DDT began the post-WRESTLE PETER PAN portion of the year with their monthly DDT FREE event today, a free admission event beginning the build to when Konosuke Takeshita challenges Kazusada Higuchi for the KO-D Openweight Championship next month.
Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.
The announced attendance was 250, a super full house. All tickets were free so no paid admissions. Vocal cheering was allowed for this event.
Match 1: MAO, Shunma Katsumata & Kazuki Hirata beat Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Koju Takeda. Hirata pinned Dieno.
Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani by DQ. Okatani DQ’d. Ref assault.
Match 3: Tetsuya Endo beat Takeshi Masada.
Match 4: Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Chris Brookes beat Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. Brookes pinned Koroku after Praying Mantis Bomb.
Match 5: Yuki Ueno & Asuka (Veny) beat Joey Janela & Akito. Ueno pinned Akito after WR.
Match 6: HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi beat Naomi Yoshimura & Makoto Oishi. Owashi pinned Oishi after a powerbomb.
Main Event: Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida beat Konosuke Takeshita & Toui Kojima. Ishida pinned Kojima after Flame Palm.
The next event is a special “non-alcoholic beer garden wrestling” event Friday at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo. There will be no live broadcast.
In other DDT Group news…
If the Ganbare event Saturday is held as planned (weather permitting due to being outdoors), YuuRI is now off the event. Left hand injury. She was to have teamed with Moeka Haruhi & HARUKAZE to face Yuna Manase, Kakeru Sekiguchi & Yoshiko Hasefawa. Cherry is the replacement.
Eri Suzuki, an actress who is a voice actress on several popular anime series, will provide some of the opening video narration for the upcoming Tokyo Joshi Pro events on 8/28 at Korakuen Hall and 9/4 at Nagoya Congress Center. Suzuki is also part of TJPW’s collaboration with popular anime series “The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls”.
Koriki Choshu, a popular Japanese comedian known for his impersonation of wrestler Riki Choshu, will make a guest appearance at the 9/13 event at Asakusa Flower Theater in Tokyo.
