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DDT/Tokyo Joshi Pro News 5/29/22

A bit of DDT & Tokyo Joshi Pro news from overnight:
International Princess Champion Maki Itoh successfully defended the title against former WWE star Mia Yim this weekend at an independent event in Portland, OR. V3 for Itoh. Next up: “The Unbreakable” Rio, which has been added to 6/4 at Entetsu Hall in Shizuoka. Unfortunately there is no live broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE so we’ll likely have to wait at least 3 days to see it. Itoh & Yuka Sakazaki are on their way back to Japan for this event but Miyu Yamashita is not. Apparently she is staying overseas a little longer and will miss 6/4. She should be back for CyberFight Festival.
Also, the first names for Summer Sun Festical ’22 on 7/9 have been announced: Yuki Arai, Juria Nagano and Mei Suruga, who apparently will appear as herself and not as May Saint-Michel, her usual persona in TJPW alongside Saki Akai when she appears as Saki-sama.

On the DDT side, Chris Brookes missed this weekend’s events and is now out a couple more weeks as he has been diagnosed with a sprained right ankle. He plans to be back for CyberFight Festival. Also, Gota Ihashi is now off Wednesday’s Korakuen Hall event. Enteritis.

Finally, the Japanese branch of the NIVEA skin care company will be a sponsor of CyberFIght Festival ’22, and all fans attending the event in person will receive a free product sample upon entering the venue. This came about after a NIVEA representative saw social media posts by Saki Akai about her pre-match skin care routing, which led to an offer to provide products to Akai. CyberFight management and NIVEA held discussions which led to this and possibly more. This comes admist news that Akai has just released her own own men’s skin care product called Riviera Perfect All-in-One Gel in Japan. Pre-orders just began shipping in Japan.It appears to be available only in Japan. Saki has started a Shopify page for the product, which also links to her official Instagram page. A roughly 2-month supply is available for 5500 yen in Japan and for now will only be sold via Saki’s Shopify product page. There are no plans to sell it at DDT events or DDT’s online store.

5/29/22 DDT Results (2 Events)

DDT ran two separate events today in Kumamoto, a traditional event and a special one-match event held inside a hot spring, the type of event only DDT can hold.

Today’s first event was held at Kumamoto Castle Hall Civic Hall in Kumamoto and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast for either event.

The announced paid attendance was 331, a legit sellout.

The card underwent several late changes due to Chris Brookes being a late removal due to injury.
Match 1: MAO beat Toui Kojima.

Match 2: Yuki Ueno & Takao Soma beat Danshoku Dieno & Yuki Iino and Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata in a 3-way, when Ueno pinned Hirata.

Match 3: Shinya Aoki & Shunma Katsumata beat Akito & Hideki Okatani. Aoki pinned Okatani with a crucifix.

Match 4: Maya Yukihi beat Saki Akai.

Match 5: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Yuya Koroku. Sasaki beat Koroku with a crossface.

Match 6: Yuji Hino beat Yukio Naya.

Main Event: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada beat HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida. Endo pinned Ishida after Burning Star Press.

Second event: The other event was held at Kumamoto Castle Natural Hot Spring and had only one match.
The announced paid attendance was 30, a legit sellout.

Result: In a Falls Count Anywhere Match with No Time Limit, Shunma Katsumata & Toui Kojima beat Shinya Aoki & Yukio Naya. Katsumata pinned Aoki after Heat Wave WER!! Total match time was 52:58 and lots of ridiculous comedy galore. It will be a must-watch when it eventually comes to WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The next event is “What Are You Doing 2022” Wednesday at Korakuen hall in Tokyo. It will be headlined by DDT Extreme and Universal Championship matches, and also scheduled is a battle royal for the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, the promotion’s 24/7 comedy title. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Wednesday at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. This is the final live broadcast before CyberFight Festival ’22.

DDT Pro Wrestling 5/29/22 LIVE Results

DDT continues the road to CyberFight Festival today with “Audience 2022”, a mid-major event headlined by two title matches. First up, after fighting each other over the DDT Universal Championship, MAO & Asuka (Veny) will now team up in an attempt to win the KO-D Tag Team Championship from Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi. In the main event, the new KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions will be determined in a tournament final between Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON (replacing Minoru Fujits, who suffered an injury that forced the Damnation TA trio to vacate the titles) and Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. The first 2 matches can also be watched FOR FREE on YouTube.

Today’s lineup:
Naomi Yoshimura vs. Yuki Ishida
Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Akito vs. HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda
Yuki Ueno vs. Kazuki Hirata
Hardcore Match: Carousell ❤️ Shun ＆ Elizabeth ❤️ Toi　vs　Suzu Suzuki ＆ Akane Fujita
Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku vs. Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Ilsion & el Unicorn
KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. MAO & Asuka (Veny) for the titles
Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani for the vacant KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship

Updates below will begin at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT.

10:23 PM ET UPDATE: Live stream starts NOW.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Haruo Murata, Kagehiro Osano & Sayoko Mita.

The matches will begin in about 15 minutes.
The matches begin at 10:35 PM ET.

Match 1: Naomi Yoshimura vs. Yuki Ishida. 30 minute time limit
Result: Naomi Yoshimura beat Yuki Ishida

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Akito vs. HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. 30 minute time limit
Result: Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & akito beat HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. Akito beat Honda with a Figure 4. Comedy match.
The YouTube broadcast ends here. For the UNIVERSE crowd there is a short pause and an announcement related to WRESTLE PETER PAN on 8/20.

Match 3: Yuki Ueno vs. Kazuki Hirata. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Ueno beat Kazuki Hirata. Comedy match with a hilarious ending.

Quick break for ring cleaning and to get things set up for the next match.

Match 4: Hardcore Match: Carousell ❤️ Shun ＆ Elizabeth ❤️ Tohi　vs.　Suzu Suzuki ＆ Akane Fujita. 30 minute time limit
Result: Suzu Suzuki & Akane Fujita beat Carousell ❤️ Shun ＆ Elizabeth ❤️ Tohi. Suzuki pinned Shun with a German suplex hold. Hardcore comedy match. The losers were really Shunma Katsumata & Toui Kojima.

Another break for ring cleaning.

The participants for this year’s KING OF DDT Tournament are announced. This year’s tournament will be held on 6/16, 6/19 & 7/3.

Match 5: Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku vs. Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Ilsion & el Unicorn. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun Akiyama, Tetsuya Endo, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku beat Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Ilsion & el Unicorn. Koroku beat Unicorn with a Boston crab.

Match 6: KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. MAO & Asuka (Veny) for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: MAO & Asuka beat KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi to win the titles. MAO & Asuka become the 74th KO-D Tag Team Champions. MAO pinned Brookes after a lariat.

Main Event: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani in a tournament final for the vacant KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani to win the tournament and the titles. Sasaki, Pawl & KANON become the 46th KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Sasaki beat Okatani with a crossface. Minoru Fujita interfered earlier to prevent Eruption from winning the titles.

Overall this was a comedy-heavy event outside of the last two matches, and very entertaining as a result. If you watch the on demand replay, the total running time of the event was 2 1/2 hours.

This will be updated tomorrow with the attendance and post-event news/fallout, if any.

The next event is Saturday at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka. There will be no live broadcast but the event will be available on demand at a later date. In fact, of the 5 remaining events before CyberFight Festival 2022 only one live broadcast is scheduled (the rest will be on demand on a roughly 3-day delay). If you have not subscribed to WRESTLE UNIVERSE before make sure to start your free 22-week trial after June 1 so you can watch CyberFIght Festival FOR FREE! Remember to cancel before the 12th day so you don’t pay anything if you don’t want to continue subscribing.

UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 529.
Keiji Muto has been added to CyberFight Festival 2022 where he will make an “important announcement”.

DDT 5/11/22 Results

DDT ran this month’s DDT FREE event today with free admission for lucky fans. It also continued building to CyberFight Festival following the full card announcement earlier this week.

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

The announced attendance was 348, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Saki Akai & Takao Soma beat Maya Yukihi & Kazuki Hirata. Akai pinned Hirata after New Face Award. Afterwards, Akai & Yukihi agreed to a match on 5/29.

Match 2: Yuki Iino & Danshoku Dieno beat Toru Owashi & Akito. Iino pinned Akito. Afterwards, Akito tried to get out of having to team with Pheromons at CyberFight Festival. Developing.

5 potential new trainees who passed the initial tryouts for the promotion were introduced.

Match 3: HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura beat Yuji Hino & Toui Kojima. Yoshimura pinned Kojima after Harai Goshi.

Match 4: Yuki Ueno beat Yukio Naya.

Match 5: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON beat Kazusada Higuchi, Hideki Okatani & Yuki Ishida. Pawl pinned Ishida after Death Valley Bomb.

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo & Jun Akiyama beat Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku. Akiyama pinned Koroku after Exploder.

Main Event: MAO, Asuka (Veny) & Shunma Katsumata beat Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda. MAO pinned Honda after Michinoku Driver 2.

The next event is Sunday at Hiroshima Industrial Hall East Exhibition Hall in Hiroshima. There will be no live broadcast but it will be available on demand at a later date.

CyberFight Festival 2022 Lineup

The full card for CyberFight Festival 2022, a major multi-brand blowout event featuring Pro Wrestling NOAH, DDT, Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling and more, was just announced:

Pre-show:

Muscle Sakai & Yukio Naya vs. Takao Soma & Kazuki Hirata

Hyper Misao, Yuki Aino, Raku, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu, Moka Miyamoto, Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami
Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani vs. Ken Ohka, Yuna Manase & Mizuki Watase

Main show:
Kinya Okada & Kai Fujimura vs. Toui Kojima & Yuya Koroku
Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Juria Nagano vs. Hikari Noa, Suzume & Yuki Arai
Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Yumehito Imanari & Akito vs. Sanshiro Takagi, Kendo Ka Shin, Shinya Aoki & Yumiko Hotta
Rika Tatsumi vs. Mizuki, Miu Watanabe & Yuki Kamifuku in a 4-way. The winner will face the Princess Of Princess Champion for the title on 7/9
Talashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita, Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Michael Elgin, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Rene Dupree, Simon Gotch & TBA, who will be revealed on 6/7
HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimura, Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata, MAO & Zhu Chonghua
Rob Van Dam, Yoshinari Ogawa & HAYATA vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, Daisuke Harada & YO-HEY
Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi vs. Naomichi Marufuji, Atsushi Kotoge & Yoshiki Inamura
Kenoh vs. Daisuke Sasaki
Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima vs. Yuka Sakazaki for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Satoshi Kojima for the title

The event will be broadcast LIVE ONLY ON WRESTLE UNIVERSE. Comentary will be in Japanese. Annoinced guests are Kendo Kobaysbi, Yui Okada, Rina Matsuki & SKE48 member Marika Tani.

The event will be held on June 12, 2022 beginning at 1 PM Japan time (6/11 at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET).

5/8/22-5/14/22 Events Schedule

Here is the schedule of events for 5/8/122-5/14/22, in addition to daily Grand Sumo Tournament Results for the May 2022 Tournament running from 5/8/22-5/22/22 (all times PT, schedule subject to change):
5/9/22:
8 PM-CyberFight Festival 2022 Full Card Announcement Press Conference. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE and YouTube.

5/10/22:
3 AM-DDT Pro Wrestling “DDT FREE -May”, Shinjuku Face, Tokyo, Japan. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE

5/11/22:
5 PM-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Dynamite”, Long Island, NY. LIVE on TBS (US), New Japan World (Japan ONLY) and FITE (other areas)

5/13:
TBA-All Elite Wrestling “AEW Rampage”. TAPED on TNT. Broadcast time likely will depend on NHL Playoffs coverage schedules.

5/14:
1:30 AM-Pro Wrestling NOAH N INNOVATION, Yokohama Radiant Hall, Yokohama, Japan. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE
5 PM-New Japan Pro Wrestling Capital Collision, Washington, DC. Live streaming on FITE ($19.99) and New Japan World (aroound $23 plus monthly subscription fees)
8 PM-Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Ryogoku KFC Hall, Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE

CyberFight Festival Card Announcement Next Week

The CyberFight Group announced today that the full card for CyberFight Festival 2022 will be revealed at a press conference Tuesday. The presser will be streamed live on ABEMA, WRESTLE UNIVERSE and all the promotions’ YouTube channels (DDT, Pro Wrestling NOAH, Tokyo Joshi Pro) beginning Monday at 11 PM ET/8 PM PT.
So far the following is set the event:
GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Satoshi Kojima for the title
Kenoh vs. Daisuke Sasaki
Rob Van Dam Participation

CyberFight Festival 2022 will be held on 6/12 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan and will be broadcast live only on WRESTLE UNIVERSE starting at 2 AM ET/11 PM PT on 6/11.

DDT MEGA MAX BUMP 2022 in YOKOHAMA Results (5/1/22)

DDT officially ended the MAX BUMP 2022 tour with a blowout event in Yokohama, featuring 4 title matches and events that would further set up big matches for CyberFight Festival in mid-June.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Budokan in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English.

The announced paid attendance was 835. They didn’t set up a lot of floor seating and it was a very reduced capacity layout but it didn’t look good on broadcast.
Your Japanese hosts are Haruo Murata, Sayoko Mita & Kagehiro Osano. Ken Kato filled in for Murata for the pre-show matches. AKB48 member Megu Taniguchi was a guest for some matches. Kenta Kobashi was also a guest for some matches. Your English hosts are Chris Brookes for some matches, Baliyan Akki & Hiroshi Arai.

Pre-show:
Match 1: KANON beat Yuya Kuroku by submisison.
Match 2: Toru Owashi & Naomi Yoshimura beat Antonio Honda & Yuki Ishida. Yoshimura pinned Ishida after Harai Goshi.

Main Show:
Kenta Kobashi is introduced as the special guest observer for the main event. I still always get goosebumps whenever GRAND SWORD is played.

Match 3: Shinya Aoki beat Toui Kojima by submission.

Match 4: KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Poison Sawada JULIE, Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba (with Naomi Susan) beat Sanshiro Takagi, Kazuki Hirata, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Akito & Gota Ihashi to retain the titles. JULIE beat Hirata with Cattle Mutilation. V1 for the champs.

Match 5: Maya Yukihi & Shunma Katsumata beat Saki Akai & Hideki Okatami. Katsumata pinned Okatani after Totonoe Splash.

Match 6: Hisaya Iambayashi (DDT General Manager), AKIRA & Muscle Sakai beat Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Yumehito Imanari. Imabayashi pinned Dieno with a jackknife. (VIEWER WARNING: NSFW CONTENT)

Match 7: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & TBA, who turned out to be KANON, beat Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Takao Soma. Sasaki beat Soma with a crossface. KANON was a replacement for Minoru Fujita, who is out due to injury.

Match 8: Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Sakaguchi beat HARASHIMA & Hikaru Sato. Higuchi pinned HARASHIMA with a brain claw press.

Match 9: DDT Universal Champion MAO beat Asuka (Veny) to retain the title. V2 for MAO. Next up: Masa Takanashi. That match will happen on 6/1 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.

Match 10: KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi beat Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada to retain the titles. Takanashi pinned Okada after Turn Back Sudden Death. V2 for the champs. Next up: MAO & Asuka. That match will happen on 5/22 at Korakuen.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Tetsuya Endo beat Yuki Ueno to retain the title. V1 for Endo. Next up: TBA, but probably on 6/12.

Pro Wrestling NOAH star Kenoh made a surprise appearance during the event. This set up Kenoh vs. Takashi Sasaki for CyberFight Festival 2022.

Former DDT star Dick Togo, currently part of New Japan Pro Wrestling, will return to the promotion for WRESTLE PETER PAN on 8/20 at Ota City General Gym. Togo is a 4-time KO-D Openweight Champion. Also set for 8/20 are KO-D Openweight Championship and DDT Universal Championship matches.

The next event is Friday at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. The event will feature the start of a tournament to crown new KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

DEVELOPING: DDT 5/1 Card Change

DDT has just announced a change to the card for 5/1 (Sunday) at Yokohama Budokan: Gorgeous Matsuno is now off due to family circumstances. He was to have teamed with Sanshiro Takagi, Yoshiaki Yatsu, Akito & Kazuki Hirata to face KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Poison Sawada JULIE, Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba for the titles. Gota Ihashi is the replacement and the match is still for the titles.

DDT 4/22/22 Results

DDT Pro Wrestling DDT FREE 4/22/22 Results:

DDT ran this month’s DDT FREE event today, an event where all tickets were given away for free to those lucky enough to get them via lottery. There also was greatly increased venue capacity so more could attend. It also came shortly after a press conference for the promotion’s next major event on 5/1 in Yokohama.

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

The announced attendance was 353, a legit sellout. That means capacity was increased at the venue as this number represents roughly 70-75% of max capacity (I believe it’s roughly 500).

Dark Match: Takao Soma beat Yuki Ishida.

Match 1: Shishamo Power & Naomi Yoshimura beat Akito & Yukio Naya. Power pinned Akito with a deformation La Magistral.

Match 2: Saki Akai & Maya Yukihi beat Antonio Honda & Kazuki Hirata. Yukihi pinned Hirata after Snowstorm.

Match 3: KANON beat Toui Kojima by submission.

Match 4: HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Yukio Sakaguchi beat Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Iino & Yumehito Imanari by DQ. Imanari DQ’d. Ref assault.

Match 5: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Pawl beat Kazusada Higuchi & Hideki Okatani. Sasaki pinned Okatani.

Match 6: MAO & Shunma Katsumata beat Asuka (Veny) & Yuji Hino. MAO pinned Asuka with Oklahoma Roll.

Regarding the now-vacant KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championships, determination tournament to crown new champions will be held on 5/6 at Shinjuku Face & 5/22 at Korakuen Hall. It will be a 4-team tournament with two initial matches: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & TBA vs. HARASHIMA, Toru Owashi & Naomi Yoshimura and Lazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani vs. Akito, Hikaru Machida & Tanomusaku Toba. Sasaki, Pawl & Minoru Fujita just vacated the titles due to a Fujita injury.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi beat Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yuya Takashika by TKO/ref stoppage. Ueno beat Endo with a sleeper hold.

The next event is Sunday at Kobe Art Center in Kobe. There will be no live broadcast. It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date.

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