DDT held a special HARASHIMA hometown event today in Tokyo, now because he’s practicing or whatever, but because in his words it’s his hometown!
Today’s event was held at Sumitomo Metal Mining Arena Ome Sports Hall 1 in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNVERSE.
The paid attendance was not announced.
Match 1: Kazuma Sumi beat Illusion.
Match 2: Naomi Yoshimura & Takao Soma beat Makoto Oishi (Independent/Freelancer) & Shunma Katsumata. Yoshimura pinned Oishi after a lariat.
Match 3: Danshoku Dieno beat Kazuki Hirata.
Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani & MJ Paul beat Antonio Honda, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yuya Koroku. Sasaki beat Matsunaga with a crossface.
Match 5; MAO & KANON beat Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida. MAO pinned Ishida with a Japanese leg roll clutch hold.
Match 6: In a Falls Count Anywhere match, Yuki Ueno & To-y beat Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masada. To-y pinned Masada.
Match 7: KO-D Tag Team Champions Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya beat Jun Akiyama & Daichi Sato to retain the titles. Naya pinned Sato after The World’s Largest Backdrop. V1 for the champs. Next up: Damnation T.A. That match will happen on 8/30 at Higashin Arena.
Main Event: HARASHIMA, Yogi Makabe (New Japan) & Yasu Urano beat Shinya Aoki, Shuji Ishikawa & Akito. HARASHIMA pinned Akito after a swan dive Blue Sword.
The next event is Saturday at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka. There will be no live broadcast.
Elsewhere, there were some Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship title changes yesterday…Yuni won the title on 7/22 and yesterday went to an idol event also featuring Tokyo Joshi Pro’s Up Up Girls and Yuki Arai. During this, Kazuma Sumi won the title and then Shunma Katsumata won it from Sumi. After this, Reni Takashiro of idol group Momoiro Clover Z beat Katsumata to win the title and one of the most popular J-Pop idols right now became champion. For 6 minutes anyway, as Jun Suzue, a research student, then won the title.