DDT continued their current tour today with a Yuki Ishida hometown event.
Today’s event was held at El Caimo Yatsushiro in Kumamoto and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 273, a super full house/very near sellout.
Match 1: To-y beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga.
Match 2: Shunma Katsumata & Keigo Nakamura beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Danshoku Dieno & Takao Soma, with Katsumata pinning Dieno to win the title. Katsumata becomes the 1676th Champion. Katsumata also wins Dieno’s “Money In The Bank” title shot. Nakamura then immediately tried and failed to win the title.
Match 3: Yuki Iino beat Kazuki Hirata by ref stoppage (TKO).
Match 4: Jun Akiyama & HARASHIMA beat Chris Brookes & Kazuma Sumi. HARASHIMA pinned Sumi after Blue Sword.
Intermission.
Match 5: Yuki Ueno & MAO beat Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku. Ueno pinned Koroku after July 2.
Main Event: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat Akito, Yukio Naya & Yuki Ishida to retain the titles. Sasaki beat Ishida with a crossface. V3 for the champs. Despite the loss, Ishida delivered a hometown promo to end the show. Which led to…
Impromptu Match: Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Shunma Katsumata to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1677th Champion. Nakamura tried yet again to win the title from Katsumata but was thwarted by Hirata interfering and stealing the win & title.
The next event is Thursday at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo for the last Beer Garden Pro Wrestling event of the year. The promotion has offered refunds for tickets already purchased because Kota Ibushi will not be at the next 2 events as originally announced (this event and Sunday). There will be no live broadcast.
