A new and definitely wacky era began for DDT today with their first post-WRESTLE PETER PAN event.
Today’s event was held at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Friday. There was no live broadcast.
The paid attendance was not announced
There was a pre-show match which was a tag team match with names I don’t know.
Match 1: Rukiya beat Hinata Kasai.
Match 2: HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura beat Kazuki Hirata & Danshoku Dieno in 7 seconds. HARASHIMA pinned Hirata after a lariat. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura beat Kazuki Hirata & Danshoku Dieno in 21 seconds. HARASHIMA pinned Hirata after a lariat (again). Which led to…
Match 2 (yet again): HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura beat Kazuki Hirata & Danshoku Dieno. HARASHIMA pinned hirata after Blue Sword. Afterwards, HARASHIMA made a KO-D Openweight Championship challenge to Hirata but was rejected.
Match 3: In a Boom Boom In The Bank Ladder Match, where the team who retrieved the puppet toted around recently by Chris Brookes wins, Chris Brookes, Takeshi Masada & Tomomitsu Matsunaga beat Hideki Okatani, Illysion & MJ Paul when Masada retrieved the Boom Boom.
Match 4: Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya & Alito beat Jun Akiyama, Takao Soma & Daichi Sato. Iino pinned Soma after a spear. As a result, Iino wins Soma’s “Money In The Bank” title shot right and attempted to cash in for a shot at Hirata, but Hirata had reserved Iino’s personal gym so it did not happen.
Intermission featured a live comedy performance for the fans in attendance.
Match 5: MAO, KANON & Yoshihiko beat Yuki Ueno, To-y & Kazuma Sumi. Yoshihiko pinned Sumi after Reincarnation.
Main Event: Kazusada Higuchi, Ryota Nakatsu & Yuki Ishida beat Satoshi Kojima (New Japan), Antonio Honda & Yuya Koroku. Ishida pinned Honda after Flame Palm.
After the event, it was announced that Hirata’s first scheduled title defense will happen on 9/28 at Korakuen Hall vs. TBA. But with the “subject to change” caveat due to the Money In The Bank title shot rights out there.
The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama for a D GENERATIONS event. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET.