DDT “JUDGEMENT 2023 ~LONGEST 5 HOUR SPECIAL IN KORAKUEN HISTORY~”, 21/03/2023
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
0. Ilusion & El Unicorn DDTeeeen!! Graduation Match: Ilusion & Munetatsu Nakamura Vs El Unicorn & Raimu Imai
1. Yuya Koroku & Yuki Ishida Vs Toi Kojima & Kazuma Sumi
2. Kazuki Hirata Debut 13th Anniversary Match: Kazuki Hirata & Yoshihiko Vs Keisuke Ishii & Soma Takao
3. O-40 Title – 3 Way Match: Makoto Oishi Vs Gorgeous Matsuno Vs Shinichiro Kawamatsu
4. Pheromones Vs Pheromones Subjugation Army All Out Battle: Yuki “Sexy” Iino, Danshoku “Dandy” Dieno, Yumehito “Fantastic” Imanari & Koju “Shining Ball” Takeda Vs Akito, Toru Owashi, Hiroshi Yamato & Yusuke Okada
5. Special Tag Match: Super Sasadango Machine & Antonio Honda Vs Super Powerhouse Tag Team
6. Saki Akai Debut 10th Anniversary Match Vol 1.: Masahiro Takanashi Vs Saki Akai
7. HARASHIMA & Keigo Nakamura Vs Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani
8. Special Single Match: Hikaru Machida Vs Takeshi Masada
9. Special 6-Man Tag Match ~ CHARISMA RETURNS!: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON Vs Chris Brookes, Drew Parker & Hagane Shinno
10. DDT Extreme Title – Regular Pro Wrestling Rules: Jun Akiyama (c) Vs Kotaro Suzuki
11. DDT 26th Anniversary Special Single Match: Sanshiro Takagi Vs Konosuke Takeshita
12. International Special Single Match: Samuray Del Sol Vs Yuki Ueno
13. DDT Universal Title: Naruki Doi (c) Vs Tetsuya Endo
14. KO-D Tag Team Titles – Falls Count Anywhere Match: MAO & Shunma Katsumata (c) Vs Kazusada Higuchi & Ryota Nakatsu
15. KO-D Openweight Title: Yuji Hino (c) Vs Yukio Naya
Over the weekend both MAO and Kazusada Higuchi agreed to make their KO-D Tag Team Titles match Falls Count Anywhere!
I won’t be writing a big preview for “JUDGEMENT” this year and it’s for a couple of reasons. The show being downgraded from a major arena to Korakuen Hall is one of them. The venue just makes the occasion of DDT’s anniversary feel lesser than it usual. Then there is around half of the matches on this 16 match card don’t have much background to them compared to the cards of previous anniversary shows. It is also coming up on a very busy period where Tokyo Joshi Pro has “GRAND PRINCESS ’23” coming up and after that is the big trip to Los Angeles. I want to save my energy writing up guides for those shows so I figured if anything had to get the axe, it was the “JUDGEMENT 2023” preview.
DDT “DDT GOES YOKOHAMA! ~BLOW UP HOLLYWOOD!!~”, 01/04/2023
Yokohama Radiant Hall
1. Toru Owashi & Kazuma Sumi Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Yusuke Okada
2. Kotaro Suzuki & Soma Takao Vs Keigo Nakamura & Yuki Ishida
3. Special Single Match I: Makoto Oishi Vs Antonio Honda
4. Special Single Match II ~ Hardcore Match: MJ Paul Vs Yukio Naya
5. Special Single Match III: Kazuki Hirata Vs Invisible Man
6. Special Single Match IV: Yuji Hino Vs Akito
7. King Of DDT 2023 Qualifying Battle: Hideki Okatani Vs Toi Kojima Vs Yuya Koroku
8. Special Tag Match: HARASHIMA & Hikaru Sato Vs Yukio Sakaguchi & Masahiro Takanashi
The three highest placed wrestlers in the D GENERATIONS CUP who did not win the tournament will now get to face each other with a King Of DDT spot on the line. The Qualifying Battle is using the same format that All Japan had to decide the new Triple Crown champion after it was vacated back in 2021. Hideki Okatani, Toi Kojima and Yuya Koroku will be put into an alternating series of singles matches against each other with the end only coming when one of them wins two matches in a row. A lottery will determine which two will start off in the first match.
DDT “APRIL FOOL 2023”, 09/04/2023
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1. Rukiya Ikeda Debut Match: Yuya Koroku Vs Rukiya Ikeda
2. KO-D Tag Team Titles: MAO & Shunma Katsumata (c) Vs X & X
The debuting Rukiya Ikeda gets Koroku as his first opponent.
Naruki Doi, Kotaro Suzuki and Joey Janela will be on the show. Janela is back in DDT this April for a three show tour beginning here.
Dramatic DDT 