{"id":123979,"date":"2024-04-13T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=123979"},"modified":"2024-04-13T03:49:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T07:49:42","slug":"tama-tonga-debuts-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2024\/04\/13\/tama-tonga-debuts-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tama Tonga Debuts In WWE: Who is the New Member of The Bloodline?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0<strong>NJPW<\/strong> pillar\u00a0<strong>Tama Tonga<\/strong> and <strong>Bullet Club<\/strong> founder has officially joined <strong>WWE<\/strong>. This past Friday night on <em><strong>WWE SmackDown<\/strong><\/em>, Tonga made his company debut by attacking longtime\u00a0<strong>The Bloodline<\/strong> member\u00a0<strong>Jimmy Uso<\/strong>, effectively ousting the former WWE Tag Team Champion.<\/p>\n<p>This is big for the company considering the wealth of experience and star power Tama Tonga is bringing the company, especially to a seemingly deflated Bloodline. Let&#8217;s take a brief look into how Tama is related to The Bloodline and his many accolades.<\/p>\n<h3>Bonded by Family<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xuN6HJ_LvyA?si=t8BMaFM2VJzoW00t\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While he&#8217;s not related by blood to the\u00a0<strong>Anoa&#8217;i Family<\/strong>, Tonga&#8217;s father\u00a0<strong>Haku<\/strong>, or\u00a0<strong>Meng<\/strong> for the\u00a0<strong>WCW<\/strong> fans, is considered part of this circle.<\/p>\n<p>Haku and the Anoa&#8217;i Family have a tremendous history with one another. This bond led to Haku being welcomed by the Anoa&#8217;i family with open arms and they consider them their own despite their biological differences.<\/p>\n<h3>Achievements and Accolades<\/h3>\n<p>Tama Tonga debuted for NJPW back in 2010; that&#8217;s 14 years of amazing work with Japan&#8217;s premier wrestling company. In his time with the promotion, Tonga co-founded one of the most impactful stables the industry has ever seen in the form of The Bullet Club.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zhCiXsYvsGA?si=5ps67kjvU0r3RDIn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, Tama has amassed countless championships, being a seven-time\u00a0<strong>IWGP<\/strong> Tag Team Champion with his brother\u00a0<strong>Tanga Loa<\/strong>, collectively known as the\u00a0<strong>Guerillas of Destiny<\/strong> or\u00a0<strong>G.O.D.<\/strong> for short.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g4CP1e20f-Y?si=HAaAw7n4UsZZG0ac\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He also won the\u00a0<strong>NEVER<\/strong> Openweight Championship an impressive four times, with six stints as a NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion to accompany it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p8tl9MCDv50?si=fspWkzzWh4AE1cY-\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>A New Chapter<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8C19cKdD0hs?si=ZHjzxnjyz3IDL3L4&amp;start=9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the first\u00a0<em>SmackDown<\/em> after\u00a0<em><strong>WrestleMania XL<\/strong><\/em>, The Bloodline gained a new member. Unfortunately for Jimmy Uso, the group was not big enough for him and Tama Tonga.<\/p>\n<p>The former G.O.D. member took out Jimmy as a form of consequence for his loss at <em>WrestleMania XL<\/em> at the hands of his brother <strong>Jey Uso<\/strong>. It&#8217;s not quite clear if the &#8220;Tribal Chief&#8221; <strong>Roman Reigns\u00a0<\/strong>had any hand in this decision. However, it seemed like the &#8220;Wise Man&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Paul Heyman\u00a0<\/strong>begged to differ.<\/p>\n<p>While the WWE Universe may think The Bloodline was done for when Reigns was defeated by\u00a0<strong>Cody Rhodes<\/strong> for the Undisputed WWE Championship, it seems like The Bloodline always has a plan B. Regardless of what anyone feels about this heinous attack, we&#8217;re entering a new era for The Bloodline.<\/p>\n<h3>More From LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h3>\n<p><em>Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013\u00a0<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">WWE Network<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Peacock<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0NJPW pillar\u00a0Tama Tonga and Bullet Club founder has officially joined WWE. This past Friday night on WWE SmackDown, Tonga made his company debut by attacking longtime\u00a0The Bloodline member\u00a0Jimmy Uso, effectively ousting the former WWE Tag Team Champion. This is big for the company considering the wealth of experience and star power Tama Tonga is bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3735,"featured_media":123983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[14,2192,26,4,3],"tags":[1033,7994],"class_list":["post-123979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-njpw","category-wrestling","category-smackdown","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-tama-tonga","tag-the-bloodline"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123979","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\/3735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}