Loa made his NJPW debut on March 27, attacking Togi Makabe during his match with Tonga. The team's acronym stemmed from Alipate's ring name meaning " God of War" and Tevita's ring name meaning " Family of God" in the Polynesian Islands. The brothers together came up with their team name, which references their feeling of "fighting for a cause" and the belief that destiny had brought them back together. On March 12, Tonga revealed that his partner would be his brother Tevita, who was given the ring name "Tanga Loa" with their tag team dubbed "Guerrillas of Destiny" (G.O.D.). The challenge was accepted by Makabe and Honma. Following the match, Gallows and Anderson's stablemate Tama Tonga, entered the ring to challenge Makabe and Honma, stating that his partner would be a new Bullet Club member. H ( Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma) for the IWGP Tag Team Championship.On February 14, 2016, at NJPW's The New Beginning in Niigata event, Bullet Club's Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson unsuccessfully challenged G Tevita eventually made it to WWE television under the ring name "Camacho", while Alipate traveled first to Puerto Rico and then to Japan, joining New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in May 2010, where he became a founding member of the Bullet Club stable in 2013 as "Tama Tonga". In 2009, the brothers took part in a WWE tryout camp, which resulted in Tevita being signed to a contract. In 2008, Alipate and Tevita began wrestling under the names Kava and Nuku, respectively, and the team name "Sons of Tonga". Eventually the brothers signed up with the Team 3D Academy, where they would continue their training for a year under the Dudley Boyz. The brothers started training under their father and Ricky Santana in a ring owned by the Dudley Boyz ( Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) at their Team 3D Academy of Professional Wrestling and Sports Entertainment training school in Kissimmee, Florida. They finally decided to pursue their own careers in professional wrestling, when Alipate was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base with the United States Air Force and Tevita was attending University of Texas at El Paso. The two brothers grew up together in Central Florida, but did not immediately gravitate to their father's profession. History Training and early career (2008–2009) Īlipate Leone and Tevita Fifita are sons of professional wrestler Tonga Fifita, better known by the ring names Haku, Meng and King Tonga. based promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) and Impact Wrestling, where they are former ROH World Tag Team Champions, making them overall eight-time World Tag Team Champions between NJPW and ROH. In March 2022, during the New Japan Cup Tonga, Loa, and Jado were removed from Bullet Club and the Guerrillas of Destiny became a stable in NJPW with Jado joining the group. After a seven-year break, the team reunited in March 2016, when Loa joined Tonga in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where they are a record seven time IWGP Tag Team Champions.įrom 2016 to 2022, they were members of the Bullet Club stable, they are the former three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions with various Bullet Club teammates. Tama and Tanga originally began wrestling together in 2008 under the team name Sons of Tonga, a reference to their father, professional wrestler Tonga Fifita. The Guerrillas of Destiny, sometimes shortened to G.O.D., is a professional wrestling stable which consists of the Tongan-American brothers Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Hikuleo and manager Jado. Tama Tonga (left) and Tanga Loa (right) in November 2016
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