| No Remorse Corps | |
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 (Left to right)Davey Richards andRoderick Strong, two thirds of the No Remorse Corps | |
| Stable | |
| Members | Davey Richards Rocky Romero Roderick Strong |
| Name | No Remorse Corps |
| Debut | February 16, 2007[1] |
| Disbanded | June 7, 2008[2] |
| Years active | 2007–2008 2010–2012 |
No Remorse Corps (often abbreviated to N.R.C.)[3] was aprofessional wrestlingstable, made up ofDavey Richards,Rocky Romero andRoderick Strong. The stable worked forRing of Honor (ROH) between 2007 and 2008, with Richards and Romero capturing theROH World Tag Team Championship. Richards and Romero later reunited as atag team inNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where, between 2010 and 2012, they won theIWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship ontwo occasions.
From 2005 to 2007,Austin Aries andRoderick Strong were one of the most prolifictag teams inRing of Honor (ROH) history. Originally joining the promotion as members of theGeneration Nextstable, the two remained together once the stable broke up, winning theROH Tag Team Championship in 2005 and making the title the ROHWorld Tag Team Championship by defending it in theUnited Kingdom during their reign.[4] Their reign ended on September 16, 2006,[5] which started a storyline, where the two began suffering a series of frustrating tag team losses.[4] On February 16, 2007, Aries and Strong received a shot at the ROH World Tag Team Championship, but were defeated by the defending champions,Christopher Daniels andMatt Sydal. After the match, Strong turned on Aries, attacking him with help fromDavey Richards, before announcing that the two were forming a new stable named "No Remorse Corps" (N.R.C.).[6] They were then chased away from the ring byJack Evans, another former member of Generation Next.[1] Strong and Richards had previously teamed up in thePro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) promotion, where they held thePWG World Tag Team Championship for a day in 2006.[7]
The day after the big development, Evans tried to make peace between Aries and Strong, who both refused to listen to him, instead telling him to choose a side in the rivalry. Aries eventually accepted Evans' decision not to choose a side and announced that he was forming a new stable to go to war with the N.R.C.[8] On February 24,Matt Cross agreed to join Aries' new stable, which led to the first official match in the rivalry, where the two defeated Strong and Richards.[9] Over the next weeks, the No Remorse Corps added a third member,Rocky Romero, who had just returned to ROH from an extended stay inJapan, while Aries' stable, now named "The Resilience", addedErick Stevens, Strong's former protégé.[4] The two stablesfeuded for the rest of 2007 with N.R.C. dominating their rivals, partly due to Aries spending several months away from ROH due to a contract dispute with theTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion.[4] While Aries was away, Cross and Stevens were aided byDelirious andBryan Danielson, the latter of whom had turned down an earlier offer to join the N.R.C.[10][11] Eventually, Jack Evans also joined the feud with his own stable, the Vulture Squad, but Strong and the No Remorse Corps continued dominating the rivalry between the former Generation Next members.[6]
On November 2, 2007, N.R.C. received its first title shot, when Strong and Romero unsuccessfully challenged theBriscoe Brothers (Jay andMark) for the ROH World Tag Team Championship.[12] After Richards and Romero also failed to capture the title on November 30,[13] Strong and Romero received another shot at the Briscoe Brothers on December 29 atRising Above, but were again defeated in atwo out of three falls match.[14][15] N.R.C. finally won the title on January 26, 2008, when Richards and Romero defeated the reigning champions,The Age of the Fall (Jimmy Jacobs andTyler Black), The Hangm3n (B. J. Whitmer andBrent Albright) and Austin Aries and Bryan Danielson in a four-way "Ultimate Endurance" match.[16] With the win, all three members of N.R.C. now held titles in ROH with Strong being theWorld Heavyweight Champion of ROH's sister promotionFull Impact Pro (FIP).[17] Richards and Romero held the title until April 12, when they were defeated by the Briscoe Brothers.[18] On June 6, Strong and Richards entered a tournament in an attempt to regain the nowvacant ROH World Tag Team Championship, but were defeated in their first round match by Austin Aries and Bryan Danielson.[19] Throughout the first half of 2008, ROH presented a storyline, whereLarry Sweeney made repeated attempts to purchase the No Remorse Corps into merging with his Sweet & Sour Inc. stable.[6] While Richards was for the merger, Strong refused to sell out to Sweeney.[6] The storyline culminated on June 7, when Strong, after once again turning down the offer, was attacked by Richards, who then removed his N.R.C. shirt, revealing a Sweet & Sour Inc. shirt underneath.[2][6] Following the incident, Strong disbanded the No Remorse Corps.[3]
In May 2010, Richards began working forNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW),[20] where Romero had been a semi-regular for the past several years.[21] On November 9, Richards and Romero reunited for the 2010 Super J Tag League, representing theChaos stable and defeating former two-timeIWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team ChampionsApollo 55 (Prince Devitt andRyusuke Taguchi) in their opening match.[22] The two eventually made it to the finals of the tournament, where, on November 13, they were defeated by their Chaos stablematesGedo andJado.[23][24] In 2011, Romero began working for NJPW more regularly, which led to him and Richards readopting the No Remorse Corps name as the name of their now full-time tag team.[21] They quickly entered a storyline rivalry with Apollo 55,[25] which built to a match on May 3 atWrestling Dontaku 2011, where Apollo 55 successfully defended their IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.[26]
A rematch took place on October 10 atDestruction '11, where Richards and Romero were victorious, becoming the new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.[27] They made their first and only title defense a month later atPower Struggle, defeatingKushida andTiger Mask.[28] On January 4, 2012, atWrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome, Richards and Romero lost the title back to Apollo 55.[29][30][31] However, only a month later atThe New Beginning, they regained the title from Apollo 55, starting their second title reign.[32][33] They were scheduled to make their first title defense on May 3 atWrestling Dontaku 2012, but the day before the event NJPW announced that Richards had not been able to make his flight to Japan due to a car accident, leading the promotion to stripping him and Romero of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship.[34][35] Following the incident, Richards did not return to NJPW, leading to Romero forming a new tag team namedForever Hooligans withAlex Koslov.[21]
