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DDT wraps up the KING OF DDT 2026 Tournament today with the Semifinals & Finals. The winner will be next to challenge Yuki Ueno for the KO-D Openweight Championship. The Semifinals will be first and will be Minoru Suzuki vs. Shinya Aoki and MAO vs. Danshoku Dieno, with the winners then advancing to the Finals which is the main event. Before the Finals there will be a KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship match.

There has been a last-minute change to the card due to Rukiya being pulled off the event. Neck. Out about a week. Apparently an old injury and is not serious but as a precaution he will be out. He was to have teamed with Hinata Kasai to face Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yuki Ishida in a pre-show match. Akito is the replacement.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Super Sasadango Machine and-after his match-Akito will be guests on commentary. There will be a pre-show match as noted above so this will run a little longer than normal for a Korakuen event, so with the start time moved up the running time will likely be around 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show:
Akito & Hinata Kasai vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yuk iIshida

Main show:
KING OF DDT Semifinals:
Minoru Suzuki vs. Shinya Aoki
MAO vs. Danshoku Dieno
Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul & Illusion vs. Jun Akiyama, Naomi Yoshimura & Junta Miyawaki
Yuki Ueno & Kaisei Takechi vs. Kazuki Hirata & To-y
Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA & Antonio Honda vs. KANON, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno (and the hip-hop escort & babe with the whip)
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato vs. Shunma Katsumata, Yuni & Kazuma Sumi for the titles
KING OF DDT Finals: Suzuki/Aoki winner vs. MAO/Dieno winner

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET. The pre-show match is scheduled to begin at 7:10 PM PT/10:10 PM ET. The main show begins at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

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

7:10 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Satoshi Dairaku, Kagehiro Osano & Super Sasadango Machine. Haruo Murata & Akito will join later.

The paid attendance will not be announced after the event, they stopped doing that at the end of 2025.

Pre-show match: Akito & Hinata Kasai vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yuki Ishida. 15 minute time limit
Result; Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yuki Ishida beat Akito & Hinata Kasai. Ishida pinned Kasai after a backdrop.

Updates will resume when the main show begins.

Main Show:
The matches begin at 7:36 PM PT/10:30 PM ET. Your host is Haruo Murata joined by Akito along with Osano & Machine.

Match 1: KING OF DDT Tournament Semifinals: Minoru Suzuki vs. Shinya Aoki. No time limit
Result: Shinya Aoki beat Minoru Suzuki. As a result, Aoki advances to the Finals

Match 2: KING OF DDT Tournament Semifinals: MAO vs. Danshoku Dieno. No time limit
Result: MAO beat Danshoku Dieno. As a result, MAO advances to the Finals.

The Final-and the main event-will be Aoki vs. MAO.

Quick break for the opening announcements with GM Imabayashi. After the announcement of another train event in late November, Takao Soma comes out. It sounds like he will be returning next month. HARASHIMA is brought out next. He gets another special event on 9/23. Why? Because He’s Training! Then, with a break in his New Japan participation, Daisuke Sasaki comes out. He whispers something to Imabayashi which ultimately leads to Antonio Honda coming out. Updates to come on what went on here.

Match 4: Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul & Illusion vs. Jun Akiyama, Naomi Yoshimura & Junta Miyawaki. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun Akiyama, Naomi Yoshimura & Junta Miyawaki beat Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul & Illusion. Miyawaki pinned Illusion after Sunshine Driver.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno & Kaisei Takechi vs. Kazuki Hirata & To-y. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Ueno & Kaisei Takechi beat Kazuki Hirata & To-y immediately. Ueno beat Hirata with a Boston Crab. You know what this means…sure enough, GM Imabayashi immediately to the ring FULL EN FUEGO. Get him a throat lozenge! Which led to…
Match 5 (again): Yuki Ueno & Kaisei Takechi vs. Kazuki Hirata & To-y. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Ueno & Kaisei Takechi beat Kazuki Hirata & To-y. Takechi pinned Hirata after a dancing chokeslam. As funny as it sounds.

Satoshi Dairaku takes over as host again here.

Match 6: Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA & Antonio Honda vs. KANON, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno (and the hip-hop escort & babe with the whip aka KIMIHIRO & YUZUKI aka Yuzuki Hoshimoto). 30 minute time limit
Result: Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA & Antonio Honda beat KANON, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno. Brookes pinned Maligno after a sitout piledriver.

Match 7: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato vs. Shunma Katsumata, Yuni & Kazuma Sumi for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat Shunma Katsumata, Yuni & Kazuma Sumi to retain the titles. Masada pinned Yuni. V4 for the champs.

Haruo Murata takes over as host again for the main event.

Main Event: KING OF DDT Finals: Shinya Aoki vs. MAO. No time limit
Result: Shinya Aoki beat MAO to win the tournament. As a result, Aoki will next face KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno for the title on TBA. Possibly 6/27. (Seriously, Aoki needs a voice box in his throat or something. He has virtually no voice left)

As the crowd was starting to leave, a closing announcement was made by Machine, bringing out Dieno. Sounds to me like Machine is recruiting Dieno for his team for his 6/7 New Japan/DDT PPV match vs. Toru Yano.

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

UPDATE: The Sasaki-Honda promo during opening announcements led to a tag match on 8/11 at Ryogoku Kokugikan-Sasaki & TBA vs. Honda & TBA. There is a social media campaign where fans in Japan can guess who the TBAs will be and one winner will get an Amazon gift card worth 30,000 Japanese yen (around $195 US).

Aoki-Ueno for the title will happen on 6/28 as will Takao Soma’s return match. After the main event Aoki also had a confrontation with Maligno which has led to a match between them. That match will happen on Wednesday.

A Ueno 10th Anniversary event will be held on 9/13.

On 7/2 Sasaki will defend the DDT O-40 Championship vs. TBA.

DDT held the latest Super Japan Pro Wrestling event today, continuing the current Sanshiro Takagi Produced series of non-DDT participation events.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Shota beat Miles Caru.

Match 2: Peruperu Oyakata (Antonio Honda) beat Da Pump Matsunoto.

Match 3: Marika Kobashi & Matsuzawa San beat Non Toraga & Riara. Kobashi pinned Roara after a sliding guillotine.

Match 4: Ken Ohka & Mac Panasonic beat Tanomusaku Toba & Hyo Ogawa. Ohka pinned Ogawa after Flame Spear.

Match 5: Satoshi Kojima (New Japan) & Munenori Sawa beat Brahmans Shu & Kei. Kojima pinned Kei after a lariat.

Main Event: Yuji Nagata (New Japan) & CIMA (Independent/Freelancer) beat Sanshiro Takagi & Poison Sawada JULIE. CIMA pinned Takagi after Meteora.

The next Super Japan event is 7/6 at Shinjuku Face. Announced today for it were Nagata-CIMA and Ohka-Hayabusa (ZERO1).

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall for the KING OF DDT 2026 Semifinals and Finals. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET, but may be moved up a few minutes due to a pre-show match.

Some DDT news from the last few days:

Last weekend, there was participation in a joint independent event held in France featuring Kazuma Sumi, MAO & Yoshihiko. It was a mixed bag as first MAO & Yoshihiko lost the BZW Tag Team Championship they held for over a year to MBM & Altima Sombier. Later on, Sumi defended the DDT Universal Championship in a 3-way against Gringo Loco & Leedz Lewis and pinned Lewis to retain the title. V2 for Sumi.

Injury Update: With Masami Inahata expected back by now but not, a further update was provided on his condition. Lumbar vertebrae sprain. Now out at least another 2-3 weeks. Estimated return is around mid-June but subject to change.

Finally, today’s event results which was a Beer Garden Pro Wrestling event in Tokyo.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Hideki Okatani & Illusion ebat Yuya Koroku & Hinata Kasai. Illusion pinned Kasai after a swanton bomb.

Match 2: In a 5000 Yen Bringing Weapons Deathmatch, Kazuma Sumi & Yuk iIshida beat MAO & Kazuki Hirata. Sumi pinned Hirata.

Match 3: Takeshi Masada & Daichi Sato beat Antonio Honda & Junta Miyawaki. Masada pinned Honda with a deformed Osui suplex hold.

Match 4: HARASHIMA beat Rukiya. Afterwards, HARASHIMA announced the recent birth of his second child (posted prior on social media) and said, as always, he was training.

Match 5: Shunma Katsumata, To-y & Akito beat KANON, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno. To-y pinned Maligno after Running T-O-Y.

Main Event: In an Anomalous Drunk Match, where after a 2 count pinfall, rope escape running the ropes or a specific song played a specific beverage had to be drunk depending on the team and it could affect the outcome, Danshoku Dieno & Yoshihiko beat Chris Brookes & Yuki Ueno. Dieno pinned Brookes with a combined Gay Road Clutch. Brookes & Ueno had to drink tequila or beer, Dieno had to drink cola. They somehow managed to keep this up for over 34 minutes.

The next event is a Super Japan Pro Wrestling (Sanshiro Takagi Produced) event tomorrow. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Saturday.

DDT ran the 9th D GENERATIONS event today, marking the 1st anniversary of the event series for the promotion’s younger & less experienced wrestlers.

Today’s event was held at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Sunday. There was no love broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There was a last-minute change to the card due to Masami Inahata being pulled off the event. Not cleared to return from a back injury earlier this month.

Match 1: Ari Nejima beat Hinata Kasai.

Match 2: Yuya Koroku & Yuki Ishida beat Hideki Okatani & Illusion. Ishida pinned Illusion after Flame Palm.

Match 3: Munetatsu Nakamura beat Rukiya.

Match 4: In a Throw Ban Match, Takeshi Masada vs. To-y went to a Double DQ. Ref assaults by both.

Main Event: Kazuma Sumi beat Yuni.

The next event is Tuesday. There will be no live broadcast. On demand 5/29.

Updating an item from the 5/10 DDT results post, it was announced at the time that Masami Inahata would be out a week with a back injury and return Sunday at a Matsui Referee Produced event in Osaka. That will not happen. Still out due to doctor’s orders to rest and is mow out indefinitely. Hiroaki Taniguchi will be the replacement Sunday.

More as it becomes available.

DDT took a break from KING OF DDT to run the May house shows starting yesterday in Nagoya.

Yesterday’s event was held at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Thursday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Yuni & Yuki Ishida beat Viente Maligno & Hinata Kasai. Ishida pinned Kasai.

Match 2: Naomi Yoshimura beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata in a 3-way by pinning Hirata

Match 3: Akito, Junta Miyawaki & Yuya Korku beat Hideki Okatani, Daisuke Sasaki & Illusion. Miyawaki pinned Okatani after Sunshine Schoolboy. Afterwards, Miyawaki issued a DDT Extreme Championship challenge to Okatani. That match will happen on 6/21 at Chunichi Hall.

Match 4: MAO & KANON beat Takeshi Masada & Daichi Sato. MAO pinned Sato after a running palm.

Match 5: Kazuma Sumi & Yukio Naya beat Jun Akiyama & Masami Inahata. Naya pinned Inahata.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA & Antonio Honda. To-y pinned Honda after Kojima Impact. Afterwards, To-y issued a KO-D Tag Team Championship challenge for himself & Ueno. Brookes said no but the fans said yes. And based on that, Acting GM Akito said yes too. That match will happen on 6/21.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 9 PM PT/midnight ET.

Injury Report: It appears Inahata was injured during today’s match. Back. Out at least 1 week.

DDT continued the KING OF DDT 2026 Tournament today with the Quarterfinals.

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: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & Illusion beat O-MENZ Kumadori, Masami Inahata & Hinata Kasai. Sasaki beat Kasai with a crossface.

Match 2: Yuya Koroku, Daichi Sato & Yuki Ishida beat Kazuki Hirata, Antonio Honda & Yuni. Koroku pinned Hirata.

Match 3: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat Kazuma Sumi, Junta Miyawaki & Rukiya and KANON, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno in a 3way when Katsumata pinned Maligno.

KING OF DDT Quarterfinals:
Match 4: MAO beat Hideki Okatani.
Match 5: Danshoku Dieno beat Takeshi Masada.
Match 6: Minoru Suzuki beat Chris Brookes by submission.
Main Event: Shinya Aoki beat HARASHIMA.
As a result, the Semifinals will be Aoki vs. Suzuki and Dieno vs. MAO.

The Semifinals & Finals are 5/31 at Korakuen Hall.

The next event is tomorrow at Imaike Gas Hall in Nagoya. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Thursday

DDT kicked off the 2026 KING OF DDT Tournament today in Tokyo with their Golden Week major event. The first of 2 major single tournament each year in the promotion, this is a single-elimination bracket format event.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Pre-show:
Match 1: Jun Akiyama, Yuni, Yuki Ishida & Rikiya beat Naomi Yoshinura, Viente Maligno, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Masami Inabata. Rukiya pinned Maligno with a fishermans buster.
Match 2: Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata beat Daisuke Sadaki & MJ Paul and Antonio Honda & Hinata Kasai in a 3-way when Ueno pinned Kasai. Rather unusual to have the promotion’s top wrestler and champion on a pre-show, don’t you think? Until you realize…

Main show:

All matches were KING OF DDT Round 1 matches. No time limits.

Match 1: Hideki Okatani beat Yuya Koroku.

Match 2: Takeshi Masada beat To-y.

Match 3: Chris Brookes beat Junta Miyawaki.

Match 4: HARASHIMA beat Daichi Sato.

Match 5: Shinya Aoki beat KANON.

Match 6: Minoru Suzuki beat Yukio Naya.

Match 7: Danshoku Dieno beat Kazuki Hirata.

Main Event: MAO beat Kazuma Sumi.

After the main event, it was announced that Sumi will defend the DDT Universal Championship in France on 5/23. That match will be against Gringo Loco & Leedz Lewis in a 3-way. MAO & Yoshihiko will also be there for a BZW Tag Team Championship defense.

As a result of today, the Quarterfinals are as follows: Dieno vs. Masada, Suzuki vs. Brookes, HARASHIMA vs. Aoki, Okatani vs. MAO.

The Quarterfinals are Saturday at Shinjuku Face. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET

DDT began their May schedule with an event today in Homkaido.

Today’s event was held at Sapporo Sun Plaza in Hokkaido and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Hideki Okatani beat Viente Maligno.

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno & Yukio Naya beat Kazuma Sumi & Yuki Ishida. Naya pinned Ishida with La Magistral.

Match 3: Takeya Dou (?), Kaoshi (?) Yoshida, Kazuki Hirata & Tomomitsu Matsunaga beat Akito, Antonio Honda, Junta Miyawaki & Hinata Kasai. Yoshida pinned Kasai.

Match 4: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & O-MENZ Kumadori. Katsumata pinned Kunadori after Totoe Splash.

Match 5: MAO & KANON beat Jun Akiyama & Masami Inahata. KANON pinned Inahata after Guru-Guru Driver.

Main Event: KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA beat Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul to retain the titles. HARASHIMA pinned Paul after a swan dive Blue Sword. V1 for the champs.

The next event is tomorrow with a KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship match. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Wednesday.