(1982-10-15) October 15, 1982 (age 41)[1] Nukuʻalofa, Tonga[2]
Family
Haku (uncle/adoptive father) Hikuleo (brother) Tanga Loa (cousin/adoptive brother) Bad Luck Fale (cousin)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Kava King Tonga Jr. Pate Fifita Tama Tonga Tonga Strong Machine[3]
Billed height
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Billed weight
95 kg (209 lb)[2]
Trained by
The Dudley Boyz[2] Ricky Santana[4] Haku[4] Jado[5] Karl Anderson[6]
Debut
2008
Alipate Aloisio Leone[7] (born October 15, 1982), better known by his ring name Tama Tonga (Japanese: タマ・トンガ), is a Tongan professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand as a member of The Bloodline. He is the nephew and adopted son of professional wrestler Haku.
From 2010 to 2024 he was in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was a founding member of Bullet Club alongside Bad Luck Fale, Karl Anderson and Prince Devitt. He was also a founding member of Guerrillas of Destiny (G.O.D.) alongside his brother Tanga Loa. The Guerrillas of Destiny won the IWGP Tag Team Championship seven times, the 2020 edition of the World Tag League tournament and, due to the collaboration between NJPW and Ring of Honor, the ROH World Tag Team Championship.
As a singles wrestler, Tonga held the NEVER Openweight Championship four times. He has also worked with NJPW's partner promotion in Mexico, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) where he has held the CMLL World Tag Team Championship twice.
On the April 12, 2024 edition of SmackDown, Tonga made his WWE debut as a member of the Bloodline.
^"Tama Tonga". The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
^ abcdタマ・トンガ. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on July 12, 2013. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
^"「J Sports Crown」 ～無差別級6人タッグトーナメント～". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved July 3, 2013.
^ abOliver, Greg (April 24, 2016). "Tama Tonga finally getting a shot in North America with ROH". Slam! Sports. Canadian Online Explorer. Archived from the original on November 26, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
^"Tama's Island: Tama's Time As A Young Boy At The NJPW Dojo on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved July 28, 2021.
^NJPW. "Seven in the chamber: Tama Tonga on BULLET CLUB's 7 years (1/2) | NEW JAPAN PRO-WRESTLING". NJPW. Retrieved July 28, 2021.
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appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring names The Tonga Kid and Tama and with World Championship Wrestling as The Samoan Savage. Fatu debuted...
Tongan-American brother TamaTonga. Tonga and Loa originally began wrestling together in 2008 under the team name Sons of Tonga, a reference to their father...
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American wrestler Karl Anderson and Tongan wrestlers Bad Luck Fale and TamaTonga to form a villainous stable of foreigners, which they subsequently named...
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