Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona – Opening the Gates Of Agony

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Bishop Kaun and Toa Liona are Gates of Agony and current ROH 6-Man Champs alongside Brian Cage. They talk about their formation as a tag team, how they came to join Mogul Embassy, and their reaction when they initially heard Prince Nana was joining their faction too. Toa talks about getting his wrestling career started during the pandemic, training with Hall of Famer Rikisihi, and how he got the opportunity at AEW. Kaun remembers the final days of ROH, getting called by QT Marshall to come to AEW after ROH shut down, and first meeting Toa backstage at AEW. They discuss their tag philosophy, work ethic, and differences between regular tag matches and 6-mans with Brian Cage. They also share stories from their recent 23-day tour of Japan with NJPW including working with Okada and Tanahashi, learning from Gedo, traveling on the babyface bus, and assimilating to Japanese culture! STAY CONNECTED: TikTok: @ChrisJericho Instagram: @talkisjericho @chrisjerichofozzy Twitter: @TalkIsJericho @IAmJericho YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisJerichoFozzy Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/

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0:00.0	Talk is Jericho,
0:03.0	Jericho, baby.
0:05.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:07.0	My heart.
0:08.0	Talk is Jericho Mama. Talk is, man. All right, we are here in a very small little dress room with two large men and me, the gates of agony,
0:21.0	Touliana and Bishop Khan.
0:24.5	And it's really interesting because a few months ago, right when Kenny and I were starting to do
0:30.6	the Golden Jets, we were looking to get a good match and get like a win and
0:35.4	Tony suggested the gates of agony and I hadn't really seen much of your stuff or
0:39.6	knew a lot about you guys but we had a great match. I remember really enjoying that one.
0:43.7	Yeah no thank you for having us and yeah that match was it was a good trajectory after that
0:48.8	we kept getting more opportunities following so that's great. Now the thing that's interesting to me is that you guys
0:54.7	both pretty much started I know Khan you've been working a little bit longer but
1:00.0	basically you are never a team until AW.
1:04.0	Yeah, that's correct.
1:05.1	We literally got signed the same day.
1:07.2	Before we met with Tony, we actually, I went up to toe
1:09.6	and I was like, hey, never met you before
1:11.0	by watching your dark matches.
1:12.2	And he said to me, likewise, and we hit it off for a couple hours and then got signed at the same time so it's kind of ironic
1:18.4	Tell me what happened when you guys got signed. It was funny because we were on dark and like we were hungry for opportunities and we both the sides of the competition on dark and we both had that respect to each other. We're like, all right, there's something here like there's tangible to where like, all right like I don't think you suck and then
1:34.5	and it kind of passed out when Tony brought us in his office and he asked us
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