DDT “DRAMATIC INFINITY 2024 TOUR IN SAPPORO – DAY 2”, 16/09/2024
Hokkaido Sapporo Sun Plaza
313 Fans – No Vacancy
1. Daisuke Sasaki & KANON defeated Yuki Ishida & Ilusion when KANON submitted Ishida with the Just Cobra Twist (9:09).
2. Tetsuya Endo, Yuki Iino & Makoto Oishi defeated Tomoya, Akito & Kazuki Hirata when Oishi pinned Hirata with a Cradle (10:17).
3. Special Tag Match: Jun Akiyama & Noriyuki Yoshida defeated Yuki Ueno & Keigo Nakamura when Yoshida pinned Nakamura with the mo:tatterarehen (9:58).
4. Special Single Match: Shinya Aoki defeated Yuya Koroku with a Full Nelson Clutch (8:09).
5. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title – Birmingham Style Match: Danshoku Dieno defeated Chris Brookes (c) with the Gaydo Clutch (13:02).
*Danshoku Dieno becomes the 1,671st champion.
6. Special 6-Man Tag Match: HARASHIMA, Yukio Naya & Kazuma Sumi defeated MAO, Shunma Katsumata & To-y when Sumi pinned To-y with a School Boy (16:52).
*Kazuma Sumi wins To-y’s Right To Challenge Anytime, Anywhere Shield.
-. DDT Extreme Title – School Boy Only 1 Count Rules: Shunma Katsumata (c) defeated Kazuma Sumi with a School Boy (5:12).
*V6 for Shunma Katsumata. Kazuma Sumi cashes in his Right To Challenge Anytime, Anywhere Shield.
Poor To-y. Poor, poor To-y. For the third day in a row he approached Yuki Iino in the ring threatening to cash in his Right To Challenge Shield for a DDT Universal Title match. And for the third day in a row Iino went to stop him mid-speech with a Spear. This time however To-y had the move scouted and countered Iino with a Dropkick. He then tried to find Hisaya Imabayashi to hand him the Shield and cash in his shot but couldn’t see him anywhere (Imabayashi was not at the show). By this point Iino recovered, hit To-y with the Spear after all and left ringside.
To-y’s day got even worse when he reappeared for his scheduled main event match and lost by pinfall to Kazuma Sumi! The School Boy that Sumi’s been using thanks to MIKAMI’s influence resulted in To-y’s story coming to a bad end. Sumi’s story however was just about to approach its climax because he immediately used the Shield to challenge Shunma Katsumata for the DDT Extreme Title! Sumi also suggested the special rules for the match should be you can only win with a School Boy and also just need a 1 Count to get a victory. Katsumata agreed to the terms and Yukinori Matsui confirmed the decision in Imabayashi’s place so the match went ahead.
Sumi went for the School Boy three times but Katsumata kicked out before the 1 Count on every attempt. They fought outside and back in the ring Katsumata missed the Totonou Splash. Sumi tried to pin him but Katsumata still kicked out before one. Katsumata dodged a High Kick and gave Sumi a School Boy over and over and over until he finally got a 1 Count to win the match and retain the title. Katsumata gave Sumi credit for coming up with a good time to cash in the shield and now acknowledges he is an “Extreme Man”. They are still going to be linked together as part of the Shin NωA and will be teaming up again soon for the IPPON Lighttube Tag Team Death Match. An upset To-y told the rest of The 37KAMIINA he will win one of the remaining Right To Challenge Shields so he can finally challenge Iino for the Universal Title.
The rules of the Birmingham Style Match is you are only allowed to pin your opponent or give them the Lip Lock if they are wearing a thong. Danshoku Dieno obviously was happy to strip down to his thong straight away but Chris Brookes wrestled the match in his normal outfit. He refused to wear a thong even when Ilusion told him everyone in the audience wanted to see him in one. A ref bump led to Ilusion and Makoto Oishi both getting their tights pulled down to so they were wearing thongs. When the ref recovered he refused to count the pin after Brookes gave Dieno the Praying Mantis Bomb. Brookes stripped down to his boxers but that still didn’t count so he finally put on a thong over them. Dieno then gave Brookes the Lip Lock and pinned him with the Gedo Clutch to become the Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion once more. Dieno wants everyone in DDT and the company itself to properly recognize that he beat Brookes in a singles match. Brookes told reporters he drank a Strong Zero immediately after the match in order to quickly forget what happened to him.
Akito stood around ringside after Shinya Aoki’s match but assured him he wasn’t going to cash in his Right To Challenge Shield for a KO-D Openweight Title shot today. If Akito did that and got beaten badly by Aoki then nobody would be manning the concession stand after the show. He instead asked Aoki to hold an autograph sessions over at the stand. Aoki liked the idea and agreed to do it.
Three major singles matches in a row for Yuya Koroku ended with him not winning any of them. He is coming out of the mini-series with a positive attitude though because he learned a lot from fighting three very strong opponents. He’s been looking for a way to catch up with the rest of his generation after coming back from injury and this series has left him fulfilled. Aoki praised him for being strong but thinks he could have reached even higher today. He thinks it will be a waste if Koroku can’t go any further.
Noriyuki Yoshida’s Modified Rock Bottom finisher is really called the mo:tatterarehen? Okay then. What does that even mean? I tried looking it up and couldn’t find anything.
Dramatic DDT 