Video – Togo/GENTARO/Urano Vs Dieno/KUDO/Oishi

May 20, 2020

DDT “NON-FIX DX 4.22”, 22/04/2011
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
202 Fans – No Vacancy

Please Stand In The Hallway If You Fail 6 Man Tag Match: Dick Togo, GENTARO & Yasu Urano Vs Danshoku Dieno, KUDO & Makoto Oishi


DDT TV SHOW #4 Full Card, TJPW PPV, Unmanned Pro Wrestling, Peter Pan Now 2 Nights

May 19, 2020

DDT “DDT TV SHOW! #4”, 23/05/2020
DDT TV SHOW Studio

1. Akito & Yuki Iino Vs Kazusada Higuchi & Yukio Naya
2. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title: Danshoku Dieno (c) Vs Antonio Jonda
3. Special Tag Match: Masato Tanaka & HARASHIMA Vs Tetsuya Endo & Soma Takao
4. Konosuke Takeshita Vs Yoshihiko
5. Jun Akiyama Vs Mizuki Watase
6. DDT Extreme Title: Shinya Aoki (c) Vs Keigo Nakamura
7. DDT UNIVERSAL Title – 4 Way Match: Daisuke Sasaki (c) Vs Chris Brookes Vs Naomi Yoshimura Vs MAO

The DDT TV SHOW is now established on the schedule with more weekly episodes taking place until at least 20th June. Daisuke Sasaki has to defend the DDT UNIVERSAL Title against three wrestlers who all want to take the belt from him. Shinya Aoki versus Keigo Nakamura for the DDT Extreme Title finally takes place. Mizuki Watase dug up the courage to challenge Jun Akiyama. After last week’s calamity of a match, Danshoku Dieno and Antonio Honda get a re-do for their Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title bout.

Next, let’s move over to the KO-D Openweight Title scene. Tetsuya Endo regained the KO-D Challenger Sword and can now challenge Masato Tanaka for the title whenever he wants. Tanaka is coming in to face Endo in a tag match. One bad result for Endo will dash his plans for a second time and whether it is Tanaka or HARASHIMA who pins him it will be another wild twist in the title scene. Or maybe Soma Takao throws a wrench in and beats Tanaka himself?

And let’s not forget about Yoshihiko’s blood feud with ALL OUT. The doll has checked off every member from its list, except for Konosuke Takeshita. This is the last stand for ALL OUT. Either Takeshita banished the threat or it’s a total party kill.

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TJPW PPV SHOW ~ZENRYOKU YELL~”, 31/05/2020
OPENREC.tv

The return of Tokyo Joshi Pro after a two month absence will be a special PPV event broadcasting on the OPENREC streaming service. Seven matches will be on offer with the regular roster taking part. The stream is available in three tiers, each includes live viewing and VOD until 16th June. The show will be added to WRESTLE UNIVERSE after that date.

The Regular Tier costs ¥1650. You get 100 Yell Points which briefly posts a message of support for the wrestlers on screen during matches. The Special Tier costs ¥3300. You get 100 Yell Points, a 10 second video message from a wrestler of your choosing and a poster signed by all the wrestlers. The Premium Tier costs ¥5500. You get everything already mentioned as well as sponsoring a paper tape thrown during an entrance and also a chance to participate in a Zoom party after the show.

The link for the show is https://www.openrec.tv/live/n9zexgql584

GAKE NO FUCHI JOSHI PRO “MUJIN PRO WRESTLING 2020 ~NOBODY SHOW~”, 05/06/2020
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1. Miyako Matsumoto Vs Cypress Ueno

Miyako Matsumoto’s plan to do an unmanned pro wrestling show is going ahead after all. No wrestlers, no referees, no fans but there are commentators. Shota and Munenori Sawa will be somewhere to call play by play for whatever it is Matsumoto and hip hop artist Cypress Ueno are doing.

DDT “WRESTLE PETER PAN 2020 DAY 1”, 06/06/2020
DDT TV SHOW Studio

DDT “WRESTLE PETER PAN 2020 DAY 2”, 07/06/2020
DDT TV SHOW Studio

Clap your hands so “WRESTLE PETER PAN 2020” can live! Everyone is doing two shows for their biggest event of the year now so DDT is doing the same. Day 1 will be exclusively on WRESTLE UNIVERSE. Day 2 will be on both WRESTLE UNIVERSE and ABEMA.


Video – “DDT TV SHOW! #3” Digest Highlights

May 18, 2020

DDT “DDT TV SHOW! #3”, 16/05/2020
DDT TV SHOW Studio
0 Fans

1. Kazusada Higuchi Vs Keigo Nakamura
2. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title: Danshoku Dieno (c) Vs Antonio Honda
3. Soma Takao & Mad Paulie Vs HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura
4. Hardcore Match: Shunma Katsumata Vs Yoshihiko
5. Mizuki Watase & Hideki Okatani Vs Jun Akiyama & Keisuke Ishii
6. Saki Akai “Okibariyasu” 7 Match Series – 6th Match: Saki Akai Vs Saori Anou
7. DAMNATION Vs ALL OUT!: Daisuke Sasaki & Tetsuya Endo Vs Konosuke Takeshita & Akito
-. Emergency Match: Kazusada Higuchi Vs Tetsuya Endo


DDT “DDT TV SHOW! #3” Results

May 16, 2020

DDT “DDT TV SHOW! #3”, 16/05/2020
DDT TV SHOW Studio
0 Fans

1. Kazusada Higuchi defeated Keigo Nakamura with a Canadian Backbreaker (3:09).
2. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title: Danshoku Dieno (c) Vs Antonio Honda ended in a No Contest (6:28).
3. HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura defeated Soma Takao & Mad Paulie when Yoshimura pinned Paulie with the Drill-A-Hole Piledriver (8:32).
4. Hardcore Match: Yoshihiko defeated Shunma Katsumata with the Reincarnation (15:48).
5. Jun Akiyama & Keisuke Ishii defeated Mizuki Watase & Hideki Okatani when Akiyama submitted Okatani with a Crab Hold (10:39).
6. Saki Akai “Okibariyasu” 7 Match Series – 6th Match: Saki Akai defeated Saori Anou with the Quetzalcoatl (11:21).
7. DAMNATION Vs ALL OUT!: Daisuke Sasaki & Tetsuya Endo defeated Konosuke Takeshita & Akito when Endo pinned Akito with a Scorpion Lock Cutback (15:12).
*Tetsuya Endo wins Akito’s Right To Challenge Anytime, Anywhere Gauntlet.
-. Emergency Match: Tetsuya Endo defeated Kazusada Higuchi with the Shooting Star Press (10:02).
*Tetsuya Endo cashes in his Right To Challenge Anytime, Anywhere Gauntlet. Tetsuya Endo wins Kazusada Higuchi’s KO-D Challenger Sword.

Week #3 of DDT TV SHOW ended with Tetsuya Endo regaining the KO-D Challenger Sword! In the scheduled main event tag match Endo kept Akito in his sights from the beginning. His goal was to pin Akito and take away the Right To Challenge Gauntlet. Daisuke Sasaki and Konosuke Takeshita kept each other away from the ring so it came down to Akito putting Endo into a submission hold. His Scorpion Deathlock attempt was countered by Endo into a Small Package for the flash three count.

After the match Endo asked Hisaya Imabayashi if the rules for the Sword and Gauntlets had changed now that Saitama Super Arena is out of the picture. When it was confirmed that the rules are the same, Endo called for Kazusada Higuchi to come out because he was challenging him for the Sword right now! Higuchi appeared still in his ring gear but without his wrestling boots. Endo attacked him as he entered the ring and the match began as they brawled around ringside. Endo hit a stage dive before Higuchi got back to the ring. Higuchi tried to Choke Slam Endo onto the apron but Endo gave him a Brianbuster onto it instead. Whatever Higuchi tried, Endo had a counter for. The three move combo of Tetsuya In The Sky, the Swivel Torture Rack Bomb and the Shooting Star Press put Higuchi away.

Endo received the Challenger Sword and said he already knows when to use it for a KO-D Openweight Title shot. He wants to use it right now! Imabayashi told him he already wrestled twice today and Masato Tanaka isn’t here. A relieved Endo admitted he is happy not to wrestle a third time so he will go home and wait for another time. According to him, everyone in DDT hope to wrestle in front of a packed venue again. He may wait to cash in the Sword until then or maybe he won’t.

Saki Akai is now 3-3 in the Okibariyasu. She survived the multiple Suplex variations from Saori Anou to pin her with the always reliable Quetzalcoatl. Akai told Anou the style of pro wrestling she likes is happy, beautiful, cool and flowery. Just like Anou. She wants the two of them to push forward not just joshi wrestling but pro wrestling as a whole. Akai then asked Imabayashi about the seventh and final opponent. Imabayashi told her the final match would have been in Saitama Super Arena but obviously that plan is out the window. He asked her to wait a little longer while he finds a suitable opponent.

The guest coach Jun Akiyama took a few DDT wrestlers to school. He and Keisuke Ishii beat the team of Mizuki Watase & Hideki Okatani. Akiyama did things here and there to provoke his younger opponents into firing themselves up. He eventually made Okatani tap out to a Crab Hold. Watase Dropkicked Akiyama as he was leaving the ring. Akiyama grabbed him by his head and scolded him until Watase admitted he wanted a singles match against him. Akiyama walked off but accepted the challenge before he left.

Three of the four ALL OUT wrestlers have now lost to Yoshihiko since DDT TV SHOW began. Not even Shunma Katsumata in a Joker costume can stop it! More signs saying “ALL OUT All Dead” were found backstage before the Hardcore Match, driving Katsumata crazy. In the match, Katsumata started off hot. He shoved Yoshihiko into a trash can, hit it with a barbed wire baseball bat and mousetrapped Yoshihiko’s head with a chair several times. Yoshihiko took control by Back Dropping Katsumata onto a chair, giving him a Bulldog and a Piledriver onto a counter and Choke Slamming him onto a Ladder. A ref bump led to Takeshita coming out to interfere while the ring was filled with Lego. The ALL OUT double team failed and Yoshihiko took out Takeshita with a dive out of the ring. It then gave Katsumata a Canadian Destroyer for a nearfall before winning with the Reincarnation onto the Lego. Takeshita confronted Yoshihiko, challenging it to a match.

The only blight on DAMNATION’s record today was losing to DISASTER BOX in the early tag match. Looks like HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura work better as a team than Soma Takao & Mad Paulie do.

The Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title match was presented like a TV comedy sketch with canned laughter. Danshoku Dieno and Antonio Honda kept getting accidentally hit in the groin until both of them could no longer continue. Daisuke Kiso said the punchline and the match ended in a No Contest.

Higuchi’s scheduled match for the episode was a simple win over Keigo Nakamura.


DDT “REMOTE PRO WRESTLING PUBLIC TEST MATCH” Results

May 15, 2020

DDT “REMOTE PRO WRESTLING PUBLIC TEST MATCH”, 15/05/2020
Tokyo Ochanomizu Dojo
100 Remote Viewers

1. Yukio Naya defeated Keigo Nakamura with a Side Suplex (6:50).

Yukio Naya and Keigo Nakamura were the guinea pigs used to test filming pro wrestling matches in front of an audience of Zoom users. The match itself was quick and to the point with a little bit of playing to the camera from the wrestlers. After the match, Sanshiro Takagi and Hisaya Imabayashi entered the ring for a Q&A session. They were interrupted by the sudden appearance of Seigo Tachibana! The young villain previously from WRESTLE-1 had spent the last month publicly asking Takagi to come wrestle in DDT. He wants to wrestle here because DDT airs on ABEMA (formerly AbemaTV) and he can show his matches to all of his brothers and sisters around the world. He also wants to be on the Ookami dating shows that ABEMA produces. Takagi initially agreed to book him if a video interview he uploaded to his Youtube page reached 1,000 viewers. The goal was met but Tachibana never heard back from Takagi. He angrily came here today to get an answer. Takagi shifted the responsibility over to Imabayashi and told Tachibana to ask him. Imabayashi was then threatened by Tachibana to book him for a future DDT show.


Video – Hardcore 4 Way Match From 2011

May 15, 2020

DDT “DDT SPECIAL 2011”, 23/10/2011
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,292 Fans – No Vacancy

Hardcore 4 Way Match: Isami Kodaka Vs Antonio Honda Vs Keisuke Ishii Vs Michael Nakazawa


Zoom Wrestling, Full Card For DDT TV SHOW #3

May 13, 2020

DDT “REMOTE PRO WRESTLING PUBLIC TEST MATCH”, 15/05/2020
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DDT has been privately experimenting with remote pro wrestling matches this week. The tests so far have been successful so they are now taking it public for a spin. This Friday matches will be held along with a Zoom broadcast featuring 100 fans virtually cheering and interacting with the wrestlers. DDT will tweet out a link to their Zoom waiting room at around 4:30pm JST and allow the first 100 people to participate in the experiment. The matches will be announced before the show takes place.

Since this is their first attempt at a public experiment please be aware that usernames will be visible to everyone and if a participant on video or audio is found misbehaving they will be forced to leave. Also matches could get interrupted or even cancelled if the stream quality becomes unreliable that day.

DDT “DDT TV SHOW! #3”, 16/05/2020
DDT TV SHOW Studio

1. Kazusada Higuchi Vs Keigo Nakamura
2. HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura Vs Soma Takao & Mad Paulie
3. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title: Danshoku Dieno (c) Vs Antonio Honda
4. DAMNATION Vs ALL OUT!: Daisuke Sasaki & Tetsuya Endo Vs Konosuke Takeshita & Akito
5. Hardcore Match: Yoshihiko Vs Shunma Katsumata
6. Jun Akiyama & Keisuke Ishii Vs Mizuki Watase & Hideki Okatani
7. Saki Akai “Okibariyasu” 7 Match Series – 6th Match: Saori Anou Vs Saki Akai

Three added matches completes the card for episode #3. Antonio Honda might be the next name added to Danshoku Dieno’s list of title defences. Kazusada Higuchi is giving Keigo Nakamura a chance to win the KO-D Challenger Sword from him.


Video – Nakazawa/Fukuda Vs Dieno/Nira

May 13, 2020

DDT “SNAKE WORLD REINCARNATION FINAL ~ POISON SAWADA JULIE FOREVER”, 25/11/2012
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,779 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

Michael Nakazawa & Hiroshi Fukuda Vs Danshoku Dieno & DJ Nira


DDT UNIVERSE Is Now WRESTLE UNIVERSE

May 12, 2020

DDT! NOAH! Tokyo Joshi!

DDT UNIVERSE, which offers a variety of video content both live and on-demand, will be rebranding.

Distribution of Pro-Wrestling NOAH videos has begun in January 2020, and the library has expanded to approximately 7.500 videos, including videos from outside promotions.

As the name UNIVERSE suggests, it will be our mission to provide content to as many pro-wrestling fans as possible on a global basis, and as such, we have come to the decision to rebrand.

The details are as follows:

New brand:
WRESTLE UNIVERSE

Twitter:
@W_UNIVERSE2020

Social media hashtag:
#wrestleUNIVERSE

We will continue to strive to improve service quality.
Please enjoy WRESTLE UNIVERSE!

Notes:

*There will be no changes to the service itself, its pricing, etc.

*Fan-club benefits for the DDT Group will continue to be effective


Video – “DDT TV SHOW! #2” Digest Highlights

May 12, 2020

DDT “DDT TV SHOW! #2”, 09/05/2020
DDT TV SHOW Studio
0 Fans

1. Saki Akai & Mizuki Watase Vs Saori Anou & Yukio Naya
2. Akito Vs Yoshihiko
3. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title – 4 Way Match: Danshoku Dieno (c) Vs HARASHIMA Vs Soma Takao Vs Keigo Nakamura
4. Konosuke Takeshita Vs Gota Ihashi
5. Hardcore Match: Chris Brookes Vs Shunma Katsumata
6. KO-D Openweight Title: Masato Tanaka (c) Vs Yukio Sakaguchi