Finn Balor has revealed the original idea for Bullet Club.
The WWE star recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet for a new interview. He talked about things such as the infamous Universal Championship match, the WrestleMania steel cage match with Edge, joining WWE at a later age and more.
During the talk, Balor was also asked if he realized the impact Bullet Club will have on the wrestling world when he was forming the faction. Answering the question, Finn Balor revealed that there was actually supposed to be no faction and the original idea was just for him to be paired with Bad Luck Fale so he could turn heel:
Originally Bullet Club wasn’t supposed to be Bullet Club, it was supposed to be just me and [Bad Luck] Fale. So I’d been a babyface for six years in New Japan, they wanted to turn me heel, and that was one thing then that made me stay in New Japan.
So I was kind of thinking about, oh, maybe it’s time to try WWE now, I’ve done everything in New Japan that I felt like I could possibly achieve. But then the idea came. ‘Hey, would you like to turn heel?’ I was like oh, this is something new, now I can be a heel in New Japan. I can learn more.
We Had So Much Heat: Finn Balor
A couple of weeks after this, then-NJPW booker Gedo suggested putting Karl Anderson and Tama Tonga with them because the two were always hanging out with Balor, and Bullet Club was born. Finn Balor recalled how the group became an instant hit, with the fans in Japan taking their betrayal very seriously:
Once I turned heel, I think it was crazy, because we had so much heat. I remember Fale would be carrying me out on his shoulders at Korakuen Hall, and he kind of had to walk through the crowd, and there’d be fans hitting me in the leg, punching me in the leg, giving me dead legs, and then those fans,
So many fans, were calling the office to complain about Prince Devitt cheating to win matches that they had to set up a separate phone line to take complaints. Because there’s so much respect, and I guess it wasn’t something that was done commonly, or at least recently in New Japan. So that was like lightning in a bottle.
Finn Balor recently moved to SmackDown after a long feud with Judgment Day on Raw. He was attacked by Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa on last Friday’s episode of the show, signalling the start of a new rivalry.
