Guerrillas of Destiny

When used alone to refer to a person in this article, "Tonga" refers to Tama Tonga, while Tonga Loa is referred to as "Loa".
The Tongans
Tonga Loa (left) and Tama Tonga at G1 Climax in 2018.
Stable
MembersTama Tonga
Tonga Loa
Name(s)BC Firing Squad
The Bloodline
Bullet Club
Guerrillas of Destiny
Sons of Tonga[1]
The Tongans
Billed heightsTonga:
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Loa:
1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[3]
Combined
billed weight		195 kg (430 lb)[2][3]
Billed fromTonga
Former
member(s)		Jado (manager)
Hikuleo
El Phantasmo
DebutNovember 8, 2008
Years active2008–2009
2016–present
TrainerBubba Ray Dudley[4]
D-Von Dudley[4]
Ricky Santana[4]
Tonga Fifita[4]

The Tongans, formerly known as Guerrillas of Destiny, is a Tongan-American professional wrestling tag team currently signed with WWE and consisting of brothers[note 1] Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa, who both perform on the SmackDown brand as part of the larger The Bloodline stable. The two are the current WWE Tag Team Champions in their first reign.

The brothers first wrestled together in 2008 as Sons of Tonga, a reference to their father Tonga Fifita. Although the team was originally short-lived, the two reformed as Guerrillas of Destiny in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from 2016 to 2024, where they became one of the promotion's prime tag teams, winning the IWGP Tag Team Championship a record seven times, the 2020 World Tag League, and the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship three times with various stablemates from Bullet Club, of which the two were members until 2022. From 2022 to 2024, Guerillas of Destiny extended into a stable of its own to include their manager Jado, a third brother, Hikuleo, and El Phantasmo.

While working for NJPW, Tonga and Loa also appeared in Ring of Honor (ROH), where they won the ROH World Tag Team Championship, and Impact Wrestling. They both separately left NJPW in early 2024 and reunited at Backlash France in May as The Tongans (in reference to their Tongan origins), as part of The Bloodline, which Tonga had joined prior to Loa's arrival. Jado, Hikuleo and El Phantasmo originally continued the Guerillas of Destiny stable without either original brothers, leading The Tongans and Guerillas of Destiny to exist simultaneously for over a month until the latter disbanded at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall on June 9, 2024, leaving The Tongans as the sole direct continuation of Guerillas of Destiny.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NJPWIntro was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b タマ・トンガ. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved December 31, 2016.
  3. ^ a b タンガ・ロア. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved December 31, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference Slam was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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