Tag: DDT

DDT has announced another injury absence, this one more concerning and likely long-term for Kazusada Higuchi. Neck. Out indefinitely. No further details provided but hopefully it’s not serious-you never know with neck injuries. At worst they can be life-threatening (as Hiromu Takahashi will tell you). At best maybe out a few weeks but often they can be months or years (like with Will Ospreay).

More as it becomes available.

DDT headed to the boat races today for a special event around racing day in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Boat Race Tama River in Tokyo and may be a ailable on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced but this may have been a free event.

Match 1: Sanshiro Takagi & Junta Miyawaki beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Hinata Kasai. Miyawaki pinned Kasai.

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno, Akito & Pocotan beat Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA & Kazuki Horata. Pocotan pinned Hirata after a divong headbutt.

Match 3: Tokyo Joshi Pro Match: Aja Kong & Yuki Kamifuku beat Shoko Nakajima & Chika Nanase. Kamifuku pinned Nanase after Fameasser.

Match 4: MAO, KANON & Kazuma Sumi beat Naomi Yoshimura, Takeshi Masada & Yuki Ishida. MAO pinned Ishida.

Main Event: Jun Akiyama, To-y & Yuya Koroku beat Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya & Rukiya. To-y pinned Rukiya after Kojima Impact.

After the matches ended, there were several other events held with fans and MAO & KANON presenting congratulatory flowers to a race winner.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

An interesting announcement from DDT today-as part of the 3/24 event at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo there will be a survey among fans in attendance at the end of the event-Continue Super Japan Pro Wrestling or End It Immediately?

For background. Super Japan is the latest Sanshiro Takagi produced independent project separate from DDT, which he started a couple years ago after taking a step back from wrestling full-time and launching M&A Pro Wrestling, promoted by DDT but featuring no DDT wrestlers aside from Takagi on these events (essentially independent). After a few events Takagi ended the project and started Super Japan to replace it, following mostly the same premise. He usually does these events every 3-4 months or so.

The vote will be majority so we’ll see what happens after the 3/24 event. (That will be a Super Japan event)

For further background from DDT’s website (machine translated from Japanese): “On March 25, 1997, DDT held a pre-flag-raising match titled “Judgment” at Hibiya Radio City. At this box office, he declared that “if the support of the majority of the audience is not obtained, the flag raising will be canceled,” and after all the games, the spectators were asked whether or not to raise the flag. As a result, the majority of support was obtained, and DDT was officially launched.”

Yuki Ueno has been pushing, and pushed, more than perhaps any other DDT wrestler this year. Unfortunately it’s caught up with him and he was injured yesterday and is headed to the sidelines. Right calf. Out at least the next 2 events, or probably at least a week. Ueno plans to be in attendance at both events and hold an autograph session so hopefully that’s a sign it isn’t serious. For tomorrow (the second event, it’s a same-day doubleheader with a D GENERATIONS event first, which comes up tonight. No live broadcast) he was to have been in an 8-man tag match. Ryoma Tsukamoto is the replacement. He should be part of a public signing ceremony for he next KO-D Openweight/Universal Title match which is in 2 weeks so we’ll have to monitor his condition.

More as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Ueno will be out a little longer than anticipated. Now off Saturday as well but will be in attendance for an autograph session with fans.

DDT got their 2026 going today with the first monthly tour opener of the year and the start of the 2026 D GENERATIONS CUP.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There was an emergency addition announced last-minute to the event on social media, which was Chris Brookes announcing his newest faction-Fantomes Dramatic, with himself, Antonio Honda (of course), Kazuki Hirata & HARASHIMA. That’s a bit of a surprise…but I guess it’s “because he’a training!”

After this the opening ceremony for the D GENERATIONS CUP was held with all the participants. Well, 9 of them anyway from what I saw (there are 10 this year). It’s a 2 block round-robin format.

Match 1: D GENERATIONS CUP Block B: Yuni beat Hinata Kasai.

Match 2: D GENERATIONS CUP Block B: Yuya Koroku beat Rukiya.

Match 3: Akito beat Dansboku Dirno & Kazuki Hirata in a 3-way by beating both. As a result, GM Imabayashi was dismissed…but Akito overturned it via his executive role. (He is also an assistant GM/Vice President in DDT)

Match 4: D GENERATIONS CUP Block A: Kazuma Sumi beat Illusion.

Match 5: D GENERATIONS CUP Block A: Daichi Sato beat Yuki Ishida.

Match 6: Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya, Junta Miyawaki & Takeshi Masada beat MAO, KANON, Jun Akiyama & Munetatsu Nakamuta (Ganbare Pro). Iino pinned KANON after a spear.

Main Event: Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA & Antonio Honda beat Yuki Ueno, To-y & Kazusada Higuchi and Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani & Demus in a 3-way when Brookes pinned To-y.

The next event is Saturday at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT began their 2026 today with their first monthly Tokyo signature event of the year, New Year Dramatic Parade 2026.

Today’s event was held at Korakuen hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. There was a last-minute commentary change as the scheduled guest was unable to attend and was removed just before the event. The always vauge poor health. As an emergency decision, Saki Akai was the replacement.

The paid attendance was not announced but it was a legit advance sellout.

During the opening ceremony and roster greeting, Pro Wrestling NOAH wrestler Junta Miyawaki appeared and announced, later confirmed by DDT, that he will be participating regularly in DDT effective today.

Match 1: Junta Miyawaki beat Rukiya.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul, Illusion & Demus beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Yuya Koroku, Daichi Sato, Yuni & Hinata Kasai. Illusion pinned Sato.

Match 3: Shinya Aoki beat Sanshiro Takagi.

Match 4: Jun Akiyama, Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya beat Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida. Naya pinned Ishida after The World’s Largest Backdrop.

Match 5: Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada beat HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. Brookes pinned Hirata after Praying Mantis Bomb. Afterwards, with this being Masada’s last match with the faction, Brookes announced that Schadenfreude International was officially disbanded.

Match 6: Konosuke Takeshita & Akito beat Danshoku Dieno & Super Sasadango Machine in 56 seconds. Takeshita pinned Machine. Which led to…
Match 6 (again): In a handicap match, Konosuke Takeshita beat Akito, Danshoku Dieno & Super Sasadango Machine by pinning Dieno.

Main Event: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Yuki Ueno, To-y & Kaisei Takechi beat MAO, KANON & Kazuma Sumi to retain the titles. To-y pinned Sumi after Kojima Impact. V2 for the champs.

During the ending announcements, New Japan wrestler El Phantasmo attacked Brookes ahead of their match tomorrow at Tokyo Dome.

The next event is Monday at Shinjuku Face with the start of the 2026 D GENERATIONS CUP Tournament. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

DDT hosts a Super Japan Pro Wrestling event today, the latest Sanshiro Takagi Produced project event featuring only non-DDT affiliated wrestlers outside of Takagi himself. And that of course means the fellow oldest member at 57 years old, New Japan wrestler Yuji Nagata, participation as well as some familiar other veterans (Taiji Ishimori will also participate from New Japan)and also a women’s match, and surely plenty of comedy to go along with it and wrap up 2025 on a lighter note.

Today’s event will be held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. There will be no commentary. There are 6 matches scheduled with no intermissions so the longest the event could run is about 3 hours, but it probably will be closer to 2 hours. Although the main event does have an always-long & unpredictable Kuroshio TOKYO Japan entrance, so who knows.

Today’s lineup:
Ryoma Tsukamoto vs. Shota
DJ Nira vs. Muscle Sakai (Super Sasadango Machine)
Mio Shirai vs. Marika Kobashi
MIKAMI & TakashI Sasaki vs. “Shows” & “Reiwa” 2
Brahmans Shu & Kei & Taiji Ishimori vs. Shuji Kondo, Ken Ohka & Mac Matsushita
Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Kasai & Munenori Sawa vs. Yuji Nagata, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Fuminori Abe

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 15 minutes before the event.

6:45 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 10-15 minutes.

7 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan. There is no commentary.

The paid attendance will not be announced after the event. Based on advance ticket sales, it could be a legit sellout with only a few same-day tickets left. If not it will be very close. So it’s safe to say full capacity and they’ll proabbly do 475-500.

Sanshiro Takagi comes out to open the event. Quick greeting and start shout.

The matches begin at 7:05 PM PT/10:05 PM ET.

Match 1: Ryoma Tsukamoto vs. Shota. 30 minute time limit
Result: Shota beat Ryoma Tsukamoto

Match 2: DJ Nira (maybe the only wrestler without entrance music) vs. Muscle Sakai. 30 minute time limit
Result: Unclear. Comedy match where they kept turning the lights on & off and inconclusive ending. Maybe Nira was declared winner as there was no music.

Match 3: Mio Shirai vs. Marika Kobashi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Mio Shirai beat Marika Kobashi

Match 4: MIKAMI & TakashI Sasaki vs. “Showa” 2 & “Reiwa” 2. 30 minute time limit
Result: MIKAMI & Takashi Sasaki beat Showa 2 & Reiwa 2. MIKAMI pinned Showa (I think).

Match 5: Brahmans Shu & Kei & Taiji Ishimori (New Japan) vs. Shuji Kondo, Ken Ohka & Mac Matsushita. 30 minute time limit
Result: Brahmans Shu & Kei & TaijI Ishimori beat Shuji Kondo, Ken Ohka & Mac Matsushita. Ishimori beat Matsushita with Bone Lock.

Break for ring cleaning (there was no intermission scheduled but it looks like we’re having one now before the last match).

We return after about a 12 minute break.

Main Event: Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Kasai & Munenori Sawa vs. Yuji Nagata (Nre Japan), Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Fuminori Abe. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuji Nagata, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan & Fuminori Abe beat Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Kasai & Munenori Sawa. Nagata beat Takagi with Nagata Lock 2.

This event was basically the comedy portion of DDT with just a little actual wrestling thrown in. If you like the wacky humor this is your kind of event.

There probably will be more such events in 2026, just not sure when yet.

The next event, the first of 2026, is Saturday at Korakuen Hall. The event is a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

DDT wrapped up their 2025 this weekend with a house show doubleheader in Nagoya.

Both events were held at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday (yesterday’s event) and Wednesday (today’s event). There were no live broadcasts.

The paid attendance was not announced. Today’s event was a legit sellout.

Yesterday:
Match 1: Yuki Iino beat Hinata Kasai.

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno & Yuni beat Kazuki Hirata & Takao Soma. Yuni pinned Hirata after a firebird splash.

Match 3: Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida beat Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul & Illusion. Ishida pinned Illusion after Flame Palm.

Match 4: Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA & Akito beat Yukio Naya, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato. Akito beat Koroku with Goliath Bird Eater.

Match 5: MAO & KANON beat Daisuke Sasaki & Demus. KANON pinned Demus after The Guru-Guru Driver.

Main Event: Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada beat Yuki Ueno, To-y & Kazuma Sumi. Masada pinned Sumi after a Brookes Praying Mantis Bomb.

Today:
Match 1: Yuni beat Hinata Kasai.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya beat Kazuki Hirata & Akito. Naya pinned Hirata after an elbow drop.

Match 3: Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada beat Jun Akiyama, Kazusada Higuchi & Naomi Yoshimura. Honda pinned Yoshimura.

Match 4: HARASHIMA beat Takao Soma. This was Soma’s last match before an extended absence for treatment of a knee injury he’s worked through. Post-match, Soma vowed to return some time next year. HARASHIMA provided some optimism with his signature catch phrase these days-Because It’s Training/Practicing!

Match 5: MAO & KANON beat Yuki Ueno & Danshoku Dieno. KANON pinned Dieno after a lariat.

Main Event: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul, Demus & Illusion beat KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions To-y, Yuya Koroku, Daichi Sato, Yuki Ishida & Kazuma Sumi to win the titles. Sasaki, Okatani, Paul, Demus & Illusion become the 11th KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions. Illusion pinned Sumi after a swanton bomb.

The event ended with a Dieno & Ueno mini-talk show event instead of an ending announcement. They were perhaps hoping to go for a KO-D Tag Team Championship shot, but not so much after today.

The next event is a Sanshiro Takagi Produced Super Japan Pro Wrestling event tomorrow at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin TONIGHT at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

DDT ran their penultimate event of 2025 which was also the year’s last Tokyo event.

Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Daichi Sato & Yuni beat Rukiya & Hinata Kasai. Yuni pinned Kasai after a firebird splash.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul & Demus beat Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya, Super Sasadango Machine & Takao Soma. Sasaki beat Soma with a crossface.

Match 3: O-MENZ Kunadori beat Illusion.

Match 4: KANON beat Yuya Koroku.

Match 5: In a match where no kissing was allowed for the first 5 minutes and also no pinfalls or submissions for those first 5 minutes, Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Akiyama & HARASHIMA beat Danshoku Dieno, Kazuki Hirata & Akito. HARASHIMA pinned Hirata after Blue Sword.

Match 6: Chris Brookes beat Takeshi Masada. Afterwards, it sounded like Brookes decided to disband Schadenfreude International and leave so if it still exists, it’s only Antonio Honda and maybe Masa Takanashi.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, MAO & Kazusada Higuchi beat To-y, Kazuna Sumi & Yuki Ishida. MAO pinned Sumi.

The next event is Saturday at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya for a year-ending weekend doubleheader. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Tuesday.

DDT runs their final Tokyo signature event of 2025 today, RING FINALE 2025, which is a misleading title because it’s not the final event of the year. But it’s the last big one loaded with 3 title matches. First up, To-y defends the DDT Extreme Championship against Yasu Urano in a “Finish it now!! If you can’t do it now, To-y loses!!” match where a lottery is held every 2 minutes and, after that, the match can only be won by pinfall or submission using that specific technique picked from social media (except for ring outs and DQs). And it’s only 10 minutes plus if it goes the distance, Urano wins the title. The second title match is MAO & KANON defending the KO-D Tag Team Championship against the outside intruding team of Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox. Finally, in the main event Yuki Ueno defends the KO-D Openweight Championship against Takeshi Masada (this is not a double title match).

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Aya Shibata, a former member of SKE48 who is currently a freelance announcer, will be the special guest on commentary. There is a pre-show match scheduled before the event, and the Extreme rules may shorten the running time a bit, however I anticipate with the pre-show match it will have a total running time of about 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show:
Takao Soma, Kazuma Sumi & Yuni vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Daichi Sato & Rukiya
Main show:
Minoru Suzuki & Akito vs. Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku
Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, Demus & Illusion vs. Toru Owashi, Danshoku Dieno, Super Sasadango Machine & Kazuki Hirata
Shinya Aoki, Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida and Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Hinata Kasai in a 3-way
Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & Sanshiro Takagi vs. HARASHIMA & Kaisei Takechi
DDT Extreme Champion To-y vs. Yasu Urano in a Finish it now!! If you can’t do it now, To-y loses!! match for the title. a lottery is held every 2 minutes and, after that, the match can only be won by pinfall or submission using that specific technique picked from social media (except for ring outs and DQs). If the match goes to a 10 minute time limit draw, Urano wins the title
KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & KANON vs. Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox for the titles
KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno vs. Takeshi Masada for the title

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Updates below will begin at 6:10 PM PT/9:10 PM ET for the pre-show match. The main show is scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET. (Late Pre-Show Update: The live stream is now scheduled to begin at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET)

6 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in 10 minutes.

6:10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates start now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Satoshi Dairaku, Kagehiro Osano & special guest Aya Shibata. We presumably will be joined by Haruo Murata later on in place of Dairaku.

The paid attendance will not be announced after the event. Already a decent early crowd, same-day ticket sales indicate not a sellout.

Pre-show match: Takao Soma, Kazuma Sumi & Yuni vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Daichi Sato & Rukiya. 15 minute time limit
Result: Takao Soma, Kazuma Sumi & Yuni beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Daichi Sato & Rukiya. Soma pinned Matsunaga. Afterwards, Shunma Katsumata joined the winners in the ring to lead the crowd in a sendoff chant for Soma, who will be out indefinitely starting next month due to treatment for a knee injury. Then transitioned to NwA Jr. opening live.

Updates will resume when the main show begins (6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET).

Main show:
The matches begin at 6:33 PM PT/9:33 PM ET.

Match 1: Minoru Suzuki & Akito vs. Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku. 30 minute time limit
Result: Minoru Suzuki & Akito beat Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku. Suzuki pinned Koroku after a Gotch-style piledriver.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, Demus & Illusion vs. Toru Owashi, Danshoku Dieno, Super Sasadango Machine & Kazuki Hirata. 30 minute time limit
Result: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, Demus & Illusion beat Toru Owashi, Danshoku Dieno, Super Sasadango Machine & Kazuki Hirata in just a few seconds. Sasaki beat Hirata with a crossface. Then Hirata with microphone. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, Demus & Illusion vs. Toru Owashi, Danshoku Dieno, Super Sasadango Machine & Kazuki Hirata. 30 minute time limit
Result: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani, Demus & Illusion beat Toru Owashi, Danshoku Dieno, Super Sasadango Machine & Kazuki Hirata. Illusion pinned Hirata after a swanton bomb.

Quick break for the opening announcements, today with the Microphone Inoue (one of the ring announcers) filling in for GM Imabayashi. They also introduce representatives from Axseed, a company that is the sponsor of today’s main event.

Match 3: Shinya Aoki, Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida and Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Hinata Kasai in a 3-way. 30 minute time limit
Result: Shinya Aoki, Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya beat Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida and Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Hinata Kasai in a 3-way when Iino pinned Kasai.

Your new host is Haruo Murata, taking over for Satoshi Dairaku.

Match 4: Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & Sanshiro Takagi vs. HARASHIMA & Kaisei Takechi. 30 minute time limit
Result: HARASHIMA & Kaisei Takechi beat Yuji Nagata & Sanshiro Takagi. Takechi pinned Takagi. Afterwards, Nagata put Takechi over before leaving and wished him good luck in his New Japan debut at the Tokyo Dome on 1/4.

Match 5: DDT Extreme Champion To-y vs. Yasu Urano in a Finish it now!! If you can’t do it now, To-y loses!! match for the title. a lottery is held every 2 minutes and, after that, the match can only be won by pinfall or submission using that specific technique picked from social media (except for ring outs and DQs). If the match goes to a time limit draw, Urano wins the title. 10 minute time limit
Result: DDT Extreme Champion To-y beat Yasu Urano to retain the title. V6 for To-y. With a big assist to the Matsui referee.

Match 6: KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & KANON vs. Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & KANON beat Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox to retain the titles. KANON pinned Masaoka. V2 for the champs. As the winners finished their post-match promo, Yuki Iino came out and speared MAO. Yukio Naya was right behind. With microphone. Challenge issued, they want the titles back. It’s now official for after the new year.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno vs. Takeshi Masada for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno beat Takeshi Masada to retain the title. V4 for Ueno. Next up: Sasaki. Low blow to deliver his message then a beatdown until Brookes made the save. And bitch slapped Ueno for good measure. Following some bantering, Akito made it official-the next defense will be a 3-way. And for both titles with multiple falls is what it sounds like.

The next event is Wednesday at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

UPDATE: Both title matches hinted at above will happen on 1/25. The 3-way will be an Irregular 2 Falls Double Title match-the first fall will be for the DDT Universal Championship, then the second fall will be for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Kaisei Takechi participation was also announced for 1/25.

UPDATE 2: In post-event backstage comments, it was revealed that Masada announced he will leave the Shadenfreude International faction after the 1/3 Korakuen event. That means it’ll be just Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda for now (and Masa Takanashi who remains out).