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 Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa, who both perform on the SmackDown brand as part of the new Bloodline stable.
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.
WWE (2024−present)[]
Tonga made his WWE debut on the April 12 episode of SmackDown as part of The Bloodline stable replacing Jimmy Uso.tonga Loa (now under the tweaked name "Tonga Loa"), also made his WWE return at the Backlash France event on May 4 helping Tonga and Solo Sikoa win the no disqualification tag team match against Randy Orton and Kevin Owens. Loa previously performed from 2009 to 2014 as Camacho. Tonga and Loa, who are going by the name of The Tongans, made their WWE tag team debut on the May 31 episode of SmackDown, defeating the Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford).[100] After the addition of Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga along with Fatu and Sikoa emerged victorious in a six-man tag team match over Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton and Kevin Owens at Money in the Bank.
On the July 26 episode of SmackDown (taped a week prior), The Tongans originally planned to compete in a Tag Team Turmoil match to become Number 1 Contenders for the WWE Tag Team Championship, held by DIY (Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano). However, due to Loa's eye injury in a previous episode, he was replaced by Jacob Fatu. In the end, Tonga and Fatu emerged victorious after defeating The Street Profits. A week later, Fatu and Tonga defeated DIY to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. This marks Tonga's first title reign in the WWE. On the August 23 episode of SmackDown, Sikoa had Fatu relinquish his half of the title to Loa, making the Tongans an overall ten time tag team champions and getting them their first WWE Tag Team Title.On the October 25 episode of SmackDown, the Tongans lost the titles to the Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) following interference from Roman Reigns and The Usos (Jey and Jimmy), ending their reign at 84 days.
