10 Articles You Won't Believe WWE.com Once Posted!

10. Announcing The Bullet Club Were Coming To WWE

In 2016 the Bullet Club were the biggest stable in all of professional wrestling. “Too Sweet” and their skull and bones t-shirts dominated the wrestling landscape. They ran roughshod in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, which is why it was surprising to suddenly see WWE.com on the 5th January 2016 post an article on their main feed that read ‘Are AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows coming to WWE?’.

They genuinely reported that Bullet Club members AJ Styles, Karl Anderson and Luke “Doc” Gallows along with Shinsuke Nakamura were in serious negotiations with the company, even speculating they had already signed. They wrote ‘Reports began circulating late Sunday that all four had reportedly given their notices to New Japan management.’ That of course turned out to be true.

WWE didn’t use these tactics for indie sensation Adam Cole or megastars Sting and Ronda Rousey when they debuted for WWE so it was peculiar they would for the Bullet Club. It was a trial and error for WWE to generate buzz for when these four NJPW wrestlers finally made their debut. Looking back this is one of the reasons why fans were abuzz at the Royal Rumble 2016 with faint rumours that AJ Styles could possibly appear in the Rumble, which drew one of the biggest reactions in company history when he walked out in the number 3 spot.