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DDT ran a post-WRESTLE PETER PAN event today in Tokyo.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Yuki Ishida vs. Kazuma Sumi, Masami Inahata & Hinaya Kasai in a 4-way went to a no contest. Which led to…
Match 1 (again): In a handicap match, Yuki Ishida, Kazuma Sumi, Masami Inahata & Hinata Kasai beat Kazuki Hirata, Danshoku Dieno & Antonio Honda in 6 seconds. Rukiya pinned Hinata. However, the real winner was the absent Rukiya.

In the aftermath of this…

Kazuma Suni beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Danshoku Dieno to win the title. Sumi becomes the 1901st Champion.

Match 3: Illusion beat Super Sasadamgo Machine’s Title Belt. Illusion actually wins that belt (King Of Sasadango).

Main Event: KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions KANON, Yukio Naya & Viento Levante beat Taleshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato to retain the titles. Levante pinned Masada after a Naya knee lift. V1 for the champs. Next up: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani & Illusion. That match will happen on 9/21 at Korakuen Hall.

The next event is 8/30 at Korakuen Hall with 4 title matches scheduled. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 8/29 at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

DDT ran another Beer Garden Pro Wrestling event today in Tokyo, their final one at Shinjuju Face before the venue closes at the end of September.

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.

Pre-Show match: GM Imabayashi beat Tetsuya Koda (Tokyo joshi Pro Representative Director). As a result, Koda must retire. Presumably from wrestling although he only has previously competed as Pocotan and only recently.

Match 1: Takao Soma, Naomi Yoshimira & Yuki Ishida beat Jun Akiyama, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Masami Inahata. Soma pinned Matsunaga after a DDT.

Match 2: Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat Antonio Honda & Hinata Kasai. Koroku beat Kasai with a jumping armbar.

Match 3: Yukio Naya & Viento Levante beat Hideki Okatani & Illusion and Kazuma Sumi & Yuni in a 3-way when Levante pinned Yuni.

Match 4: Keisuke Ishii, Dansboku Dieno & Junta Miyawaki beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Shunma Katsumata, Yuki Iino & Kazuki Hirata when Dieno pinned Katsumata to win the title. Dieno becomes the 1900th Champion. As a result, Dieno also wins the “Money In The Bank” title shot challenge right from Katsumata. Oh dear…MAO best watch his back now. But remember there is also a challenge right for the challenge right still out there, currently held by KANON.

Match 5: Daisuke Sasaki beat 2 fake Daisuke Sasakis in a 3-way by beating both.

Main Event: MAO, Yuki Ueno & HARASHIMA beat Chris Brookes, KANON & To-y. Ueno pinned To-y after Jul.2.

The next event is Monday at Kanda Myojin Hall in Tokyo for a mini-event with just 3 matches, although one is a KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship match. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

In other news, the main event for the final event at Shinjuku Face on 9/30, being promoted by DDT & CyberFight Corporation, has been announced: Aja Kong & Chihiro Hashimoto vs. Mayumi Ozaki & Sareee.

UPDATE: In backstage comments, GM Imabayashi also retired as a wrestler. I have a feeling Danshiku Dieno will make that not last.

In addition to their post-WRESTLE PETER PAN presser earlier today, DDT also ran the first half of a Beer Garden Pro Wrestling doubleheader after that.

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.

There were last-minute changes to the card due to Rukiya being pulled off the event. Fever. Out 1 week for now.

Pre-show match: Yoshihiko beat Illusion.

At the end of the NwA Jr. opening…
Shunma Katsumata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion MAO to win the title. Katsumata becomes the 1896th Champion. Which led to…
Yuni beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Shunma Katsumata to win the title. Yuni becomes the 1897th Champion.

Match 1: Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat Jun Akiyama & Tomomiitsu Matsunaga. Sato pinned Matsunaga after a rolling elbow strike.

Match 2: KANON, Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya & Viento Levante beat Sanshiro Tagaki, Akito, Takao Soma & Yuki Ishida in 17 seconds. Iino pinned Ishida after a lariat. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): KANON, Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya & Viento Levante beat Sanshiro Tagaki, Akito, Takao Soma & Yuki Ishida . KANON beat Ishida with a ground cobra twist.

Match 3: Hideki Okatani & MJ Paul beat HARASHIMA & Hinata Kasai. Okatani pinned Kasai after a vertical drop brainbuster.

Match 4: In a Rock & Roll Deathmatch, Junta Miyawaki beat A. YAZAWA, To-y & Kazuki Hirata in a 4-way by pinning YAZAWA.

Match 5: Naomi Yoshimura, Masami Inahata & O-MENZ Kumadori beat Shunna Katsumata, DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuni & Kazuma Sumi when Kumadori pinned Yuni to win the title. Kumadori becomes the 1898th Champion. He then issued a DDT Extreme Championship challenge to Katsumata. That match will happen on 8/30 at Korakuen Hall. Which led to…
Shunma Katsumata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion O-MENZ Kumadori to win the title. Katsumata becomes thee 1899th Champion. Should Katsumata be Iron Man champion on 8/30 the title match will be for both titles. If not, it’s just for the Extreme title.

Main Event: In an Enter Sandman match, MAO beat Yuki Ueno, Brahman Sasaki (Daisuke Sasaki), Chris Brookes, Danshoku Dieno, Takeshi Masada & Super Sasadango Machine in a 7-way by pinning Machine. Afterwards, Sato came out to issue a KO-D Openweight Championship challenge to MAO. That match will happen on 8/30. However, keep in mind Katsumata still has a “Money In The Bank” title shot challenge right he can use anytime, anywhere. And also keep in mind that KANON has a right to challenge for the title shot right to use in the same way. So very much Card Subject To Change.

The next event is tomorrow, which will be the final Beer Garden event at the venue. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

DDT held a post-WRESTLE PETER PAN presser today in Tokyo, which you can watch FOR FREE on YouTube. There was one noteworthy item coming from it-Takao Soma is leaving the promotion at the end of September, which was his decision in part to try things outside of wrestling. He will continue his career as a freelancer and will also step down as manager of the Dropkick sports bar.

Soma debuted in DDT in August 2009 and is a 3-time KO-D Tag Team Champion and 8-time KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion. His last DDT event will be 9/27 at Shinjuku Face. He didn’t say much about his outside wrestling plans except “I have some thoughts on it, but it’s something I want to say after it happens.”

UPDATE: While DDT Extreme Champion Shunma Katsumata was also at the presser, they didn’t talk about his next challenger. But based on social media posts afterwards, it looks like next up will be O-MENZ Kumadori.

DDT ran the last event before their annual biggest event of the year today in Tokyo.

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

Pre-show match: Tomomitsu Matsunaga & MBM beat Takao Soma & Hinata Kasai. Matsunaga beat Kasai with a spinning toe hold.

Match 1: Jun Akiyama & Rukiya beat Kazuma Sumi & Yuki Ishida. Akiyama pinned Ishida after a knee strike.

Match 2: MJ Paul, Illusion & Tetsuya Koda (Representative Director of Tokyo Joshi Pro) beat Sanshiro Takagi, Naomi Yoshimura & GM Imabayashi. Koda beat Imabayashi with a sleeper hold.

But right after the last match…

GM Imabayashi beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Tetduya Koda to win the title. Imabayashi becomes the 1877th Champion. Which led to a planned showdown on 8/14 with a potential retirement as fate. Until…

Illusion beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion GM Imabayashi to win the title. Illusion becomes the 1878th Champion.

Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani beat Shunma Katsumata & Masami Inahata. Okatani pinned Katsumata after a skewered Claymore. As a result, Okatani wins the “Money In The Bank” challenge right held by Katsumata.

Match 4: Danshoku Dieno beat Kazumi Hirata by submission in 12 seconds. Which led to…
Match 4 (again): In a match where Dieno would win if he executed a man-lustful move within 5 minutes and Hirata would win if he dodged said move within 5 minutes, Danshoku Dieno beat Hirata in what took over 5 minutes.

Match 5: Shinya Aoki, Junta Miyawaki & Alito beat Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA & Antonio Honda. Miyawaki pinned Honda with Sunshine Clutch.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno, Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku, Daichi Sato & To-y beat MAO, KANON, Yujio Naya, Yuki Iino & Viento Levante. To-y pinned Viento. As a result, To-y wins the “Money In The Bank” challenge right held by Viento.

The next event is WRESTLE PETER PAN, the promotion’s biggest event of the year, Tuesday at Ryogoku Kokugikan. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Monday at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET.

DDT wraps up July today with their monthly Tokyo signature event. This is the last such event before WRESTLE PETER PAN, the promotion’s biggest annual event, coming up in just under 3 weeks. Today’s event has 2 title matches scheduled-first is a KO-D Tag Team Championship match with Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA defending the titles against Takeshi Masada & Yuya Koroku, then it’s a DDT Extreme Championship match with Hideki Okatani defending the title against Yuki Ishida. The stip, as chosen by the challenger, is that if Ishida loses the match and thus doesn’t win the title, he loses his hair. The main event is a WRESTLE PETER PAN planned main event preview of Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata vs. MAO & KANON. However, with the two “Money In The Bank” title shot rights for the KO-D Openweight Championship out there that must be used in the next 2 months, there’s no guarantee Ueno will make it to his August title defense against MAO as champion. Or even out of today. But there’s also a right to challenge for one of the rights too so one of said rights holders may have to defend that too. The current title shot rights holders are Katsumata & Viento Levante, while the right to challenge for rights holder is Rukiya. Katsumata having the rights for now means Ueno had better watch his back today in the main event…

Today’s event will be held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese. Miyuki Suzuki, a Japanese comedian and member of comedy group Nagon, will be a special guest on commentary. There is a pre-show match scheduled before the event so, taking that into account, this will be slightly longer than a normal Korakuen event with a probably running time of just under 3 hours.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show:
Antonio Honda, Masami Inahata & Hinata Kasai vs. Naomi Yoshimura, Yuni & Rukiya*

Main Show:
Shinya Aoki vs. Junta Miyawaki
Minoru Suzuki & Jun Akiyama vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Danshoku Dieno
Daisuke Sasaki & Illusion vs. Yukio Naya & Viento Levante**
Kazuma Sumi, Kazuki Hirata & To-y vs. Daichi Sato, Takao Soma & O-MENZ Kumadori
KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA vs. Takeshi Masada & Yuya Koroku for the titles
DDT Extreme Champion Hideki Okatani vs. Yuki Ishida for the title. If Ishida loses, he loses his hair
Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata*** vs. MAO & KANON

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

*-If Yoshimura/Yuni/Rukiya lose and Rukiya is the one beaten for the loss, whoever pinned/submitted Rukiya wins the right to challenge for the title shot rights from Rukiya.
**-If Naya/Levante lose and Levante is the one beaten for the loss, whoever pinned/submitted Levante wins the right to challenge from Levante
***-if Ueno/Katsumata lose BEFORE Katsumata cashes in his title shot right IF HE DOES and if Katsumata is the one beaten for the loss, whoever pinned/submitted Katsumata wins the right to challenge from Katsumata. Whoever holds either right can cash it in for a KO-D Openweight Championship match against Ueno anytime, anywhere. So until both happen or the time limit to use them passes, “card subject to change” cannot be over-emphasized. It could even mean impromptu matches after the main event.

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

7:07 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.

We are LIVE from Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Commentary will start in a couple minutes.

The paid attendance will not be announced after the event as they stopped doing that late last year. Not an advance sellout though.

Pre-show:
The dark match starts 2 minutes early. Your hosts are Satoshi Dairaku & Kagehiro Osano, to be joined later by Haruo Murata.

Pre-show match: Antonio Honda, Masami Inahata & Hinata Kasai vs. Naomi Yoshimura, Yuni & Rukiya. 15 minute time limit
Result: Antonio Honda, Masami Inahata & Hinata Kasai beat Naomi Yoshimura, DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuni & Rukiya, when Honda pinned Rukiya to win the title. Honda becomes the 1843rd Champion.

7:20 PM PT UPDATE: End pre-show. Updates below will resume in 10 minutes.

GM Imabayashi appears before the main show begins for opening announcements before bringing out Up Up Girls from Tokyo Joshi Pro-Miu Watanabe, Raku & Uta Takami-to promote the TIF2026 featuring TJPW from 7/31-8/2.

As this wraps up, Antonio Honda gets into the ring. This can’t end well…and it doesn’t because…
Raku beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Antonio Honda to win the title. Raku becomes the 1844th Champion. Now she MUST be protected from Mahiro Kiryu at all costs!

Main show:
The matches begin at 7:35 PM PT/10:35 PM ET. Your hosts are Satoshi Dairaku, Kagehiro Osano and guest Miyuki Suzuki.

Match 1: Shinya Aoki vs. Junta Miyawaki. 15 minute time limit
Result: Shinya Aoki beat Junta Miyawaki

Match 2: Minoru Suzuki & Jun Akiyama vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Danshoku Dieno. 15 minute time limit
Result: Minoru Suzuki & Jun Akiyama beat Sanshiro Takagi & Danshoku Dieno. Akiyama beat Dieno with a front neck lock. Afterwards, GM Imabayashi with microphone. Based on backstage video before the match, this probably cost Takagi a spot on the WRESTLE PETER PAN card. Although Suzuki quickly intervened and demanded a tag match with Takagi as his partner. Agreed to.

Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki & Illusion vs. Yukio Naya & Viento Levante (who needs to update his jacket, it still says Viento Maligno). 30 minute time limit
Result: Yukio Naya & Viento Levante beat Daisuke Sasaki & Illusion. Levante pinned Illusion after a diving headbutt.

Your new host is Haruo Murata.

Match 4: Kazuma Sumi, Kazuki Hirata & To-y vs. Daichi Sato, Takao Soma & O-MENZ Kumadori. 30 minute time limit
Result: Daichi Sato, Takao Soma & O-MENZ Kumadori beat Kazuma Sumi, Kazuki Hriata & To-y. Kumadori pinned Hirata. As always when Hirata was involved, this was a wacky comedy match.

Match 5: KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA vs. Takeshi Masada & Yuya Koroku for the titles. 1 Hour time limit
Result: KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA beat Takeshi Masada & Yuya Koroku to retain the titles. HARASHIMA beat Koroku with an armbar. V3 for the champs. Next up: Aoki & Miyawaki.

Match 6: DDT Extreme Champion Hideki Okatani vs. Yuki Ishida for the title. If Ishida loses, he loses his hair. 1 Hour time limit
Result: DDT Extreme Champion Hideki Okatani beat Yuki Ishida to retain the title. V4 for Okatani. As a result, Ishida loses his hair. Next up: Shunma Katsumata. Okatani called him out after the match. According to GM Imabayashi, that match will happen at WRESTLE PETER PAN.

Main Event: Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata vs. MAO & KANON. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata beat MAO & KANON. Ueno beat MAO with a sleeper hold. No Katsumata cash-in afterwards.

The event wraps up with WRESTLE PETER PAN card updates (8/11 at Ryogoku Kokugikan) and it looks like the full card is set:
DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship Battle Royal. Current champion (Raku) vs. 12 others
Minoru Suzuki & Sanshiro Takagi vs. Kazuki Hirata & To-y
Jun & Hinata Kasai vs. Jun Askiyama & Rukiya
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato vs. KANON, Yukio Naya & Viento Levante for the titles
DDT Extreme Champion Hideki Okatani vs. Shunma Katsumata for the title (rules TBA)
KO-D Tag Team Champions Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA vs. Shinya Aoki & Junta Miyawaki for the titles
YAMATO vs. Danshoku Dieno
Daisuke Sasaki & DOUKI vs. Antonio Honda & Tetsuya Endo
DDT Universal Champion Kazuma Sumi vs. Ryusuke Taguchi for the title
Konosuke Takeshita vs. Kaisei Takechi
KO-D Openweight Champion Yuki Ueno vs. MAO for the title

The next event is 8/2 at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand 8/5.

DDT ran the second half of their Beer Garden Pro Wrestling doubleheader today in Tokyo.

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 but it was a legit advance sellout.

There was a last-second change made to the main event as the match began-it was changed to a Falls Count Anywhere match.

Match 1: Takao Soma & Yuki Ishida beat Kazuma Sunni & Yuni. Ishida pinned Yuni after Flame Palm.

Match 2: Shunma Katsumata & To-y beat Daisuke Sasaki & Mikiya Sasaki. To-y pinned Mikiya Sasaki.

Match 3: Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya & Viento Levante beat Hideki Okatani, Illusion & MJ Paul by ref stoppage (TKO). Levante beat Paul with a body sleeper.

Match 4: Kaisei Takechi vs. GM Imabayashi went to a draw. Some weird comedy match.

Match 5: In a Blondfolded Breast Hiding Match, where all wrestlers were blindfolded and the first to strip another of their bra wins, Masami Inahata beat Kazuki Hirata, Yuki Ueno & Junta Miyawaki in a 4-way by stripping Ueno. As a result, Inahata earns the second “Money In The Back” title shot right. Afterwards, Illusion appeared and teased using his right to challenge for said title shot rights, but didn’t.

Main Event: In a Falls Count Anywhere Match, KO-D 6-Man Tag Tram Champions Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA & Anyonio Honda to retain the titles. Sato pinned Honda after a diving body press onto a table. V6 for the champs. That ties the record for most title defenses in a reign. Next up: Levante, Naya & KANON. That match will happen on 8/11 at Ryogoku Kokugikan. Also added to 8/11 is Daisuke Sasaki & DOUKI (New Japan) vs. Antonio Honda & Tetsuya Endo.

The next event is Sunday at Imaike Gas Hall in Navoya. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Wednesday.

DDT kicked off a Beer Garden Pro Wrestling doubleheader in Tokyo today, perhaps their last one in Shinjuku.

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 but it was a legit advance sellout.

Before the event began during the NwA Jr live…
Shunna Katsumata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuma Sumi to win the title. Katsumata becomes the 1841st Champion.

Match 1: Jun Akiyama & Takao Soma beat Naomi Yoshimura & Rukiya. Akiyama pinned Rukiya after a knee strike.

Match 2: Invisible Kazuki Hirata won a 8 man/invisible man battle royal, last eliminating Kazuki Hirata.

Match 3: Hidrki Okatani & Illusion beat Yuni & O-MENZ Kumadori. Okatani pinned Yuni.

Match 4: 2 Danshoku Dienos (one the real thing, one not) beat Junta Miyawaki (as Antonio Honda) & Antonio Honda. One of the Dienos pinned Honda.

Match 5: Yuki Ueno, Shinya Aoki, To-y & Kaisei Takechi beat KANON, Yuki Iino, Yukio Naya & Viento Levante. Takechi pinned Levante after Break It Down.

Match 6: Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat HARASHIMA, Yuki Ishida & Hinata Kasai. Sato pinned Kasai after Fire Thunder.

Main Event: In a King Of Drunk match, Shunma Katsumata beat Daisuke Sasaki, Kazuma Sumi, Chris Brookes & MAO in a 5-way by KO. As a result, Katsumata earns a “Money In The Bank” title shot right for the KO-D Openweight Championship over the next couple months. The post-match celebration was crashed by Illusion, who created his own version and got it approved by GM Imabayashi and can use it starting tomorrow.

The next event is tomorrow. It is also a legit advance sellout. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET.

UPDATE: Clarification on Illusion-it appears he created a means to challenge anytime anywhere for the rights to challenge for the title shot anytime anywhere, as long as it’s within the current fiscal year, although the title challenges via the rights must happen by 9/27. (Confused?)