DDT headed to Fukuoka today to start the weekend’s events before they head to the US next week for The Collective.
Today’s event was held at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There was no live broadcast.
The paid attendance was not announced.
Match 1: Illusion beat Kazuma Sumi. Afterwards, Illusion made a KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship challenge to NwA Jr. on behalf of Damnation T.A.
Match 2: Toru Owashi, Akito & Yuki Ishida beat HARASHIMA, Azure Dragon & Kazuki Hirata in 11 seconds. Akito beat Hirata with a figure 4. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): HARASHIMA, Azure Dragon & Kazuki Hirata beat Toru Owashi, Akito & Yuki Ishida. HARASHIMA pinned Ishida after Raging Fire.
Match 3: Hideki Okatani beat Keigo Nakamura.
Match 4: Jun Akiyama, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat Kazusada Higuchi, Takao Soma & Yukio Naya. Akiyama pinned Soma.
Match 5: MAO & KANON beat Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul. MAO pinned Paul after Iai Kick.
Main Event: Chris Brookes, Danshoku Dieno & Takeshi Masada beat Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y. Dieno pinned To-y.
Immediately after the main event…
Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Shunma Katsumata to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1742nd Champion.
The next event is tomorrow at Shibushi City “Unagi no Station” special venue in Kagoshima. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Wednesday. After this event they head to the US for The Collective in Las Vegas, NV and will run an event Friday then a joint event with Tokyo Joshi Pro and Game Changer Wrestling Saturday. Both events will be available live & on demand on TrillerTV/FITE with a TrillerTV+ subscription (if you’re not a current subscriber it’s $7.99/month or $71.99/year but there is a 1 week free trial for new subscribers so sign up right before The Collective and you can watch all the events FOR FREE!). Friday’s event will begin at 3 PM PT/6 PM ET. Saturday’s event will begin at 2 PM PT/5 PM ET.
