Roppongi 3K | |
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Tag team | |
Members | Sho Tanaka / Raijin / Sho Yohei Komatsu / Fujin / Yoh Rocky Romero (manager) |
Name(s) | Raijin and Fujin Roppongi 3K Sho Tanaka and Yohei Komatsu The Tempura Boyz[1] |
Billed heights | Sho: 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1] Yoh: 171.5 cm (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[2] |
Combined billed weight | 178 kg (392 lb)[1][2] |
Debut | March 3, 2013[3] |
Disbanded | August 16, 2021 |
Years active | 2013–2021 |
Trainer | NJPW Dojo[1][2] |
Roppongi 3K was a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Japanese wrestlers Sho and Yoh, active from 2013 to 2021 in the junior heavyweight tag team division of New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). They were managed by Rocky Romero from late 2017 until their split.
After training together in NJPW's dojo since February 2012, the two began wrestling in the federation as young lions under their full names Sho Tanaka and Yohei Komatsu in November of the same year, starting a feud with each other the following month. They became tag team partners on March 3, 2013, until the promotion sent them on an overseas learning excursion in January 2016 which notably saw them wrestle in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the names Raijin and Fujin, and in Ring of Honor (ROH) as The Tempura Boyz. The duo returned to NJPW as Roppongi 3K during the King of Pro-Wrestling event on October 9, 2017, now managed by Romero and a part of the Chaos stable. The name established them as the spiritual successors of Romero's team Roppongi Vice, which had amicably disbanded earlier the same day; the "3K" came from Romero's claim that Roppongi 3K were 3000 times better than Roppongi Vice.
Within their first 30 days back in NJPW, Roppongi 3K would win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in their return match, and become the first team to win the Super Jr. Tag Tournament, NJPW's premier junior heavyweight tag team tournament, as the reigning champions. They would go on to become five-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and win the following two editions of the Super Junior Tag League, becoming the first team (and individuals) to win it twice and later extending their record. In August 2021, during the 2021 edition of the tournament, the duo suffered a losing streak, leading to Sho turning on Yoh and disbanding the team.