{"id":27439,"date":"2018-10-04T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=27439"},"modified":"2018-10-04T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:22:23","slug":"tama-tonga-updates-recruitment-mission-down-to-four-wrestlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/10\/04\/tama-tonga-updates-recruitment-mission-down-to-four-wrestlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tama Tonga Updates Recruitment Mission, Down to Four Wrestlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in early September, <strong>Bullet Club<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Guerrillas of Destiny<\/strong>, brothers <strong>Tama Tonga<\/strong> and <strong>Tanga Lo<\/strong>a, announced that Bullet Club was looking to recruit new members. With Bullet Club in a state of divide &#8211; with GoD part of the Bullet Club OG unit along with <strong>Bad Luck Fale<\/strong>, &#8220;Bone Soldier&#8221; <strong>Taiji Ishimori<\/strong> and <strong>Hikuleo<\/strong> &#8211; the brothers are looking to strengthen their unit against Bullet Club Elite, which features IWGP Heavyweight Champion <strong>Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks<\/strong> (Matt &amp; Nick Jackson), <strong>Cody Rhodes, Marty Scurll, Adam &#8220;Hangman&#8221; Page<\/strong>, plus OG castoffs <strong>Chase Owens<\/strong> and &#8220;Tokyo Pimp&#8221; <strong>Yujiro Takahashi<\/strong> (as well as associates <strong>Kota Ibushi<\/strong> and <strong>Brandi Rhodes<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BulletClub?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BulletClub<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RecruitSeason?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RecruitSeason<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E9n1LcOjj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/E9n1LcOjj5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tama Tonga (@Tama_Tonga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tama_Tonga\/status\/1039168163353481219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After winning the IWGP Tag Team titles this past Sunday at <em><strong>NJPW Fighting Spirit Unleashed<\/strong><\/em> in Long Beach, Tama Tonga was asked about the recruiting session and Tonga explained that the next member would be a junior heavyweight to pair with Ishimori as a tag team and that it was down to four potential recruits, two of whom are from the UK, with the other two from Australia and the US.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tama Tonga says Bullet Club OG recruiting search down to four juniors\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2k7wkjnJDw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new member announcement will most likely come sooner than later, as NJPW is readying to announce the <em><strong>2018 Super Junior Tag League<\/strong><\/em>, traditionally held around the third week of October. With the new recruit to serve as Ishimori&#8217;s tag partner, it&#8217;s most likely to field an entrant into the Junior Tag League tournament, that this year will move to a block system (like G1 Climax Series) rather than single elimination.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SVI4fBtAeGc&#038;feature=youtu.be&#038;t=7m24s<\/p>\n<p>No surprise that two of the four names being looked at are from the UK scene &#8211; New Japan is allied with London&#8217;s <strong>Revolution Pro (RevPro)<\/strong>, so adding a RevPro\/UK star would make sense. Some names that could be in consideration are RevPro British J Cup winner <strong>El Phantasmo<\/strong> (although Canadian, he&#8217;s been a regular in the UK scene for the past year), CCK&#8217;s <strong>Chris Brookes<\/strong> (who turned down a WWE NXT UK deal earlier this year), or recently returned <strong>PAC<\/strong> (formerly WWE Superstar Neville), <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/10\/02\/breaking-pacs-back-neville-makes-return-to-dragon-gate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who returned in Japan this week with <strong>Dragon Gate<\/strong>.<\/a>\u00a0In their initial recruitment videos, the Tongans mentioned that the new members could be male or female, so the potential to see a new women&#8217;s member for Bullet Club is a possibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in early September, Bullet Club&#8216;s Guerrillas of Destiny, brothers Tama Tonga and Tanga Loa, announced that Bullet Club was looking to recruit new members. With Bullet Club in a state of divide &#8211; with GoD part of the Bullet Club OG unit along with Bad Luck Fale, &#8220;Bone Soldier&#8221; Taiji Ishimori and Hikuleo &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":27447,"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":[149,3016,1033,2671],"class_list":["post-27439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-njpw","tag-bullet-club","tag-firing-squad","tag-tama-tonga","tag-tanga-loa"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439","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=27439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}