| Roppongi Vice | |
|---|---|
 Roppongi Vice in February 2016 | |
| Tag team | |
| Members | Trent Beretta/Beretta Rocky Romero |
| Name(s) | Roppongi Vice RPG Vice |
| Billed heights | Beretta: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1] Romero: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2] |
| Combined billed weight | 366 lb (166 kg)[1][2] |
| Debut | March 13, 2015[3] |
| Years active | 2015–2017 2022–present[4] |
Roppongi Vice (sometimes stylized asRPG Vice) are aprofessional wrestling tag team consisting ofTrent Beretta andRocky Romero. They are signed toAll Elite Wrestling (AEW), where they are a sub-group of theDon Callis Family. They have also performed inRing of Honor (ROH) andNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where they are formerfour-timeIWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.[5]
Following the dissolution ofRocky Romero's previous tag teamForever Hooligans due to the retirement of his partnerAlex Koslov, Romero announced duringRing of Honor's13th Anniversary Show that he would be forming a new tag team known as Roppongi Vice alongside formerWWE wrestlerTrent Beretta, with the stated goal of challenging thethen-currentROH World Tag Team ChampionsreDRagon for the title.[6] In their debut on the ROH Conquest Tour, Roppongi Vice defeatedThe 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] AtGlobal Wars '15, Roppongi Vice competed in a three-way match againstThe Addiction and The Decade on May 15, and in asix-man tag team match alongsideKazuchika Okada againstBullet Club representativesA.J. Styles andThe Young Bucks on May 16, losing both matches.[3] On July 24, Roppongi Vice were defeated byThe Briscoes atDeath Before Dishonor XIII.[3] On March 14 of ROH TV tapings, they won a seven tag team gauntlet match to determine #1 contender forROH World Tag Team Championship by defeatingThe Young Bucks after entering the match as the seventh team.[7][unreliable source]
On March 10 at the15th Anniversary Show Roppongi Vice was unsuccessful againstThe Hardys in a Las Vegas Street Fight for the ROH World Tag Team Championship, The Young Bucks were involved in the match also.
Roppongi Vice, representing theChaosstable, made theirNew 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] AtInvasion Attack 2015 on April 5, Roppongi Vice defeated The Young Bucks for theIWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, but lost the title in a rematch the following month atWrestling Dontaku 2015.[3] AtDominion 7.5 in Osaka-jo Hall, Roppongi Vice received another shot at the championship in athree-way match that also includedreDRagon, but failed to recapture the title.[3] AtDestruction in Kobe, immediately after reDRagon defended their titles, Roppongi would viciously assault them in order to attain a championship match atKing of Pro-Wrestling where they would go on to lose by a questionable three-count. During the2015 Super Jr. Tag Tournament, Vice achieved big wins over the likes ofJyushin Thunder Liger andTiger Mask as well as the reigning champions; reDRagon. They were defeated in the finals of the tournament on November 7 atPower Struggle byMatt Sydal andRicochet, but along with The Young Bucks, still challenged for the title after the match.
On April 10, 2016, atInvasion 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 atWrestling Dontaku 2016.[9] On October 21, Roppongi Vice entered the2016 Super Jr. Tag Tournament that began onRoad to Power Struggle event. They defeated the representatives ofCMLL,Ángel de Oro andTitán, in the first round.[10] After defeatingFuego andRyusuke Taguchi in the semifinals on October 30,[11] they won the tournament by defeatingACH andTaiji Ishimori in the finals on November 5 atPower Struggle.[11] On January 4, 2017, atWrestle Kingdom 11 in Tokyo Dome, Roppongi Vice defeated The Young Bucks to win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship for the third time.[12] They lost the title toSuzuki-gun (Taichi andYoshinobu Kanemaru) at NJPW's 45th anniversary show on March 6,[13] before regaining it at Road to Wrestling Dontaku day 3 on April 27.[14] They lost the title to The Young Bucks on June 11 atDominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall.[15]
On July 2 atG1 Special in USA, Roppongi Vice unsuccessfully challenged The Young Bucks for the title in a rematch. Afterwards, Romero brought up a five-year plan he and Beretta had made three years earlier, which included them winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship and the Super Jr. Tag Tournament, both of which they had already done, as well as Beretta's eventual transition into the heavyweight division. Having failed to regain the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, Romero gave Beretta his blessing to move to the heavyweight division, effectively disbanding Roppongi Vice.[16] On August 21, NJPW announced that Roppongi Vice's final match together would take place on September 16 atDestruction in Hiroshima,[17] where they defeated Bullet Club'sChase Owens andYujiro Takahashi.[18] Both Romero and Beretta remained members of Chaos, with each transitioning into a new role. Beretta moved into the heavyweight division, wrestling in singles competition and as a part of his long-standing tag teamBest Friends withChuckie T, while Romero became a manager for the new junior tag teamRoppongi 3K.
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On the May 24, 2021, episode ofAEW Dark: Elevation, Beretta, along withChuck Taylor andOrange Cassidy, saved Romero from an attack byRyan Nemeth,Peter Avalon andCezar Bononi, briefly reuniting Roppongi Vice as their theme music played and they embraced in the ring.[19] Romero would return to AEW and on the December 8 episode ofAEW Dynamite would team with Beretta's current tag team partner, Taylor, in a losing effort againstThe Young Bucks. After the match, The Young Bucks, along withAdam Cole assaulted the pair. Beretta made a surprise return, having been out following neck surgery, to come to their aid. After fighting off the assailants Romero, Beretta, Taylor, and the rest of the Best Friends stable celebrated in the ring while the Roppongi Vice theme music was played.
Beretta and Romero opened the February 11, 2022, episode ofAEW Rampage with a match against the Young Bucks, in a losing effort. They reunited again for the March 28 episode ofElevation in a winning effort against The Factory. They would later appear on the May 18 episode ofDynamite. On the May 25 episode ofDynamite they faced off againstFTR for theROH World Tag Team Championship; however, the match ended in a no contest after a mid-match interruption byUnited Empire'sJeff Cobb andGreat-O-Khan. This led to a triple-threat tag teamWinner Takes All match between the three teams being scheduled atForbidden Door for the ROH World Tag Team Championship, and Cobb and O-Khan'sIWGP Tag Team Championship.[20] At the event, the triple-threat tag team match was won by FTR.[21] Since then, Roppongi Vice have been used sporadically on AEW programming in multi-man matches, including on the Zero Hour pre-shows ofFull Gear[22] and the following year'sForbidden Door.[23] On the February 7, 2024, episode ofRampage they and Cassidy were defeated bythe Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven,Mike Bennett andRoderick Strong).[3] April 3, 2024 episode ofDynamite, Berretta attacked Orange Cassidy using the knee strike, thus turning himheel after the duo lost a match to the Young Bucks, leaving the Best Friends and disbanding the team. He would join theDon Callis Family soon after.[24]
On the April 17, 2025 at theSpring BreakThru episode ofCollision, Romero turned heel after betrayingTomohiro Ishii in a tag match and participated in attacking Ishii with Beretta and the rest of the Don Callis Family, joining the group and reuniting Roppongi Vice (later renamed to RPG Vice).[25] AtAll In Zero Hour, RPG Vice teamed with stablematesHechicero andLance Archer, losing to"Big Boom!" A.J. and The Conglomeration (Hologram,Kyle O'Reilly, andTomohiro Ishii) .[26][27]
I think New Japan had an eye on me for a bit. When Koslov decided to go, they were the ones who picked me.
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