DDT held their “DRAMATIC EXPLOSION 2022” event today, a major show built around the signature death match gimmicks alongside their comedy style, although there were some big wrestling matches too.
Today’s event was held at Nagoya Congress Center in Nagoya and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese.
The announced paid attendance was 529, a full house/near sellout. It looked like a smaller capacity layout than Tokyo Joshi Pro’s event due to the planned matches. Vocal support by fans was allowed. Your hosts are Haruo Murata & Kagehiro Osano with special guest Marika Tani of SKE48, who changed out of her Yuki Arai shirt from earlier (supporting her SKE48 teammate during the TJPW event) into a Pheromons shirt. Shameful, haha.
Match 1: Yusuke Okada beat Takeshi Masada.
Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Kazuki Hirata & Antonio Honda. Iino pinned Hirata.
Match 3: Akito & Shinya Ishida beat MAO & Yuki Ishida. Akito beat Yuki Ishida with a Figure 4. No relation between the Ishidas.
Match 4: Yuki Ueno, Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi beat Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku. Oishi beat Koroku with a Fujiyama kneelock.
Match 5: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & Kanon beat Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani to retain the titles. KANON pinned Okatani after Sleepy Hollow. V2 for the champs. Next up: Hino, Oishi & Shiori Asahi. That will happen on 10/8 in Chiba.
Intermission. Skip ahead 10-15 minutes here.
Match 6: In a Bunkhouse Scramble Exploding Blast Current Death Match, Atsushi Onita, Shinya Aoki & Yukio Naya beat Konosuke Takeshita, Shunma Katsumata & Toui Kojima. Naya pinned Kojima. Afterwards, Kojima with microphone. He wants another such match with Onita.
Match 7: Chris Brookes beat Asuka (Veny).
Main Event: KO-D Tag Team Champions Kazusada Higuchi & Naomi Yoshimura beat HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi to retain the titles. Yoshimura pinned Owashi after a lariat. V1 for the champs. Next up: Sasaki & KANON. That will happen on 10/12 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Then Shinya Aoki teased cashing in his “Money In The Bank” open match rights (represented by an NFT collectible) on Higuchi then and there for the KO-D Openweight Championship, but ultimately did not.
The next event is the Konosuke Takeshita 10th Anniversary Event Saturday at Nishinari Community Center in Osaka. The live broadcast will be available ONLY IN JAPAN ON ABEMA. Tokyo Joshi Pro will have a 3-way tag match on the card as well.
