Roughly Obsess and Destroy

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RO&D. From left to right: Brown, Kea, Michinoku, Jamal and Buchanan.

Roughly Obsess & Destroy, also known as RO&D, were a stable in AJPW.

[edit] History/Career

It was composed of Taka Michinoku, Taiyō Kea, D'Lo Brown, Buchanan, Jamal, Rico Constantino, The Gladiator, Gigantes, Matt Morgan, and RO'Z. Also, Masahiro Chono was a one-night member and K-DOJO trainees PSYCHO and BLUE-K are honorary members. RO&D began in mid-2003 as heels, determined to take control of AJPW and often clashing with the likes of Keiji Mutoh. Later, RO&D became faces and feuded against the evil Voodoo Murders. At one point, they held almost all the titles in AJPW; Taka Michinoku won the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Title, Taiyō Kea & Jamal won the World Tag Team Titles and Buchanan & Rico won the All-Asia Tag Team Titles. Taiyō Kea also won the Triple Crown.

RO&D were forced to disband after they lost a dismissal match against the Voodoo Murders on September 17, 2006; during the match, D'Lo Brown and Buchanan betrayed RO&D, siding with the Voodoo Murders and attacking Taka Michinoku and Taiyō Kea. Michinoku and Kea have currently joined forces with Keiji Mutoh in order to rid AJPW of the Voodoo Murders once and for all.

[edit] Trivia

Taka Michinoku was the only Japanese member of RO&D, all the rest are gaijins (foreigners). Taiyō Kea is not considered a foreign wrestler, despite the fact that he is Hawaiian not Japanese, by some experts, however, as he trained in the AJPW dojo and has spent nearly all of his career in the promotion.
Their rally cry was "We are RO&D ! BOO-YAA !!!".