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The cost to be the Underboss with Toks Fale
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Toks Fale is a Tongan-New Zealand professional wrestler and former rugby union player. He currently works for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) as Bad Luck Fale
(バッドラック・ファレ, Baddorakku Fare). In NJPW, he is a three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion and a one-time IWGP Intercontinental Champion. His name literally translates to "house" in Tongan, which suits his wrestling persona as an immovable force.
Fale is one of the founding members of the infamous Bullet Club, an originally all-foreigner group that has seen great success in the company. The group and his dojo, the Fale Dojo has helped add a bridge for non-Japanese wrestlers to wrestle for New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
Fale is the cousin of Bullet Club stablemates Tanga Loa, Tama Tonga and Hikuleo. Fale and Tama had spent their early childhoods in Muʻa, Tonga without meeting. They were in the NJPW Dojo at the same time and realized they were related when a relative commented on a photo Fale had posted on social media. He is of Tongan ethnicity and is fluent in Tongan, English and Japanese.
Fale also runs his own professional wrestling school Fale Dojo in Auckland, New Zealand that has seen a few of its alumni in NJPW (Toa Henare, Jay White and Michael Richards).
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