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DDT ran another Beer Garden Pro Wrestling event today in Tokyo.

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 live broadcast.

The paid attendance was not announced.

There was a last-minute change to the card die to Daisuke Sasaki being pulled off the event. Apparent comedy angle involving crocodiles, not being able to sleep and getting him to come to the event as a crocodile instead.

Before the event began, Strange Love Connection appeared and announced YUZUKI (Yuzuki Hoshimoto) has joined the promotion.

Match 1: KANON, Junta Miyawaki & Yuki Ishida beat Jun Akiyama, Rukiya & Masami Inahata. KANON pinned Inahata after a lariat.

Match 2: Yuki Ueno beat Hinata Kasai.

Before the next match…

Bunbun beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuya Koroku to win the title. Bunbun becomes the 1829th Champion. Which led to…

Match 3: Antonio Honda beat DDT Iton Man Heavymetalweight Champion Bunbun to win the title. Honda becomes the 1830th Champion. For those who don’t know about it, Bunbun is a stuffed animal carried to matches by Takeshi Masada.

Match 4: Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat Chris Brookes, DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Antonio Honda & Akito, when Koroku beat Honda to win the title. Koroku becomes the 1831st Champion.

Match 5: In a Crocodile Deathmatch, Crocodile D Sasa (Daisuke Sasaki), Hideki The Wild (Hideki Okatani) & Illusion beat MAO, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno. Okatani pinned Maligno after a vertical drop brainbister in a pool.

Before the main event…

Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuya Koroku to won the title. Hirata becomes the 1832nd Champion.

Main Event: In a Ring Removal Deathmatch, HARASHIMA, Danshoku Dieno & Kazuki Hirata beat Shunma Katsumata, To-y & Yuni. Dieno pinned Yuni after Danshoku Driver. Along the way, HARASHIMA secured the right to be exempt from venue ring removal for a year.

The next event is Saturday at Osaka Azalea Taisho in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Monday.

DDT ran their latest Beer Garden Pro Wrestling event today in Tokyo.

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: Takeshi Masada & Daichi Sato beat Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Masami Inahata. Masada pinned Inahata after Manburi.

Match 2: Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno beat Danshoku Dieno & Antonio Honda in 10 seconds. Naya beat Honda with a cobra twist. Which led to…
Match 2 (again): Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno beat Danshoku Dieno & Antonio Honda. Maya beat Honda with a cobra twist.

Match 3: DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata beat Yuya Koroku to retain the title. Which led to…
Yuya Koroku beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata to win the title. Koroku becomes the 1828th Champion.

Match 4: In an Irregular Captain Drunk Match, where if a wrestler commits a foul they had to have a drink of alcohol on the spot, Illusion, Daisuke Sasaki & Hideki Okatani beat Yuki Ishida, Rukiya & Hinata Kasai. Illusion pinned Kasai after a swanton bomb.

Match 5: Junta Miyawaki beat Shunma Katsumata.

Main Event: In a Falls Count Anywhere Match, Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA beat Yuki Ueno & To-y, MAO & KANON and Jun Akiyama & Sanshiro Takagi in a 4-way when HARASHIMA pinned To-y. Afterwards, MAO hit Takagi with a vehicle before HARASHIMA could finish the event with his signature “Because I’m Training!”

The post-match happenings have resulted in a change to the MAO-Takagi match on 6/28: It is now a No Referee Match. That means no referee, no DQs and win when the majority of the audience in attendance agrees on a 3 count. Classic DDT.

The next event is tomorrow for more Beer Garden Pro Wrestling. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Sunday.

UPDATE: There has been a last-minute change to tomorrow’s event-Daisuke Sasaki is now off. To put it simply, it’s a comedy absence. Something about a crocodile sighting in 1993 and now he can’t sleep due to fear. It looks like he will instead be appearing as a wrestler called Crocodile D. Sasa to team with Illusion & Hideki Okatani against MAO, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno. Only one thing to say about that…Pro Wrestling Everybody!!!

DDT ran their latest event today in Yokohama as part of a house show doubleheader with Tokyo Joshi Pro.

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

The paid attendance was not announced.

Before the event began, a public signing ceremony was held for the DDT Extreme Championship match on 6/21 between Hideki Okatani & Junta Miyawaki. The rules were also announced-it will be a Hardcore I Quit Match. No pinfalls, submissions or DQs, only way to win is by verbal submission (saying I Quit) or by TKO (if the referee determines one has taken so much damage they can’t verbally quit).

Match 1: Illusion beat Hinata Kasai.

Match 2: In a Captains Fall Match, Yuya Koroku, Takeshi Masada & Daichi Sato beat Kazuki Hirata, Danshoku Dieno & KANON. Koroku pinned Hirata, who was the captain. Which led to…

Takeshi Masada beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Yuya Koroku to win the title. Masda becomes the 1824th Champion.

Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki, Hideki Okatani & MJ Paul beat MAO, Yukio Naya & Viente Maligno (Keigo Nakamura). Okatani pinned Maligno after a vertical drop brainbuster.

Match 4: Jun Akiyama beat Antonio Honda. Which led to…

Yuya Koroku beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Takeshi Masada to win the title. Koroku becomes the 1825th Champion. Which led to…

Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Takeshi Masada to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1826th Champion.

Match 5: Shinya Aoki, Junta Miyawaki & Yuki Ishida beat Yuki Ueno, Naomi Yoshimura & Rukiya. Aoki pinned Rukiya.

Main Event: Chris Brookes & HARASHIMA beat Shunma Katsumata & To-y. HARASHIMA pinned Katsumata after Blue Sword.

The next event is Wednesday at Ueno Park Outdoor Stage in Tokyo. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Friday.

DDT continued the June house show schedule 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.

Before the event, a public signing ceremony was held for the KO-D Openweight Championship match on 6/28.

Match 1: Sanshiro Takagi & Yuni beat HARASHIMA & Hinata Kasai. Yuni pinned Kasai with Jorge Clutch.

Match 2: Junta Miyawaki 3 Match Trial: Danshoku Dieno beat Junta Miyawaki by ref stoppage (TKO). Miyawaki finishes 2-1.

Before Match 3 happened…

Shunma Katsumata beat DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata to win the title. Katsumata becomes the 1821st Champion. Turns out Hirata quickly won the title from Pom Harajuku at last weekend’s Tokyo Joshi Pro event. Which led to…

Match 3: Kazuki Hirata beat DDT Iton Man Heavymetalweight Champion Shunma Katsumata to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1822nd Champion.

Match 4: Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato beat Shunma Katsumata, DDT Iton Man Heavymetalweight Champion Kazuki Hirata & O-MENZ Kumadori, when Koroku pinned Hirata to win the title. Koroku becomes the 1823rd Champion.

Match 5: Yuki Ishida & Rukiya beat Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda and Naomi Yoshimura & Tomomitsu Matsunaga in a 3-way when Ishida pinned Matsunaga.

Match 7: Yuki Ueno & To-y beat Shinya Aoki & Akito. Ueno pinned Akito after WR.

Main Event: KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul, Illusion, Hideki Okatani & Hiroto Sakuraba beat MAO, KANON, Yukio Naya, Yuki Iino & Viente Maligno to retain the titles. Sakuraba pinned Maligno after a jackhammer. V1 for the champs.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET.

DDT began their June schedule and build to their next signature event 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.

Before the event, a signing ceremony for a KO-D Tag Team Championship match on 6/21 in Nagoya was held.

Match 1: In a 2/3 Falls Match, Sanshiro Takagi & Akito beat Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata 2-0. This was changed at match time from a regular match at Takagi’s request. Fall 1-Takagi pinned Katsumata. Fall 2-In a Falls Count Anywhere match, Takagi pinned Katsumata. They kept fighting all over the place afterwards.

Match 2: Hideki Okatani, MJ Paul & Illusion beat Takeshi Masada, Yuya Koroku & Daichi Sato and Danshoku Dieno, KANON & Naomi Yoshimura in a 3-way when Illusion pinned Koroku. Afterwards, Illusion demanded a KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship rematch for beating the champs. That match will happen on 6/21.

Match 3: Junta Miyawaki 3 Match Trial: Junta Miyawaki beat Kazuki Hirata. Miyawaki is now 2-0 in the trial. The last match in the series is against Dieno on 6/10.

Match 4: MAO & Yukio Naya beat Jun Akiyama & Tomomitsu Matsunaga. MAO pinned Matsunaga after Assault Loveheart.

Afterwards the post-match 1 brawl continued into the ring again…and outside the ring again.

Match 5: Shinya Aoki beat Viente Maligno. Afterwards, Aoki unmasked Maligno, revealing him to actually be Keigo Nakamura. Afterwards, Nakamura was allowed to put the mask on and continue to be Maligno.

Main Event: Chris Brookes, HARASHIMA, Antonio Honda & Hinata Kasai beat Daichi Sato, To-y, Yuni & Yuki Ishida. Honda pinned Yuni with Samson Clutch

During the closing announcements by Hirata, the post-match 1 brawl continued into the ring area yet again as apparently they were going to see that fall 3 out. Which led to…

Apparent impromptu Fall 3 from Match 1 that went on for about 100 minutes: Takagi pinned Katsumata. This ultimately led to Takagi vs. MAO for 6/28 at Korakuen Hall.

The next event is Saturday at Shinjuku Takashimaya JR Station in Tokyo. This is a free outdoor event with 4 matches planned including a Tokyo Joshi Pro match and other happenings. There will be no live broadcast. On demand Tuesday.

While DDT wrestler Kazuma Sumi made a successful first journey to France recently and successfully defended the DDT Universal Championship in a 3-way there, it came at a cost-it was revealed today that he was injured while over there. Right eye (fractured orbital area). Out at least 4 weeks. The earliest he will be able to return right now is 6/28 which is the next Korakuen Hall event. No next title defense had been announced so he shouldn’t have to vacate the title unless he can’t return for some time.

More as it becomes available.

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.