Every Bullet Club Member Past & Present: Ranked From Worst To Best

1. Prince Devitt

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Though it's often said that Bullet Club completely reinvented the concept of the gaijin heel in Japanese wrestling, attributing this change to Prince Devitt would be entirely more accurate. The future Finn Balor flipped the script. A rowdy, foul-mouthed, obnoxious rulebreaker, he brought western-style shenanigans to a sport-oriented company. Such things existed only in isolation before he came along, but his reinvention as Bullet Club's leader brought forth a major stylistic shift that hit this serious rasslin' environment like a mortar blast.

Devitt left Bullet Club for WWE in April 2014 and ruled the group for less than a year, but the stable still lives by his laws. His personality runs through everything they do, even in 2019. It was his spirit that Tama Tonga harked back to in his attempts at deposing Kenny Omega, and, given their success, it's hard to see BC ever straying too far from his original blueprint.

No individual accolades can match this impact, though Devitt had plenty of those too (he's still the second longest reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champions ever). Go back and watch his old Bullet Club work, particularly if you only know him from WWE: not only will you be shocked by his heelish charisma, but also how natural he felt helming what was once wrestling's coolest stable.

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