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DDT continued the WHAT ARE YOU DOING 2024 Tour today in Kyoto.

Today’s event was held at Kyoto KBS Hall in Kyoto and is scheduled to be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 236.

In the opening announcements there was a last-minute change to the card: The main event was changed to a 2/3 Falls match.

Match 1: Yukio Naya beat Hirakaka-nii-san.

Match 2: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Toru Owashi & Illusion. Sasaki pinned Illusion.

Match 3: Chris Brookes beat Kazuki Hirata in 10 seconds. Which led to…
Match 3 (again): In a 1 Count Falls match, Kazuki Hirata beat Chris Brookes.

Match 4: MAO beat Yuya Koroku.

Match 5: Sanshiro Takagi, Akito & Shinichiro Kawamatsu beat HARASHIMA, Kazusada Higuchi & Kazuma Sumi. Kawamatsu pinned Sumi after Ax Bomber. Afterwards, the wrestling politician (he is a legit Japanese politician) claimed he went to the US and learned the move from Hulk Hogan. Highly unlikely.

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino beat Takeshi Masada & Keigo Nakamura. Iino pinned Nakamura after a spear.

Just Before Main Event: Jun Akiyama beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion To-y to win the title. Akiyama becomes the 1633rd Champion. Which led to…
Danshoku Dieno beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Jun Akiyama to win the title. Dieno becomes the 1634th Champion.

Main Event: In a 2/3 Falls Match, Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Ueno & To-y beat Jun Akiyama, Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi 2-0. In Fall 2, To-y beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Danshoku Dieno to win the title. To-y becomes the 1635th Champion. During the post-match victory promo to end the show, Katsumata, Ueno & MAO all tried to win the title from To-y but were unsuccessful so that’s 3 successful defenses.

The next event is tomorrow at Matsuyama City General Community Center Special Exhibition Hall in Ehime. There will be no live broadcast. On demand scheduled for Thursday.

DDT kicked off their June tour, the WHAT ARE YOU DOING 2024 Tour, 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 344, a super full house/very near sellout.

Yukio Naya & Keigo Nakamura beat Kazusada Higuchi & Kazuma Sumi. Nakamura pinned Sumi.

Match 2; MAO & Shunma Katsumata beat Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata by ref stoppage (TKO). MAO beat Hirata.

Match 3: Jun Akiyama, Atsushi Kotoge (Pro Wrestling NOAH) & Tomomitsu Matsunaga beat Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku. Kotoge pinned Koroku after Kill Switch. Afterwards, Go Shiozaki made a surprise appearance to issue a KO-D Tag Team Title challenge for himself & Kotoge. That match will happen on 7/21 at WRESTLE PETER PAN at Ryogoku Kokugikan.

Match 4: Referee Daisuke Kiso 14th Anniversary Match: Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie beat To-y & Yuni. Ishii pinned Yuni after 2-Handed Driver TURBO..

Match 5: IWA JAPAN SETUP Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi beat Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi to retain the titles. Brooked pinned Oishi after HOD. V1 for the champs.

Match 6: HARASHIMA, Yasu Urano & Akito beat KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON to win the titles. HARASHIMA, Urano & Akito become the 55th KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Akito pinned KANON after a HARASHIMA Blue Sword.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno beat Sanshiro Takagi to retain the title. V5 for Ueno. Next up: As expected and previously announced, MAO at WRESTLE PETER PAN. The37Kamiina will still have the champion afterwards, the question is who. And if MAO might become a double champion as he is the current DDT Universal Champion.

The next event is Saturday at Kyoto KBS Hall in Kyoto. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT wraps up the 20th Anniversary KING OF DDT Tournament today with the Semifinals and Finals. The winner should get a KO-D Openweight Championship match in the near future, but it may not be until WRESTLE PETER PAN and it may not be against current champion Yuki Ueno, who has to next defend in a couple weeks against Sanshiro Takagi. The final four are MAO, Kazusada Higuchi, Chris Brookes & Daisuke Sasaki, and those in order are the Semifinals with the Finals being the main event. Some WRESTLE PETER PAN announcements have also been promised today, and former wrestler Saki Akai will make a pre-event appearance in person.

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Voice actor Kentaro Kumagai will be a special guest on commentary. There will be a pre-show match 15 minutes before the scheduled start time. Including that match, and with the tournament matches having no time limit, it will probably be a normal running time for this type of event, meaning around 2 1/2 hours and plenty of time to get to Ryogoku Kokugikan for the final day of grand sumo and the top-tier championship matches.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show:
Yuni & Keigo Nakamura vs. Illusion & Kazuma Sumi

Main show:
KANON & MJ Paul vs. HARASHIMA & Akito
KING OF DDT Semifinals:
MAO vs. Kazusada Higuchi
Chris Brookes vs. Daisuke Sasaki
Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata vs, Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi and Yukio Naya & Takeshi Masada in a 3-way
Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku vs. Poison Sawada JULIE, Shuji Ishikawa & Masa Takanashi
Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y vs. Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Akiyama & Tomomitsu Matsunaga
KING OF DDT Finals (Semifinal winners)

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Updates below will begin at 7:15 PM PT/10:15 PM ET. The live stream begins at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET.

7:15 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Satoshi Dairaku, Kagehiro Osano & special guest Kentaro Kumagai.

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. The crowd is still filing in but they have slightly higher than normal capacity with some bleacher seats open behind commentary on the opposite hard-camera side. Hopefully they can get to around 1000 but based on advance sales it’ll probably be closer to 800. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 1005, a full house/near sellout)

Pre-show match: Yuni & Keigo Nakamura vs. Illusion & Kazuma Sumi. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yuni & Keigo Nakamura beat Illusion & Kazuma Sumi. Nakamura pinned Sumi.

Main show:
The matches begin at 7:35 PM PT/10:35 PM ET.

Match 1: KANON & MJ Paul vs. HARASHIMA & Akito. 30 minute time limit
Result: KANON & MJ Paul beat HARASHIMA & Akito. KANON pinned Akito.

Preview video for the next match. Your host when we return is Haruo Murata.

Match 2: KING OF DDT Semifinals: MAO vs. Kazusada Higuchi. No time limit
Result: MAO beat Kazusada Higuchi. As a result, MAO advances to the Finals to face the winner of the next match in the main event.

Match 3: KING OF DDT Semifinals: Chris Brookes vs. Daisuke Sasaki. It has been changed last-second to a No DQ match. No time limit
Result: Daisuke Sasaki beat Chris Brookes. As a result, Sasaki advances to the Finals and will face MAO in the main event. No repeat for Brookes.

Video promo from Effy of Game Changer Wrestling for their joint event with DDT on 8/12 at Korakuen followed by GM Imabayashi with the normally-opening announcements.

Match 4: Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata vs, Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi and Yukio Naya & Takeshi Masada in a 3-way. 30 minute time limit
Result: Danshoku DIeno & Makoto Oishi beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata and Yukio Naya & Takeshi Masada in a 3-way before Naya & Masada even got to the ring when Oishi pinned Owashi during their entrance. GM Imabayashi with microphone immediately. Absolute EN FUEGO. Which led to…
Match 4 (again): Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata vs, Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi and Yukio Naya & Takeshi Masada in a 3-way. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yukio Naya & Takeshi Masada beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata and Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi in a 3-way when Naya pinned both Hirata & Oishi simultaneously.

Match 5: Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Yuya Koroku vs. Poison Sawada JULIE, Shuji Ishikawa & Masa Takanashi. 30 minute time limit. Alternate personas for Endo & Iino actually as they both have JULIE-style face paint and there has been a last-second change as JULIE & Kotoku have swapped sides…
Result: Yuya Koroku, Shuji Ishikawa & Masa Takanashi beat Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Poison Sawada JULIE. Koroku pinned JULIE after a moonsault press.

7/21 announcement: Konosuke Takeshita was already announced for the event, and now his opponent is revealed…Masato Tanaka! Another announcement for 7/21 is planned for after the main event to end the show.

Match 6: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & To-y vs. Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Akiyama & Tomomitsu Matsunaga. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & Toy beat Sanshiro Takagi, Jun Akiyama & Tomomitsu Matsunaga. Ueno pinned Matsunaga after WR.

Main Event: KING OF DDT Finals: MAO vs. Daisuke Sasaki. No time limit
Result: MAO beat Daisuke Sasaki to win the tournament. First time winning. As a result, MAO will almost certainly get a KO-D Openweight Championship in the future, which could well be against The37Kamiina factionmate Yuki Ueno. Ueno came out post-match to maybe set it up, but he’s gotta get through Sanshiro Takagi first of course, at least I’m assuming that’s the plan. Of course this brought out Takagi to play spoiler promo. Either way MAO likely has the winner, and they’re talking like it will be on 7/21. They chug beers and Takagi teases the Stunner but it’s just a friendly toast. This time. MAO finished the promo and posed for teh obligatory ringside media photos to end the show.

Post-main event announcement is what looks like a special photo collaboration/book release on 7/21.

The next event is a free mini-event Saturday at Takashimaya 1st floor JR Train Station Exit Special Venue in Tokyo. There will be no live broadcast.

The next “regular” event is 6/5 at Shinjuku Face with Ueno-Takagi for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

UPDATE: It’s now official. MAO gets the Ueno-Takagi winner on 7/21 for the KO-D Openweight Championship.

DDT referee Yukinori Matsui held a 30th Anniversary event yesterday in Osaka, and it was, well, DDT.

Yesterday’s event was held at Sumiyoshi Civic Center in Osaka and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 968, a legit sellout.

Pre-show match: Kazuma Sumi beat Yuni & Illusion in a 3-way by pinning Yuni.

Match 1; Yuuyo Kikuchi, Haruto Nozomi & Kyohei Kinoshita beat Naruki Doi (Independent/Freelancer), Shunma Katsumata & Keigo Nakamura. Kikuchi pinned Nakamura after a diving foot stomp.

Match 2: Danshoku Dieno & Super Sasadango Machine beat Kazuki Hirata & Trans*Am Hiroshi in 9 seconds. Dieno pinned Hirata with Gay Way Clutch. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Danshoku Dieno & Super Sasadango Machine beat Kazuki Hirata & Trans*Am Hiroshi in 7 seconds. Dieno pinned Hiroshi. Which led to…
Match 2 (once again): Danshoku DIeno & Trans*Am Hiroshi beat Kazuhi Hirata & Super Sasadango Machine in 8 seconds. Dieno pinned Machine. Which led to…
Match 2 (yet again): In a handicap match, Danshoku Dieno beat Super Sasadango Machine, Kazuki Hirata & Trans*Am Hiroshi in 21 seconds by pinning Machine. Which led to…
Match 2 (one more time): Danshoku Dieno vs. Super Sasadango Machine, Kazuhi Kirata & Trans*AM Hiroshi in a 4-way ended in a draw. 4-way simultaneous fall.

Match 3: In an irregular rules match with 2 3-minute rounds, Tadashi Bushi vs. Tanomusaku Toba went to a draw. Round 1 was an MMA rules fight. Round 2 was a Tire Boxing rules fight, where both fighters apparently had to keep one foot inside of a full-size vehicle tire. Never heard of it before.

Match 4: Yuko Miyamoto & Isami Kodaka won an 8-team battle royal, last eliminating Takao Soma & Shota.

Match 5: Magnitude Kishiwada, HUB & Kengo Takai beat Tsubasa, Billy Ken Kid & Shoichi Uchida. Kishiwada pinned Uchida after Last Ride. All the wrestlers are well-known and iconic Osaka-based wrestlers over the last 30 years. Kishiwada also spent several years in Dragon Gate.

Match 6; Jun Akiyama, Jinsei Shinzaki & Sanshiro Takagi beat Takeshi Masada, To-y & Yuya Koroku. Shinzaki pinned Koroku after Nenbutsu Powerbomb.

Match 7: HARASHIMA, Chris Brookes & Yuji Hino beat Shuji Ishikawa, Shigehiro Irie & Yukio Naya. HARASHIMA pinned Irie after a swan dive style Blue Sword.

Match 8: Dick Togo (New Japan Pro Wrestling) & Daisuke Sasaki beat Yasu Urano & Antonio Honda. Togo pinned Honda after a diving senton.

Match 9: Kuishinbo Kamen beat Kikutaro.

Match 10: Konosuke Takeshita beat Minoru Suzuki.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno & Kazusada Higuchi beat MAO & Tetsuya Endo. Ueno pinned Endo after WR.

The next event is the KING OF DDT 2024 Finals Sunday at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET with live results scheduled.

DDT kicked off KING OF GATE 2024, one of the promotion’s 2 annual single tournaments, today with Round 1. This is a single-elimination format tournament with 16 participants.

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

The announced paid attendance was 1025, a full house/near sellout.

Pre-show:
Match 1: Takao Soma, Keigo Nakamura & Yuya Koroku beat Yuni, Illusion & Kazuma Sumi. Nakamura pinned Sumia fter a diving headbutt.
Match 2: Jun Akiyama, Makoto Oishi & Tomomitsu Matsunaga beat Shunma Katsumata, Akito & Kazuki Hirata in 8 seconds. Oishi pinned Hirata with a tornado clutch. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Jun Akiyama, Makoto Oishi & Tomomitsu Matsunaga beat Shunma Katsumata, Akito & Kazuki Hirata. Oishi pinned Hirata with a tornado clutch.

Main show:
All matches were KING OF DDT Round 1 matches, no time limit.
Match 1: MAO beat Poison Sawada JULIE.
Match 2: To-y beat KANON.
Match 3: Sanshiro Takagi beat Yuki Ueno.
Match 4; Daisuke Sasaki beat Yuki Iino.
Match 5: Kazusada Higuchi beat Yukio Naya.
Match 6: Shuji Ishikawa beat HARASHIMA.
Match 7: Tetsuya Endo beat Danshoku Dieno.
Main Event: Chris Brookes beat Takeshi Masada.

The Quarterfinals are Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and will be MAO vs. To-y, Takagi vs. Sasaki, Higuchi vs. Ishikawa and Endo vs. Brookes. After all matches, a random draw to determine the Semifinal matches will be held.

The next event is ALL TOGETHER, a special charity fundraiser event for Noto Peninsula earthquake recovery efforts featuring DDT, New Japan and Pro Wrestling NOAH, tomorrow at Nippon Budokan. Live streaming as a PPV only on ABEMA worldwide will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET. The earliest it may be available without paywalls on New Japan World and/or WRESTLE UNIVERSE will be May 19 (when the PPV window ends).

DDT ran the first event of a special collaboration today with Zeekstar, a Tokyo-based pro handball team.

Today’s event was held at Sumida General Gym in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 687.

Pre-show match: Kazuma Sumi beat Yuni & Illusion in a 3-way by pinning Yuni.

Match 1: Keigo Nakamura Return Match: DDT Universal Champion MAO beat Keigo Nakamura to retain the title. V8 for MAO.

Match 2: Kazusada Higuchi & Yuya Koroku beat Yukio Naya & Rukiya. Higuchi beat Rukiya with a Canadian backbreaker.

Match 3: KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi, Antonio Honda, Takeshi Masada & Mecha Mummy beat Toru Owashi, Hiroshi Yamato, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Takao Soma & Shuichiro Kawamatsu to retain the titles. Masada pinned Matsunaga. V2 for the champs.

Match 4: Sanshiro Unagi (Sanshiro Takagi) beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sayaka Unagi to win the title. Sanshiro becomes the 1626th Champion. Which led to…

Sayaka Unagi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sanshiro Unagi to win the title. Unagi becomes the 1627th Champion. Which led to…

Sanshiro Unagi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sayaka Unagi to win the title. Sanshiro becomes the 1628th Champion.

Match 5: Tetsuya Endo & Yuki Iino beat Shunma Katsumata & To-y. Endo pinned To-y after Burning Star Press.

Intermission. During which…

Jister (a member of Zeekstar Tokyo) beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sanshiro Unagi to win the title. Jister becomes the 1629th Champion.

Match 6: HARASHIMA beat Kazuki Hirata.

Match 7: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON beat DDT 6-Man Tag Team Champions Jun Akiyama, Danshoku Dieno & Makoto Oishi to win the titles. Sasaki, Paul & KANON become the 54th KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions. Sasaki beat Oishi with a crossface.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno beat Akito to retain the title. V4 for Ueno.

The next event is Sunday at Sapporo Sunplaza Kanaeda Room in Hokkaido. There will be no live broadcast.

DDT held what was billed as the first “Spoiler-Free Wrestling” event today, as fans were not allowed to post any results, photos/videos, etc. to social media and the promotion would not post any results from the event until the end of the day, which was a short time ago (about an hour before this was posted).

Today’s event was held at Tsurumi Fruit & Vegetable Market in Kanagawa and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 312, a super full house/very near sellout.

Before the matches began, there was a brawl involving Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Rukiya & Takeshi Masada until HARASHIMA intervened. There were also changes to upcoming events: On 4/28, Keigo Nakamura’s return match against MAO is now for the DDT Universal Championship, and on next up for the DDT Extreme Champion Shunma Katsumata is, by his choice, Antonio Honda. That match will happen on 5/17.

Match 1; In a No DQ Match, Daisuke Sasaki & KANON vs. Bad Buddy Yuni & Pitochico Sumi (Kazuma Sumi) was suddenly changed mid-match. Which led to…
Match 1 (again): Bad Buddy Yuni beat Pitochico Sumi by submission.

Match 2: In a No Ropes elimination match, where a wrestler was eliminated by falling out of the ring, Kazusada Higuchi beat Gota Ihashi, Yukio Naya & MJ Paul. Order of elimination: Paul by Naya, Naya by Higuchi, Ihashi by Higuchi.

Match 3: Yuki Iino & Yuki “Sexy” Iino (Rukiya I believe, based on photos) vs. Danshoku Dieno & Danshoku “Dandy” Dieno (Takeshi Masada) went to a no contest. Out of control. Apparently a one-day-only return for those deplorable Pheromons. Sort of.

Match 4: In a Special Rules Mixed Tag Match with 3 Minute Rounds (no limit), Akito Nishigaki (Akito) & Hayabucha (HARASHIMA) beat Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku at 2:59 of Round 3. Hayabucha pinned Koroku after Firebird Splash.

Match 5; Tyrannosaurus Inoue (MAO), Super Hardcore Katsumata (Shunma Katsumata) & To-y vs. Sanshi Takagi Robo (Sanshiro Takagi), Ripoff Musou (?) & Super Hardcore Chris (Chris Brookes) went to a double countout.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno & 3 other Yuki Uenos (MAO, Shunma Katsumata, Yo-y) beat Kazuki Hirata, Antonio Honda, another Kazuki Hirata (can’t tell who it really was yet) & another Antonio Honda (Kazusada Higuchi). The real Ueno pinned the real Hirata & Honda.

The next event is DDZT, a special 3-day collaboration event with Zeekstar Tokyo, a professional handball team in Tokyo, beginning Friday at Sumida City Gym in Tokyo. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET but may begin earlier as there is a pre-show match scheduled 15 minutes before the event.