I’m not planning to make a regular series out of posts like these. It’s more just to remind myself DDT wrestlers have these shows coming up. It’s an interesting sight to see the main Japanese wrestling companies work with each other more and more. The thing nobody likes to point out is these working relationships happen when business is bad for everyone. These moves don’t come across as something in response to WWE returning to Japan under their new ABEMA broadcast deal. DDT wrestlers interacting with New Japan and All Japan has been going on for a while now. Hiromu Takahashi and El Desperado are hard at work showing up everywhere they can while Eruption opened up the doors to this new competition of DDT Vs AJPW matches. DDT is also playing host to several All Asia Tag Team Title matches lately.
Today NJPW announced a new idea called Frontier Zone, booking a bunch of outsiders for a dark match at next week’s Sumo Hall show. Takeshi Masada and Kazuma Sumi are on the guest side in a 10-Man Tag Match against five regular members of the NJPW roster. If this is the start then I wonder what more DDT related appearances can happen in the next couple of months. New Japan has a Super Jr. Tag League coming up this month so DDT entering a team into it would be nice. It doesn’t even have to be an entire team, just send MAO over to be with Desperado so they can be DQV again. However the end of the tournament clashes with the first half of the D-Ou Grand Prix so that idea is not likely to happen. Next year’s Best Of The Super Jr might be too far off at this point to confidently predict somebody like MAO earning a spot. Maybe set up another Super J Cup in America and send MAO over to compete in it? The LEC guy could even sponsor it.
The All Japan stuff has more paths spreading through it. We have Eruption currently holding their trios titles. It’s been shown they can be defended separately from DDT’s trios championship but so far the signs are pointing towards Saki Akai holding onto the belts until her retirement. Eruption keeping them for that long and then vacating both sets of titles makes sense to me. It’s a farewell gift to Akai and both championships are low priority so the champions relinquishing them is not going to harm their value. Suwama and Yukio Naya are building up a conflict which will help with Naya’s development into the heavyweight main eventer DDT wants him to be. The young ones like Toy Kojima and Rukiya getting to wrestle opponents who come from outside of DDT is always good too. There’s also thoughts of Jun Akiyama making one more challenge for the Triple Crown dancing through my mind. There could even be an All Japan wrestler entering the D-Ou GP as the big guest entrant. If it’s Kento Miyahara, cool! But if it’s Yoshitatsu, no thank you.
AJPW “NEW AGE CHRONICLE‐Z ～JUMP OVER～”, 05/10/2023
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
1. Atsuki Aoyagi & Rising HAYATO Vs MAO & Rukiya
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NJPW “DESTRUCTION IN RYOGOKU”, 09/10/2023
Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan
0. Frontier Zone: Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask, YOH, Toru Yano & YOSHI-HASHI Vs Takahiro Katori, Jun Masaoka, Kengo, Kazuma Sumi & Takeshi Masada
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AJPW “HATAAGE COMMEMORATIVE SERIES 2023”, 12/10/2023
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
1. AJPW Vs DDT Tag Match: Takao Omori & Yoshitatsu Vs Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani
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