DDT48 Election – Decision Time

October 7, 2010

DDT “DDT48 GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT”, 07/10/2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
400 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. HARASHIMA & Kazuki Hirata defeated Seiya Morohashi & Hiroo Tsumaki when Hirata pinned Tsumaki with the Sliding Kick (16:24).
2. Shigehiro Irie defeated Takao Soma with the Diving Teddy Bear (7:00).

DDT 48 General Election Final Results:

01. Danshoku Dino (512 Votes)
02. Hikaru Sato  (498 Votes)
03. Cherry  (309 Votes)
04. HARASHIMA  (258 Votes)
05. Kota Ibushi  (254 Votes)
06. Sanshiro Takagi (233 Votes)
07. Michael Nakazawa (231 Votes)
08. Antonio Honda (230 Votes)
09. Shuji Ishikawa (225 Votes)
10. MIKAMI  (213 Votes)
11. YOSHIHIKO  (209 Votes)
12. Toru Owashi  (206 Votes)
13. Yasu Urano  (183 Votes)
14. Isami Kodaka (182 Votes)
15. Kenny Omega  (171 Votes)
16. Dick Togo   (164 Votes)
17. KUDO  (159 Votes)
18. Keisuke Ishii (146 Votes)

19. Yukihiro Abe (132 Votes)
19. Shigehiro Irie (132 Votes)

Total Votes Cast: 5,973 Votes.

So there is your eighteen contestants for the DDT48 Tournament on the 24th of October. ¥1,000,000 and a KO-D Openweight Title shot is the prize everyone will now be fighting for. If HARASHIMA ends up winning the tournament then he will be allowed to choose his next challenger instead. Danshoku Dino continues to be DDT’s most popular wrestler while Hikaru Sato and Cherry surprisingly finish in the top three. Joining Cherry on the UNION side are Shuji Ishikawa and Isami Kodaka, whose deathmatch antics have given him a fan following in Big Japan. There was only 16 votes seperating Keisuke Ishii and the pair of Yukihiro Abe and Shigehiro Irie. Overall the lineup is what you would expect with the usual DDT cast involved.


MUSCLE 10 Results

October 7, 2010

“MUSCLE HOUSE 10 ~ MUSCLE SAKAI RETIREMENT SHOW”, 06/10/2010
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
2,075 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Sanshiro Takagi Re-Debut Match: Sanshiro Takagi Vs Tsuyoshi Kikuchi ended in a No Contest (4:26).
2. New Beijing Pro-Wrestling Breakup Match: Chou-un Shiryu Vs Giant Bashoku ended in a No Contest.
3. Loser Retires Rumble: Hikaru Sato defeated Ultimate Mr. Magic by Ring Out (23:51). Order Of Elimination: BENTEN, Mr. Magic I, Pedro Takaishi I, Mr. Magic III, Kazuyoshi Sakai HG, DJ Nira, Mr. Magic IV, Gofukuya Fujiya IV, Mr. Magic VI, 726 & Ultimate Mr. Magic.
4. Lucha Libre Match: NOSAWA Rongai & KIKUZAWA Vs Honey Jiro & Kunihiko Mitamega ended in a No Contest.
5. Muscle Sakai Retirement 5 Person Series 1st: Antonio Honda defeated Muscle Sakai with a Cross Armbreaker Cutback (7:29).
6. Muscle Sakai Retirement 5 Person Series 2nd: Yasu Urano defeated Muscle Sakai with a Modified Gedo Clutch (3:24).
7. Muscle Sakai Retirement 5 Person Series 3rd: Muscle Sakai defeated Pedro Takaishi with an Enzuigiri (1:24).
8. Muscle Sakai Retirement 5 Person Series 4th: “Black Angel” Jaki Numazawa defeated Muscle Sakai with a Wakigatame (1:14).
9. Muscle Sakai Retirement 5 Person Series 5th: Muscle Sakai defeated Chou-un Shiryu with the Verdict (2:07).
10. Muscle Sakai Retirement Special Match: Danshoku Dino defeated Muscle Sakai with a Headlock (3:40).
11. Muscle Sakai Retirement Match: Minoru Suzuki defeated Muscle Sakai with the Gotch-Style Piledriver (10:36).

Muscle Sakai has ended his wrestling career to run his family’s business in Niigata and to take care of his wife and child. Rather than just have one match on the night Sakai took part in 7 matches, wrestling for the entire second half of the show. He took on Antonio Honda, Yasu Urano, Pedro Takaishi, Jaki Numazawa and Chou-un Shiryu as part of his Retirement Series of matches. He came out of it with two wins and three losses. Then Danshoku Dino came out to wrestle Sakai, who was so exhausted at this point that he submitted to a Headlock. Afterwards was the retirement ceremony where Sakai received a video message from Minoru Suzuki, who told Sakai to work hard in his new life. But that wasn’t all. Suzuki then said he wanted one more match with Sakai. Lo and behold, Minoru Suzuki was in attendence and was ready to give Sakai his retirement match.

However, this isn’t exactly the end of the MUSCLE brand of shows. The date of MUSCLE 11 was announced to take place in Korakuen Hall on October 6th…2030. By then, the next generation of Muscle Sakai will be ready to take to the ring and entertain the fans. Everybody in attendence was even given a free ticket to the event. See you in 20 years, Muscle Sakai!


MUSCLE 10 On Now!

October 6, 2010

Muscle Sakai’s retirement show, MUSCLE 10 is on live DDT’s Ustream channel right now.

http://ustre.am/ktaL


Muscle Sakai Loses Hair Match

October 3, 2010

No pictures yet, but Muscle Sakai had a day he would rather forget at yesterday’s Ice Ribbon show. He teamed up with Riho to take on Emi Sakura and Hikari Minami. The match ended after two minutes when Sakura was disqualified. However, this led to a Captain’s Fall Hair Vs Hair match that took place right afterwards. Sakura got her payback by pinning Sakai with a La Magistral. Looks like Sakai could be retiring without his signature afro.


UNION Pro Results

October 3, 2010

Union Pro, 03/10/2010
Shinjuku FACE
415 Fans – No Vacancy

1. Kyosuke Sasaki defeated Hiro Tsumaki with a Neck Branch (7:23).
2. Madoka & 726 defeated Muscle Sakai & Ryu Gouma when Madoka pinned Gouma with the High Kick (8:58).
3. Emi Sakura & Cherry defeated Black Cherry #1 & Black Cherry #2 when Cherry pinned Black Cherry #2 with the Cherryton Bomb (9:28).
4. Big Murakami & Katsumi Usuda defeated Seiya Morohashi & YOSHIHIKO (with Yusuke Inokuma) when Murakami submitted Morohashi with the Osotogari (12:15).
5. Scramble Hardcore Match: Isami Kodaka defeated Keita Yano by pinfall (17:43).
6. Shuji Ishikawa defeated Kengo Ohka with the Splash Mountain (17:41).


Perverted DDT Event Results

October 3, 2010

DDT “HENTAI, THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY”, 30/09/2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
457 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

0. Pancrase Rules: Jushin Thunder Butter defeated Nasu Akira with a Rear Naked Choke (R2 – 2:11).
1. Mask Vs Bra Vs Panties Vs Condom 4 Way Match: Antonio Honda defeated Seiya Morohashi, Marines Mask II & sawako when Honda grabbed the condom (11:24).
2. Blindfolded Audience Match: Kana defeated Takaku Fuke by DQ when Fuke refused to break the Body Scissors Hold (6:21).
3. Costume Play Rumble: YOSHIHIKO defeated Yukihiro Abe with a Huracanrana (11:26). Other contestants: Daisuke Sasaki, Keisuke Ishii, Muscle Sakai, Kazuki Hirata & Cherry.
4. Sudou Sponsored Match: Kota Ibushi & Takao Soma Vs Danshoku Dino & Shigehiro Irie ended in a No Contest (10:12).
5. Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei defeated Michael Nakazawa & Hikaru Sato when Shu pinned Sato with the Zombie King (17:07).

This DDT show was based around a one night revival of Michael Nakazawa & Hikaru Sato’s Hentai team gimmick. That’s hentai as in acting perverted, not interests in animated porn. Their matches often included such debaucherous acts like handcuffs, blindfolds, gagged mouthpieces, dripping candle wax and leather whips. And this was stuff Michael and Hikaru would use on each other! Many of their matches would end in no contests as both their opponents and the officials would get sick of watching their S&M sessions in the ring.

And some of you thought Danshoku Dino was bad…

The show was only open to fans over 15 because of the perverted nature of the evening. And boy, was it perverted. The audience was treated to an opening video package which included footage of Nakazawa and Sato wrestling each other naked. The main event saw the Hentai team facing the Brahman Brothers in a match that featured Nakazawa tying and gagging himself to the ring post and Sato getting his backside smeared in miso. With that said, they did put up a tough fight against Shu & Kei but in the end it was the Brahmans that left victorious.

The semi-main was sponsored by a lotion company, so buckets of lotion were placed in each corner of the ring. Everybody involved were soaked in lotion during the match, which got so out of control it had to be called off. It didn’t stop an oily Dino from terrorising the fans afterwords though.

For the Cosplay Rumble, Yukihiro Abe wore a schoolgirl top, striped underwear, cat ears and a cat tail. Daisuke Sasaki was just a plain school girl. Keisuke Ishii was wearing the school girl uniform from Evangelion. Muscle Sakai wore factory clothing, but some translated reports say he was a character from a homoerotic manga. Kazuki Hirata was Super Strong Machine and recieved calls of “Hirata!” from the fans (get it?). I couldn’t tell what Cherry was supposed to be. Looks like her normal gear but she may have been wearing a mask to go with it. Abe thought he won when he was the last wrestler in the ring. However YOSHIHIKO came out as the final entrant wearing a maid costume and pinned Abe with a Huracanrana. By winning the match, YOSHIHIKO was rewarded with the title of “King Of Pro Wrestling Cosplay”. He is the second person to win this title. The previous winner was Kota Ibushi in a wedding dress.

Takaku Fuke and Kana fought in a mixed-gender match that had plenty of worked shoot elements. However, a lot of the audience were told to use their face masks as blindfolds for the match. Why? I don’t know. This match was made when Kana defeated Fuke with Mounted Punches at an Osaka Pro event last month. Here, Fuke originally won by submission by trapping Kana in a Triangle Choke. However, he was disqualified for refusing to let go of the hold after the match. For some reason, maybe as a forfeit, Fuke decided to strip down to his g-string. Kana begged him to stop. Fuke might have challenged Kana to a deathmatch in the future to settle the score.

The goal for match #1 was for the winning wrestler to remove a certain item of clothing worn by one of his opponents. Marines Mask had his mask, sawako (Munenori Sawa) wore panties, Antonio Honda wore a bra and Seiya Morohashi wore a condom under his regular wrestling gear. Late in the match, Seiya took off the condom and used it to give everyone Mandible Claws, even giving one to the ref. However, Honda was able to grab the condom off of Seiya while the ref was distracted with sawako’s panties over his head.


New Year’s Indy Party Announced, UNION In Big Japan, Cherry Picking

October 2, 2010

The indy collection of DDT, Big Japan, K-DOJO, FREEDOMS and Ice Ribbon will get together this New Year’s Eve for a major show at Korakuen Hall that will count down to 2011. If it is anything like last year, expect each promotion to present its own match and the main event to be a giant Royal Rumble. Can it be as big as last year’s 108 Man Battle Royal? We have to wait and see.

Shuji Ishikawa has the chance to bring home some gold to UNION. He will be at Big Japan to take on Ryuji Ito for the BJW Death Match Heavyweight Title and possibly strike a vengeful blow to BJW. Last year when Shuji Ishikawa was the K-OD Champion, he often defended it in UNION. Big Japan’s Daisuke Sekimoto beat Shuji in his own promotion to become champion and reign over DDT. Now Ishikawa can give Big Japan a taste of its own medicine and bring its top title home to UNION.

Speaking of Big Japan, DDT’s Yasu Urano and UNION’s Hiroo Tsumaki will be on their next Dainichi Dash event in Yokohama on 16th October. Tsumaki will team up with Ryuichi Kawakami to take on Yoshihito Sasaki & Shinobu. Urano will be in the main event against Yuji Okabayashi (or Sekimoto 2.0 as I sometimes refer to him as). This will keep Urano on his toes before he and Dick Togo enter the NTV Cup Jr. Heavyweight Tag League over in NOAH later this month.

Cherry is on the lookout for women with martial arts training who want to become pro wrestlers. She also now has her own Ustream page at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cherrypafe55