{"id":21353,"date":"2018-07-04T19:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T23:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=21353"},"modified":"2018-07-04T19:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T23:23:25","slug":"kenny-omega-puts-the-leadership-of-bullet-club-on-the-line-at-g1-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/07\/04\/kenny-omega-puts-the-leadership-of-bullet-club-on-the-line-at-g1-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Omega Puts The Leadership of Bullet Club on the Line at G1 On Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night (or early this morning in Japan), <strong>Kenny Omega<\/strong> added more weight to his already high stakes match against arch-rival <strong>Cody Rhodes<\/strong> this Saturday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/07\/02\/preview-njpw-g1-special-in-san-francisco-7-7-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>G1 Special in San Francisco<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Not only will his newly acquired IWGP Heavyweight Championship be on the line when the two lock up inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/03\/19\/a-brief-history-of-the-iconic-cow-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legendary Cow Palace<\/a>, but Kenny is finally putting an end to a year long debate over who the true leader of <strong>Bullet Club<\/strong> is.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For the biggest prize in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njpw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njpw<\/a> .For leadership of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BulletClub?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BulletClub<\/a> . It finally ends with this one last match. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pAkH63PIBC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/pAkH63PIBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kenny Omega (@KennyOmegamanX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KennyOmegamanX\/status\/1014338577570910208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The internal rot of the Bullet Club has been going on <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/02\/13\/cody-rhodes-trying-destroy-bullet-club-within\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly since the moment Cody<\/a> arrived and joined the infamous global faction, and in the past year it&#8217;s only skyrocketed. The Japanese contingent, featuring <strong>&#8220;The Underboss&#8221; Bad Luck Fale, Guerrillas of Destiny<\/strong> (<strong>Tama Tonga &amp; Tanga Loa<\/strong>), <strong>Chase Owens, Yujiro Takahashi<\/strong> and <strong>Hikuleo<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/02\/03\/bullet-club-civil-war-takes-another-turn-tama-tonga-speaks-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have been increasingly getting irritated<\/a> by the showboating antics of their more American based contingent that makes up the <em><strong>Being The Elite<\/strong><\/em> cast, including <strong>Cody, The Young Bucks, &#8220;The Villain&#8221; Marty Scurll<\/strong>, and <strong>Adam &#8220;Hangman&#8221; Page<\/strong>. Kenny Omega has been caught in the middle, trying to keep both halves together, but all the while, <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/02\/18\/bullet-club-not-fine-bullet-club-drama-continues-downunder\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his authority has been challenged by Cody Rhodes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21356\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21356\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/NJPW-Gol-e1530746247237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Add in Omega&#8217;s reunion with <strong>Kota Ibushi<\/strong> in <strong>The Golden Lovers<\/strong> and the fans are just as perplexed as some of the other Bullet Club members &#8211; is Omega&#8217;s heart fully into Bullet Club or is it time for new leadership? <strong>Prince Devitt<\/strong> (now <strong>Finn Balor<\/strong> in the WWE) lead Bullet Club for 339 days, before he was replaced by <strong>AJ Styles<\/strong>. &#8220;The Phenomenal One&#8221; lasted significantly longer, leading them for nearly two years, at 640 days. Kenny Omega&#8217;s run as leader of the squad is closing in on a total nearly as much as the combined tenures of\u00a0<em>both<\/em> men &#8211; as of their match on Saturday, Omega will have been leader of Bullet Club for 915 days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21357\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21357\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/5e7f0-1519133283-800-e1530746354682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Regardless, by the end of Saturday night, one thing will be certain. The new direction of Bullet Club will finally take shape. Either under unified control of Kenny Omega or new management with Cody Rhodes &#8211; or perhaps we&#8217;ll see interference from outside contenders and someone like Tama Tonga takes out both men so that Bullet Club can return to it&#8217;s original roots, of enforcing it&#8217;s dominance in the ring rather than it&#8217;s T-shirt sales at Hot Topic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21358\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21358\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/07\/C-A9SpYVYAA8NU6-e1530746407244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"432\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For those with AXS TV, a reminder you can relive the entire past year&#8217;s storyline during the 8-hour &#8220;Bullet Club Is Fine&#8221; marathon of matches, hosted by The Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes, starting at 12pm EST prior to the G1 Special.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/AXSTVFights\/status\/1014184996397932544<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night (or early this morning in Japan), Kenny Omega added more weight to his already high stakes match against arch-rival Cody Rhodes this Saturday at the G1 Special in San Francisco. Not only will his newly acquired IWGP Heavyweight Championship be on the line when the two lock up inside the legendary Cow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":21359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[149,98,2611,386],"class_list":["post-21353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-bullet-club","tag-cody-rhodes","tag-g1-special-in-san-francisco","tag-kenny-omega"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}