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Years of friendship will come to a head on WWE Raw as Finn Balor takes on one of his original Bullet Club partners. As announced on WWE.com, Balor will take on Karl Anderson in singles tonight before the two join their respective teams to compete in a six-man tag match at WWE Crown Jewel. Weeks ago, Anderson and Luke Gallows – The Good Brothers – returned to WWE and reformed the OC with AJ Styles after Styles appeared ready to join The Judgment Day.
Bullet Club began pro wrestling in New Japan in 2013 when Balor, then known as Prince Devitt, turned on Ryusuke Taguchi and teamed up with Anderson, Tama Tonga and Bad Luck Fale to create the original version of the infamous faction .
While Anderson is taking over this one-on-one match tonight, he may not be doing the same for NJPW for their “Battle Autumn” event on November 5 — the same day as Crown Jewel. Anderson still holds NJPW’s NEVER Openweight Championship and has given no indication that he will prioritize a previously scheduled defense of that title at the show at the expense of WWE’s Saudi Arabia card. NJPW President Tahami Ohbari is said to have been “angry” about the current situation and later said he expected all champions to live up to their announced commitments.
Gallows and Anderson released their own response, explaining their plans in a video on Twitter in which Anderson stood would fail to fulfill its NJPW obligation since it didn’t go through Gallows first.