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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. 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. So you gotta understand that us foreigners when we leave home and come here, about 80% of our time is here in Japan. So that’s who we’re next to is the guys we work with. We’re with them more than with our real families at home. So, of course, these guys become your family, so the bond is really tight." 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 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.

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 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. 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: 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."

Fale explains, "Oh, completely natural. What people don’t know is that we were always together. We called ourselves the ‘Dojo Boys’ because we were the only foreigners who were here. At times they’d bring in foreign guys to do big shows, Giant Bernard would do a tour here or there, but we were always there since 2010 when Tama came, I and Ferg and Anderson had been there before I got there. 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. After winning the Super Juniors Tournament, Devitt challenged Tanahashi to a match at Dominion, NJPW’s second-biggest show of the year, in an attempt to defeat the opponent he couldn’t beat before forming Bullet Club. This was a chance for IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Devitt to take on once again a Heavyweight, something that rarely ever happened in the company.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 also had a great deal of success as a Junior Singles competitor during these years, with notable matches against Kota Ibushi, Low-Key, and Kushida, and won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship three times and 2010’s Best of the Super Juniors competition. 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. ANDERSON: He held the Too Sweet up in the air and looked at me. I started to get chills. I said, "Are we doing this right now?"

Fale remembers, "The Japanese fans take it all very seriously. I think it did feel dangerous, but that’s when we knew we had something. Feeling that emotion, feeling that hate, it was, ‘Woah, we’ve gotta keep this going!’ 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! 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. 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."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. Soon, he had a shot at this glory in a match with Hiroshi Tanahashi, the ace of the company, but lost in what turned out to be a rather one-sided match. The characteristically sportsman-like and noble Prince Devitt refused to shake Tanahashi’s hand and began acting more arrogant and heelish in the weeks after the match.

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