DDT continues the D KING Grand Prix 2022 today as part of a doubleheader with Ganbare Pro, who ran their event before this one.
Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The announced paid attendance was 239, a super full house/very near sellout.
During the opening announcements, Yuki Urno came out for the opening shout and to promote his new side hustle-he is now an actor. Ueno is currently starring in a popular series on TV Kanagawa in Kanagawa Prefecture, a modern re-imagining of legendary samurai Nobunaga Oda and others in today’s Japan as teenagers and roommates. If you’ve played any Koei (now Koei Tecmo Games) games over the last 40 years, namely any of the “Nobunaga’s Ambition” or “Samurai Warriors” games (also “Warriors Orochi”), you’ll know these names.
Match 1: Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Takao Soma, Toui Kojima & Takeshi Masada. Okada pinned Kojima after Sudden Death.
Match 2: HARASHIMA produced match: In a Blindfolded Breasts Match, a comedy match where everyone wore bras and the match also ended when someone’s bra was stripped off, Antonio Honda & Shunma Katsumata beat HARASHIMA & Kazuki Hirata. Katsumata beat HARASHIMA by bra stripping. Afterwards, HARASHIMA admitted he lost “because I’m training”. This is classic “Only In DDT” stuff.
Match 3: D KING GP Block B: Yuji Hino beat KANON.
Match 4: D KING GP Block B: Yukio Naya beat MAO.
Match 5: Rickey Shane Page, Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi beat Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida. Page pinned Ishida after a backdrop.
Match 6: D KING GP Block A: Yuki Ueno beat Joey Janela.
Main Event: D KING GP Block A: Tetsuya Endo vs. Daisuke Sasaki went to a 30 minute time limit draw.
After 2 days, Endo leads Block A at 1-0-1, 3 points. Hino leads Block B at 2-0, 4 points. Not everybody has been in two matches yet though.
The next event is Saturday, which will also be this month’s DDT FREE event with free admission. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT.
