Guerrillas of Destiny

The official logo of the stable

The **Guerrillas of Destiny**, sometimes shortened to **G.O.D.**, is a professional wrestling stable, originally a tag team cosisting of real-life Tongan-American brothers Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa, they were soon joined by El Phantasmo, Hikuleo, and Jado. The two originally began wrestling together in 2008 under the team name **Sons of Tonga**, a reference to their father, professional wrestler Tonga Fifita.

After a seven-year break, the team reunited in March 2016, when Loa joined Tonga in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). They are former seven-time IWGP Tag Team Champions, while also being a former four-times NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Throughout NJPW's working relationship with American partner Ring of Honor (ROH), where they are a former one-time ROH World Tag Team Champions.

In February 2022, the Guerrillas of Destiny became a stable after they were expelled from Bullet Club, with Jado later joining them in March, after he was expelled. Tonga and Loa's brother Hikuleo joined them after leaving Bullet Club in September. In August 2023, after El Phantasmo was kicked out of Bullet Club, he was accepted into the stable.

## History

### Training and early career (2008–2009)

Alipate Fifita and Tevita Fifita are sons of professional wrestler Tonga Fifita, better known by the ring names Haku, Meng and King Tonga. The two brothers decided to pursue their own careers in professional wrestling when Alipate was stationed at Whiteman Air Force Base with the United States Air Force, while Tevita was attending University of Texas at El Paso. 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. Eventually, the brothers signed up with the Team 3D Academy, where they would continue their training for a year under the Dudley Boyz.

In 2008, Alipate and Tevita began wrestling under the names Kava and Nuku, respectively, and the team name "Sons of Tonga". In 2009, the brothers took part in a WWE tryout camp, which resulted in Tevita being signed to a contract. 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".

### New Japan Pro Wrestling (2016–present)

On February 14, 2016, at NJPW's The New Beginning in Niigata event, Bullet Club's Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson unsuccessfully challenged G.B.H. (Togi Makabe and Tomoaki Honma) for the IWGP Tag Team Championship. 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. The challenge was accepted by Makabe and Honma. On March 12, Tonga revealed that his partner would be his brother Tevita, who was given the ring name "Tanga Roa" with their tag team dubbed "Guerrillas of Destiny" (G.O.D.). 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. 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.

Roa made his NJPW debut on March 27, attacking Togi Makabe during his match with Tonga. This led to his first match with the promotion on April 1, where the Bullet Club quintet of Roa, Tonga, Bad Luck Fale, Kenny Omega and Yujiro Takahashi were defeated by Makabe, Tomoaki Honma, Juice Robinson, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Michael Elgin in a ten-man elimination tag team match. On April 10 at Invasion Attack 2016, G.O.D. defeated G.B.H. to become the new IWGP Tag Team Champions. They made their first successful title defense on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016, defeating G.B.H. in a rematch. Later that month, G.O.D. took part in a North American tour, co-promoted by NJPW and the American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion. During the War of the Worlds event on May 14, ROH wrestler Jay Briscoe pinned Roa to win an eight-man tag team match between Team ROH and Bullet Club and afterwards announced that he and his brother Mark were coming to NJPW to take the IWGP Tag Team Championship from Roa and Tonga. On June 8, NJPW officially announced that the win had earned the Briscoe Brothers a shot at the IWGP Tag Team Championship. The title match took place on June 19 at Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall and saw the Briscoe Brothers end G.O.D.'s title reign and become the new champions.

On September 22 at Destruction in Hiroshima, after the Briscoe Brothers had successfully defended the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Bullet Club's The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson), they were attacked by G.O.D., who demanded a title rematch. This led to a match on October 10 at King of Pro-Wrestling, where G.O.D. defeated the Briscoe Brothers to regain the IWGP Tag Team Championship. Following the match, G.O.D. and The Young Bucks attacked the Briscoe Brothers as well as Tomohiro Ishii, who tried to save the former champions. This led directly to G.O.D.'s first title defense on November 5 at Power Struggle, where they defeated Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi. From November 18 to December 10, G.O.D. took part in the 2016 World Tag League. After winning their block with a record of six wins and one loss, G.O.D. advanced to the finals of the tournament, where they were defeated by G.B.H., setting up another title match between the two teams. However, before the match could take place at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome, G.O.D.'s title belts were stolen by Toru Yano, which resulted in him and Tomohiro Ishii being added to the match. On January 4, 2017, at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome, G.O.D. lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to Yano and Ishii in the three-way match. On June 11 at Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall, G.O.D. defeated War Machine (Hanson and Raymond Rowe) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the third time. They lost the title back to War Machine in a no disqualification match on July 1 at G1 Special in USA.

In September, Guerrillas of Destiny, War Machine and the Killer Elite Squad (Davey Boy Smith Jr. and Lance Archer) were booked in three three-way matches for the IWGP Tag Team Championship. The first match on September 10 at Destruction in Fukushima was won by War Machine. The second match six days later at Destruction in Hiroshima was also won by the defending champions. The third match, contested under tornado tag team match rules, on September 24 at Destruction in Kobe was won by the Killer Elite Squad. In December, Tonga and Roa won their block in the 2017 World Tag League with a record of five wins and two losses, advancing to the finals of the tournament. On December 11, they were defeated in the finals of the tournament by *Los Ingobernables de Japon* (EVIL and SANADA). Six days later, Guerrillas of Destiny and Bad Luck Fale defeated EVIL, SANADA and BUSHI to become the new NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions. They lost the title to CHAOS (Beretta, Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano) in a five-team gauntlet match on January 4, 2018, at Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome, only to regain it the following day. On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku, Guerrillas of Destiny and Fale lost the titles to their Bullet Club stablemates Marty Scurll and The Young Bucks. On July 7 at G1 Special in San Francisco, following a title defense between Omega and Cody, Guerrillas of Destiny and their father Haku dubbed as "Firing Squad" attacked Omega and The Young Bucks. Hangman Page, Marty Scurll, Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi, come out to make the save but were unable to help. Tonga offered Cody to attack Omega, but he ended up trying to save them, only to the Firing Squad to attack Cody. Following the G1 Special in San Francisco, Firing Squad's side would be referred as "Bullet Club OG", meaning "Bullet Club Original". Later that month, Tonga took part in the 2018 G1 Climax, finishing the tournament with a record of three wins and six losses, due to most of the matches ending in a disqualification due to excessive outside interference of Loa and Bad Luck Fale (who joined the Bullet Club OG), which led to them ejected from the arena by NJPW President Harold Meij on August 11, who had previously threatened to suspend them for three months and a fine. On August 12, the Guerrillas of Destiny and the newest member of Bullet Club OG Taiji Ishimori defeated Marty Scurll and The Young Bucks to win the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. After the match, the Guerrillas of Destiny attacked The Young Bucks and threw their IWGP Tag Team Championship and the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. This led to on September 30 at Fighting Spirit Unleashed, Guerrillas of Destiny defeated The Young Bucks to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the fourth time. From November 17 until December 7, Tonga and Roa took part in the 2018 World Tag League finishing the tournament with a record of ten wins and three losses, advancing to the finals of the tournament. On December 9, they were defeated in the finals of the tournament by *Los Ingobernables de Japon* (EVIL and SANADA) in the second consecutive year.

On January 4, 2019 at Wrestle Kingdom 13 in Tokyo Dome, the Guerrillas of Destiny lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to EVIL and SANADA in a three-way match also involving The Young Bucks. They lost the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe and Toru Yano on January 30. On February 23, at Honor Rising: Japan, the Guerrillas of Destiny defeated EVIL and SANADA to win the IWGP Tag Team Champions for their fifth time. On April 6 at G1 Supercard, the Guerrillas of Destiny defeated EVIL and SANADA, Villain Enterprises (PCO and Brody King) and The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) in a "Winner takes all match" to retain the IWGP Tag Team and win the ROH World Tag Team Championships. From November 16 until December 8, the Guerrillas of Destiny took part in the 2019 World Tag League. The Guerrillas of Destiny entered the final day with a chance to win the tournament, but a loss against Tomohiro Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi cost them the chance to win the tournament. On January 4, 2020 io the first night of Wrestle Kingdom 14 in Tokyo Dome, the Guerrillas of Destiny lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to David Finlay and Juice Robinson. They regained the titles from Finlay and Robinson on February 1 at The New Beginning in USA, before losing them to Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kota Ibushi on February 21.

In August, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the Guerrillas of Destiny along with several members of the Bullet Club were unable to work on NJPW events in Japan, leading them to take part in *NJPW Strong* series, in which they took part in the 2020 New Japan Cup USA separately, losing both on August 7 in the first round. From November 15 until December 6, the Guerrillas of Destiny took part in the 2020 World Tag League, finishing the tournament with a record of six wins and three losses, advancing to the finals of the tournament. On December 11, the Guerrillas of Destiny defeated David Finlay and Juice Robinson in the finals to win the 2020 World Tag League, after reaching three consecutive finals in the previous tournaments. On January 4, 2021, on the first night of Wrestle Kingdom 15 in Tokyo Dome, the Guerrillas of Destiny defeated *Dangerous Tekkers* (Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr.) to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the seventh time, surpassing Tencozy six reigns, to become the team with the most reigns as champions. They lost the titles back to Dangerous Tekkers on June 1. On August 14, at Resurgence, Tonga and Loa returned since losing the IWGP Tag Team Champions, confronting The Good Brothers (Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows). From November 14 until December 12, the Guerrillas of Destiny took part in the 2021 World Tag League finishing the tournament with a record of seven wins and four losses, failling to advance to the finals of the tournament.

On the January 27, 2022 episode of *Impact!*, the Guerrillas of Destiny made their Impact Wrestling debut attacking Jake Something and Mike Bailey alongside Bey and White, before challenging The Good Brothers to a title match for the Impact World Tag Team Championship. At on February 19 at No Surrender, Jay White interfered and cost the Guerrillas of Destiny's title shot against The Good Brothers, kicking them out of the stable, while The Good Brothers replaced the Guerrillas of Destiny, who rejoined Bullet Club. On May 1 at Wrestling Dontaku, Tonga defeated EVIL to win the NEVER Openweight Championship, winning his first singles title in NJPW after twelve years. Right before Tonga could move, The Good Brothers made their return to NJPW after six years, attacking Tonga and Jado. Tonga's brother, Tanga Loa tried even the odds before being outnumbered by The Good Brothers, before Anderson challenged Tonga to a match for the NEVER Openweight Championship at Dominion 6.12 in Osaka-jo Hall. At Dominion on June 12, Tonga lost the NEVER Openweight Championship to Anderson. From July 20 to August 16, Tonga took part in the 2022 G1 Climax. Despite losing a block match to Tomohiro Ishii, Tonga won his block with a record of five wins and one loss and advanced to the semifinals by defeating reigning IWGP World Heavyweight Champion and former Bullet Club stablemate Jay White in his last round-robin match, giving him a record of five wins and one loss. On August 17, Tonga was defeated in the semifiinals of the tournament by Kazuchika Okada. On September 25, Hikuleo turned on White and decided to align himself with his brothers Tonga, Loa and Jado, leaving Bullet Club to join the Guerrillas of Destiny.

On January 4, 2023, at Wrestle Kingdom 17 in Tokyo Dome, Tonga defeated Karl Anderson to regain the NEVER Openweight Championship. On May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku, Hikuleo defeated KENTA to win the Strong Openweight Championship. Later that night, Tonga lost the NEVER Openweight Championship to David Finlay. On May 21, at Resurgence, Hikuleo lost the Strong Openweight Championship back to KENTA. From July 15 to August 9, three members of Guerrillas of Destiny took part in the 2023 G1 Climax with Hikuleo in block A, Loa in block B and Tonga in block C. Both Loa and Tonga were left behind in the final standings, despite Tonga missing the quarterfinals by a single point due to a 30-minute time limit draw against Shingo Takagi. Meanwhile, Hikuleo managed to advance to the quarterfinals, after finishing his block with a record of four wins and three losses. In the quarterfinals, on August 10, Hikuleo was eliminated from the tournament by eventual winner Tetsuya Naito. Following the tournament, the Guerrillas of Destiny began aligning themselves with El Phantasmo, before accepting him into the stable on August 12, after Tonga Phantasmo, and Hikuleo were confronted by Finlay and the Bullet Club War Dogs (Alex Coughlin and Gabe Kidd), with Phantasmo and Hikuleo, who newly reunited after he was expelled from Bullet Club, setting their sights on Coughlin and Kidd's Strong Openweight Tag Team Championships. On October 9 at Destruction in Ryogoku, Hikuleo and Phantasmo defeated Coughlin and Kidd to win the Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship. Later that night, Tonga defeated David Finlay to regain the NEVER Openweight Championship. He lost the title to Shingo Takagi on October 28 at Fighting Spirit Unleashed. From November 25 until December 6, Hikuleo and Phantasmo took part in the 2023 World Tag League, where they won their block with a record of five wins and two losses, advancing to the semifinals of the tournament. On December 8, Hikuleo and Phantasmo defeated Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste in the semifinals and then were defeated by Hirooki Goto and Yoshi-Hashi, on December 10 in the finals of the World Tag League.

On January 4, 2024 at Wrestle Kingdom 18, Tonga defeated Shingo Takagi to regain the NEVER Openweight Championship. Following the match, Tonga revealed that he would be leaving NJPW at the end of the month, stating that he wanted to find work closer to home in the United States. Later that night, Phantasmo and Hikuleo defeated Bishamon in a Winner takes all match to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship, where their Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship was also on the line. On January 22 at The New Beginning in Nagoya, Tonga faced EVIL for the NEVER Openweight Championship. The match originally ended in a no contest, after Tonga was attacked by the House of Torture. The match was restarted into a Lumberjack Deathmatch, where Tonga lost the title to EVIL. Four days later, Tonga wrestled his last match under his NJPW contract, before he and El Desperado helped Shota Umino win his match against Ren Narita, following the interference from House of Torture, marking his final appearance for the promotion.

### Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (2016)

On June 1, 2016, the Mexican Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) promotion announced Tonga and Roa as participants in the 2016 International Gran Prix. On June 24, Tonga, Roa and Sam Adonis defeated Atlantis, Diamante Azul and Volador Jr. in Arena México. On July 1, Roa and Tonga took part in the 2016 International Gran Prix, from which Roa was eliminated by Último Guerrero and Tonga lasted all the way to the finals before losing to Volador Jr.

## Personal lives

Tonga (Alipate) and Loa (Tevita) are sons of Tonga, who was the professional wrestler better known as Haku. Alipate's younger (biological) brother Taula who is also a professional wrestler under the name Hikuleo and wrestle with them in New Japan Pro-Wrestling alongside their cousin Fale Simitaitoko.

In addition, Alipate and Tevita live together in Orlando, Florida, commuting to Japan for tours of between a couple of weeks to three months.

## In wrestling

Guerrillas of Destiny performing the *Guerrilla Warfare* on Mark Briscoe

* **Double-team finishing moves**
	+ **Roa and Tonga**
		- *Guerrilla Warfare* (Aided double arm DDT)
		- *Nightfall* (Belly-to-back suplex (Loa) / Neckbreaker (Tonga) combination)
		- *Killshot* (Flapjack (Loa)/Jumping Cutter (Tonga) Combination)
		- *Super Powerbomb* (Double Powerbomb to a cornered opponent)
		- *Magic Killer* (Assited swinging neckbreaker)
* **Double-team signature moves**
	+ Aided Tongan Twist
	+ Powerbomb (Roa) / Neckbreaker (Tonga) combination
	+ Powerbomb (Roa) / Reverse DDT (Tonga) combination
	+ Double back elbow
	+ Double headbutt (sometime double jumping headbutt)
* **Tonga's finishing moves**
	+ *Dream Catcher* (Twister)
	+ *Gun Stun* (Jumping cutter, sometimes from the top rope)
	+ *Headshrinker* / *Veleno* (Jumping double underhook DDT)
	+ *Tongan Twist*  (Inverted facelock spun out into a DDT)
* **Roa's finishing moves**
	+ *Apeshit* (Over the shoulder reverse piledriver)
	+ Running Samoan drop
* **Entrance themes**
	+ "Shot'Em" by [Q]Brick (used while a part of Bullet Club)
	+ "Guerrillas of Destiny" by Yonosuke Kitamura
	+ **"G.O.D (Firing Squad)"** by No Name Tim and Kashis Keyz

## Championships and Accomplishments

* **New Japan Pro Wrestling**
	+ IWGP Tag Team Championship (8 times, current) – Tonga and Loa (7) and Phantasmo and Hikuleo (1, current)
	+ NEVER Openweight Championship (4 times) – Tonga
	+ Strong Openweight Championship (1 time) – Hikuleo
	+ NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (3 times) – Tonga and Loa with Bad Luck Fale (2) and Taiji Ishimori (1)
	+ Strong Openweight Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – Phantasmo and Hikuleo
	+ World Tag League (2020) – Tonga and Loa
* ***Pro Wrestling Illustrated***
	+ Ranked Tonga No. 132 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2017
	+ Ranked Loa No. 140 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2017
* **Ring of Honor**
	+ ROH World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Tonga and Loa
* **WrestleCircus**
	+ Big Top Tag-Team Championship (1 time) – Tonga and Loa

## Notes

* **^** The name has been written as both Tanga Roa and Tanga Loa. NJPW originally used the spelling Roa, but have since switched to Loa. CMLL used the spelling Roa, while ROH has used both Loa and Roa.

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