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For the second straight day, DDT ran the second half of a doubleheader in Tokyo with Tokyo Joshi Pro, today being a New Year Fan Appreciation event.

Today’s event was held at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The paid attendance was not announced. (Looks like they’re not going to do it anymore)

Match 1; KANON, MJ Paul & Illusion beat Toru Owashi, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yuni. Illusion beat Yuni with a neck lock.

Match 2: Akito, Takao Soma and Substitute Kazuki Hirata, aka Yukio Naya, beat Danshoku Dieno, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda in 16 seconds. Naya pinned Honda after a knee lift. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Akito, Takao Soma and Substitute Kazuki Hirata, aka Yukio Naya, beat Danshoku Dieno, Masa Takanashi & Antonio Honda. Naya pinned Honda. Afterwards, the real Hirata appeared, who is temporarily out due to a knee injury (swelling, does not appear to be serious). He announced he will produce a 15th Anniversary event on 3/12 at Shinjuku Face.

Match 3: HARASHIMA beat Kazuma Sumi.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki beat Yuki Ishida by submission.

Match 5: MAO beat Keigo Nakamura.

Match 6: Jun Akiyama vs. Yuya Koroku went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 7: Takeshi Masada beat Yuki Iino.

Main Event: Chris Brookes vs. To-y went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 6:30 PM PT/9:30 PM ET.

DDT ran the second half of a doubleheader today with Tokyo Joshi Pro, an event called THE FORTUNE BATTLE 2025.

Today’s event was held at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There was a last-minute change due to Antonio Honda being taken off the event. Lovesickness. Really. He was to have faced Yuki Ueno. A. YAZAWA was thw replacement.

Match 1: HARASHIMA, Akito, Yuki Iino & Daichi Sato beat Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul, KANON & Illusion. HARASHIMA pinned Paul after Blue Sword.

Match 2: In a Scramble Bunkhouse Glasses Rules Match, where the only way to win was to use a move on your opponent to break a pair of Kazuki Hirata’s signature sunglasses, Toru Owashi & Takao Soma beat Danshoku Dieno & Yuki Ishida when Soma hit a Perfect Driver on Ishida onto the glasses.

Match 3: Shinya Aoki & Keigo Nakamura beat Yukio Naya & Yuya Koroku. Nakamura pinned Koroku with a modified crucifix hold.

Match 4: In a Rock & Roll deathmatch, Yuki Ueno beat A. YAZAWA.

Match 5: KO-D Tag Team Champions MAO & To-y beat Yuni & Kazuma Sumi to retain the titles. MAO pinned Sumi after Ultra Big Time. V1 for the champs.

Main Event; Shuji Ishikawa & Jun Akiyama beat Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masada. Ishikawa pinned Masada after Splash Mountain.

After the show-ending promo…

Tetsu Inada beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Poison Sawada JULIE to win the title. Inada becomes the 1708th Champion.

The next event is “DDT New Year’s Fan Appreciation Day!” tomorrow. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 PM PT/3:30 AM ET. Late changes have been announced for the event because Yuki Ueno is now off. The always-vague poor health. MJ Paul is the replacement.

DDT held a pair of house shows yesterday & today in Osaka.

Yesterday’s event was held at Yadogawa Community Center in Osaka and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced. This may be a new thing for DDT in 2025, they haven’t done it for an event so far this year. Very small venue though so likely in the 125-150 range.

Match 1: Toru Owashi beat Yuki Ishida.

Match 2; KANON beat Kazuma Sumi.

Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & Illusion beat Akito, Kohei Kinoshita & Yuya Koroku. Sasaki beat Koroku with a crossface.

Match 4: Demus beat Antonio Honda.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno, MAO & To-y beat Jun Akiyama, Yuki Iino & Keigo Nakamura. To-y pinned Nakamura after Kojima Impact.

Main Event: Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masada beat Danshoku Dieno & Yukio Naya. Brookes pinned Dieno after Praying Mantis Bomb.

Today’s event was held at Oyodo Community Center in Osaka and will be available on demand Thursday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There was a late change to the card, namely match 1, due to HARASHIMA being off. Fever. Yasutaka Oosera was the replacement.

Match 1: Yasutaka Oosera & Yuya Koroku beat Yukio Naya & Yuki Ishida. Koroku beat Ishida with a chicken wing.

Match 2: In a No Sex Rules match, Danshoku Dieno beat Carnalax. Those rules meant no Danshoku Dieno being Danshoku Dieno.

Match 3: KANON, MJ Paul & Illusion beat To-y, Toru Owashi & Kazuma Sumi. Illusion pinned Sumi after a swanton bonb.

Match 4: Jun Akiyama & Yuki Iino beat Antonio Honda & Takeshi Masada. Iino pinned Honda after Burning Elbow Drop.

Match 5: In a Admiral Lord Malevolence Rules match, which was 3 5-minute rounds and committing 3 fouls results in a DQ, Chris Brookes beat Akito at 2:30 of round 3 by DQ. This was a last-second rule change requested by both at the start of the event.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno & MAO beat Daisuke Sasaki & Demus. Ueno pinned Demus after July 2. This was the final appearance for Demus in DDT, at least for now.

The next event is Saturday at Club eX in Shinagawa Prince Hotel in Tokyo with a KO-D Tag Team Championship match, the second half of a same-day doubleheader with Tokyo Joshi Pro. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 12:30 AM PT/3:30 AM ET.

DDT ran a semi-wacky KOTATSU FIGHTING 2025 event today in Yokohama.

Today’s event was held at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Tuesday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: MJ Paul & Demus beat Yuki Iino & Yuki Ishida. Demus pinned Ishida after Balaguesa.

Match 2: Yukio Naya, Keigo Nakamura & Yuya Koroku beat Daisuke Sasaki, KANON & Illusion. Nakamura pinned Illusion with a modified crucifix hold.

Match 3: To-y beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga.

Match 4: In a KOTATSU FIGHTING Match, where the not-legal participants had to wait in a special area before being tagged in, or that was the plan anyway, Danshoku Dieno, Yuki Ueno & Jun Akiyama beat Makoto Oishi, Antonio Honda & Takao Soma. Ueno beat Honda with Cold Clutch.

Match 5; MAO beat Kazuma Sumi.

Main Event: Shuji Ishikawa, HARASHIMA & Akito beat Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi & Takeshi Masada. Ishikawa pinned Takanashi after Splash Mountain.

The next event is tomorrow at Yodogawa Community Center in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand scheduled for Wednesday.

UPDATE: HARASHIMA is now off tomorrow & Monday. Fever. For tomorrow Kohei Kinoshita is the replacement. For Monday Yasutaka Oosera is the replacement.

DDT has announced a pair of injury/illness changes for this weekend’s events-both Kazuki Hirata and Yuni are now off all 3 events. Hirata-right knee. Yuni-fever. This means the fourth match for tomorrow has to be changed as Hirata was announced as part of a 6-man Kotatsu Fighting match. (It actually has but not in an English-language post on DDT’s website. Makoto Oishi is the replacement).. it’s not known how long Hirata may be out, Yuni’s absence is precautionary.

More as it becomes available.

1/15/35 UPDATE: Hirata remains out indefinitely. Not serious but some swelling in the knee so it will continue to be monitored.

DDT ran a special “All seats 3000 yen” (around $20 US) New Year Festival 2025 event today in Tokyo.

Today’s event was held at Itabashi Green Hall in Tokyo and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Wednesday. There was no live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced but it was a legit advance sellout. For the venue that means 200-250.

Before the matches began, new ring announcer Task Ono, who debuted today, greeted the crowd.

NwA Jr. (Shunma Katsumata, Yuni, Kazuma Sumi) performed their debut song.

Match 1: Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masada vs. Yuki Ueno & MAO went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Jun Akiyama beat Gota Ihashi.

Match 3: Tetsuya Endo beat Yuki Iino. This is/was Endo’s final DDT match for now before he heads to Pro Wrestling NOAH indefinitely.

Main Event: KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Keigo Nakamura, To-y, Yuya Koroku, Kazuma Sumi & Yuki Ishida beat Danshoku Dieno, Toru Owashi, Akito, Kazuki Hirata & Antonio Honda and HARASHIMA, Takao Soma, Tomomiotsu Matsnaga, Yukio Naya & Yuni and Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul, KANON, Demus & Illusion in a 4-way elimination match to retain the titles. Order of elimination (one man means entire team out): Yuni by Hirata, Honda by Demus, Illusion by Nakamura. V1 for the champs.

The next event is KOTATSU FIGHTING 2025 Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at midnight PT/3 AM ET.

DDT kicked off their 2025 campaign today with their first monthly signature event of the year, New Year Dramatic Parade 2025.

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

The paid attendance has not been announced.

There was a last-minute change to match 4 due to Takeshi Masada being off the event (possible fever). Hikaru Sato was the replacement.

Match 1: To-y, Akito & Takao Soma beat Toru Owashi, Super Sasadango Machine & Tomomitsu Matsunaga. To-y pinned Matsunaga after Kojima Impact. Afterwards, Sanshiro Takagi appeared to present To-y with a New Year’s gift, but it was only 10,000 Japanese yen (around $65 US). Owashi then tried but failed to win the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship from Takagi.

NwA Jr. (Shuma Katsumata, Yuni, Kazuma Sumi) performed live in the ring.

Match 2; Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul, Demus & Illusion beat Yuni, Kazuma Sumi, Daichi Sato & Yuki Ishida. Illusion pinned Ishida after a swanton bomb.

Match 3: BZW Tag Team Champions MAO & Yoshihiko beat Antonio Honda & Kazuki Hirata to retain the titles. Yoshihiko pinned Hirata with Arc de Triomphe Hold. V1 for the champs.

Match 4: Chris Brookes, Masa Takanashi & Hikaru Sato (All-Japan) beat Shinya Aoki, Yuki Ueno & Keigo Nakamura. Brookes beat Nakamura with a ground octopus stretch.

Match 5: Tetsuya Endo beat Yuya Koroku. This may be Endo’s final DDT match for now as he is headed to Pro Wrestling NOAH indefinitely.

Match 6; Konosuke Takeshita & Jun Akiyama beat Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya. Takeshita pinned Iino after Raging Fire.

Main Event: Shuji Ishikawa beat Danshoku Dieno, HARASHIMA & KANON in a 4-way by pinning KANON. As a result, Ishikawa gets the next KO-D Openweight Championship shot. That match will happen on 1/26.

The next event is Sunday at Itabashi Green Hall in Tokyo. The card will not be announced in advance. There will be no live broadcast.

UPDATE: A late unexpected development after the event…

Chris Harrington (All Elite Wrestling) beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Sanshiro Takagi to win the title. Harrington becomes the 1705th Champion.

DDT wraps up 2024 with their year-end blowout event today, Ultimate Party 2024. It certainly will be just that as outside of their annual 5 Hour Anniversary Event and WRESTLE PETER PAN it will be their next-biggest event on the schedule in terms of match quantity and quality with 11 matches in all scheduled. The main event will be Chris Brookes defending the KO-D Openweight Championship against Daisuke Sasaki. The Damnation TA leader got the better of Brookes in early tag matches but the champ took the rubber match in the final face-off, but now that all means nothing as we find out who will end 2024 with the top title. Before that, new KO-D Tag Team Champions will be crowned as MAO & To-y face Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku for the titles, culminating a headed rivalry that’s developed between the young To-y & Koroku lately. Elsewhere, Tokyo Joshi Pro participation is set for a crossover match against DDT thanks to Super Sasadango Machine visiting TJPW recently, and two new music entertainment athletes will make their pro wrestling debuts today and so much more, including Pro Wrestling NOAH participation as Kenoh has been Kenoh lately and will be here to take down “fake wrestling” DDT in his words.

There was a late change to the card yesterday as the scheduled DDT Extreme Championship match between Danshoku Dieno & Great-O-Khan in an unofficial match is now off due to Khan injuries suffered in New Japan Sunday. Invisible Man is the replacement and it will now be a NON-TITLE match…although it would have originally been anyway as said original match would not have been recognized by DDT, even if a title change happened.

Today’s event will be held at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. Voice actors Tetsu Inada, Kentaro Kumagai and Kyoka Moriya will be guests on Japanese commentary. Additionally, as an experiment of a new feature, fans attending the event can use their smartphones to listen to the live commentary on WRESTLE UNIVERSE while watching the event. The event will also feature musical performances by NwA Jr. (made up of DDT wrestlers) and O-MENZ (before Kumadori debuts as a wrestler). Between the 11 matches and other stuff, plus no intermission, this is going to indeed be one of their longest events of the year and for those in the US will be a likely all-nighter with a total running time of close to 5 hours, maybe not that much but a minimum of 4 hours. I may or may not make it through so anything I miss will be added tomorrow morning,

Today’s lineup:
NwA Jr. debut song performance (they just released a CD in Japan)
Demus & Illusion vs. Yuni & Kazuma Sumi
Shuji Ishikawa, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Shinichiro Kawamatsu vs. Masa Takanashi, Daichi Sato & Yuki Ishida
O-MENZ Kumadori Debut Match: Kazuki Hirata & Kumadori vs. Makoto Oishi & Akito
Rika Tatsumi, Hyper Misao & Pom Harajuku (Tokyo Joshi Pro) vs. Super Sasadango Machine, Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda
Haruto Sakuraba Debut Match: Haruto Sakuraba, MJ Paul & KANON vs. HARASHIMA, Yuki Iino & Takao Soma
Jun Akiyama vs. Yukio Naya
Shinya Aoki & Keigo Nakamura vs. Kenoh & Yu Owada (Pro Wrestling NOAH)
Danshoku DIeno vs. Invisible Man. Kentaro Kumagai & Tetsu Inada will be at ringside
Yuki Ueno vs. Takeshi Masada
MAO & To-y vs. Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku for the KO-D Tag Team Championship
KO-D Openweight Champion Chris Brookes vs. Daisuke Sasaki for the title

Refresh this page occasionally for the latest results.

Updates below will begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. The live stream is scheduled to begin 30 minutes prior to the event.

UPDATE (Pre-show): Kentaro Kumagai will not appear as scheduled. The always-vague poor health.

8:30 PM PT UPDATE: The live stream has begun. We should be going to the venue in about 15-20 minutes.

8:52 PM PT UPDATE; Live updates begin now, we join a couple minutes late…

We are LIVE from Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. Your hosts are Haruo Murata (joining later), Satoshi Dairaku, Kagehiro Osano, Kyoka Mariya, and Tetsu Inada was supposed to be on commentary but appears to have been replaced at least for now by Marika Tani. Your English hosts are Baliyan Akki, Christelle Ciari & Ash Mann. Dairaku may be taking over late again if the event runs long as Murata has to be at Korakuen Hall by 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET for a Tokyo Joshi Pro live broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE (same for Akki on the English side).

The paid attendance will be announced after the event. It’s not full capacity setup as they’re using the lower level box seats at 33-50% capacity (2 per box instead of the 4-6 for sumo) and also 1/4 of the venue is blocked off for the setup, so that means full capacity would probably be maybe 6000. What I can see in the lower level appears to be mostly full, most of what was left today was upper level seating. It looks like it’ll be a good number, my initial guess will be a minimum of 4000. (UPDATE: The announced paid attendance was 3579, a full house/near sellout)

GM Imabayashi begins with the opening announcements.

NwA Jr.-Shunma Katsumata, Yuni, Kazuma Sumi-come out to perform a song from their debut CD just released. Fun little number, will be fun to see if they can give Up Up Girls a run for their money. They do the opening shout to lead into the opening movie. DDT has also announced the album, consisting of 2 songs, will be available for download/streaming, at least in Japan, beginning tomorrow at 7 AM PT/10 AM ET.

The matches begin at 9:13 PM PT/12:13 AM ET. Tetsu Inada joins commentary before the first match begins. So Marika Tani presumably is a replacement for Kentaro Kumagai, which I won’t complain about.

Match 1: Demus & Illusion vs. Yuni & Kazuma Sumi (with bonus NwA Jr. performance). 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuni & Kazuma Sumi beat Demus & Illusion. Sumi pinned Demus. UPSET ALERT!!!

Match 2: Shuji Ishikawa, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Shinichiro Kawamatsu vs. Masa Takanashi, Daichi Sato (HEAT UP) & Yuki Ishida. 30 minute time limit
Result: Shuji Ishikawa, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Shinichiro Kawamatsu beat Masa Takanashi, Daichi Sato & Yuki Ishida. Ishikawa pinned Ishida after Fire Thunder.

Match 3: O-MENZ Kumadori Debut Match: Kazuki Hirata & Kumadori (with O-MENZ performance as part of his entrance) vs. Makoto Oishi (Independent/Freelancer) & Akito. 30 minute time limit. O-MENZ can be described as a Japanese take on the iconic Jabbawockeez music/dance group as the performers wear Kabuki-style masks.
Result: Akito & Makoto Oishi beat Kazuki Hirata & Kumadori almost instantly. Akito pinned Hirata. Afterwards, Kumadori with microphone. Promo which sounded slightly muffled due to his headgear. Which led to…
Match 3 (again): O-MENZ Kumadori Debut Match: Kazuki Hirata & Kumadori vs. Makoto Oishi (Independent/Freelancer) & Akito. 30 minute time limit
Result: Kazuki Hirata & Kumadori beat Makoto Oishi & Akito. Both pinned Oishi after a Kumadori twisting legdrop off the top rope. Comedy match with O-MENZ joining in the post-match victory dance to HIrata’s music. Impressive debut nonetheless.

Your new host is Haruo Murata, taking over for Satoshi Dairaku for now.

The DDT team for the next match gets a pep talk from GM Imabayashi until the TJPW squad shows up and Pom Harajuku lays them all out. Taped a few minutes ago. Which led to…
Match 4: Rika Tatsumi, Hyper Misao & Pom Harajuku (Tokyo Joshi Pro) vs. Super Sasadango Machine, Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. 30 minute time limit. Representative Tetsuya Koda is seconding the TJPW team.
Result: Rika Tatsumi, Hyper Misao & Pom Harajuku beat Super Sasadango Machine, Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. Tatsumi pinned Honda after a slow-motion assisted Missile Hip. At one point in the match Koda & GM Imabayashi had a comedy face-off/going at it in the ring. DDT comedy at its finest.

Match 5: Haruto Sakuraba Debut Match: Haruto Sakuraba, MJ Paul & KANON vs. HARASHIMA, Yuki Iino & Takao Soma. 30 minute time limit. It appears HARASHIMA is the current DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion so title changes are possible
Result: Haruto Sakuraba, MJ Paul & KANON beat HARASHIMA, Yuki Iino & Takao Soma. KANON pinned Soma after Michinoku Driver.

Match 6: Jun Akiyama vs. Yukio Naya. 30 minute time limit
Result: Jun Akiyama beat Yukio Naya by submission

Match 7: Shinya Aoki & Keigo Nakamura vs. Kenoh & Yu Owada (Pro Wrestling NOAH). 30 minute time limit
Result: Kenoh & Yu Owada beat Shinya Aoki & Keigo Nakamura. Kenoh beat Nakamura with Kenoh Special. Kenoh & Aoki brawled all over the lower level of the Kokugikan throughout this match.

Quick break to clean up all the carnage in the front rows. Japanese commentary has some fun to entertain the fans.

Match 8: Danshoku Dieno (with Tetsu Inada) vs. Invisible Man (Toumei Ningen). 30 minute time limit
Result: Invisible Man beat Danshoku Dieno. This essentially was Dieno having a match by himself with Haruo Murata’s running commentary on the speakers for fans to follow along and more. More DDT comedy at its finest.

Satoshi Dairaku is your host once again, probably the rest of the way.

Match 9: Yuki Ueno (with new entrance music) vs. Takeshi Masada. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Ueno beat Takeshi Masada

Match 10: MAO & To-y vs. Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku for the vacant KO-D Tag Team Championship. 1 Hour time limit
Result: MAO & To-y beat Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku to win the KO-D Tag Team Champinonship. MAO & To-y become the 85th KO-D Tag Team Champions. To-y pinned Koroku after Kojima Impact.

Main Event: KO-D Openweight Champion Chris Brookes vs. Daisuke Sasaki for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KO-D Openweight Champion Chris Brookes beat Daisuke Sasaki to retain the title. V1 for Brookes. They went over 35 minutes. Next up: The winner of a 4-way on 1/3, with the title match on 1/26.

The next event, the first of 2025, is Friday at Korakuen Hall. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

UPDATE 2: Backstage after the event was over…

Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion HARASHIMA to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1703rd Champion.

And then…

Sanshiro Takagi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata to win the title. Takagi begomes the 1704th Champion.