DDT is running their first deathmatch-centered event of 2024 as it is to be headlined by an Atsushi Onita death match.
Today’s event was held at Tsurumi Fruit & Vegetable Market in Kanagawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There is no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 220, a full house/near sellout.
There were last-second changes due to Yuni being off the event. Fever.
Match 1: In a Fuun Takagi Castle Match, a 10 minute match where one team had to build a castle by then or they would lose, Kazuki Hirata & Danshoku Dieno (attacking team) beat Sanshiro Takagi, HARASHIMA & Masa Takanashi (castle building team)..
Match 2: Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yusuke Okada beat Yoshitatsu, Kazusada Higuchi & Akito. Iino pinned Akito after a spear.
Match 3; Daisuke Sasaki beat Shota by submission.
Match 4: Takao Soma beat KANON.
Match 5: Demonio Uno beat MAO, Mecha Mummy & Mecha Pandita in a 4-way by pinning Pendita.
Match 6: Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata beat Yukio Naya & Rukiya. Katsumata pinned Rukiya after totonoe Splash.
Intermission.
Main Event: In a Current Explosive Bat & Board Death Match, Atsushi Onita & Toi Kojima beat All-Asia Tag Team Champions Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani to win the titles. Onita & Kojima become the 122nd All-Asia Tag Team Champions. Kojima pinned Okatani. Back to title death matches all the time.
The next event is “DDT New Year Fan Appreciation Day” on 1/20 at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.
