DDT continues the road to CyberFight Festival today with “Audience 2022”, a mid-major event headlined by two title matches. First up, after fighting each other over the DDT Universal Championship, MAO & Asuka (Veny) will now team up in an attempt to win the KO-D Tag Team Championship from Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi. In the main event, the new KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions will be determined in a tournament final between Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON (replacing Minoru Fujits, who suffered an injury that forced the Damnation TA trio to vacate the titles) and Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani.
Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. The first 2 matches can also be watched FOR FREE on YouTube.
Today’s lineup:
Naomi Yoshimura vs. Yuki Ishida
Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Akito vs. HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda
Yuki Ueno vs. Kazuki Hirata
Hardcore Match: Carousell ❤️ Shun ＆ Elizabeth ❤️ Toi vs Suzu Suzuki ＆ Akane Fujita
Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku vs. Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Ilsion & el Unicorn
KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. MAO & Asuka (Veny) for the titles
Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani for the vacant KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship
Updates below will begin at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT.
10:23 PM ET UPDATE: Live stream starts NOW.
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano & Sayoko Mita.
The matches will begin in about 15 minutes.
The matches begin at 10:35 PM ET.
Match 1: Naomi Yoshimura vs. Yuki Ishida. 30 minute time limit
Result: Naomi Yoshimura beat Yuki Ishida
Match 2: Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Akito vs. HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. 30 minute time limit
Result: Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & akito beat HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. Akito beat Honda with a Figure 4. Comedy match.
The YouTube broadcast ends here. For the UNIVERSE crowd there is a short pause and an announcement related to WRESTLE PETER PAN on 8/20.
Match 3: Yuki Ueno vs. Kazuki Hirata. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Ueno beat Kazuki Hirata. Comedy match with a hilarious ending.
Quick break for ring cleaning and to get things set up for the next match.
Match 4: Hardcore Match: Carousell ❤️ Shun ＆ Elizabeth ❤️ Tohi vs. Suzu Suzuki ＆ Akane Fujita. 30 minute time limit
Result: Suzu Suzuki & Akane Fujita beat Carousell ❤️ Shun ＆ Elizabeth ❤️ Tohi. Suzuki pinned Shun with a German suplex hold. Hardcore comedy match. The losers were really Shunma Katsumata & Toui Kojima.
Another break for ring cleaning.
The participants for this year’s KING OF DDT Tournament are announced. This year’s tournament will be held on 6/16, 6/19 & 7/3.
Match 5: Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku vs. Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Ilsion & el Unicorn. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Ilsion & el Unicorn. Koroku beat Unicorn with a Boston crab.
Match 6: KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. MAO & Asuka (Veny) for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: MAO & Asuka beat KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi to win the titles. MAO & Asuka become the 74th KO-D Tag Team Champions. MAO pinned Brookes after a lariat.
Main Event: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani in a tournament final for the vacant KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani to win the tournament and the titles. Sasaki, Pawl & KANON become the 46th KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Sasaki beat Okatani with a crossface. Minoru Fujita interfered earlier to prevent Eruption from winning the titles.
Overall this was a comedy-heavy event outside of the last two matches, and very entertaining as a result. If you watch the on demand replay, the total running time of the event was 2 1/2 hours.
This will be updated tomorrow with the attendance and post-event news/fallout, if any.
The next event is Saturday at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka. There will be no live broadcast but the event will be available on demand at a later date. In fact, of the 5 remaining events before CyberFight Festival 2022 only one live broadcast is scheduled (the rest will be on demand on a roughly 3-day delay). If you have not subscribed to WRESTLE UNIVERSE before make sure to start your free 22-week trial after June 1 so you can watch CyberFIght Festival FOR FREE! Remember to cancel before the 12th day so you don’t pay anything if you don’t want to continue subscribing.
UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 529.
Keiji Muto has been added to CyberFight Festival 2022 where he will make an “important announcement”.
