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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).

Good news for DDT fans and especially those of NwA Jr., their male version of Tokyo Joshi Pro’s Up Up Girls-Yuni, who has been absent since summer, will return on 12/21 and be back to full-time going forward. Yuni went on hiatus in August to focus on education, specifically university/college entrance exams and preparation. Those were successful and he will now return to the promotion next week.

As a result, the 12/21 Korakuen Hall card has been changed for his return. What was a pre-show match of Takao Soma & Kazuma Sumi vs. Daichi Sato & Rukiya will now be Soma, Sumi & Yuni vs. Sato, Rukiya & Tokokitsu Matsunaga

DDT began their December house show tour today in Tokyo with an event oddly titled GO UPDATE 2025.

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: Takao Soma & Shota beat Yuya Koroku & Hinata Kasai. Soma pinned Kasai after Mad Splash. Although DDT announced Soma would be out several months due to treatment for a knee injury that absence will not start until 1/1 so he’ll finish the year before going on hiatus.

Match 2; Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata. Honda pinned Hirata.

Match 3: Yuji Iino & Yukio Naya beat Hideki Okatani & Demus. Naya pinned Demus after The World’s Largest Backdrop.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & Illusion beat HARASHIMA, Akito & O-MENZ Kumadori. Illusion pinned Kumadori after a swanton bomb. Afterwards, Illusion demanded a potential final fight-a match against Kumadori, which may have already happened had it not been for a Kumadori injury earlier this year. That match will happen on 12/24.

Match 5: Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshinura & Yuki Ishida beat Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Akiyama & Tomomitsu Matdunaga. Ishida pinned Matsunaga.

Match 6: Jun Masaoka, Gaia Hox & Rukiya beat MAO, KANON & Kazuma Sumi. Masaoka inner Sumi after F-DRIVE 2.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno & To-y beat Taleshi Masada & Yasu Urano by ref stoppage (TKO). Ueno beat Masada with a blackout sleeper. Afterwards, Urano stole the DDT Extreme Championship belt from To-y and declared himself UNOFFICIAL Champion, leading Akito to announce an OFFICIAL title match where To-y will defend against Urano. That match will happen on 12/21 at Korakuen Hall. Rules TBA.

The next event is 12/14 at Yume Messe Miyagi in Sendai. There will be no live broadcast. On demand on 12/17.

If you watch DDT events, you may know that when he’s not wrestling Takao Soma is also the manager of Dropkick, a sports bar run by the promotion (there are a few such wrestling-themed others in Japan, such as Count 2.99 in-I think-Osaka and Sumire Natsu’s NatsuBar in Tokyo). He might have to put that on hold for a while as he won’t be wrestling for a time either. Left knee, which is an existing injury. Out indefinitely starting in January for treatment. It’s not yet known how long Soma may be out but it’s safe to say months.

More as it becomes available.

DDT runs their monthly Tokyo signature event today, this month’s dubbed “BE AMBITIOUS-Autumn Battle Rhapsody”. 3 title matches headline today’s event, and you could argue it’s 4 because the main event is a double title match-as both the KO-D Openweight Champion and DDT Universal Champion Yuki Ueno will be defending both titles today against challenger Super Sasadango Machine, or masked comedy version of Muscle Sakai if you prefer. The other title matches feature KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & KANON vs. Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani for the titles and DDT Extreme Champion To-y vs. Sanshiro Takagi for the title. For the Extreme title match, it will be a Weapon Gamble with these rules-Using Takagi’s pocket money as seed capital, each wrestler engages in public gambling beforehand to increase funds and purchase weapons. During the match, these weapons are randomly deployed at set intervals. Simultaneously, some form of gambling occurs in the ring, and only the victorious wrestler may use that weapon. If a wrestler who lost the gamble uses it, it would likely mean a DQ. Victory is by normal wrestling rules. Additionally, Konosuke Takeshita will return for a match today against Shinya Aoki.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Actress Ami Tomite will be a special guest on commentary. There is a pre-show match scheduled before the event so it will be a longer Korakuen event than normal, I would anticipate a total running time of at least 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show:
Akito, Daichi Sato & Yuya Koroku vs. Takao Soma, Rukiya & Hinata Kasai
Main show:
Danshoku Dieno, Antonio Honda & Kazuma Sumi vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata
Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya vs. Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox and Demus & Illusion in a 3-way
Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA, MBM & Ultimo Sombra vs. Chris Brookes, Takeshi Masada, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida
DDT Extreme Champion To-y vs. Sanshiro Takagi in a Weapon Gamble Match for the title
KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & KANON vs. Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani for the titles
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Shinya Aoki
KO-D Openweight Champion & DDT Universal Champion Yuki Ueno vs. Super Sasadango Machine for the titles

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Updates below will begin at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET. The pre-show match is scheduled to start at 6:05 PM PT/9:05 PM ET. The main show is scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

6:05 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Satoshi Dairaku, Kagehiro Osano and special guest Ami Tomite. Haruo Murata will join us later.

The paid attendance will not be announced after the event as they stopped doing it this year.

The pre-show match starts a couple minutes after the stream begins.

Pre-show match: Akito, Daichi Sato & Yuya Koroku vs. Takao Soma, Rukiya & Hinata Kasai. 15 minute time limit
Result: Akito, Daichi Sato & Yuya Koroku beat Takao Soma, Rukiya & Hinata Kasai. Sato pinned Kasai.

NwA Jr. pre-show live performance.

Main show:
The matches begin at 6:35 PM PT/9:35 PM ET.

Match 1: Danshoku Dieno, Antonio Honda & Kazuma Sumi vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kazusada Higuchi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata beat Danshoku Dieno, Antonio Honda & Kazuma Sumi in moments before Dieno even got to the ring. Higuchi beat Honda with a claw hold. GM Imabayashi immediately with microphone to the ring afterwards. EN FUEGO. Get him a throat lozenge! He did Dieno’s intro again. Which led to…
Match 1 (again): Danshoku Dieno, Antonio Honda & Kazuma Sumi vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kazusada Higuchi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata beat Danshoku Dieno, Antonio Honda & Kazuma Sumi. Hirata pinned Honda. Comedy match(es) of course.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya vs. Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox (Independent/Freelancers) and Demus & Illusion in a 3-way. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun Masaoka & Gaia Hox beat Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya and Demus & Illusion in a 3-way when Masaoka pinned Illusion. Afterwards, Masaoka/Hox with microphone. KO-D Tag Team Championship challenge issued.

Kaisei Takechi’s next 2 DDT matches are announced. On 12/21 it will be Takechi & HARASHIMA vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Yuji Nagata (New Japan). On 1/3 it will be KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Yuki Ueno, To-y & Takechi vs. MAO, KANON & Kazuma Sumi for the titles.

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

Match 3: Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA, MBM & Ultimo Sombra vs. Chris Brookes, Takeshi Masada, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida. 30 minute time limit
Result: Chris Brookes, Takeshi Masada, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida beat Jun Akiyama, HARASHIMA, MBM & Ultimo Sombra. Masada pinned MBM.

Match 4: DDT Extreme Champion To-y vs. Sanshiro Takagi in a Weapon Gamble Match for the title. Using Takagi’s pocket money as seed capital, each wrestler engages in public gambling beforehand to increase funds and purchase weapons. During the match, these weapons are randomly deployed at set intervals. Simultaneously, some form of gambling occurs in the ring, and only the victorious wrestler may use that weapon. If a wrestler who lost the gamble uses it, it would likely mean a DQ. Victory is by normal wrestling rules. 1 Hour time limit. The weapons: First, a bunch of “Unpaid Wrestlers” Second, Takagi’s briefcase.. Third, Dramatic Dream aka Takagi’s super-bicycle. Fourth, a “regular” bicycle for To-y. Fifth, a Parent-Teacher Conference with Miwa Kojima, To-y’s mother.
Result: DDT Extreme Champion To-y beat Sanshiro Takagi to retain the title. V5 for To-y. With an assist to his bitch-slapping mom.

Quick break for ring cleaning.

Match 5: KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & KANON vs. Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & KANON beat Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani to retain the titles. KANON pinned Okatani. V1 for the champs. Interestingly, despite making a title challenge earlier on, no Masaoka/Hox afterwards as MAO & KANON did their whole post-match promo without interruption.

Match 6: Konosuke Takeshita vs. Shinya Aoki. 30 minute time limit
Result: Konosuke Takeshita beat Shinya Aoki

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion & DDT Universal Champion Yuki Ueno vs. Super Sasadango Machine for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KO-D Openweight Champion & DDT Universal Champion Yuki Ueno beat Super Sasadango Machine to retain the titles. V3 Openweight & V1 Universal for Ueno. After Machine left, GM Imabayashi hit the ring. With microphone. Time to talk next challenger. Ueno called out the younger guys who make up the D GENERATION SP unofficial unit .I heard Ueno mention a tournament. The Matsui referee with microphone. It sounds like we’re about to have a rock-paper-scissors tournament in the ring. That’s the case and the 9 or 10 at the start were narrowed down to Yuki Ishida & Takeshi Masada. And the final winner is…Masada. The next shot is his. That match will happen on 12/21 (official confirmation to come later(.

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

UPDATE: It’s now official. Ueno-Masada will be on 12/21 and will be for only the KO-D Openweight Championship, not the DDT Universal Championship so not a double title match.

UPDATE 2: The next KO-D Tag Team Championship match was made official after the event-Masaoka & Hox will get the next shot. That match will happen on 12/21.

DDT ran a Kazuma Sumi hometown event today for the first time in Sumi’s 3 year career.

Today’s event was held at Mie Cultural Center Multipurpose Hall in Mie and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yuya Koroku beat MBM & Altima Sombra. Koroku pinned MBM after Transformed Triangle Lancer.

Match 2: Alito beat HARASHIMA & Kazuki Hirata in a 3-way by pinning Hirata.

Match 3: Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya beat MJ Paul & Demus. Iino pinned Paul after a spear.

Match 4: Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshinura & Yuki Ishida beat Chris Brookes, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada. Yoshimura beat Honda with a side headlock.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno & To-y beat Jun Akiyama & Daichi Sato. To-y pinned Sato after Kojima Impact.

Main Event: MAO, KANON & Kazuma Sumi beat Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okayani & Illusion. Sumi pinned Illusion after a reverse 450 splash. Afterwards, Suni cut a hometown promo and vowed to return as a singles champion to send the crowd home happy.

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

DDT has posted the latest update in Masa Takanashi, hospitalized since suffering a major neck injury earlier this year. This update is a best-case one…Takanashi has been discharged and will continue rehab from home. DDT’s online store selling Takanashi goods to raise funds for his recovery will close in December at his request. In a brief statement, Takanashi thanked fans for their continued support and also expressed gratitude to hospital staff.