{"id":21705,"date":"2018-07-08T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=21705"},"modified":"2018-07-08T09:21:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:21:17","slug":"tama-tonga-firing-squad-bullet-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/07\/08\/tama-tonga-firing-squad-bullet-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Tama Tonga and The Firing Squad Cleansing The Bullet Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a bizarre night for <strong>Bullet Club<\/strong> last night in San Francisco at the <em><strong>NJPW G1 Special<\/strong><\/em>. On one hand, <strong>Kenny Omega<\/strong> defeated <strong>Cody Rhodes<\/strong> to retain his IWGP Heavyweight Championship and leadership of Bullet Club, with Cody and Kenny making amends. So Bullet Club is fine right?<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015815358379380736<\/p>\n<p>Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Kenny was celebrating his win with <strong>The Young Bucks<\/strong>, the <strong>Guerrillas of Destiny<\/strong> (<strong>Tama Tonga &amp; Tanga Loa<\/strong>) stormed the ring with their father (and tag partner earlier in the evening) WWE\/WCW Legend <strong>Haku<\/strong>, taking out the Bucks in the process. The proceeded to drag Kenny back to the ring, where the three systematically decimated every member of the Bullet Club who dared to challenge them. And that included two members who had long sided with the Tongans, <strong>Yujiro Takahashi<\/strong> and &#8220;Honorary Tongan&#8221; <strong>Chase Owens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015812586653257728<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015812731226742784<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015812935732596736<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015813200472870912<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015814138629681152<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015814316422025217<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015814631749750784<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/416ixUchiha\/status\/1015839513476673537<\/p>\n<p>Tanga Loa&#8217;s closing words about what the Bullet Club was all about <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2017\/10\/18\/being-the-elite-bullet-club-nwo-wolfpac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harkens back to the warnings<\/a> that Tama Tonga and <strong>Bad Luck Fale<\/strong> have been issuing <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/02\/03\/bullet-club-civil-war-takes-another-turn-tama-tonga-speaks-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for almost the past year<\/a>.\u00a0The last remaining original members &#8211; Fale and Tonga were <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/05\/03\/happy-5th-anniversary-the-past-present-and-future-of-bullet-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">both part of Bullet Club&#8217;s inception<\/a> when <strong>Prince Devitt<\/strong> (aka Finn Balor) created the stable along with <strong>Karl Anderson<\/strong> &#8211; have been growing increasingly frustrated with The Elite&#8217;s &#8220;rockstar&#8221; shenanigans, most of which the Bullet Club OGs have found growing further and further away from Bullet Club&#8217;s original mandate &#8211; which was to take everyone down and out and rule the roost. The Bullet Club members that wrestle predominantly in Japan, lead by Fale and Tonga, even have their own Twitter, with which they&#8217;ve been hinting at returning the BC back to its original mission statement for ages.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reclaim the Past. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v7cHIy9nX8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/v7cHIy9nX8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BizCliz (@BizClizOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BizClizOfficial\/status\/1007363020752871424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following the beat down on the entire Bullet Club roster, Tama Tonga responded simply with the following picture on his Twitter, a reference to the Tongans new BC faction, <strong>Firing Squad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CIsBzZNWdo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/CIsBzZNWdo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tama Tonga (@Tama_Tonga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tama_Tonga\/status\/1015811483240841216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now that Tama Tonga has forced a hostile takeover of Bullet Club &#8211; after all, their new shirts still have BC on them &#8211; will the beat down members continue to wave a Bullet Club flag and fight back? Who will join the Meng Dynasty &#8211; Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale, <strong>Hikuleo<\/strong> and Haku &#8211; in restoring the original bad-assery of the early Bullet Club? Just when it seemed like the Bullet Club was finally back together, it&#8217;s been ripped even farther apart.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude2e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O6bpncMD8f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/O6bpncMD8f<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UUD74f66eZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/UUD74f66eZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; One Hour Tees (@OneHourTees) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OneHourTees\/status\/1015814201405820929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a bizarre night for Bullet Club last night in San Francisco at the NJPW G1 Special. On one hand, Kenny Omega defeated Cody Rhodes to retain his IWGP Heavyweight Championship and leadership of Bullet Club, with Cody and Kenny making amends. So Bullet Club is fine right? https:\/\/twitter.com\/BulletClubItal\/status\/1015815358379380736 Wrong. Shortly after Kenny was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":21718,"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":[3016,1089,1393,188,1033,2671],"class_list":["post-21705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-firing-squad","tag-g1-special","tag-haku","tag-njpw","tag-tama-tonga","tag-tanga-loa"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21705","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=21705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}