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According to the report, WWE has . The Guerrillas of Destiny were challenging the Good Brothers for the Impact World Tag Team Championships when Chris Bey came to ringside. However, all of that would only be possible if WWE comes to an agreement for a working relationship with NJPW. Thank you so much to Tama Tonga for taking the time to chat with myself. It has for years been associated with reef tanks but we know now that every marine aquarium will benefit from the addition of live rock. Their most notable match was a defeat in the opening match of WrestleMania VII against The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty). [50] They lost the title to Jay and Mark Briscoe on June 19 at Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall. The duo has already established their place as one of the most successful tag teams in NJPW history. While their banter is entertaining, wrestling fans cant help but notice how the two could really pass as brothers! Meng later joined the Dungeon of Doom under the name "Face of Terror" and forming a tag team named the Faces of Fear with his previous WWF tag team partner The Barbarian, with the pair being managed by another former WWF alumnus, Jimmy Hart. [63] On December 11, they were defeated in the finals of the tournament by Los Ingobernables de Japn (Evil and Sanada). Tautuiaki Taula Koloamatangi (born February 7, 1991) is an American professional wrestler of Tongan descent. Views. In WCW, (because the name Haku was trademarked by the WWF) Fifita wrestled as Meng. However, in 1975 the stablemaster who recruited him died, and he and the other five Tongan wrestlers got entangled in a dispute with his successor, which led to him being forced to retire by the Japan Sumo Association in 1976.[4]. People used to always compared Tama Tonga and Roman Reigns. We use cookies to improve user experience. Tama Tonga, one of the groups found members alongside Anderson, Bad Luck Fale and Prince Devitt (Finn Balor), shared his thoughts on the situation during the latest episode of Tama's Island. [2][11], Koloamatangi continued his training throughout 2017, serving as a young lion. This led to a main event WCW World Championship match with Bill Goldberg on 10 August edition of Monday Nitro. Despite interfering in the match, Bullet Club was defeated by Sting, Allin, and Takagi at the event. Other well-known wrestlers from the Anoai family include Rikishi, Umaga, Yokozuna, and The Usos. The 'fake' stuff. The team also had a classic feud with The British Bulldogs that was started when the Islanders, along with Bobby Heenan, kidnapped the Bulldogs' mascot, a bulldog named Matilda. [40][41] Tonga remained in CMLL until the end of the year. Tonga is the reigning NEVER Openweight Champion, winning the belt from Karl Anderson at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17. After the Rumble, he formed a tag team with Rikishi, but the team did not last long due to Rikishi suffering an injury. Tama Tonga was one of 16 wrestlers that competed in the 2010 Best of the Super Juniors tournament. Jay's recent promo on NJPW Strong is openly critical of the brotherhood he left behind in New Japan. Tama Tonga, the most intriguing star athlete in New Japan Pro Wrestling. For some reason, social media users believe that Tama Tonga and Roman Reigns are related. On April 7, Tonga and El Terrible successfully defended the CMLL World Tag Team Championship against La Mscara and Valiente at New Japan's Invasion Attack event. According to Sullivan, it was obvious that he and Meng weren't locals, so when they walked into the bar, a guy playing pool insulted Meng. While its pretty obvious that Tama Tonga and Roman Reigns arent related, their beef has sparked some hilarious reactions. He has been vocal about his dislike for the Bullet Club reunion on AEW and Impact Wrestling. In the first part of 2010 he returned to WWC, first as a singles wrestler with the moniker King Tonga Jr. (his father had also wrestled in Puerto Rico as King Tonga). The team was named "Guerrillas of Destiny" (G.O.D.). One week after Sin, Fifita returned to the WWF as Haku and made a surprise appearance at the 2001 Royal Rumble. "I said, 'It's time to go.'" Roman Reigns, whos gearing up for the anticipated SummerSlam, managed to get a screenshot of Tongas tweet before that though. You can read more about our . comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment Pumpkin-Bomb BULLET CLUB (Jado, Tama Tonga & Tanga Loa) defeat Kazuchika Okada & TenKoji (Hiroyoshi Tenzan & Satoshi Kojima) (13:04) NJPW Road To Power Struggle 2021 - Tag 6 - Event @ Iwate Industrial Cultural Center Apio in Takizawa, Iwate, Japan. [32] Tonga next made it to the finals of the 2012 La Copa Junior Tournament, where, on December 14, he was defeated by La Sombra in the main event of CMLL's 2012 Sin Piedad ("No Mercy") show. Fans around the world have also made it vocal that they are quite invested in a potential dream tag team match between The Guerrillas of Destiny and The Usos. [61], Tonga participated in his second G1 Climax by entering the 2017 edition in July. Fifita previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Micah and for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) under the name Camacho, the bodyguard and occasional tag team partner of Hunico, as well as occasionally . He was touted as being a former bodyguard to the Emperor of Japan and was initially called The Monster. Since 2003, Fifita has been essentially retired, returning to the wrestling ring on a few occasions over the years. [55] Tonga finished the tournament on August 12 with a record of four wins and five losses. He is also known as a founding member of Bullet Club; he also makes appearances for Impact Wrestling in the United States.[8]. Originally a fan-favorite team, The Islanders had mixed success, though they did win a $50,000 tag team Battle Royal at Madison Square Garden in October 1986. Although they are both apart of the Anoai family, Johnson and Reigns arent biologically related. Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa are currently in their seventh reign as IWGP Tag Team Champions. Link copied to clipboard. He would later lose the crown to Hacksaw Jim Duggan[7] who himself was crowned as "King Duggan". Later on, Meng had a short-lived feud with Sting and occasionally faced top stars like Lex Luger and WCW Champion Bret Hart. They are the fourth largest Pacific Islander American group while the Samoans are second in population. [21][22] In August, Hikuleo was defeated by Juice Robinson at NJPW Resurgence. Haku was left to wrestle on the lower card shows like Sunday Night Heat. [45] After a three-day reign, the three lost the title back to the Briscoes and Yano at The New Beginning in Niigata. Haku's last matches were against WWF European Champion Diamond Dallas Page at house shows in February and March 2002 losing to all of them in Texas, New Mexico, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia. Tama Tonga is one of the most decorated tag team wrestlers never to sign with a major United States wrestling company. With SWS closing, King Haku wrestled for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre in Mexico and New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Wrestle Association R in Japan, before finally joining World Championship Wrestling. However he would cement his position as king by successfully defending his crown against the returning Race in a match at the 1989 Royal Rumble at The Summit in Houston. Coming towards the end of Fifita's WWF career, he would wrestle under the name King Haku for Japanese promotion Super World of Sports. [49], In March 2016, Tonga announced he would reform his tag team with Tevita in NJPW, recruiting him into the Bullet Club as Tanga Loa. [47] On March 3, Tonga scored the biggest singles win of his career by defeating former IWGP Heavyweight Champion and reigning IWGP Tag Team Champion Togi Makabe in the first round of the 2016 New Japan Cup. Haku is somehow related to the Rock and Romans branches of the family. Just after WrestleMania, Haku became the first wrestler to challenge the new WWF champion, The Ultimate Warrior, but he lost the match. Tonga 'Uli'uli Fifita (born 10 February 1959) is a Tongan professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as Haku. You can check out the entire video interview below, read the full interview here, or read on for Tama Tonga's thoughts on Roman Reigns. This led to Hikuleo answering White's "U.S of Jay" open challenge at Mutiny in April 2022, however White defeated Hikuleo, who gave White the "too sweet" gesture post-match, confirming his loyalty to Bullet Club. From then on, Tonga and his associates would be announced during their entrances as members of Bullet Club OG, while the rest would be known as Bullet Club Elite. He has joined his brothers of the Guerrillas of Destiny as of September. [17], After recuperating and spending six months training at the NJPW Dojo in Los Angeles, Hikuleo returned at Honor Rising: Japan in February 2019, accompanying his brothers to ringside. He spoke about an incident when he witnessed several cops trying to hold Haku down and one of them struck Haku with a baton on his face while the others emptied their cans of mace on him but nothing seemed to faze Haku. This American-Samoa family is pretty distinguished in wrestling circles for blessing the sport with some of the greatest pros. Also in November 2008, they took part in a WWE tryout camp, two months later they were told that Tevita would be offered a contract by the company (he would later appear on television as Camacho) while Alipate would not. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [39], A second generation professional wrestler, Koloamatangi is the nephew and adopted son of professional wrestler Haku and his wife Dorothy Koloamatangi. Quote Tweets. He is an expert in pro-wrestling and mixed martial arts, and has been featured on numerous high-profile websites and magazines. They defeated the teams of Togi Makabe/Tomoaki Honma,[23] and King Fale/Super Strong Machine,[24] but lost to the teams of Manabu Nakanishi/Strong Man,[25] Masato Tanaka/Tomohiro Ishii,[26] and Yuji Nagata/Wataru Inoue,[27] which meant they finished fourth in their group with four points. So that's all positive. The reigning IWGP Tag Team Champion put Roman Reigns and The Usos on notice in one of his latest tweets. [72][73][74][75] They would soon immediately regain the belts at The New Beginning in the USA event in Atlanta, before again losing them without a defence to Golden*Ace (Hiroshi Tanahashi & Kota Ibushi) on a New Japan Road show in Korakuen Hall.[76][77][78][79][80]. I have no negativity with it. [57] They reached the final of the 2016 World Tag League but lost to Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma on December 10. But Twitter cracked the whip on him for his foul language and locked his account for violating their guidelines. would end up dropping the tag team titles at Wrestle Kingdom 13 to Sanada and EVIL in a 3 Way Match for the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship that also included The Young Bucks. [12] 2008. "I . His finishing hold is the camel clutch, and he has been known to use the poison mist. Bullet Club (2013-present) Tonga himself lost the strap to Anderson at last year's Dominion event. Privacy Policy. Gimmick: Year: Promotion: The next week, Col. Parker announced that Meng will no longer be a bodyguard, but will be a wrestler from now on, winning his first match against a jobber with one fast high kick. [53] NJPW's most prestigious tournament, it entitles its winner to an IWGP Heavyweight Championship title match at the next Wrestle Kingdom., Tonga's participation in the G1 was seen as a major step-up. New Japan. The family also boasts a former wrestling champion, Sam Fatu, who went by several stage names. In March Tonga, Loa and Jado formed an alliance with Ryusuke Taguchi and Master Wato and later Hiroshi Tanahashi and joined the Hontai stable which represents New Japan.[85]. Upon winning the ROH World Tag Team Championship at G1 Supercard, he became the third wrestler to have won a championship in NJPW, CMLL, and ROH, behind Rocky Romero and Matt Taven. [90] Due to knocking White out of the tournament, Tonga earned an IWGP World Heavyweight Championship match on October 10 at Declaration of Power, however failed to capture the title from White at the event. At the G1 Special in San Francisco, Tama, Loa, King Haku, Chase Owens, and Yujiro Takahashi defeated CHAOS members Gedo, Yoshi-Hashi, and Roppongi 3K (Rocky Romero, Sho and Yoh), with Tama pinning Gedo after a Tongan Death Grip by Haku to Gedo followed by a Gun Stun. Your login session has expired. In the 2018 G1 Climax, Tonga participated in the B Block, where he tied for last place with 6 points, down from the 8 he posted in the previous two years. Early in his career, he also refereed matches in the Amarillo territory. Even in a competitive anime season like that one, Bocchi stood out with its wacky humor, cool rock 'n roll music, relatable dandere protagonist and "cute girls doing cute things" factor. Their feud ended after a 6-man tag team match at WrestleMania IV where The Islanders and Heenan (wearing an attack dog outfit) defeated the Bulldogs and Koko B. Ware when Heenan pinned Koko. After moving to Japan in 1974, he competed under the shikona (sumo name) of Fukunoshima (). On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. He is an expert in pro-wrestling and mixed martial arts, and has been featured on numerous high-profile websites and magazines. The verbal sparring between Jay and Tama is passive-aggressive at best, but it exists nonetheless. First off, Tama Tonga is the son of Haku, a Wrestler that in Kayfabe was in a tag team with a Samoan and presented as such.He had the same moves, the same headbutt no selling spot and stuff, also had the same outfits the samoan used. [24] At Windy City Riot, Hikuleo teamed with his Bullet Club stablemates and Scott Norton, losing to United Empire. [20] In the first round, Hikuleo defeated Fred Rosser, but lost in the semi-final round to eventual tournament winner Tom Lawlor. [8] Haku and Andr lost the titles at WrestleMania VI, when Demolition defeated the Colossal Connection to regain the titles. [5] They turned heel in 1987 during a match on the WWF Superstars of Wrestling with The Can-Am Connection (Tom Zenk and Rick Martel). Tama Tonga (Alipate Aloisio Leone) was born on 1982 in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, is a Tongan professional wrestler. At the same time, his brother Tevita was playing college football with the UTEP Miners. Tonga was under a 24-hour Twitter lockout, due to his recent posts having "violated Twitter's rules." With his finger now pointed firmly at Roman Reigns, the two have engaged in an online war. In. And he shared it while taking a jab at the Tonga, alleging his rant came from a Drake album. That . Part of that is because he has seen the different roles kayfabe plays in Japan compared to the United States. Love it. Fifita's youngest son Taula[21] made his professional wrestling debut in November 2016. He is currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is the current NEVER Openweight Champion in his second reign. On April 10 at Invasion Attack 2016, G.O.D. We asked one half of the Guerrillas of Destiny all about the current happenings in NJPW, the Good Brothers making moves, EVIL's dominance, and, of course, about those comparisons to Roman Reigns! He is also the adopted cousin of Bad Luck Fale.[8][9]. When it comes to professional wrestling, there are plenty of wrestlers who have been able to pick up loads of titles across their careers. He was promoted to the main roster in 2011, where he worked . He challenged Randy Savage for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship on December 17 at The Spectrum but failed to win the title. [46] During February, Tonga accepted an offer to join WWE. Or, maybe its because Reigns is related to someone with a similar name as Tama Tongas. He's up there a level with exposure and all it does it is put me out there with him. They lost the championship on 16 April when they lost them to George and Shunji Takano but would regain them on 18 April, holding them until 19 June when SWS closed. Tama Tonga says he feels conflicted over the role of kayfabe in modern pro wrestling. Karl Anderson vs. Tama Tonga Announced For NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17, Full Card Confirmed Image Credit: NJPW Karl Anderson will officially compete at NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 17. And we had a lot of spat, back and forth but he knows now I ain't one to back down. He was victorious against the returning Brady Boone, Jim Brunzell, Barry O, and the newly arrived Shane Douglas. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? NEW JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING 417K subscribers Subscribe 439 16K views 3 months ago #njpower IWGP World Heavyweight Championship Jay White vs. was a surprise hit anime series from the Fall 2022 anime season. 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