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=== Jay White's leadership (2018–present) ===
At the end of 2018, Taiji Ishimori and Robbie Eagles ended the Super Jr. Tag League in a tie for 4th place with 3 wins and 4 losses for a total score of 6,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.njpw1972.com/tornament/30833|title=2018.10.31 Road to POWER STRUGGLE {{!}} NEW JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING|last=NJPW|website=NJPW|language=en|access-date=2018-12-19}}</ref> while Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa lost in the finals of the World Tag League 2018 against ''Los Ingobernables de Japón'' (Evil and Sanada).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.njpw1972.com/tornament/33210|title=2018.12.09 WORLD TAG LEAGUE 2018 Night17 {{!}} NEW JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING|last=NJPW|website=NJPW|language=en|access-date=2018-12-19}}</ref> After the tournament, Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi left the stable and aligned with The Elite, but they rejoined Bullet Club at New Year Dash!!<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.njpw1972.com/tornament/36733|title=2018.12.14 Road to TOKYO DOME Night1 {{!}} NEW JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING|last=NJPW|website=NJPW|language=en|access-date=2018-12-19}}</ref><ref>https://www.solowrestling.com/new/77414-resultados-njpw-new-year-dash-2019</ref> On December 22, Tama Tonga announced that White was the new leader of the Bullet Club.<ref>https://twitter.com/Tama_Tonga/status/1076269382987321349</ref> At Wrestle Kingdom 13, White defeated Okada in a singles match. Also, during the event Ishimori defeated Kushida to win the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title. At The New Beginning in Osaka, White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi with a Bladerunner to win the IWGP Heavyweight Title. On February 23, Guerillas of Destiny would capture their fifth tag team heavyweight championship against EVIL and Sanada of Los Ingobernables de Japón at Honor Rising. On March 8, it was announced that [[El Phantasmo]] would be joining Bullet Club. On April 6, at G1 Supercard in Madison Square Garden the Guerrillas of Destiny retained their IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles and won the ROH World Tag Team Titles from Villain Enterprises (Brody King and PCO) in a Winner take all Fatal 4 Way Match that also involved the Teams of Los Ingobernables de Japon (Evil and Sanada) and The Briscoe Brothers (Mark and Jay Briscoe). The same night however Taiji Ishimori lost the Jr. Heavyweight Title to Dragon Lee in a thriple threat match that also involved Bandido and in the Main Event Jay White lost the IWGP Heavyweight Championship to Kazuchika Okada.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/el-phantasmo-coming-soon-njpw-joins-bullet-club|title=El Phantasmo "Coming Soon" To NJPW, Joins Bullet Club
|website=Fightful|first=Jeremy|last=Lambert|date=March 8, 2019|accessdate=March 8, 2019}}</ref> On June 30, 2019, at Southern Showdown in Sydney, Australia, Robbie Eagles defected from Bullet Club after refusing to hit [[Will Ospreay]] with a chair at the request of White, Jado, and Bad Luck Fale. Eagles hit White with a superkick and helped Ospreay up to his feet. Ospreay and Eagles did a double superkick on White and Eagles would hit the inverted 450 to White, marking his defection to CHAOS. He was greeted by Ospreay, [[Hiroshi Tanahashi]], and [[Kazuchika Okada]] as an official member of CHAOS.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/WillOspreay/status/1145313538094718976|
|via=Twitter|access-date=2019-07-01}}</ref>
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