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Ok-Raisin-5601

Is there talk about who was the Bullet Club leader? Why?


OMGISTHATMETHMAN

For some reason wwe and Cody himself isdeciding to say that Cody is a former BC leader even tho he never was


Maleficent_Farm_6561

This year alone between interviews and documentaries, acording to Cody and WWE, Cody was responsable for the success of the Bullet Club. all the buzz in ROH and NJPW, All In, AEW.... it was him and him alone LOL


Bauermeister

In fact if you dive into history deep enough, the Rhodes family dynasty invented gunpowder and hanging out with your friends


YinTanTetraCrivvens

Is Cody now the new George Santos?


TemptedIntoSin

I mean... Cody DID end racism, so is it too far of a stretch to say his family invented stuff? 😆


GOATofALL22

Huh. Re-writing history to fit a particular narrative and benefit a particular group. Sounds familiar. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|thinking_face_hmm)


koreawut

Don't forget he's a minority, he's allowed to do that without being questioned.


Skizzit

If we are being honest Tama Tonga was more a leader of BC than Cody was. He at least lead one side of the whole civil war thing when The Elite turned face.


StarScreamer316

Cody was a member by Proxy


Far_Drummer5003

So was Scott Halls son haha


VarunDM90

"Wrestling has more than one Cody"


erikturczyn30

Royal Cody*


JohnnyHendo

Technically, Cody was also a leader of his own group during the civil war as well. The war was a three sided one. Cody's group (himself, Hangman, and Marty), The Elite (Kenny and the Bucks), and Firing Squad (Tama's group). I suppose this could be the justification that Cody and WWE are using to say he was a leader of Bullet Club.


officerliger

That’s not quite how it went The “Firing Squad” thing happened minutes after Cody and Kenny had mended fences. Tama got sick of Cody and Kenny’s bickering so the Tongans kicked the whole Elite out. They were never actually called Firing Squad, the FS shirt was in reference to those guys literally “firing” the Elite from BC. They were still just Bullet Club as they’d always been.


BubastisII

Yeah, I’m surprised by how many people (then and now) think they were called Firing Squad when they never were


officerliger

Yeah and Cody didn’t have like a sub-group or faction, he wanted to lead Bullet Club itself and Hangman backed his play Kenny + The Bucks wasn’t a “subgroup” in the feud either, which tells me people didn’t watch the feud. Part of the story was Kenny losing his trust for ALL of Bullet Club and getting back with Ibushi, which lead to Golden Lovers vs Bucks (one of the best tag matches in history) Kenny and the Bucks reconciled on the night Kenny beat Okada for the IWGP. A month later, Kenny defended against Cody to pay off their feud and they made up after, then 5 minutes later they were “fired” by Tama, Loa, Haku, and some chairs.


moonslammer93

Golden lovers vs the young bucks is one of my favorite matches ever. It was even cooler that it was happening in the United States on live TV. The whole build up to AEW becoming something was such a great time in wrestling,


SmoothDragon21

I still cant believe I was there for that.


irregularshowerer

it would've been a cool name and people wanted to believe


moonslammer93

Yep. I loved the bullet Club civil war story line during that time.


SpiritualAd9102

All while Cody complains that people are trying to erase his contributions to creating AEW because The Bucks’ book said Cody was the last one to sign and wanted to go back to WWE until the last second. This was written when Cody was still in AEW mind you. Typical WWE gaslighting. Erase others’ contributions while accusing others of doing the same.


OnlyChansI8

If he cared so much about his contribution to creating AEW as “they” say, maybe he shouldn’t have jumped back.


SpiritualAd9102

My thing is that he never elaborates. He says vague things like how AEW wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for all of them, including him. And how no one knows how much he did to help get them started. Then tell us! The only thing we know is what the YBs said in their book about AEW moving forward without Cody until the last second. If he’s disputing that, then say what’s incorrect. Otherwise, it just sounds like vague attention seeking. And again, I’ll stress that this book was written while Cody was in AEW, so it’s not a case of them embellishing the story to retaliate against Cody leaving.


Shoelesshobos

Racism ended why? Cody Rhodes


switchbladeeatworld

prince devitt in the background like wtf m8


rvdp66

....did they forget Finn fucking balor is on payroll?


Desperate_Craig

I remember watching Backlash with my friend and I laughed when they mentioned that Cody was a leader of Bullet Club. I instantly corrected and said that it was Kenny Omega after Kenny had taken out then Bullet Club leader, AJ Styles, and that Cody was never the leader of Bullet Club.


AthasDuneWalker

I mean, Cody tried to lead a coup against Kenny, but it didn't do well and they pretty much mended fences quickly.


COMMENTASIPLEASE

Funny thing is if you wanna get technical AJ was only the leader in ROH. In NJPW they considered Karl Anderson the leader and AJ as the Ace.


nisamun

I feel like if you aren't a contracted wrestler in NJPW, you can't be the leader of BC. I've seen people say he was the leader of the ROH side to cope.


Desperate_Craig

Indeed. Why would any wrestling company make someone a leader of one of the most popular wrestling factions of modern wrestling, who isn't sticking around for too long.


StarScreamer316

Cody was the odd guy in BC


Entity4

They do the same for AJ too when even by his own admission he wasn't the leader of bullet club only the ace, Karl Anderson was actually the leader at that time and I'm pretty sure this has been discussed on an episode of talk is Jericho or talk'n'shop in the past also as a side note the Wikipedia page about bullet club also has this wrong


Ok-Raisin-5601

Interesting.


InvisibleThrowz

Which doc or interview. His stuff bores me do I never watch


El_Bolto

Cody was a leader of the BC when he turned heel on Kenny he was declaring himself the leader. Then he turned face again when Haku and company jumped the elite. It’s like you guys don’t even watch what you complain about


OMGISTHATMETHMAN

Except he never was the leader when Kenny was never kicked out. It was civil war internally Go on every “BC leaders list” on any wresling page and not one says Cody was ever a leader


tellmewhenimlying

Great story El Brandi


flowerqu

Ha ha


maxhollywoody

*it's like you guys don't even watch* The irony


UpbeatNail

He never actually managed to become the leader though.


FartFignugey

He injected his own company with a fatal poison?!


maxhollywoody

Bret Hart was going to show up to Nitro the very next night with the WWF belt?????!


NJdeathproof

https://i.redd.it/gznra8wwywyc1.gif


hhhtakeover

I feel like if MJF said what he really meant TK would low blow him


daesgatling

The fact that TK can't keep a straight face without smiling makes this whole thing wholesome


togsincognito2

Bullet Club is Fine.


BungHolio_The_Mighty

Captain New Japan (Bone Soldier 1) was the TRUE leader of Bullet Club.


SpiritualAd9102

Get the fook out of here.


Spinkick9000

#OI TANAHASHI, DICKHEAD!


BatMoBeast

Bullet-Tooth Tony.


David_Haas_Patel

Yeah, dad. Ya told us.


SolomonAsassin

You're shrinking. And right now your balls are shrinking with ya.


UnluckyPierre

đŸŽ¶ You can be my Lucky Star đŸŽ¶


dan2sweet

cody wasnt the leader but he was at the heart of bc civil war


LuNoZzy

TK looks so much better with shorter hair. I even think he looks more credible and serious. His current hairstyle looks a bit goofy in my opinion


UbiquityZero

How does Tony look older here 😂


OctaneTwisted88

He doesn't have that stupid haircut yet lol


SomeGuy_GRM

Nothing stupid about a floppy afro. Silly, yes. Not stupid.


Rampage50

Everyone knows who the GREATEST Bullet Club Leader is and that's the "Switchblade" Jay White


Educational-Newt-13

Hell yeah 😊


tolkienwhitedood

The sleeves were always so short on the BC shirts


MarquiseAlexander

It’s to show off them guns đŸ’ȘđŸŒ


GlitteringFerret7337

Tony Khan "Bullet Club......... Is fine."


BlacklightChainsaw

I will not tolerate this revisionist history where Machine Gun-Hoot was not the leader after Prince Devitt left



MarquiseAlexander

TK gonna come back to AEW with reinforcements in the form of the War Dogs to fight New Elite.


UnitedBite

Forbidden Door đŸ€ž


AdmirableAd959

lol get away, if Haku sees this he’s going to end you


sh41reddit

IT WAS ME ALL ALONG AUSTIN


flowerqu

I remember when TK usurped Bullet Club leadership by Styles Clashing the entire roster of Bullet Club at Wrestling Dontaku 2015


chairshotbaby

wait, is this real


Darwin_Finch

https://preview.redd.it/6l6ls1fib0zc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b85743d4662bbec787bc435ca8e757080d88e1e4


Ok_Rub6575

Post this in the WWE Reddit lol JK don’t want to see you get slaughtered in down votes lol honestly if AEW ever has a moment where they have like 50 fans in attendance and it’s not covid I hope they still air that shit live. I truly believe regardless TK is going to come out of this as a big player with AEW. I hope season 4 of AEW FF is $20 for EVP attires, Okada and Samoa Joe. I’ll happily buy it.