Bully Ray was revealed as the President of Aces and Eights in 2013. The TNA Wrestling faction was a major angle in the promotion from the summer of 2012 to winter of 2013. During the course of the angle, Bully Ray held the TNA World Championship twice. According to Bully, without Aces and Eights, there would be no Bullet Club.
Fun fact…
If it weren’t for the Aces-n-Eights … there would be no Bullet Club. pic.twitter.com/aLYpIYnfqq
— Bully Ray (@bullyray5150) December 19, 2018
Aces and Eights/Bullet Club
Bullet Club and Aces and Eights do have one former member in common. Luke/Doc Gallows joined Aces and Eights in late 2012 and was a member until the following summer when he left for NJPW. Gallows arrived in New Japan in late 2013 and teamed with Karl Anderson in the World Tag League that year. Anderson and Gallows won the World Tag League and then went on to win the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships at Wrestle Kingdom that year.
Bullet Club debuted in May of 2013, a little under one-year after the debut of Aces and Eights.
Other notable members of the Aces and Eights faction in TNA Wrestling included: Devon, Ken Anderson, Tito Ortiz, Garett Bischoff, Knux, Taz, D-Lo Brown, Ivelisse, and Wes Briscoe.
PWI voted the TNA vs Aces and Eights angle as the feud of the year in 2012.
