Tanga Loa
American professional wrestler (born 1983) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata Fifita (born May 7, 1983) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Tonga Loa, and is a member of The Bloodline.
Tanga Loa | |
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Birth name | Tevita Tu'amoeloa Fetaiakimoeata Fifita |
Born | (1983-05-07) May 7, 1983 (age 41)[1] Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Texas at El Paso[2] |
Parent(s) | Haku (father) |
Relatives | Tama Tonga (cousin/adoptive brother) Hikuleo (cousin/adoptive brother) |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Agent T[2] Camacho[2][3] Donny Marlow Micah[4] Nuku Tanga Loa[5][6] Tanga Roa[7] Tevita Fifita Tonga[2] Tonga Loa[8] |
Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[3] |
Billed weight | 220 lb (100 kg)[3] |
Billed from | Florida Honolulu, Hawaii[9] Juárez, Mexico[2] |
Trained by | D-Von Dudley[2] Bubba Ray Dudley Florida Championship Wrestling[2] Ricky Santana[10] Haku[10] |
Debut | November 8, 2008[2][5] |
Fifita started his professional wrestling career in WWE's farm territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) in 2009. He was promoted to the main roster in 2011, where he worked under the ring name Camacho in a tag team with Hunico. They worked on the undercard on the SmackDown and NXT brands for a few years. After he left WWE in 2014, he worked for two years in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the name Micah, where he won the 2015's Gut Check. Later, he left the promotion and joined New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) under the ring name Tanga Loa, joining his brother Tama Tonga as Guerrillas of Destiny (G.O.D.), a subgroup of the heel faction Bullet Club. In NJPW, Loa and Tonga are seven-time IWGP Tag Team Champions and former three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions with Bad Luck Fale and Taiji Ishimori.[11] He also has made appearances in the U.S. based promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where the Guerrillas of Destiny are former one-time ROH World Tag Team Champions. He returned to WWE on May 4, 2024 under the ring name Tonga Loa, aligning himself with The Bloodline.
Fifita is part of a large wrestling family, as he is the adoptive brother of Tama Tonga and Hikuleo, and the son of Haku.