:22 Evil's tremendous work as a babyface has not translated to his work as a heel, and

04:26 Dick Togo constantly ruining his matches has made Evil's work in Bullet Club a slog to

04:30 get through much of the time.

04:32 It's very weird that the man named Evil worked better as a babyface, but here we are.

04:37 #23 Show The breakup of Roppongi 3K felt like a long

04:40 time coming, and an opportunity for Show to spread his wings and show what he could bring

04:44 to the junior division in a singles role.

04:46 Instead of being the ace the company has needed since Kushida left, Show has been part of

04:50 the House of Torture.

04:51 And it's moments like this that I think about Morgan Freeman's speech about hope being

04:55 a dangerous thing, and then I think comparing the House of Torture to being a literal prison

04:58 is a bit much.

05:00 #22 Hikaleo Hikaleo earns points for longevity, even

05:04 though he has yet to do anything of real importance.

05:06 Son of Haku and brother of the Gorillas of Destiny, Hikaleo has been in Bullet Club since

05:10 2017, which is hard to believe at times considering the time he has spent has just been so uneventful.

05:15 He's managed to improve a lot over the years, most recently on NJPW Strong, but the BC's

05:19 tallest gorilla has yet to win any titles or any singles matches of any significance.

05:24 #21 Juice Robinson Bullet Club's newest member duped the world

05:28 into thinking he was letting his New Japan contract expire with the intentions of chilling

05:32 at home.

05:33 In 2022 Juice Robinson made what everyone thought was his final New Japan appearance

05:36 at Windy City Riot, only to immediately turn on Hiroshi Tanahashi and turn heel for the

05:41 first time in the promotion.

05:42 You have to play the waiting game to get a proper read on Juice Robinson's standing

05:46 at Bullet Club, but I don't feel like playing that game, so I'll wait to play the waiting

05:50 game.

05:51 #20 Chris Bay Chris Bay became the first Impact Wrestling

05:53 star to join Bullet Club after the promotion began working with New Japan again during

05:57 the pandemic.

05:58 They are now officially shifting out of the tier of bad Bullet Club members.

06:02 In this case Bay hasn't lit the wrestling world on fire by any means, but he's been

06:05 one of Impact's best and works to make Bullet Club's Impact matches better just by being

06:09 in them.

06:10 #19 Robbie Eagles Robbie Eagles was a difficult one to place.

06:15 He's extremely talented and has had great matches while in Bullet Club, but he never

06:19 quite fit the group.

06:21 Even when he was part of the faction he was much more of a babyface than his peers.

06:25 He would often chastise Taiji Shimori and El Phantasmo for their heel antics, leading

06:29 one to ask why he was in the faction anyway.

06:32 But because New Japan was a place where these little character moments all mean something,

06:36 after a classic match with former mentor Will Ospreay, Eagles left Bullet Club to join Chaos

06:41 the next day.

06:42 His exodus was the most memorable thing he ever did with the faction.

06:45 #18 Yujiro Takahashi Longevity plays a large role with Yujiro Takahashi's

06:50 placement.

06:51 It's hard to believe now, but there was a time when Yujiro joining the faction was a

06:55 major angle.

06:56 The Tokyo Pimp (and how's that for your next NXT 2.0 gimmick?)

06:59 defected from Chaos in 2014 by turning on Kazuchika Okada, costing him the IWGP Heavyweight

07:05 title to the debuting AJ Styles.

07:07 He's been involved in Never Openweight trios and such, but he's been one of the least

07:10 important members of the group for quite some time.

07:13 He was the faction's first Japanese member, but with so many now that no longer feels

07:17 like it carries as much weight.

07:19 #17 Chase Owens Everything that was said about Yujiro Takahashi

07:22 could be said about Chase Owens as well.

07:25 Well, almost everything.

07:26 Chase Owens is indeed NOT Bullet Club's first Japanese member the last time I checked.

07:31 For years, he was the one to eat the pin in multi-man tag team matches, and he has done

07:34 an admirable job in that role, every so often getting a big opportunity like participating

07:39 in the 2021 G1 Climax.

07:41 He is Bullet Club through and through, just not one of the more important members.

07:45 #16 El Phantasmo El Phantasmo joined New Japan and Bullet

07:49 Club in 2019, and while he brings a different douchebag energy than the others in the group

07:53 nowadays as he sticks his tongue out and gyrates like a fish being tased, he has fit the role

07:58 of a four heel very well.

08:00 He is another excellent wrestler, having standout performances in his Best of the Super Juniors

08:04 and Wrestle Kingdom outings.

08:06 He is yet to achieve much single success outside of his Super J-Cup win, but he and Ishimori

08:11 have been a solid junior tag team for the faction, picking up right where the young

08:14 bucks left off.

08:15 #15 Hangman Page It's hard to look at Hangman Page as anything

08:19 but the top star of all elite wrestling he has become, but during the days of Bullet

08:23 Club, he had a ways to go.

08:24 A fairly bland character at the time, Page joined the group with Adam Cole at Ring of

08:29 Honor's Global Wars event in 2016.

08:32 His work on being the elite brought him a long way as a character, but his best work

08:35 didn't come until he left the group in 2018.

08:38 He still had good matches, having several in the 2018 G1 Climax, but Page will be best

08:43 known for his ascent after leaving Bullet Club.

08:46 #14 Taiji Ishimori We have reached the tier of good Bullet Club

08:50 members with the new Bone Soldier, Taiji Ishimori.

08:54 Ishimori could not be more different from the original Bone Soldier if he tried.

08:58 He's been one of the best juniors in the world for years, but has shown it on a huge

09:02 stage since arriving in New Japan in 2018.

09:04 The only problem with Ishimori in Bullet Club is there has rarely been a connection with

09:08 him and the group.

09:09 His allegiances seem to be to the Tongans, but with them out of the picture, there are

09:13 even fewer things tying him to Bullet Club.

09:15 #13 Tangaloa Tangaloa has only recently started to put

09:19 it together as an in-ring performer the last few years, but he has the other assets you

09:23 need to be great.

09:24 He and Tamatanga have been a great team for years and a true fixture of Bullet Club.

09:29 They refused to stop winning titles, becoming the IWGP Tag Team Champions for the seventh

09:34 time in 2021.

09:35 And let us not forget the fact that these two are a real-life team named the Gorillas

09:39 of Destiny, which is still one of the most absurdly awesome names for any team ever.

09:45 Tangaloa hasn't been great enough to crack the top tier of Bullet Club members, but his

09:49 identity is synonymous with the group, and points have to be given for that.

09:53 #12 Doc Gallows One of the earliest members of Bullet Club,

09:56 Doc Gallows stepped into the role of Carl Anderson's tag team partner as Bullet Club's

10:00 heavyweight team and QuizzleMania participants.

10:03 Dr. Luke Gallows and Carl Anderson always felt Bullet Club adjacent while they were

10:06 in WWE, routinely being called "The Club" (wink) and shuffled next to whichever of AJ

10:12 Styles or Finn Balor WWE wanted to appeal to the Bullet Club fans with at the time.

10:16 I don't count this as time with the faction, but it goes to show just how linked they are

10:20 with Bullet Club's identity, which was illustrated further by Gallows' long-awaited return

10:24 to New Japan and Bullet Club in Japan in 2022.

10:28 #11 Adam Cole If this list was based purely on in-ring ability,

10:33 Adam Cole would have to be near the very top.

10:36 However, his spot with the faction is taken into account as well, and Cole just didn't

10:40 quite fit the Bullet Club makeup.

10:42 He was perfect with the Elite, which is once again being seen in AEW, but at his core,

10:47 Cole wasn't "Bullet Club", and it feels like this was the case with many of the Ring

10:51 of Honor members of the group.

10:53 Cole's ability and interplay with The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega put him in the top half

10:56 of this list, but his short time with the group leaves him outside the top 10.

11:01 #10 Cody Some people just embody chaotic energy, and

11:04 in Bullet Club, Cody was nothing but chaotic energy.

11:08 The little comic book villain arrived at WrestleKingdom 11 and was never on the same page as Kenny

11:12 Omega, and was a key figure in the Bullet Club Civil War of 2018.

11:16 That being said, he was one of the better parts of Bullet Club during this time.

11:19 His matches were consistently good, and his impact on the group was always evident.

11:24 He was as much a foreign heel as you can get, coming straight from WWE, which matched much

11:28 of what Bullet Club's identity has always been.

11:31 #9 Kenta Kenta's been one of the better additions

11:34 to Bullet Club in recent years.

11:36 He joined the faction in 2019 after not being embraced by the New Japan fans, and he hasn't

11:40 looked back since.

11:42 Despite being Japanese, Kenta works as a foreign heel.

11:45 Even before working for WWE, he was a pro wrestling NOAH guy.

11:49 New Japan has never been his home, and once he embraced that, his character has begun

11:54 to shine.

11:55 He fits Bullet Club better than most in the faction these days, honestly.

11:58 #8 Jay White It is no secret that Bullet Club has not been

12:01 as important or as popular since Jay White took over the group in late 2018.

12:06 While it's not necessarily a bad thing that a heel faction is not as popular anymore,

12:10 it does sort of feel like the NWO after the hype died down.

12:14 With that negativity out of the way, Jay White is one of the most complete wrestlers in the

12:18 world and sits high on this list as a result.

12:21 Not the most iconic Bullet Club leader, but you would have a hard time arguing that Jay

12:25 hasn't been just as talented as the rest of them.

12:28 #7 Bad Luck Fale And from one end of the Bullet Club work rate

12:32 scale to the other, we have one of the original four members of Bullet Club, Bad Luck Fale.

12:37 And Bad Luck Fale is Bullet Club through and through.

12:40 He has never been the best wrestler, but given the right circumstances, he can have a good

12:44 match, often helped by New Japan's bonkers roster in the 2010s.

12:48 His position on this list is entirely dependent on his longevity in the group as one of only

12:52 two remaining members from the group's inception and the only one to do so without a hiatus.

12:57 After nine years in the group, Fale's loyalties remain with the Bullet Club.

13:02 #6 The Young Bucks The Young Bucks must be given a tremendous

13:05 amount of credit for the growth of popularity in Bullet Club.

13:08 Their being the elite show brought in many fans in 2016, but they'd been tearing it

13:12 up long before then too.

13:14 Joining the group in late 2013, the Young Bucks were Bullet Club's first junior tag

13:18 team for half a decade.

13:20 Not only that, but they established themselves as the best tag team in the world during that

13:24 time and no I won't stop for even just a second to debate that, we must keep going.

13:27 They added so many things to Bullet Club and being the elite shaped much of the group's

13:31 identity during its most popular period.

13:34 Whether or not this was the part of Bullet Club you connected with is up to you, but

13:37 it is undeniable that the Young Bucks did more for the Bullet Club brand than most others

13:42 on this list.

13:43 #5 AJ Styles For my money, there was no time that Bullet

13:47 Club was cooler than when AJ Styles was the leader.

13:51 Look at his entrance at Wrestle Kingdom 10 and tell me this isn't the coolest wrestler

13:55 on the globe.

13:56 Arguably the most successful leader of the group, Styles had a pair of lengthy reigns

14:00 as IWGP Heavyweight Champion.

14:02 No other Bullet Club leader has held the title more than once.

14:06 Styles wasn't as influential a leader as those who immediately preceded and succeeded

14:10 him, but man was he great.

14:12 For many, this is where Styles cemented himself as one of the generation's best workers.

14:17 Everyone who watched TNA knew he was great, but let me tell you he hit another level in

14:21 New Japan that remains the best in-ring run he has ever had.

14:25 AJ found out the hard way that you don't walk away from Bullet Club when you're the

14:28 leader, being forcibly removed by the elite at New Year's Dash 2016.

14:33 #4 Tama Tonga Some things just feel like they're gonna

14:36 last forever, and Tama Tonga in Bullet Club felt like one of those things.

14:40 Even now, with Tama a babyface representing New Japan against Bullet Club, the cosmic

14:45 scales are out of balance.

14:47 Tama Tonga always had a swagger about him that few can match, and that swagger was very

14:52 Bullet Club.

14:53 He and Tangaloa have been tag team champions a whopping seven times, making them the most

14:57 successful tag team in the group's history, but New Japan history as well.

15:01 Only bad luck Fale has spent more time in Bullet Club than Tama Tonga, and even after

15:05 a decade's worth of change, the identity of Bullet Club will always come from its founders.

15:10 #3 Kenny Omega What is there to say about Kenneth Omega?

15:14 Omega's run as Bullet Club leader featured many of the most important storyline moments

15:18 in the faction's history, whether that be Omega kicking AJ Styles out, his relationship

15:22 with Cody Ibushi, and his rivalry with Cody Rhodes.

15:25 It is undeniable that Bullet Club was at its most popular with Kenny Omega at the helm,

15:30 and that is for many reasons.

15:32 Omega putting on industry-shifting matches with Kazuchika Okada and Chris Jericho brought

15:36 tons of new eyes onto the product.

15:38 All the while, he proudly waved the Bullet Club flag figuratively and literally when

15:42 he won his 2016 G1 Climax.

15:44 In terms of talent, Omega would take the top spot, but there are two more who embody Bullet

15:49 Club even more than he.

15:51 #2 Carl Anderson The machine gun, Carl Anderson.

15:59 One of the original members of the group and a proper example of the attitude Bullet Club

16:03 represented, now back with the group at last.

16:06 He was second in command to both Prince Devin and AJ Styles, and served as the group's mouthpiece

16:10 for much of that time.

16:11 Bullet Club had a lot of great eras and moments, but Carl Anderson doing a BC roll call with

16:16 a faction full of champions and stars of the present and future in 2015 is pretty badass.

16:21 Had he not left New Japan to go to WWE in 2016, there's a very good chance he might

16:26 have taken the top spot.

16:27 However, with Carl finally having made his way back to the group he helped create, he

16:31 could take the top spot before long.

16:33 But until then…

16:34 #1 Prince Devin It doesn't get much more OG than this.

16:38 The founder of Bullet Club himself, Prince Devin, has to take the top spot on this list.

16:43 Now known by many more fans as WWE's Finn Balor, Devin was the superstar that launched

16:48 the success of this cutting edge faction.

16:50 This group of foreign heels was not popular at first, but eventually fans started to appreciate

16:54 the nuance of their performances.

16:56 Devin was at the center of this.

16:58 Frustrated by constant disappointments and mistreatment from New Japan management, Devin

17:02 turned on Ryusuke Taguchi and aligned with Anderson, Fale and Tamatanga.

17:07 You wanna see the squad?

17:08 That's the squad right there.

17:10 Being carried to the ring on bad luck Fale's shoulders, Devin went undefeated in the 2013

17:14 Best of the Super Juniors, winning the tournament and the junior title, before defeating Okada

17:19 and Tanahashi in the G1.

17:20 To this day, no one has captured more of the spirit of Bullet Club than Devin.

17:25 The Bullet Club anti-establishment sentiment was his sentiment, and as long as Bullet Club

17:30 is still causing a headache for management, Devin's impact is still felt.

17:34 He may have left before the faction reached its peak, but the Bullet Club's heart will

17:38 always beat with the blood of a demon.

17:41 And that's our longer than average list.

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