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DDT held a Gorgeous Matsuno 60th Birthday & 20th Anniversary event today, the first time the wrestler has held one of his “Gorgeous Night” events since before the pandemic began.

Today’s event was held at Fukushima Toyota Crown Arena aka Fukushima National Sports Memorial Gym Sub Arena in Fukushima and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 830, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani beat Kazuki Hirata & Yuni. Okatani pinned Yuni with a Northern Lights suplex hold.

Match 2: Yuki Iino beat Kazuma Sumi, Akito & Yuki Ueno in a 4-way by pinning Sumi.

Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat Yusuke Okada, Toi Kojima & Yuya Koroku. Sasaki beat Koroku with a Mystica crossface.

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo & Jun Akiyama beat Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida. Endo pinned Ishida after a rotating torture rack bomb.

Match 5: Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi beat Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masada. Hino pinned Brookes after Fuckin’ BOMB.

Main Event: Gorgeous Matsuno, HARASHIMA & Yukio Sakaguchi beat Toru Owashi, Danshoku Dieno & Antonio Honda. Matsuno pinned Honda after Gorgeous Superstar Elbow. Afterwards, Matsuno addressed the crowd and talked about how he considered retiring around now but apparently will keep going even though he is only a part-timer. The event also featured two performances by singer Junko Tashiro.

The next event is a mini-event tomorrow at Sumida Park Breeze Hall in Tokyo. This will be weather permitting as it is an outside event and will be cancelled if it rains. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT ran a house show in Aomori today, the first time they have run in the northern prefecture of Japan in 4 years.

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

The announced paid attendance was 164.

Match 1: Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata beat Yusuke Okada & Yuni. Hirata pinned Yuni.

Match 2: Yuki Iino beat Antonio Honda & Akito in a 3-way by pinning Honda.

Match 3: Yuki Ishida beat Yukio Sakaguchi by countout.

Match 4: In a Falls Count Anywhere match, Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku beat HARASHIMA, Hideki Okatani & Kazuma Sumi. Akiyama beat Sumi with a front neck lock.

Match 5: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat Yuki Ueno, Toi Kojima & Takeshi Masada. KANON beat Masada with Ultimate Cobra Twist.

Main Event: Chris Brookes & Kazusada Higuchi beat Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi. Brookes pinned Oishi after Praying Mantis Bomb.

The next event is a Gorgeous Matsuno 60th Birthday/20th Anniversary event tomorrow at Fukushima National Sports Memorial Gym Sub Arena in Fukuahima. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT ran a special outdoor mini-event today with free admission for fans outside Shiraishi Castle in Miyagi. Apparently the weather cooperated enough to keep it outdoors (had it rained they would have moved it to a nearby indoor location).

Today’s event was held at Shiraishi Castle Honmaru Square in MIyagi and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

Because this was a free event and there was no paid attendance, the attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Hideki Okatani & Kazuma Sumi. KANON beat Sumi with a crucifix cobra twist.

Match 2: Kazuki Hirata, Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Yuki Ueno, Toi Kojima & Gorgeous Matsuno. Hirata pinned Kojima.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat HARASHIMA, Yukio Sakaguchi & Antonio Honda. Endo pinned Honda after Burning Star Press.

The next event is 7/15 at Aomori Hanamasu Hall in Aomori. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT ran a special house show in Tokyo today punctuated by the return of Chris Brookes from injury, 2 weeks before he challenges Yuji Hino for the KO-D Openweight Championship.

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

The announced paid attendance was 305, a full house/near sellout.

Before the matches began, a signing ceremony for the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship match on 7/23 was held.

Match 1: Toru Owashi & Kazuma Sumi beat Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno. Sumi pinned Dieno. Akito interference helped.

Match 2: HARASHIMA & Kazuki Hirata beat Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada. HARASHIMA pinned Okada after Blue Sword.

Match 3: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yuki Ishida & Illusion. Okatani pinned Ishida after a running elbow butt.

Match 4: KANON 4th Anniversary Match: TAKA Michinoku (New Japan) & KANON beat Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku. KANON beat Koroku with Ultimate Cobra Twist. Afterwards, KANON requested a match against TAKA in the future, maybe this time next year.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno beat Nick Wayne.

Match 6: Daisuke Sasaki beat Toi Kojima by submission. Afterwards, El Desperado (New Japan) made a surprise appearance. He faces Sasaki on 7/23.

Main Event: Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi beat Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi. Hino beat Brookes with King Kong Sleeper.

The next event is tomorrow at Shiroishi Castle Honmaru Square in Miyagi. This is a free mini-event. If it rains, the event will be held at Shiroishi City General Public Hall instead. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT returned to Osaka today for a Referee Matsui Produced event, just a few weeks short of what will be his 29th Anniversary in wrestling.

Today’s event was held at Komikyo Higashinari Civic Center in Osaka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 438, a super full house/very near sellout.

Pre-Show Match: Yusuke Okada & Yuki Ishida beat Kazuma Sumi & Illusion. Ishida pinned Illusion.

Match 1: Danshoku Dieno & Yuki Iino beat Toru Owashi & Trans-Am Hiroshi and Takao Soma & Shota in a 3-way when Iino pinned Hiroshi.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul beat Tsubasa & Makoto Oishi. Sasaki beat Oishi with a crossface.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo & Kuishinbo Kanem beat Kikutaro & Antonio Honda. Endo pinned Honda after Burning Star Press. There appeared to be a comedy segment after the match where Kikutaro claimed he found Referee Matsui’s missing wallet the other day…albeit without 50,000 yen inside (about $375 US). Never trust a clown. Especially one that’s a comedy wrestler.

Match 4: Nick Wayne, Kohei Kinoshita & Yuya Koroku beat MAO, Toi Kojima & Yuni. Wayne pinned Yuni after Waynes World.

Match 5: Yukio Sakaguchi & Saki Akai beat No Name & Kazuki Hirata. Sakaguchi pinned Hirata after PK.

Match 6: Magnitude Kishiwada 30th Anniversary Match: Dick Togo (New Japan), Magnitude Kishiwada (Independent/Freelancer) & Black Buffalo (Osaka Pro) beat Shigehiro Irie (GLEAT), Yuto Kikuchi & Takeshi Masada. Kishiwada pinned Masada after Last Ride. Afterwards,Kishiwada announced that after 30 years he has no intent of retiring anytime soon, and may never retire.

Match 7: Yuji Hino, Jun Akiyama & Hideki Okatani beat HARASHIMA, Kazusada Higuchi & Akito. Hino beat Akito with King Kong sleeper.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno beat HUB (Independent/Freelancer). Afterwards, HUB unmasked but had a towel underneath his mask and did not reveal his actual identity, and gave his mask to Ueno.

The next event is Friday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

DDT returned to Yokohama today for another YOKOHAMA UNLIMITED event, this one dubbed “SPECIAL”.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 219, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul beat Yusuke Okada & Kazuma Sumi. Sasaki pinned Sumi after a diving elbow drop.

Match 2: Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari beat Akito, MAO & Antonio Honda. Iino pinned Akito after Sexy Cannon.

Match 3: Kazusada Higuchi & Yujki Ishida beat Saki Akai & Yuya Koroku. Ishida pinned Akai.

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo & Jun Akiyama beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata in 6 seconds. Akiyama pinned Hirata after a jumping knee. Which led to…
Match 4 (Again): Tetsuya Endo & Jun Akiyama beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. Endo pinned Hirata.

Match 5: In a Hardcore Match, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani beat Atsushi Onita & Toi Kojima. Sakaguchi pinned Kojima after `God’s Right Knee with a chair. Afterwards, Onita claimed to Sanshiro Takagi that Akiyama has not accepted Onita’s demand for an exploding deathmatch on 7/23. No response from Takagi. Instead, Sakaguchi made a challenge for the All-Asia Tag Team Championship held by Onita and All-Japan Pro Wrestling member Yoshitatsu. Onita accepted as long as it was in an exploding/electric current deathmatch.

Match 6: Yuji Hino & Mkaoto Oishi beat HARASHIMA & Takao Soma. Hino pinned Soma after Fuckin’ BOMB.

Main Event: Nick Wayne & Takeshi Masada beat Yuki Ueno & Yuni. Wayne pinned Yuni after Waynes World.

THe next event is a Referee Matsui Produced event tomorrow at Komikyo Higashinari Civic Center in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast.

The injuries have been piling up in DDT lately, and add 2 more to the list today coming out of Sunday’s event-although he didn’t mention it at yesterday’s press conference Sanshiro Takagi is the first one. Torn left calf muscle. Out about a month but scheduled to return at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 7/23. The other injured wrestler is Rukiya. Chest (cracked sternum). Out indefinitely. Changes for this coming weekend’s events have been made.

More as it becomes available.

At a press conference earlier today for their 9/9/23 major event at Ota City General Gum in Tokyo, DDT possibly made an Atsushi Onita exploding deathmatch for the event. Onita & Sanshiro Takagi discussed this at the presser-it took quite a bit to make it happen because the match will be indoors (usually these matches are outdoors or in partially open venues due to smoke and other issues) but Onita had a further demand-that Jun Akiyama be the opponent or Takagi FIRE him. The FIRE part resulted in some DDT comedy because that’s Takagi’s catchphrase/slogan and presumably Onita wanted Akiyama fired if he didn’t accept the match. Takagi said he’ll talk to Akiyama. According to DDT, the last time an indoor deathmatch happened in Tokyo was in 2015. It becomes the second official match for 9/9 along with a KO-D Openweight Championship match. Who defends will depend on the 7/23 result and opponent is TBA.

Also at the presser were MAO & TAKA Michinoku ahead of their match at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 7/23. This is their first meeting since their first in May 2017, which TAKA won. TAKA, now coming up on 50, currently splits his time between his Just Tap Out (JTO) promotion and New Japan.

DDT holds their monthly major event today, “What Are You Doing 2023”, the last big event before next month’s WRESTLE PETER PAN which is DDT’s biggest event of the year. This card may have implications for that event, and the full card will be announced at the end of today’s event. 2 matches for vacant titles headline today’s event: First, Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul face Yuki Ueno & Toi Kojima for the KO-D Tag Team Championship, then in the main event MAO, Kazuki Hirata & Yoshihiko face off in a 3-way for the DDT Extreme Championship. As each title match usually has some kind of stip, this time it will be an elimination match. Shunma Katsumata, who had to vacate both titles in May due to injury, will be a special guest witness for the main event.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. You also can watch the first 2 matches FOR FREE on YouTube, which will be a pre-show dark match and the first match of the main card. Voice actor Kenta Tanaka will be a special guest on commentary today and Katsumata will join commentary for the main event. There will be a pre-show match scheduled to begin 30 minutes before the event. Including the pre-show I anticipate today’s event running close to 3 hours total.

Today’s lineup (in order):
Pre-show: Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Yuni & Toru Owashi vs. Akito, Takao Soma, Kazuma Sumi & Rukiya

Main show:
Naruki Doi vs. Takeshi Masada
Ryota Nakatsu, Yuki Ishida, Yuya Koroku & Yusuke Okada vs. Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani & Sanshiro Takagi
HARASHIMA vs. Minoru Fujita
Tetsuya Endo vs. Nick Wayne
Yuji Hino, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda
Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul vs. Yuki Ueno & Toi Kojima for the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship
MAO vs. Kazuki Hirata & Yoshihiko in a 3-way elimination match for the vacant DDT Extreme Championhip
The entire WRESTLE PETER PAN match card will be announced after the main event

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Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin at 6:45 PM PT/9:45 PM ET.

6:45 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has just begun. Updates will begin when we go to the venue.

7:05 PM PT UPDATE:Live updates begin now…
We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Ken Kato, Kagehiro Osano & Kenta Tanaka.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. Crowd still filing in but the opposite-camera-side bleacher seats are tarped off on either side (only using the middle seats). Not much on the floor outside the bleachers on either side so I’m thinking it’ll be around 650. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 755)

Pre-show match: Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Yuni & Toru Owashi vs. Akito, Takao Soma, Kazuma Sumi & Rukiya. 15 minute time limit. Before Pheromones enter, Akito with microphone. Sounds like a comedy promo about Pheromones. Perhaps a request of GM Imabayashi as well. Interrupted by those deplorable Pheromones for their entrance of course.
Result: No Contest. GM Imabayashi Stoppage. Probably to spare Yuni the wrath of those deplorable Pheromones. Naturally this was a comedy match.

Updates will resume when the main show matches begin in about 20-25 minutes (as of 7:20 PM PT). During the opening announcements GM Imabayashi brings out Shota of Ganbare Pro to promote their biggest event of the year, WRESTLE SEKIGAHARA 2, which is on 7/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo. The opening start call is delivered by Chris Brookes, who will return from injury in a couple weeks ahead of his KO-D Openweight Championship match against Yuji Hino at WRESTLE PETER PAN, which he earned by winning the KING OF DDT Tournament.

Main show:
The matches begin at 7:35 PM PT. Your host today is Ken Kato. Haruo Murata is in Canada to do Japanese commentary for the All Elite Wrestling/New Japan Pro Wrestling “Forbidden Door” PPV tomorrow for New Japan World (with Miki Motoi).
Match 1: Naruki Doi vs. Takeshi Masada. 30 minute time limit
Result: Naruki Doi beat Takeshi Masada

Match 2: Ryota Nakatsu, Yuki Ishida, Yuya Koroku & Yusuke Okada vs. Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani & Sanshiro Takagi. 30 minute time limit
Result: Ryota Nakatsu, Yuki Ishida, Yuya Koroku & Yusuke Okada beat Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai, Hideki Okatani & Sanshiro Takagi. Ishida pinned Sakaguchi. UPSET ALERT! Sakaguchi beat down Ishida a little more afterwards before storming off.

Big match announcement: DDT BIG BANG 2023 on 9/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo will feature a KO-D Openweight Championship match.

The YouTube broadcast ends here. It did not include the pre-show match.

Match 3: HARASHIMA vs. Minoru Fujita. 30 minute time limit
Result: HARASHIMA beat Minoru Fujita by DQ. Fujita low blow on the referee.

Yukio Naya makes a surprise appearance. He announced what sounded like his potential return from injury, which could be at WRESTLE PETER PAN next month. (Update: It will be at WRESTLE PETER PAN)

Match 4: Tetsuya Endo vs. Nick Wayne. 30 minute time limit (Wayne, who just graduated high school a week or so ago and just turned 18 or is about to, is headed to All Elite Wrestling later this summer. He was signed to a deal a couple years ago that would take effect once he was old enough to legally compete in the US, meaning age 18). Endo’s also sporting some light blue/turquoise hair at the ends now.
Result: Tetsuya Endo beat Nick Wayne

Match 5: Yuji Hino, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda. 30 minute time limit. For this match Akiyama came out looking like the “American Badass” version of The Undertaker, wearing Omega gear just for this match. Nice! It looked good on him!
Chris Brookes joins commentary for this match.
Result: Yuji Hino, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi beat Kazusada Higuchi, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda. Hino beat Honda with a King Kong sleeper. Mostly comedy match but Hino & Higuchi had their BEEF moments. Afterwards, Oishi with microphone. As he apparently taunted the lsoers and Brookes, Hino snatched the microphone from him. Some comedy before further taunting Brookes as a promo for their match at WRESTLE PETER PAN.

Shunma Katsumata greets the crowd from the commentary area. He joins commentary for the rest of the event.

Match 6: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul vs. Yuki Ueno & Toi Kojima for the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship. 1 Hour time limit
During the opening moments, Sasaki attacked Katsumata with one of his crutches at commentary.
Result: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul beat Yuki Ueno & Toi Kojima to win the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship. Sasaki & Paul become the 77th KO-D Tag Team Champions. Sasaki beat Kojima with a crossface. KANON appeared and interfered to help at the end despite being injured (arm/elbow in a sling).

Main Event: MAO vs. Kazuki Hirata & Yoshihiko in a 3-way elimination match for the vacant DDT Extreme Championship. 1 Hour time limit
In progress.
Result: Yoshihiko eliminated first by both MAO & Kazuki Hirata. Kazuki Hirata then beat MAO to win the title. Hirata becomes the 58th DDT Extreme Champion. Hirata apparently has also chosen his first challenger: HARASHIMA. Accepted. GM Imabayashi made it official. Sounds like it will be at the next Korakuen event, which is Summer Vacation 2023 on 7/29.

Coming up shortly: The full WRESTLE PETER PAN card. And here it is:
Takeshi Masada vs. Kazuma Sumi
Sanshiro Takagi, Shinichiro Kawamatsu & Yuni vs. Masa Takanashi, Toi Kojima & Rukiya
Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari vs. Akito, Takao Soma & Yoshitomo Shimohigashi
Naruki Doi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata vs. Minoru Fujita, MJ Paul & KANON and Kotaro Suzuki, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku in a 3-way
Chiitan* & Pokotan vs. Andreza Giant Panda & Super Sasadango Machine
HARASHIMA & Yukio Naya vs. Jun Akiyama & Shigehiro Irie
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Kazusada Higuchi, Ryota Nakatsu & Yuki Ishida vs. Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani for the titles
TAKA Michinoku vs. MAO
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Yuki Ueno
Daisuke Sasaki vs. El Desperado
DDT Universal Champion Tetsuya Endo vs. Matt Cardona for the title
KO-D Openweight Champion Yuji Hino vs. Chris Brookes for the title

And that’ll do it for today!

The next event is “Yokohama Unlimited SPECIAL” on 7/1 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET.

DDT wrapped up the What Are You Doing 2023 Tour today with the second half of a Hokkaido house show doubleheader.

Today’s event was held at Sapporo E-One Arena in Hokkaido and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 304.

Match 1: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul beat Hideki Okatani & Kazuma Sumi. Paul pinned Sumi after a running body press.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Yukio Sakaguchi went to a no contest. Iino tried to get naked.

Match 3: Akito & Sanae Takabayashi beat Kazuki Hirata & Saki Akai. Akito beat Hirata with an ankle hold.

Match 4: Andreza Giant Panda beat Pokotan.

Match 5: Yuji Hino & ? beat beat Kazusada Higuchi & Yuki Ishida. Hino beat Ishida with King Kong sleeper.

Match 6: Jun Akiyama & Takashi Yoshida (Dragon Gate) beat HARASHIMA & Takeshi Masada. Akiyama pinned Masada after Exploder.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima beat Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. Ueno pinned Koroku after WR.

The next event is WHAT ARE YOU DOING 2023 on 6/25 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. The event has 2 title matches scheduled to crown new DDT Extreme and KO-D Tag Team Champions, which could very well see The37Kamiina reclaim both after they had to give them up due to a Shunma Katsumata injury. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese will begin Saturday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.