The Bullet Club’s Karl Anderson Talks Finn Balor, The Kliq, WWE

“Machine Gun” Karl Anderson has been making waves on the wrestling circuit as a member of the wildly popular Bullet Club stable housed in New Japan Pro Wrestling. Anderson appeared on Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast this past week to discuss various topics in the wrestling world. Below are some of the highlights.

Anderson discussed how when Fergal Devitt left NJPW for WWE to become Finn Balor, the group wasn’t worried about losing star power:

“People have asked me about that before and and I wasn’t worried. I knew AJ was coming in and right before Ferg (Devitt) had left, they’d just made us those sweet shirts with the black and white and the bones and those things were selling like crazy. I think those might have gotten us over more than anything in Japan because it was just a cool-ass t-shirt… But I wasn’t panicked when Ferg was leaving. I think he’s one of the best wrestlers in the world. He’s one of my best friends. He’s awesome. But I knew we’d be fine.”

He spoke on how The Kliq helped inspire much of what the Bullet Club has become:

“First off, we were just doing whatever we wanted to do and to see if we’d get in trouble for it with the front office—which we didn’t. We grew up watching…we loved the NWO. Scott Hall—I put over Scott Hall all of the time on Twitter—and he has kind of blessed us to do it… They paved the way for us to do what we’re doing.”

Anderson also briefly touched on recent comments made by AJ Styles claiming he has no interest in going to WWE because of the state of other companies right now:

“If anybody says they don’t want to go to WWE, they’re probably lying.”

More from the interview can be found here.

Editor’s Note

I was at the PWS show last week with the Bullet Club present, and man was the crowd hot for them. Huge, huge potential.

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