{"id":3244,"date":"2017-03-20T21:54:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2017-03-20T21:54:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:54:49","slug":"is-the-bullet-club-cracking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/03\/20\/is-the-bullet-club-cracking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"ROH Honorable Mention: Is The Bullet Club Cracking Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ROH Honorable Mention: Is The Bullet Club Cracking Up?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> At <\/span><b>Ring of Honor\u2019s Manhattan Mayhem event, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the curvilinear topsy-turvy hostilities between the familial duos of the <\/span><b>Young Bucks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the Hardys came to a rather surprising new chapter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Matt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Jeff Hardy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been on a quest to prove that the are the best tag team in all of time and space, embarking on a championship expedition around the world, smatching up tag team titles everywhere. The teams both took to social media, setting the stage for what seemed to be an unlikely contest between two teams that wrestle for different companies. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite being under <\/span><b>TNA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contract at the time, Matt and Jeff appeared on the jumbotron after the <\/span><b>Young Bucks\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> match at <\/span><b>Final Battle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and laid down the gauntlet for a match between the two teams at Supercard of Honor. In the weeks that followed, the Young Bucks used the <\/span><b>Twist of Fate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Swanton bombs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, signature moves belong to Matt and Jeff respectively, as a way to play some mind games. Even Vanguard 1 got in on the action, to disastrous, if not comedic results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vanguard 1 Hit With DOUBLE SUPERKICK During Debut Appearance in Ring of Honor\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jRm92U1ANDw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the Hardys\u2019 departure from TNA\/Impact Wrestling changed the way the two teams could interact and it did not take long at all for Broken Matt and Brother Nero to make a statement of their own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After weeks of rising action between the two teams, the Hardys surprised the Young Bucks and the fans in New York that night, coming out at the conclusion of the Bucks\u2019 successful ROH World tag team title defense against Lio Rush and <\/span><b>Jay White<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Despite being presumably exhausted from their match, the Young Bucks accepted the Hardys challenge and out the titles on the line right then and there. After a wild match between the two teams, the Hardys walked away from the ring as the new ROH World tag team champions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As it is the champions wont to do, the Young Bucks rematch clause was invoked in a Vegas Street Fight that also featured <\/span><b>Roppongi Vice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Trent Beretta <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span><b> Rocky Romero<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, vying for the titles.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a wild match that featured a bevy of weapons, such as a tack sleeve and eventually a superkick to a mouthful of tacks, the Hardys snuck away with the titles without pinning the former champions, leaving room for the two teams to continue their issues. Furthermore, rubbing salt in the Bucks\u2019 wounds, the Hardys absconded with the Bucks\u2019 Superkick Party titles, much to Matt and Nick\u2019s dismay.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ucTioFDRP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/9ucTioFDRP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ROH &#8211; Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ringofhonor\/status\/840437690197716993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also at the <\/span><b>15th Anniversary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> show, the Bullet Club\u2019s de facto American-branch leader Adam Cole suffered his own humiliation at the hands of <\/span><b>Christopher Daniels<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The only three time ROH world champion had the deck stacked in his favor heading into his title defense against the Almighty. Not only had Cole picked up pinfall victories in the lead up to the event, but he managed to tear <\/span><b>The Addiction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> asunder when he recruited Frankie Kazarian to join the Bullet Club. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But as Robert Burns said, the best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry and so did Cole\u2019s plans. During the culminating moments of the contest, Kazarian made his presence known, but not in the manner which Cole had expected. While referee Todd Sinclair lay unconscious, Kazarian implored Cole to hold Daniels in place so that Kazarian could deliver the emphatic nail in the coffin courtesy of shot from the one thing that had eluded him his whole career, the ROH World title. It was all a ruse and Cole\u2019s machinations served to cost him the title as he was ultimately outsmarted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With both Cole and The Young Bucks walking out of the show with bruised egos and sans their championship tchotchkes, unpleasantries between the normally friendly faction came to a head at the television tapings the next night. The entire incident was the focal point of the Young Bucks \u201cBeing the Elite\u201d YouTube series, highlighting how the rift changed the dynamic between the three.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Young Bucks Fired From The Bullet Club?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d7-x9sjJHXs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite the apparent issues amongst the three, all seemed well at a <strong>WCPW<\/strong> event, possibly even better than before. After <strong>Drew Galloway<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0successful defense of the WCPW Championship against <strong>Joe Coffey<\/strong>, Adam Cole, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson came into the ring and offered Galloway a Too Sweet, which he returned, apparently joining the group.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesquaredcirc1\/status\/843977971618758657<\/p>\n<p>With Adam Cole\u2019s contract running out soon and Drew Galloway working as free agent right now, it bears watching how this plays out. The Bullet Club has seen a change in personnel before-especially after the departures of <strong>Finn Balor<\/strong>, <strong>Luke Gallows<\/strong>, <strong>Karl Anderson<\/strong> and <strong>A.J. Styles<\/strong>, but this dissension in the ranks is a first for the group and could indicate a ripple effect that will affect the normally globally gregarious group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROH Honorable Mention: Is The Bullet Club Cracking Up? At Ring of Honor\u2019s Manhattan Mayhem event, the curvilinear topsy-turvy hostilities between the familial duos of the Young Bucks and the Hardys came to a rather surprising new chapter. 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