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DDT 6/25/22 Results

DDT took a break from the KING OF DDT Tournament today to continue the DRAMATIC DREAM TOUR 2022 with a house show in Yokohama. A KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship match headlined the event.

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

The announced paid attendance was 195, a legit sellout.

Match 1: Yuji Hino & Yukio Naya beat HARASHIMA & Hideki Okatani. Naya pinned Okatani after a backdrop.

Match 2: In a No Touch Rule match, Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno & Akito beat Toru Owashi, Kazuki Hirata & Takao Soma. Iino pinned Hirata. Afterwards, Akito issued a DDT Extreme Championship challenge to Iino and defected from Pheromons. He got it and paid for it.

Match 3: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON beat Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda. KANON beat Honda with Medusa.

Andrew Everett is announced for the 7/3 & 7/7 events.

Match 4: Naomi Yoshimura beat Yuya Koroku,

Match 5: Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Sakaguchi beat Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada. Higuchi pinned Okada after Brain Claw Slam.

Main Event: MAO, Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata, Toui Kojima & Shinya Aoki beat KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions Poison Sawada JULIE, Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba to win the titles. MAO, Ueno, Katsumata, Kojima & Aoki become the 8th KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Champions. Kojima beat Toba with a triangle choke.

The next event is 7/3 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo with the KING OF DDT Semifinals and Finals. The winner becomes the new KO-D Openweight Champion. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin on 7/2 at 7:30 PM PT/10:30 PM ET.

DDT 6/19/22 Results (2 Events)

DDT ran 2 separate events today-first was the KING OF DDT Quarterfinals, second was a mini-event co-sponsored by DDT owner CyberFight Group.

First up, the KING OF DDT event, which was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The announced paid attendance was 430.

Pre-show: Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari beat Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. Dieno pinned Hirata.

Match 1: MJ Pawl & KANON vs. Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani went to a double countout.

Match 2: In a THE KICKBOXING MATCH 2022 match with 3 5-minute rounds, Hikaru Machida & Gota Ihashi beat Shinya Aoki & Toui Kojima at 1:42 of round 3. Ihashi pinned Kojima after a moonsault press.

Match 3: MAO, Shunma Katsumata, Yusuke Okada & Tuya Koroku beat Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Chris Brookes & Yuki Ishida. Katsumata pinned Ishida after Our Straight Line.

KING OF DDT Quarterfinals:
Match 4: Kazusada Higuchi beat Masa Takanashi.
Match 5: Jun Akiyama beat Yuki Iino.
Match 6: Yuki Ueno beat Daisuke Sasaki.
Main Event: Naomi Yoshimura beat HARASHIMA. Definite upset.
A lottery was held afterwards to determine the Semifinals matches, they will be Ueno vs. Yoshimura and Higuchi vs. Akiyama. The tournament winner becomes the new KO-D Openweight Champion and also wins a 1 million yen bonus sponsor prize (about $8,000 US). The Semifinals and Finals will be on 7/3 (7/2 start in the US).

The second event was held at a specially installed Zelby Land in Machida GION Stadium in Tokyo. There was no live broadcast.

The attendance was not announced.

Match 1: Shuichiro Katsumura & Shinichiro Tominaga beat Mizuki Watase & Zhao Yun Dragon. Katsumura beat Dragon with a “combined joint technique for which names are being recruited”.

Match 2: Saki Akai & Akito beat Cherry & Antonio Honda. Akai pinned Honda after New Face Award.

Main Event: Shiro Koshinaka & Keisuke Ishii beat Ken Ohka & Shota. Koshinaka pinned Shota after a powerbomb.

The next event is Saturday at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama. The only match announced so far is a KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship match. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Friday at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT.

In other post-event news, the following was annonunced for WRESTLE PETER PAN on 8/20, DDT’s biggest event of the year:
Joey Janela (All Elite Wrestling) vs. Shunma Katsumata in a Hardcore Match
Shinichiro Kawamatsu Debut Match
DDT Universal Champion vs. TBA for the title
KO-D Openweight Champion vs. TBA for the title
Dick Togo participation (formerly of DDT, now with New Japan Pro Wrestling)

6/16 DDT Results

DDT ran their monthly DDT FREE event today (on the weekly schedule post I incorrectly said it was yesterday, DDT’s website is kinda wacky with event date/time listings), which kicked off their annual KING OF DDT Tournament. This year’s tournament takes on much greater significance because with KO-D Openweight Champion Tetsuya Endo out and forced to vacate the title because of a concussion suffered at CyberFight Festival ’22, the tournament winner also becomes the new champion.

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

The announced attendance was 444. All tickets were free and this was billed as a legit sellout. In reality this was extremely close to legit full capacity for the venue, maybe 6 short of 100% (normal capacity for wrestling at the venue is 450, maybe 500).

Before the matches began, Makoto Oishi announced he will return at the 7/24 event. He has been out for a year due to injuries.

Dark Match: Masa Takanashi & Toui Kojima vs. Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku went to a 10 minute time limit draw. Takanashi was to have faced Endo in the tournament but got a free pass to the Quarterfinals due to Endo being out, and this match was added to the event as a result.

All main show matches were KING OF DDT Tournament matches, no time limit.
Match 1: HARASHIMA beat Hideki Okatani.
Match 2: Naomi Yoshimura beat Chris Brookes.
Match 3: Yuki Ueno beat KANON.
Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki beat Yuji Hino.
Match 5: Yuki Iino beat MAO.
Match 6: Jun Akiyama beat Yukio Sakaguchi.
Main Event: Kazusada Higuchi beat Yukio Naya.

The next event is Sunday at Korakuen Hall with the Quarterfinals and more non-tournament matches. The Quarterfinals will be Takanashi-Higuchi, Akiyama-Iino, Sasaki-Ueno and HARASHIMA-Yoshimura. After that, the Semifinals will be determined by lottery. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Sunday at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.

BREAKING: DDT Title Vacated

More CyberFight Festival fallout-the KO-D Openweight Championship is now VACANT. Previous champion Tetsuya Endo has vacated the title due to injury-he suffered a concussion Sunday and is out indefinitely. The winner of the KING OF DDT Tournament, which starts tomorrow, will become the new champion. Endo’s first opponent, Masa Takanashi, will get a win by forfeit and advance to the next round

CyberFight Festival ’22 Results (6/12/22)

What is being billed as the biggest wrestling event of the year in Japan, in both size and scope, and it likely will be outside of New Japan’s Tokyo Dome January spectacular, returns today with the 3rd installment of CyberFight Festival ’22, the annual showcase for the CyberFight Group’s owned promotions-DDT Pro Wrestling, Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling, Ganbare Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling NOAH. It will have a literal festival atmosphere with nearly a full day’s worth of events outside and inside the venue and 14 matches likely making up a 5-6 hour supershowcase that also will feature an appearance by WWE Hall Of Famer Rob Van Dam. A big announcement from Keiji Muto has been promised for before the event as well, and the double main event of Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima vs. Yuka Sakazaki for the title then, in the main event, it’s GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Satoshi Kojima of New Japan for the title.
There was a late change to the early card yesterday, as Ganbare star YuuRI is replacing TJPW star Raku in the second match. Raku is off due to what is being called “poor physical condition”.

Today’s event will be held at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan and can be watched LIVE EXCLUSIVELY on WRESTLE UNIVERSE in Japanese and English. And because they are now offering a 2-week trial for new subscribers, you have the chance to watch FOR FREE! The Japanese commentary will feature several guests: Kendo Kobayashi, Yui Okada, Tina Matsuki and SKE48 member Marika Tani. English commentary is TBA but I expect it to include regular NOAH English commentary team Stewart “BANG!” Fulton & Mark Pickering.

Today’s lineup:
Pre-show:
Rob Van Dam Press Conference
Keiji Muto Press Conference
Muscle Sakai & Yukio Naya vs. Takao Soma & Kazuki Hirata
Hyper Misao, Yuki Aino, YuuRI, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu, Moka Miyamoto, Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami
Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani vs. Ken Ohka, Yuna Manase & Mizuki Watase

Main Show:
Kinya Okada & Kai Fujimura vs. Toui Kojima & Yuya Koroku
Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Juria Nagano vs. Hikari Noa, Suzume & Yuki Arai
Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Yumehito Imanari & Akito Nishigaki vs. Sanshiro Takagi, Kendo Ka Shin, Shinya Aoki & Yumiko Hotta
Rika Tatsumi vs. Mizuki, Yuki Kamifuku & Miu Watanabe in a 4-way for a Princess Of Princess Championship match at the 7/9/22 TJPW event
Takashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita, Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Michael Elgin, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Rene Dupree, Simon Gotch & Timothy Thatcher
HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimuram Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata, MAO & Asuka (Veny)
Rob Van Dam, Yoshinari Ogawa & HAYATA vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, Daisuke Harada & YO-HEY
Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Atsushi Kotoge & Yoshiki Inamura
Kenoh vs. Daisuke Sasaki in a No DQ Hardcore Match
Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima vs. Yuka Sakazaki for the title
GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Satoshi Kojima for the title
Refresh occasionally for the latest results.
Updates below will begin at 11:30 PM ET/8:30 PM PT. If NWA Always Ready ends in time, the pre-show press conferences will be covered, although they will likely be in Japanese only. Those should begin at 10:45 PM ET/7:45 PM PT.
If you’re coming just for match results, the matches will begin at midnight ET/9 PM PT. Also, a post-event talk show/recap special will air on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Monday at 5 AM PT/8 AM ET.
8:45 PM PT UPDATE: A pre-event talk show is underway featuring guest participants in tonight’s event including Yuki Arai.The main live stream is now up and running and will begin with the pre-show matches at midnight ET/9 PM PT. Stand by for updates.

9 PM PT UPDATE: Live updates begin now.
We are LIVE from the Saitama SUper Arena in Saitama, Japan. Commentary is available in Japanese and English. Stewart Fulton is joined by some new voices on the English side (no Mark Pickering)-Sebastian Cescon & Christelle Ciari. Your Japanese hosts are Haruo Murata & Kagehiro Osano and a full complement of guests-Kendo Kobayashi, Yui Okada, Rina Matsuki & Marika Tani.
The paid attendance will be announced tomorrow. The crowd will still be filing in over the next hour-plus.
Match 1: Muscle Sakai & Yukio Naya vs. Takao Soma & Kazuki Hirata. 15 minute time limit
Result: Muscle Sakai & Yukio Naya beat Takao Soma & Kazuki Hirata. Naya pinned Hirata after a backdrop.

Match 2: Hyper Misao, Yuki Aino, YuuRI (Ganbare Pro Wrestling), Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna vs. Nao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu, Moka Miyamoto, Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami. 15 minute time limit
Result: Nao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu, Moka Miyamoto, Arisu Endo & Kaya Toribami beat Hyper Misao, Yuki Aino, YuuRI, Pom Harajuku & Neko Haruna. Kiryu pinned Harajuku.
Match 3: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani vs. Ken Ohka, Yuna Manase & Mizuki Watase. 15 minute time limit
Result: Yukio Sakaguchi, Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani beat Ken Ohka, Yuna Manase & Mizuki Watase by ref stoppage. Sakaguchi beat Watase with a sleeper hold. After the match, Watase tried to cut off his hair before Ohka & Manase stopped him.
Updates will resume at 10 PM PT/1 AM ET (about 15 minutes).

Match 4: Kinya Okada & Kai Fujimura vs. Toui Kojima & Yuya Koroku. 20 minute time limit
Result: Kinya Okada & Kai Fujimura beat Toui Kojima & Yuya Koroku. Okada beat Kojima with a Boston Crab.
Match 5: Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Juria Nagano vs. Hikari Noa, Suzume & Yuki Arai. 20 minute time limit
Result: Miyu Yamashita, Maki Itoh & Juria Nagano beat Yuki Arai, Suzume & Hikari Noa. Yamashita pinned Suzume after Skull Kick.

Match 6: Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Yumehito Imanari & Akito Nishigaki vs. Sanshiro Takagi, Kendo Ka Shin, Shinya Aoki & Yumiko Hotta. 30 minute time limit
Result: Yuki Iino, Danshoku Dieno, Yumehito Imanari & Akito Nishigaki beat Sanshiro Takagi, Kendo Ka Shin, Shinya Aoki & Yumiko Hotta. Akito beat Takagi.

Match 7: Rika Tatsumi vs. Mizuki, Yuki Kamifuku & Miu Watanabe in a 4-way for a Princess Of Princess Championship match at the 7/9/22 TJPW event. 30 minute time limit
Result: Rika Tatsumi beat Mizuki, Yuki Kamifuku & Miu Watanabe in a 4-way by pinning Watanabe. As a result, Tatsumi will face the Princess Of Princess Champion for the title on 7/9.

Match 8: Takashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita, Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Shuhei Taniguchi vs. Michael Elgin, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Rene Dupree, Simon Gotch & Timothy Thatcher. 30 minute time limit
Result: Michael Elgin, Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr., Rene Dupree, Simon Gotch & Timothy Thatcher beat Takashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita, Masa Kitamiya, Daiki Inaba & Shuhei Taniguchi. Elgin pinned Inaba after Elgin Bomb.

Match 9: HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimura, Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata, MAO & Asuka (Veny). 30 minute time limit
Result: HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimura, Chris Brookes & Masa Takanashi vs. Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata, MAO & Asuka. HARASHIMA pinned Katsumata after Blue Sword.

Match 10: Rob Van Dam, Yoshinari Ogawa & HAYATA vs. Kaito Kiyomiya, Daisuke Harada & YO-HEY. 45 minute time limit
Result: Rob Van Damn, Yoshinari Ogawa & HAYATA beat YO-HEY, Daisuke Harada & Kaito Kiyomiya. Van Dam pinned Harada after 5 Star Frog Splash.

“Halftime Performance” by Cyber Japan Dancers.

Match 11: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi vs. Katsuhiko Nakajima, Atsushi Kotoge & Yoshiki Inamura. 34 minute time limit
Result: Katsuhiko nakajima, Atsushi Kotoge & Yoshiki Inamura beat Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi by ref stoppage (KO). Nakajima KO’d Endo with an EPIC b*tch slap. This went just 5 minutes. DAMN! Akiyama & Nakajima had quite a conversation as Endo was tended to.

Match 12: Kenoh vs. Daisuke Sasaki in a No DQ Hardcore Match. No time limit
Result: Kenoh beat Daisuke Sasaki

Quick break for ring cleaning.

Keiji Muto comes out. With microphone. (I switched commentary to English for translation) He is retiring next spring. 5 more matches. More to come…O.M.F.G. The Living Legend has reached the end of the road after nearly 4 decades…

Match 13: Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima vs. Yuka Sakazaki for the title. 30 minute time limit
Result: Princess Of Princess Champion Shoko Nakajima beat Yuka Sakazaki to retain the title. V2 for Nakajima. Next up: Because of earlier today, Rika Tatsumi. That match will happen on 7/9.

Main Event: GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki vs. Satoshi Kojima (New Japan Pro Wrestling) for the title. 1 Hour time limit
Result: Satoshi Kojima beat GHC Heavyweight Champion Go Shiozaki to win the title. Kojima becomes the 39th GHC Heavyweight Champion. Between Bullet & Bread, it was a great day for the Clubs in New Japan. No Go today…but another no could be next in line…Kenoh. The title is not in NOAH anymore, which in the eyes of the Kongo leader means WAR. And challenge issued. Some breif comedy in response from Kojima before finishing his post-match victory promo to bring CyberFight Festival ’22 to a close.

End Show.

POST-SHOW UPDATRS:
The announced paid attendance was 4896. Based on how the arena was set up, this probably was a little under half capacity (the venue’s maximum capacity is about 17,000 but it appears at least 1/4 of the seats were blocked off).
After being KO’d in Match 11, Tetsuya Endo has been diagnosed with a concussion. He is out indefinitely.
Following the double main event, the two expected title matches are now official. Nakajima-Tatsumi for the Princess Of Princess Championship is set for 7/9 at Ota City General Gym in Tokyo, while Kojima-Kenoh for the GHC Heavyweight Championship will happen on 7/16 at Nippon Budokan.

The next events for the promotions are as follows:
NOAH-6/19 at Kobe Sambo Hall. Will be on demand only on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date
DDT-Wednesday at Shinjuku Face. LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET
Tokyo Joshi Pro-6/19 at Korakuen hall. LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE Saturday at 10:30 PM ET/7:30 PM PT
Ganbare Pro-6/29 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring

DDT 6/5/22 Results

DDT ran the final event before CyberFight Festival today, another standalone “ONLY WE” event that is held when they visit Chiba Prefecture.

Today’s event was held at 2AW Square in Chiba and will be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 123, a super full house.

Match 1: Toui Kojima vs. Yuya Koroku went to a 15 minute time limit draw.

Match 2: Takao Soma & Kazuki Hirata beat Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda. Soma pinned Honda after Mad Splash.

Match 3: Kaji Tomato & Naomi Yoshimura beat Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata. Yoshimura pinned Katsumata after Harai Goshi.

Match 4: Masa Takanashi & HARASHIMA beat MAO & Yusuke Okada. HARASHIMA pinned Okada after Blue Sword.

Match 5: Daisuke Sasaki beat Hiroshi Yamato by submission.

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi beat Yukio Sakaguchi, Hideki Okatani & Yuki Ishida. Higuchi pinned Ishida after Brain Claw Slam.

Main Event: Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Quiet Storm beat Shogun Okamoto, Kenichiro Arai & Hoshitango. Hino pinned Hoshitango after Muscle Splash on a chair.

The next event is CyberFight Festival ’22 on 6/12 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Saturday at 8:30 PM PT/11:30 PM ET with the first match scheduled to begin at 9 PM PT/midnight ET. LIVE results will be posted here.

CyberFight Festival ’22 Updates

On it’s new weekly news program on YouTube, DDT announced a few changes to the CyberFight Festival card:
NOAH star Naomichi Marufuji is off the event and next week’s NOAH events due to knee pain. He was to have teamed with Atsushi Kotoge & Yoshiki Inamura to face Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi. Katsuhiko Nakajima is the replacement.

Kenoh vs. Daisuke Sasaki, at the request of Kenoh, is now a No DQ hardcore match.

Kenoh has been named public relations director for the event. That’s gonna be fun.

New Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling rookie Juria Nagano has been named TikTok committee chairman and various related videos will be shared from her official account.

DDT 6/1/22 Results

DDT ran their last big event before CyberFight Festival, “What Are You Doing ’22”, today which served as most of the final build to the 6/12 blowout event for the CyberFight group’s collection of promotions.

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

The announced paid attendance was 490.

Pre-show dark match: Yusuke Okada vs. Yuya Koroku went to a 10 minute time limit draw.

Match 1: Danshoku Dieno, Yumehito Imanari & Akito beat Sanshiro Takagi, Shinya Aoki & Yuki Ishida. Akito beat Ishida with a chicken wing. Afterwards, Akito apparently turned on DDT and joined Pheromons after initial refusal to do so and will now be known as Nishikigi “Cochin” Akito. Kendo Ka Shin & Yumiko Hotta also were involved in all this.

Match 2: A DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship Battle Royal went as follows: 1-Champion Shinichiro Kawamatsu beat Pocatan to retain the title. 2-Kazuki Hirata beat Tanomusaku Toba. 3-Kazuki Hirata beat Shinichiro Kawamatsu to win the title. Hirata becomes the 1549th champion. 4-Kazuki Hirata & Antonio Honda went to a double pinfall. As a result, Toru Owashi wins as the last person standing and becomes the 1550th champion.

It is announced that a cheering event, where fans can cheer audibly again, albeit with masks still required, will be held on 8/14 at Korakuen. Opening round King Of DDT matches are also announced.

Match 3: Asuka (Veny), Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Maya Yukihi beat Saki Akai, Yukio Salaguchi, Hideki Okatani & Hiroshi Yamato. Naya pinned Okatani after a backdrop.

Match 4: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON beat Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & Toui Kojima. Sasaki beat Kojima with a crossface.

Match 5: In a Sexy Movie Star Rule Match, DDT Extrene Champion Yuki Iino beat AKIRA to retain the title. V2 for Iino.

Match 6: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi beat HARASHIMA, Takao Soma & Naomi Yoshimura. Higuchi pinned Soma after a brain claw slam.

Main Event: Masa Takanashi beat DDT Universal Champion MAO to win the title. Takanashi becomes the 7th DDT Universal Champion.

The next event is Sunday at 2AW Square in Chiba (Saturday night in the US). There is no live broadcast scheduled. It should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE by the middle of next week. This is the final event before CyberFight Festival.

DDT/Tokyo Joshi Pro News 5/29/22

A bit of DDT & Tokyo Joshi Pro news from overnight:
International Princess Champion Maki Itoh successfully defended the title against former WWE star Mia Yim this weekend at an independent event in Portland, OR. V3 for Itoh. Next up: “The Unbreakable” Rio, which has been added to 6/4 at Entetsu Hall in Shizuoka. Unfortunately there is no live broadcast on WRESTLE UNIVERSE so we’ll likely have to wait at least 3 days to see it. Itoh & Yuka Sakazaki are on their way back to Japan for this event but Miyu Yamashita is not. Apparently she is staying overseas a little longer and will miss 6/4. She should be back for CyberFight Festival.
Also, the first names for Summer Sun Festical ’22 on 7/9 have been announced: Yuki Arai, Juria Nagano and Mei Suruga, who apparently will appear as herself and not as May Saint-Michel, her usual persona in TJPW alongside Saki Akai when she appears as Saki-sama.

On the DDT side, Chris Brookes missed this weekend’s events and is now out a couple more weeks as he has been diagnosed with a sprained right ankle. He plans to be back for CyberFight Festival. Also, Gota Ihashi is now off Wednesday’s Korakuen Hall event. Enteritis.

Finally, the Japanese branch of the NIVEA skin care company will be a sponsor of CyberFIght Festival ’22, and all fans attending the event in person will receive a free product sample upon entering the venue. This came about after a NIVEA representative saw social media posts by Saki Akai about her pre-match skin care routing, which led to an offer to provide products to Akai. CyberFight management and NIVEA held discussions which led to this and possibly more. This comes admist news that Akai has just released her own own men’s skin care product called Riviera Perfect All-in-One Gel in Japan. Pre-orders just began shipping in Japan.It appears to be available only in Japan. Saki has started a Shopify page for the product, which also links to her official Instagram page. A roughly 2-month supply is available for 5500 yen in Japan and for now will only be sold via Saki’s Shopify product page. There are no plans to sell it at DDT events or DDT’s online store.

5/29/22 DDT Results (2 Events)

DDT ran two separate events today in Kumamoto, a traditional event and a special one-match event held inside a hot spring, the type of event only DDT can hold.

Today’s first event was held at Kumamoto Castle Hall Civic Hall in Kumamoto and should be available on demand on WRESTLE UNIVERSE at a later date. There was no live broadcast for either event.

The announced paid attendance was 331, a legit sellout.

The card underwent several late changes due to Chris Brookes being a late removal due to injury.
Match 1: MAO beat Toui Kojima.

Match 2: Yuki Ueno & Takao Soma beat Danshoku Dieno & Yuki Iino and Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata in a 3-way, when Ueno pinned Hirata.

Match 3: Shinya Aoki & Shunma Katsumata beat Akito & Hideki Okatani. Aoki pinned Okatani with a crucifix.

Match 4: Maya Yukihi beat Saki Akai.

Match 5: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Pawl & KANON beat Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Yuya Koroku. Sasaki beat Koroku with a crossface.

Match 6: Yuji Hino beat Yukio Naya.

Main Event: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada beat HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida. Endo pinned Ishida after Burning Star Press.

Second event: The other event was held at Kumamoto Castle Natural Hot Spring and had only one match.
The announced paid attendance was 30, a legit sellout.

Result: In a Falls Count Anywhere Match with No Time Limit, Shunma Katsumata & Toui Kojima beat Shinya Aoki & Yukio Naya. Katsumata pinned Aoki after Heat Wave WER!! Total match time was 52:58 and lots of ridiculous comedy galore. It will be a must-watch when it eventually comes to WRESTLE UNIVERSE.

The next event is “What Are You Doing 2022” Wednesday at Korakuen hall in Tokyo. It will be headlined by DDT Extreme and Universal Championship matches, and also scheduled is a battle royal for the DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, the promotion’s 24/7 comedy title. Live streaming on WRESTLE UNIVERSE will begin Wednesday at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. This is the final live broadcast before CyberFight Festival ’22.