{"id":10945,"date":"2017-12-17T10:12:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=10945"},"modified":"2017-12-17T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T15:13:21","slug":"bullet-club-road-tokyo-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/12\/17\/bullet-club-road-tokyo-dome\/","title":{"rendered":"OG Bullet Club Win 6-Man Gold at Road to Tokyo Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a year that&#8217;s seen the ROH <strong>Bullet Club<\/strong> chapter (and\u00a0<strong><em>Being The Elite<\/em><\/strong> cast) claim all the gold and the headlines in both ROH and NJPW, the Japanese chapter struck gold today at NJPW&#8217;s <em><strong>Road To Tokyo Dome<\/strong><\/em> event in Tokyo when <strong>Bad Luck Fale<\/strong> and the <strong>Guerrillas of Destiny<\/strong> (<strong>Tama Tonga<\/strong> and <strong>Tanga Loa<\/strong>) defeated <strong>Los Ingobernables de Japon<\/strong> (<strong>BUSHI, EVIL<\/strong> and <strong>SANADA<\/strong>) to capture the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team titles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tama_Tonga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Tama_Tonga<\/a> @TangaloaNJPW and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TOKSFALE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TOKSFALE<\/a> for capturing the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEVER?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NEVER<\/a> Openweight Six Men Tag Team Championships. 2nd time for Fale and Tama, who had previously held the titles with Yujiro. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NJWK12?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NJWK12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Kelly (@realkevinkelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realkevinkelly\/status\/942358728354955265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s victory for the &#8220;OG&#8221; of the Bullet Club marked the first gold for the Japanese (and founding) branch of Bullet Club since Guerillas of Destiny lost their iWGP Tag Team titles this past July. It also marks the Japanese side&#8217;s second reign as NEVER Openweight 6-Man champs, following Fale, Tonga and <strong>Yujiro Takahashi<\/strong> held the belts in early 2016.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10949\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10949\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/Ca75n_VUcAAmWSB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/Ca75n_VUcAAmWSB.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/Ca75n_VUcAAmWSB-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Elite (Kenny Omega &amp; The Young Bucks) have held the titles twice since then, not to mention a year that saw the\u00a0<em>Being The Elite\u00a0<\/em>crew capture titles around the world, with Omega capturing the IWGP United States Championship, The Young Bucks winning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team, 2x ROH World Tag Team, Marty Scurll holding the IWGP Junior Heavyweight and ROH World Television, and Adam &#8220;Hangman&#8221; Page holding the ROH 6-Man Tag Team titles with the Young Bucks as well. Cody Rhodes also held World Championship gold in ROH, while Scurll did the same with Defiant (formerly WCPW). With The Elite drawing so much media attention from stunts with their YouTube show, the Hot Topic deals, and everything else, <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2017\/10\/18\/being-the-elite-bullet-club-nwo-wolfpac\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it was starting to appear like a rift was growing between the two sides of Bullet Club<\/a>, with Fale and Tama being the most vocal about the Elite swaying from the Bullet Club&#8217;s original mission statement. The Japanese chapter continues to dominate thanks to the influence of the Meng Dynasty (Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa and Leo Tonga are the sons of former WWE\/WCW legend Haku\/Meng, and Bad Luck Fale is Meng&#8217;s nephew), and with Chase Owens being &#8216;groomed&#8217; to become a new Tongan perhaps it&#8217;s time for the Meng Dynasty to take back the Bullet Club with the same brutal tenacity that their father was so feared for.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10947\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10947\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/19761229_1703399176621794_1097193698350858240_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/19761229_1703399176621794_1097193698350858240_n-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/19761229_1703399176621794_1097193698350858240_n-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/19761229_1703399176621794_1097193698350858240_n-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/19761229_1703399176621794_1097193698350858240_n-1-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10948\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10948\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/12\/2cafcc37760150e0dc8833b2b93f1ed7-e1513523447612.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"468\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a year that&#8217;s seen the ROH Bullet Club chapter (and\u00a0Being The Elite cast) claim all the gold and the headlines in both ROH and NJPW, the Japanese chapter struck gold today at NJPW&#8217;s Road To Tokyo Dome event in Tokyo when Bad Luck Fale and the Guerrillas of Destiny (Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":10950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[626,697,1364,188,1852],"class_list":["post-10945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-bad-luck-fale","tag-guerillas-of-destiny","tag-never-openweight","tag-njpw","tag-road-to-tokyo-dome"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}