Tag: DDT

After their scheduled events in Gifu were cancelled due to concerns about an impending hurricane making landfall in Japan (they call them typhoons), DDT went ahead with a Beer Garden Pro Wrestling event today in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 419, a super full house/very near sellout.

Before the matches began, Yuki Ishida appeared and announced he would be participating full-time in DDT going forward.

Match 1: Toru Owashi & beat Yuni & Keigo Nakamura. Owashi pinned Nakamura with La Magistral. As a result, Owashi wins the “Money In The Bank” title shot opportunity held by Nakamura.

Match 2: In a Rock & Roll Death Match, A.YAZAWA beat Kazuma Sumi, AKito & To-y in a 4-way by pinning Sumi.

Match 3: In a Handicap Match, Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul, KANON & Motaro Suzuki beat Masa Takanashi, Takao Soma & Yuya Koroku. KANON beat Kotoku with a ground cobra twist.

Match 4: In a GM Imabayashi New Series Kaidan Shin Numabukuro Death Match, Shunma Katsumata & Jun Akiyama vs. Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi went to a no contest. Apparently Imabayashi got laid out.

Match 5: Chris Brookes beat Illusion. Afterwards, Illusion joined Schadenfreude International.

Main Event: In a match with teams determined by random customer lottery, Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Ueno, Yuki Iino & Takeshi Masada beat MAO, HARASHIMA, Kazuki Hirata & Yukio Naya. Endo pinned Hirata after Burning Star Press.

The next event is Wednesday. There will be no live broadcast.

In what could be very disappointing news for a potential newlywed couple, DDT has announced this Saturday’s event in Gifu, which was to feature an actual wedding if a couple applied and paid the 100,000 yen fee (around $650 US), along with a second scheduled event in Gifu, has been POSTPONED. Weather concerns-the forecast calls for the potential of a hurricane (Japan calls them typhoons) and the decision was made out of concerns for safety. No new date announced yet and refunds will be given for tickets purchased. If there is no wedding, it will be a regular event instead.

DDT ran their monthly tour-ending major event, Summer Memories 2024, today in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1369, a super full house/very near sellout.

Match 1: Antonio Honda beat Kazuki Hirata & Toru Owashi in a 3-way in 10 seconds by pinning Hirata. Which led to…
Match 1 (again): Toru Owashi beat Antonio Honda & Kazuki Hirata in a 3-way by pinning Honda. (For those unaware of who missed it, Honda already cashed in his ‘Money In The Bank” title shot so for him at least it’s over)

Match 2; Chris Brookes, Takeshi Masada & Masa Takanashi beat Makoto Oishi, Yuni & Illusion. Takanashi pinned Illusion after Ukabami.

Match 3: MAO, Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat Jun Akiyama, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Keigo Nakamura. Katsumata pinned Matsunaga with a German suplex hold.

Match 4: Takao Soma 15th Anniversary Match: Keisuke Ishii beat Takao Soma.

Match 5; Daisuke Sasaki, Ryuichi Kawakami & KANON beat HARASHIMA, Yukio Naya & Kazuma Sumi. Kawakami pinned Naya after a lariat.

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku beat Kota Ibushi (Independent/Freelancer), Danshoku Dieno & Akito. Endo pinned Akito after Burning Star Press. This was Ibushi’s first match in DDT in several years-a decade, I believe (since he left the promotion to eventually go to New Japan and, as of earlier this year, part-time to All Elite Wrestling although he hasn’t appeared since officially signing with them due to injuries).

Main Event: Shinya Aoki beat KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno to win the title. Aoki becomes the 83rd KO-D Openweight Champion. Wow. Next up: Endo. That match will happen on 9/8 at Nagoya Congress Center Event Hall in Nagoya.

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

DDT ran a special standalone event in Osaka today, where every match had an East vs. West theme based on where in Japan the wrestlers ate from.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 586, a super full house/very bear sellout.

Match 1: Keigo Nakamura & Yuya Koroku beat Yuki Ishida & Kzuma Sumi. Koroku beat Sumi with a mosified armbar. As a result, Sumi loses his “Money in the Bank” title shot contract-each is represented by a special title belt-to Koroku.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat Toru Owashi, Yukio Naya & Illusion. KANON pinned Illusion after Sleepy Hollow.

Match 3: Danshoku Dieno & Yuni beat Makoto Oishi & Akito. Dieno pinned Oishi after Danshoku Driver.

Match 4: Sayaka Unagi & Momoma Hanazono beat Yoshino Hasegawa & Riara. Unagi pinned Riara.

Match 5: In a Rock & Roll Death Match, MAO beat Great Koji, A.YAZAWA & Tsutenkakka in a 4-way by pinning Koji.

Match 6: In a 37 Great Battles Match, where a win also could happen by a cumulative 37 count on 1 or 2 count pinfall attempts, DDT Extreme Champion Shunma Katsumata beat Kohri Kinoshita by cumulative 37 count to retain the title. V5 for Katsumata.

Match 7: Yuki Ueno & Jun Akiyama beat HARADHIMA & Kazuki Hirata in 5 seconds. Ueno pinned Hirata after a lariat. Which led to…
Match 7 (again): Yuki Ueno & Jun Akiyama beat HARADHIMA & Kazuki Hirata with Yoshihiko. Ueno pinned Hirata after WR.

Main Event: Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masada beat KO-D Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino to won the titles. Brookes & Masada become the 83rd KO-D Tag Team Champions. Brookes beat Endo with an octopus stretch.

As far as East-West went, West won 5-3.

The next event is a crossover event with US promotion Game Changer Wrestling Monday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Sunday at 8:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. Live results will be scheduled.

DDT held a special “Meet & Greet & Fight” event today with only 3 matches, but each one awarded “Money In The Bank” style title shots to the victors.

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

The announced paid attendance was 295.

Match 1; Kazuma Sumi beat Yuni & Illusion in a 3-way by pinning Yuni. As a result, Sumi earns a title shot of his choice anytime, anywhere. He almost used it immediately before GM Imabayashi talked him out of it.

Match 2; KANON beat Yukio Naya. As a result, KANON earns same title shot contract.

Main Event: In an 18 man battle royal where the last 3 left won and earned the title shots, the winners were HARASHIMA, Keigo Nakamura and (oh dear) Antonio Honda.

The next event is 8/10 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka, which will have an “East vs. West” theme to all matches including at least 2 title matches. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET.

At a press conference today in Tokyo, DDT announced Makoto Oishi will be leaving the promotion in October. Contract expiring. His last event as a member of the roster will be 10/3. Oishi stated he is not retiring (he has been active for 22 years, the last 13 with DDT after 9 years with TAKA Michinoku’s former KAIENTAI DOJO promotion) and will continue to be active as a freelancer.

UPDATE: More details as to why this is happening have come out…it’s primarily for family reasons. His wife’s (former wrestler Misaki Ohata) father passed away recently and they decided to buy a house near her parents’ home in Miyagi Prefecture. They also have two children, 3 & 5, about to begin school. So he will be based in Sendai and be a freelancer going forward. He had other roles in DDT according to Director Akito, including bus driver and working behind-the-scenes, and noted the door will remain open to Oishi appearing in DDT whenever they go to Sendai and possibly for major Tokyo events.

WRESTLE PETER PAN, DDT’s biggest annual event, is now in the books.

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

The announced paid attendance was 4131, a super full house/very near sellout. They used a greatly reduced capacity setup (namely the box seats that normally hold 4-6 people for sumo were sold for only 2 people each), so a legit sellout probably would have been around 5000. The venue’s full normal capacity (mainly for sumo) is 15,000.

Match 1: Keigo Nakamura, Yuki Ishida & Kazuma Sumi beat Yuni, Yuya Koroku & Illusion. Nakamura pinned Yuni after a running diving headbutt.

Match 2: Toru Owashi, Hisamaru Tajima & Shinichiro Kawamatsu beat Makoto Oishi, Takao Soma & Munenori Sawa. Kawamatsu pinned Oishi after Ax Bomber.

Match 3: Super Sasadango Machine beat Kazuki Hirata.

Match 4: Jun Akiyama, Yukio Naya & Tomomitsu Matsunaga beat Minoru Suzuki, Shuji Ishikawa & Hikaru Sato. Naya pinned Sato after a wrist clutch backdrop.

Match 5: Sanshiro Takagi Final Pre-Hiatus Match: In a Weapon Rumble Match, Danshoku Dieno beat Sanshiro Takagi. Dieno also retained the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship, which they traded at a press conference earlier this week. Takagi is now taking an indefinite hiatus from competing, but has emphasized this is not retiring.

Match 6: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions HARASHIMA, Yasu Urano & Akito and Masa Takanashi, Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada and Aja Kong, Shunma Katsumata & To-y in a 4-way elimination match to win the titles. Sasaki, Paul & KANON become the 56th KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Order of elimination (one fall eliminates teams): Katsumata by Akito, Akito by Kanon, Masada by Sasaki.

Match 7: Konosuke Takeshita beat Masato Tanaka (ZERO1).

Match 8: KO-D Tag Team Champions Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino beat Go Shiozaki & Atsushi Kotoge (Pro Wrestling NOAH) to retain the titles. Endo pinned KOtoge after Burning Star Press. V3 for the champs.

Match 9: In a No DQ Match, El Desperado (New Japan) beat Chris Brookes. This was changed last-minute to No DQ at their request.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno beat MAO to retain the title. V6 for Ueno. Next up: Shinya Aoki. That match will happen on 8/25 at Korakuen Hall. After this, MAO returned to The37Kamiina. Also, this match was not for the DDT Universal Championship still held by MAO.

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

DDT continued their current tour today with an event in Tokyo.

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

The announced paid attendance was 308, a full house/near sellout.

Before the event, a public signing ceremony for the KO-D Tag Team Championship match on 7/21 was held.

Match 1: Makoto Oishi & Akito beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. Akito pinned Hirata with Gedo Clutch.

Match 2: Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku beat Jun Akiyama, Takao Soma & Keigo Nakamura. Endo pinned Nakamura after Yurikamome.

Match 3; Sanshiro Takagi & Yuni beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuma Sumi. Takagi pinned Sumi after an avalanche-style brainbuster.

Match 4; KANON 5th Anniversary Match: TAKA Michinoku (New Japan) beat KANON.

Match 5: HARASHIMA beat Daisuke Sasaki & Masa Takanashi in a 3-way by pinning Sasaki.

Match 6: Go Shiozaki (Pro Wrestling NOAH) beat Yuki Iino.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat MAO, Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda. To-y pinned Honda after a Frankensteiner,

The next event is Saturday at Iwate Education Hall Multipurpose Hall in Iwate. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT held another of their at least semi-annual Beer Garden Pro Wrestling events yesterday in Tokyo.

Yesterday’s event was held at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 630, a full house/near sellout.

Match 1: Kazuki Hirata & Kazuma Sumi beat Shinichiro Kawamatsu & Illusion. Hirata pinned Illusion.

Match 2: In a Positive Thinking Deathmatch, where a team would also lose if negative comments were made by one of their members, HARASHIMA, Keigo Nakamura & Yuki Ishida beat Danshoku Dieno, Jun Akiyama & Makoto Oishi by Akiyama negative comment.

A new collaboration between a clothing maker and DDT was announced, so we got some fanservice and Takeshi Masada got to be the lucky guy standing between the two lovely ladies that were there as the famed model/promo girls.

Ryuichi Kawakami, just released from his GLEAT contract Monday, made an unexpected appearance. He announced DDT participation, which will happen at the end of the month, and that brought Yukio Naya out for a confrontation. HOSS FIGHT ALERT!!!

Match 3: In a No DQ I Quit Match, Antonio Honda beat Invisible Leonardo DiCaprio.

Match 4: In a Falls Count Anywhere Match, Sanshiro Unagi (Sanshiro Takagi) & Sayaka Unagi (Independent/Freelancer) vs. Brahmans Shu & Kei went to a no contest. Out of control. Too much carnage for ref Daisuke Kiso.

Match 5: In a Falls Count Anywhere match, Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi & Yukio Naya beat Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku. Naya pinned Koroku after a chokeslam onto an inflatable pool.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & MAO. Ueno pinned MAO after July 2. For this event only MAO joined Damnation TA as he split from The37Kamiina ahead of his KO-D Openweight Championship match against Ueno at WRESTLE PETER PAN on 7/21.

The next event is a charity tournament presented by the Japan Disabled Wrestling Federation tomorrow at Odawara Arena Sub Arena in Kanagawa. Fans with disabilities and their caregivers can get free admission. There will be no live broadcast. It will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday.