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On January 4, 2017, Loa and Tonga lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano in a three-way match, also involving Makabe and Honma. [41] On June 11 at Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall, Loa and Tonga defeated War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the third time. [42]
On January 4, 2017, Tonga and Loa lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano in a three-way match, also involving Makabe and Honma. [60] On June 11 at Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall , Tonga and Loa defeated War Machine to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the third time. [ 61 ]
Tonga's sons Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, and Hikuleo, and their cousin Bad Luck Fale, have all wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Although not a member of the Anoaʻi family, Paul Heyman has served as the manager of several members of the family, including Rikishi and Roman Reigns.
The Tongans, formerly known as Guerrillas of Destiny (G.O.D), is a Tongan-American professional wrestling tag team currently signed with WWE, founded by and consisting of brothers [note 1] Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa, who both perform on the SmackDown brand as part of the larger Bloodline stable.
A second generation professional wrestler, Hikuleo is the nephew and adopted son of professional wrestler Tonga Fifita (known as Haku and Meng) and his wife Dorothy Koloamatangi. He has a half-brother, Alipate Leone who is also a professional wrestler known with the name Tama Tonga, and is the cousin and adopted brother of fellow professional ...
During this time, Tongan members Tonga, Loa and Fale keep distance with the two factions, being known as Bullet Club OGs. [259] Around this time, the tension within Bullet Club would be documented as the focus of the YouTube series Being The Elite. G.O.D. also began their own YouTube series following the members of Bullet Club who are stationed ...
He, alongside Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Yujiro Takahashi and Chase Owens defeated Chaos members Yoshi-Hashi, Gedo, Rocky Romero, Yoh and Sho, after making Gedo submit to the Tongan Death Grip. Later that night, Haku appeared with Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa after Kenny Omega successfully defended the IWGP Heavyweight Championship against Cody.
[42] [43] [44] At Backlash, Sikoa teamed up with Tonga to defeat Randy Orton and Kevin Owens with the help of the returning Tonga Loa, who joined the Bloodline. In the following weeks, Sikoa recruited Jacob Fatu, kicked Heyman out of the stable, and replaced Reigns as the leader and Tribal Chief, revealing that he was in possession of Reigns ...