Tanga Loa

Tanga Loa
Loa in 2016
Birth nameTevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata Fifita
Born (1983-05-07) May 7, 1983 (age 41)[1]
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Texas at El Paso[2]
Parent(s)Haku (father)
RelativesTama Tonga (cousin/adoptive brother)
Hikuleo (cousin/adoptive brother)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Camacho
Agent T[2]
Donny Marlow
Micah[3]
Nuku
Tanga Loa[4][5]
Tanga Roa[6]
Tevita Fifita
Tonga[2]
Tonga Loa[7]
Billed height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[8]
Billed weight230 lb (104 kg)[8]
Billed fromFlorida
Honolulu, Hawaii[9]
Juárez, Mexico[2]
Trained byD-Von Dudley[2]
Bubba Ray Dudley
Florida Championship Wrestling[2]
Ricky Santana[10]
Haku[10]
DebutNovember 8, 2008[2][4]

Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata Fifita (born May 7, 1983) is a Tongan-American professional wrestler. As of May 2024, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Tonga Loa as a member of The Bloodline stable.

Fifita started his professional wrestling career in WWE's farm territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) in 2009 as at first Tonga, then later known as Agent T and Donny Marlow. He was promoted to the main roster in 2011, where he worked as a Mexican character named Camacho in a tag team with Hunico. They worked on the undercard on the SmackDown and NXT brands for a few years. After he left WWE in 2014, he worked for two years in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the name Micah, where he won the 2015's Gut Check. Later, he left the promotion and joined New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Tanga Loa, joining his brother Tama Tonga as Guerrillas of Destiny (G.O.D.), a subgroup of the heel faction Bullet Club. In NJPW, Loa and Tonga are seven-time IWGP Tag Team Champions and former three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions with Bad Luck Fale and Taiji Ishimori.[11] He also has made appearances in Ring of Honor (ROH), where the Guerrillas of Destiny are former one-time ROH World Tag Team Champions. He returned to WWE on May 4, 2024 under the ring name Tonga Loa, aligning himself with The Bloodline.

Fifita is part of a large wrestling family, as he is the adoptive brother of Tama Tonga and Hikuleo, and the son of Haku.

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  3. ^ "Micah TNA Profile". Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Archived from the original on April 28, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
  4. ^ a b タンガ・ロア. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved August 12, 2017.
  5. ^ "The Guerrillas of Destiny make their ROH Debut in May". Ring of Honor. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  6. ^ タンガ・ロア. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 16, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2016.
  7. ^ Thomas, Jeremy (May 10, 2024). "Tanga Loa Gets Slight Name Change In WWE". 411MANIA. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  8. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference WWE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ NJPW. "Tanga Loa – タンガ・ロア – BULLET CLUB – G.o.D | NEW JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING". NJPW. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  10. ^ a b Oliver, Greg (April 24, 2016). "Tama Tonga finally getting a shot in North America with ROH". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Archived from the original on November 26, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  11. ^ Jaeger, Guilherme (December 6, 2017). "The Characters of NJPW, Part 22: Guerrillas of Destiny". Medium. Retrieved December 6, 2017.