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Roppongi Vice

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Members
  
Beretta Rocky Romero

Combined weight
  
366 lb (166 kg)

Name(s)
  
Roppongi Vice RPG Vice

Debut
  
March 13, 2015

Roppongi Vice

Heights
  
Baretta: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Romero: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Promotions
  
Dreamwave Evolve NJPW ROH

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 three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions. The two wrestlers were put together as a team by New Japan.

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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. 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. 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. On July 24, Roppongi Vice were defeated by The Briscoes at Death Before Dishonor XIII. 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.

On March 10 at the 15th Anniversary Show Roppongi Vice was unsuccessfully against the The Hardys a Las Vegas Street Fight for the ROH World Tag Team Championship, The Young Bucks was involved in the match.

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. 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. 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. 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. They lost the title back to Sydal and Ricochet on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2016.

On October 21, 2016, Roppongi Vice entered the 2016 Super Jr. Tag Tournament that began on Road to Power Struggle event. They defeated the representatives of CMLL, Ángel de Oro and Titán, in the first round. After defeating Fuego and Ryusuke Taguchi in the semifinals on October 30, they won the tournament by defeating ACH and Taiji Ishimori in the finals on November 5 at Power Struggle. On January 4, 2017, at Wrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome, Roppongi Vice defeated The Young Bucks to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the third time. They lost the title to Suzuki-gun (Taichi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru) at NJPW's 45th anniversary show on March 6.

In wrestling

  • Finishing moves
  • Trent Baretta
  • Dudebuster (Cradle back-to-belly piledriver)
  • Gobstopper (Running single leg high knee)
  • Rocky Romero
  • Ankle lock
  • Diablo Armbar (Flying armbar)
  • Foreign Devil (Diving double knee drop)
  • High speed roundhouse kick to the head of a seated or kneeling opponent
  • Kurayami Piledriver (Cradle kneeling reverse piledriver)
  • Double-team finishing moves
  • Strong Zero (Cradle back-to-belly piledriver (Baretta) / Diving double foot stomp (Romero) combination)
  • Double-team signature moves
  • Soccer kick to the chest of a seated opponent (Romero) followed by standing moonsault (Baretta)
  • Stereo high knees
  • Entrance themes
  • "RPG Vice Theme" by [Q]Brick
  • Championships and accomplishments

  • New Japan Pro Wrestling
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (3 times)
  • Super Jr. Tag Tournament (2016)
  • Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Ranked Beretta #105 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2015
  • Ranked Romero #103 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2015 and 2016
  • References

    Roppongi Vice Wikipedia