Roppongi Vice
| Roppongi Vice | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members | Beretta Rocky Romero |
| Name(s) | Roppongi Vice RPG Vice |
| Heights | Baretta: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1] Romero: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[2] |
| Combined weight |
366 lb (166 kg)[1][2] |
| Debut | March 13, 2015[3] |
| Promotions | NJPW ROH Evolve[4] |
Roppongi Vice (sometimes billed as RPG Vice) is a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Beretta and Rocky Romero. They currently perform in New Japan Pro Wrestling, where they are former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions, and Ring of Honor. The two wrestlers were put together as a team by New Japan.[5]
Contents
History
Ring of Honor (2015–present)
Following the dissolution of Rocky Romero's previous tag team Forever Hooligans due to the retirement of his partner Alex Koslov, Romero announced during Ring of Honor's 13th Anniversary Show that he would be forming a new tag team known as Roppongi Vice alongside former WWE wrestler Trent Baretta, with the stated goal of challenging the then-current ROH World Tag Team Champions reDRagon for the title.[6] In their debut on the ROH Conquest Tour, Roppongi Vice defeated The Decade on March 13, and the following day won an Instant Reward Proving Ground match against reDRagon, only to lose a subsequent match for the championship.[3] At Global Wars '15, Roppongi Vice competed in a three-way match against The Addiction and The Decade on May 15, and in a six-man tag team match alongside Kazuchika Okada against Bullet Club representatives A.J. Styles and The Young Bucks on May 16, losing both matches.[3] On July 24, Roppongi Vice were defeated by The Briscoes at Death Before Dishonor XIII.[3] On March 14 of ROH tv tapings, they won a seven tag team gauntlet match to determine #1 contender for ROH World Tag Team Championships by defeating The Young Bucks after entering the match as the seventh team.[7]
New Japan Pro Wrestling (2015–present)
Roppongi Vice, representing the Chaos stable, made their New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) debut in late March on the Road to Invasion Attack 2015 tour, facing the Bullet Club in multiple-man tag matches.[3] At Invasion Attack 2015 on April 5, Roppongi Vice defeated The Young Bucks for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, but lost the title in a rematch the following month at Wrestling Dontaku 2015.[3] On July 5, 2015 at Dominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall Roppongi Vice received another shot at the championship in a three-way match that also included reDRagon, but failed to recapture the title.[3] At Destruction in Kobe immediately after reDRagon defended their titles, Roppongi would viciously assault them in order to attain a championship match at King of Pro-Wrestling where they would go on to lose by a questionable three-count. During the 2015 Super Jr. Tag Tournament, Vice achieved big wins over the likes of Jushin Thunder Liger and Tiger Mask as well as the reigning champions; reDRagon. They were defeated in the finals of the tournament on November 7 at Power Struggle by Matt Sydal and Ricochet, but along with The Young Bucks, still challenged for the title after the match.
On April 10, 2016, at Invasion Attack 2016, Roppongi Vice defeated Sydal and Ricochet to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the second time.[8] They lost the title back to Sydal and Ricochet on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016.[9]
In wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Trent Baretta
- Dudebuster[10] (Cradle back-to-belly piledriver)
- Gobstopper (Running single leg high knee)
- Rocky Romero
- Ankle lock
- Diablo Armbar (Flying armbar)[11]
- Foreign Devil (Diving double knee drop)[12]
- High speed roundhouse kick to the head of a seated or kneeling opponent
- Kurayami Piledriver (Cradle kneeling reverse piledriver)[13]
- Double-team finishing moves
- Strong Zero (Cradle back-to-belly piledriver (Baretta) / Diving double foot stomp (Romero) combination)[14]
- Double-team signature moves
- Soccer kick to the chest of a seated opponent (Romero) followed by standing moonsault (Baretta)
- Stereo high knees
- Trent Baretta
- Entrance themes
- "RPG Vice Theme" by [Q]Brick[15]
Championships and accomplishments
References
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External links
- Trent Baretta on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Rocky Romero on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Baretta's New Japan Pro Wrestling profile
- Rocky Romero's New Japan Pro Wrestling profile
