WRESTLE PETER PAN 2026, DDT’s biggest event of the year, is now in the books.
Today’s event was held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese.
The paid attendance was not announced. Not a sellout and was also greatly reduced capacity (full capacity is 15,000, usually for sumo).
Match 1: KANON, Yukio Naya & Viento Levante beat KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato to win the titles. KANON, Naya & Levante become the 61st KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Levante pinned Masada.
After that match…
Super Sasadango Machine beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Illusion to win the title. Machine becomes the 1885th Champion. Which led to…
Yuki Ishida beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Super Sasadango Machine to win the title. Ishida becomes the 1886th Champion. Which led to…
Yuni beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuki Ishida to win the title. Yuni becomes the 1887th Champion. Which led to…
Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuni to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1888th Champion. Which led to…
Akito beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata to win the title. Akito becomes the 1889th Champion.
Match 2: Illusion won a 12 man battle royal to win the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship. Illusion becomes the 1892nd Champion. Also winning the title during the match were Masami Inahata (1890) and Yoshihiko (1891) Which led to…
Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Illusion to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1893rd Champion.
Basically the whole second half-hour of the event was Iron Man title changes. Pro Wrestling, Everybody!!!
Match 3: Minoru Suzuki & Sanshiro Takagi beat Kazuki Hirata & To-y. Takagi pinned To-y after Stone Cold Stunner. As a result, Takagi wins the “Money In The Bank” title challenge rights from To-y.
Match 4: Jun Akiyama & Rukiya beat Jun & Hinata Kasai. Rukiya pinned Hinata Kasai with R. Fisherman’s Buster.
Match 5: In a Barbed Wire Deathmatch, Shunma Katsumata beat DDT Extreme Champion Hideki Okatani to win the title. Katsumata becomes the 65th DDT Extreme Champion. And also wins the “Money In The Bank” title challenge rights from Okatani.
Match 6: Shinya Aoki & Junta Miyawaki beat KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA to win the titles. Aoki & Miyawaki become the 90th KO-D Tag Team Champions. Miyawaki pinned HARASHIMA with Sunshine Clutch.
Match 7: YAMATO (Dragon Gate) beat Danshoku Dieno.
Match 8: Daisuke Sasaki & DOUKI (New Japan) beat Antonio Honda & Tetsuya Endo. Sasaki beat Honda with a crossface.
Match 9: Ryusuke Taguchi (New Japan) beat DDT Universal Champion Kazuma Sumi to win the title. Taguchi becomes the 22nd DDT Universal Champion. Oh My…
Match 10: Konosuke Takeshita beat Kaisei Takechi.
Main Event: MAO beat KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno to win the title. MAO becomes the 89th KO-D Openweight Champion. It took almost 34 minutes for MAO to end Ueno’s reign and finally win the title for the first time. But then Takagi cashed in! Which led to…
Impromptu Match: KO-D Openweight Champion MAO beat Samshiro Takagi to retain the title. V1 for MAO. So now that leaves Katsumata with the other challenge rights and about a month to use it, but there also is a right to challenge for the right out there.
And to wrap up things after 5+ hours like only DDT can…
Shogo Yamamoto beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata to win the title. Yamamoto becomes the 1894th Champion. (Yamamoto was a special guest and is a teammate of Kaiser Takechi in the entertainment group THE RAMPAGE)
It was also announced that next year, the 30th Anniversary Event on 3/22 will be held at Ryogoku Kokugikan. Usually it’s been at Korakuen Hall.
Now then before further wackiness ensues…
The next event is Thursday at Shinjuku Face for the start of a final Beer Garden Pro Wrestling doubleheader at the venue. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.