The Sun That Illuminates Over Union

February 26, 2015

UNION “MARCH OF UNION IN OSAKA”, 01/03/2015
Osaka Minato Ward Community Center

1. Kazushi Miyamoto & SAGAT Vs Seiya Morohashi & Daichi Kazato
2. Tomoya Kawamura Osaka Gaisen: Shuji Ishikawa Vs Tomoya Kawamura
3. “Mr. Perfect” Hiroshi Fukuda World Cup – Round 2: Hiroshi Fukuda Vs Taiyouto Kamen & X
4. Union Fly To Everywhere World Title: Mio Shirai (c) Vs Cherry
5. Union MAX Title: FUMA Vs Isami Kodaka

So far one Osaka wrestler has answered Hiroshi Fukuda’s challenge. Taiyouto Kamen is from Dotonbori Pro and is described as the sun that illuminates over Osaka. Slots are still open for more Osaka wrestlers to enter the challenge.

Ladybeard, Yuuya Kubo and Ryota Nakatsu will also wrestle on the show.

DDT “YAROZ VOL. 2”, 03/03/2015
Shin-kiba 1st RING

1. Gota Ihashi Vs Ryuichi Sekine
2. Ganbare☆Wrestling Offer Match: Ken Ohka Vs Tiger Bedscene
3. Suguru Miyatake Vs Takayuki Ueki
4. Shuji Ishikawa & Kazusada Higuchi Vs Antonio Honda & Ryota Nakatsu
5. YaroZ Army Vs Ikemen Army: Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Shigehiro Irie Vs Jiro Kuroshio, Madoka & Hiroshi Fukuda

YaroZ is turning into a spin-off brand so the King Of Dark Title might not apply for this show if Gota Ihashi is still champion.

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DDT X Ring☆Dream, Union In March, BOYZ Vs YaroZ, Ganpuro Vs K-DOJO

February 24, 2015

DDT X RING☆DREAM “LOVE IS MORE THAN THE AFFAIR”, 28/02/2015
Shinjuku FACE

1. Hangame Sponsored Match: Yukio Sakaguchi & Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Keisuke Ishii & Soma Takao
2. Tokyo Joshi Offer Match: Miyu Yamashita & Yuka Sakazaki Vs Shoko Nakajima & Erin
3. Mixi Ltd. Sponsored Match: Danshoku Dino & Yoshihiko Vs Masa Takanashi & DJ Nira
4. Nico Nico Sponsored Royal Rumble: Yasu Urano Vs Akito Vs MIKAMI Vs Tetsuya Endo Vs Daisuke Sasaki Vs Nonoko Vs Suguru Miyatake Vs Ai Shimizu Vs Kazuki Hirata (w/ Nico Nico Onii-san)
5. DeNA Co. Ltd. Sponsored Match: Konosuke Takeshita & Io Shirai Vs Makoto Oishi & Kyoko Kimura
6. DDT Pretty Plan: Kota Ibushi, KUDO & Sanshiro Takagi (w/ Shingi Natsuki) Vs HARASHIMA, Antonio Honda & Shigehiro Irie

DDT will be teaming up with Success Corp to produce a wrestling show together. Success is the company behind Ring☆Dream, the online anime girl wrestling card game. DDT has worked with Success before by having several of their wrestlers becoming gender-swapped characters in the game.

Shingi Natsuki is a cosplayer who has dressed up as several characters from Ring☆Dream including some of the DDT gender-swapped wrestlers.

Some other companies are sponsoring matches for the show. Nico Douga is sending its Nico Nico Onii-san mascot to the show. Rumour is Onii-san likes to dance and wants to hang out with Kazuki Hirata.

Yoshiko from Stardom was originally scheduled to wrestle on the show. DDT cancelled those plans after her treatment of Act Yasukawa at the recent Stardom show.

UNION “MARCH OF UNION IN OSAKA”, 01/03/2015
Osaka Minato Ward Community Center

1. Hiroshi Fukuda Vs X
2. Union Fly To Everywhere World Title: Mio Shirai (c) Vs Cherry
3. Union MAX Title: FUMA Vs Isami Kodaka

FUMA betrayed the Union Sekigun and formed his own unit at the Get The Glory! doubleheader. He challenged his former tag team partner Isami Kodaka to a match in Osaka and agreed to put the Union MAX Title on the line.

Hiroshi Fukuda is challenging any wrestler from Osaka or who works mainly in Osaka to face him in the ring.

DDT “OSAKA 24 ZONE TOUR ~ MINATO-KU”, 01/03/2015
Osaka Minato Ward Community Center

0. King Of Dark Title: Gota Ihashi (c) Vs X
1. MIKAMI Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga
2. Sanshiro Takagi & Toru Owashi Vs Danshoku Dino & Makoto Oishi
3. Kota Ibushi & Suguru Miyatake Vs Tetsuya Endo & DJ Nira
4. Akito Vs Daisuke Sasaki
5. HARASHIMA & Yasu Urano Vs Antonio Honda & Konosuke Takeshita
6. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi (c) Vs Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao

Team Dream Futures are the current No. 1 Contenders for the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles.

BOYZ “BOYZ DOLL FESTIVAL SPECIAL ~WOMAN FESTIVAL 6~”, 03/03/2015
Shinjuku FACE

1. Hair Makeover Match: Shunma Katsumata & Tomoya Kawamura Vs Kota Umeda & Kouki Iwasaki
2. Keisuke Ishii Vs Makoto Oishi
3. Kota Ibushi, Daisuke Sasaki & Masa Takanashi Vs Konosuke Takeshita, Tetsuya Endo & Kazuki Hirata
4. HARASHIMA & Yukio Sakaguchi Vs KUDO & Akito
5. Isami Kodaka Vs Soma Takao

BOYZ and YaroZ are competing against each other and will both run shows at the same time on 3rd March.

DDT “YAROZ VOL. 2”, 03/03/2015
Shin-kiba 1st RING

1. Ganbare☆Wrestling Offer Match: Ken Ohka Vs Tiger Bedscene
2. Suguru Miyatake Vs Takayuki Ueki
3. Shuji Ishikawa & Kazusada Higuchi Vs Antonio Honda & Ryota Nakatsu
4. YaroZ Army Vs Ikemen Army: Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Shigehiro Irie Vs Jiro Kuroshio, Madoka & Hiroshi Fukuda

YaroZ is taking the challenge seriously and will go to battle against a team of pretty boys.

GANBARE☆WRESTLING “~CHAPTER 2 2ND SEASON~ VOL. 11”, 22/03/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MON☆STAR

1. SUPER DIRECTOR’S FIGHT: Yumehito Imanari Vs Shibata
2. Special Tag Team Match: Yukihiro Abe & Chikara Vs GENTARO & Shinichiro Tominaga
3. Who’s Next REVERSE RIZAP: Angela Ami Vs Haruka Kato
4. Ganbare☆Wrestling Vs K-DOJO: Osamu Namiguchi & Tiger Bedscene Vs Yoshihiro Horaguchi & Kotaro Yoshino
5. Special Single Match: Ken Ohka Vs Shota

Some trouble brewed between Osamu Namiguchi and a few K-DOJO wrestlers at the last show. As a result Namiguchi and Tiger Bedscene team up to face the K-DOJO wrestlers head on.

UNION “MARCH OF UNION 2015”, 28/03/2015
Yokohama Radiant Hall

1. Cherry Vs Shu Shibutani

Maybe this match could be for the Fly To Everywhere Title if Cherry wins the belt from Mio Shirai next week.

UNION “GOLDEN UNION 2015”, 29/04/2015
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Union MAX Title: FUMA (c) Vs X

FUMA currently has the power to choose whoever he wants for his match at this show. Plans may change if FUMA loses the MAX Title to Kodaka.

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Mio Shirai Announces Her Plan To Retire

February 17, 2015

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Mio Shirai held a press conference today to announce she will be retiring from pro wrestling in September. Shirai was accompanied by representatives from the four companies she is under contract with. There was Naomi Susan from Union, Mayumi Ozaki from Oz Academy, Tsukasa Fujimoto from Ice Ribbon and Yumi Ohka from Pro Wrestling WAVE. All four gave Mio a lot of praise for her match with her sister Io Shirai from Saturday’s “M.I.O 2” event. There will be three more “M.I.O” shows. “M.I.O 3” takes place in Osaka Ikuno Kumin Center on 9t May, “M.I.O 4” will be in Shunjuku FACE on 19th June and the final “M.I.O” show will be in Korakuen Hall on 20th September. That show will be the destination of Mio Shirai’s retirement match.

Mio made her decision to retire due to neck problems. She has suffered from numbness in her neck for over two years but was still able to wrestle thanks to her training. Her doctor said there is no official name for her condition but explained the bones in her neck sometimes become slippery which causes the numbness. Mio spent a good amount of time thinking about her decision. She and Susan joked about putting her in a singles match with Shuji Ishikawa and taking the Splash Mountain last year. Mio said she will face Ishikawa again without hesitation if she gets the opportunity.

When asked what she is going to do after wrestling, Mio said she’d like to start doing four panel manga strips about what happens in joshi waiting rooms. For her retirement match Mio hasn’t decided who she wants to wrestle or team with. However she squashed any ideas of teaming with Io again. She doesn’t think it will happen, at least right now.

Mio ended the conference with an appeal to the entire women’s wrestling world. Wrestling does not offer long careers for women. Their bodies take a lot of abuse in a short amount of time and the effects can be long lasting for them. Mio wants every joshi to wrestle because it is what they want to do and also to have no regrets when the time comes for them to leave the business. Mio was only able to show a little part of her dream to her fans but she was still able to live her dream.

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Ibushi Vs Yoshihiko II, Union Gets The Glory

February 17, 2015

DDT “INTO THE FIGHT 2015”, 21/02/2015
Shinjuku FACE

0. Kazusada Higuchi & Shunma Katsumata Vs Kota Umeda & Kouki Iwasaki
0. King Of Dark Title: Gota Ihashi (c) Vs Suguru Miyatake
1. Danshoku Dino & Super Sasadango Machine Vs Toru Owashi & DJ Nira
2. Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi Vs Akito & Yasu Urano
3. Kazuki Hirata Tokyo GO Numbers Game – 1st Round: Kazuki Hirata Vs HARASHIMA
4. Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie, Soma Takao & MIKAMI Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi, Masa Takanashi & Tomomitsu Matsunaga
5. Tetsuya Endo Vs Yuji Okabayashi
6. Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Antonio Honda & Konosuke Takeshita

The new DDT Extreme Champion Shiori Asahi has been promoted to existential status and is no longer marked down as X on the match cards.

Not sure what to put down for Gota Ihashi if he loses the King Of Dark Title Match and stays as champion. D1 (defeat) defence, L1 (Loss) defence or should I just stick with V1 (Victory) for the irony?

UNION “GET THE GLORY MATINEE”, 22/02/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MON☆STAR

1. Get The Glory 2015! Round 1: Ryu Gouma Vs Hiroshi Fukuda
2. Get The Glory 2015! Round 1: Daicho Kazato Vs Isami Kodaka
3. Get The Glory 2015! Round 1: Shuji Ishikawa Vs Cherry
4. Get The Glory 2015! Round 1: Seiya Morohashi Vs Goro Jr.
5. Get The Glory 2015! Round 2: SAGAT Vs Winner of Match #1
6. Get The Glory 2015! Round 2: Mio Shirai Vs Winner of Match #2
7. Get The Glory 2015! Round 2: Ladybeard Vs Winner of Match #3
8. Get The Glory 2015! Round 2: FUMA Vs Winner of Match #4

Union has two shows in one day for its Get The Glory tournament. The first two rounds take place in the afternoon and the later rounds take place in the evening.

UNION “GET THE GLORY SOIREE”, 22/02/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MON☆STAR

1. Get The Glory 2015! Semi Final:
2. Get The Glory 2015! Semi Final:
3. Get The Glory 2015! Final:

Madoka will be in non-tournament action for the evening show.

DDT “SAITAMA SLAM SPECIAL! 2015 ~TELETAMA BROADCASTING 1ST ANNIVERSARY~”, 21/03/2015
Saitama Kasukabe Hall

1. KO-D Openweight Title: Kota Ibushi (c) Vs Yoshihiko

Kota Ibushi has picked Yoshihiko to be the No. 1 Contender for the KO-D Openweight Title. It’s been five and a half years since their classic battle. Ibushi thinks its time they tangled again. During the times they fought since then, Ibushi noticed Yoshihiko has become heavier. He thinks that is a little scary.

DDT “JUDGEMENT 2015”, 29/03/2015
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi (c) Vs Danshoku Dino & Super Sasadango Machine

The new KO-D Tag Team Champions knew they now have a bunch of DDT tag teams chasing after them. They just didn’t expect Danshoku Dino & Super Sasadango Machine to be leading the pack.

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Last Few Turns Before Saitama Super Arena

January 27, 2015

DDT “WRESTLING OKEHAZAMA 2015 VOL.1”, 01/02/2015
Aichi Nakamura Sports Centre

0. Dark Match: Kazusada Higuchi Vs Kouki Iwasaki
1. Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Shunma Katsumata
2. Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo Vs Keisuke Ishii, Soma Takao & DJ Nira
3. Shigehiro Irie Vs Suguru Miyatake
4. Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi
5. Yasu Urano Vs MIKAMI
6. 3 Way Match: HARASHIMA & Akito Vs Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Makoto Oishi & X
*X is Shiori Asahi.

This will be the last proper DDT show before “SAITAMA SUPER DDT 2015”.

DDT “DNA 3”, 05/02/2015
Kitazawa Town Hall

1. Kazusada Higuchi Vs Ryota Nakatsu
2. Jiro Kuroshio & Tomoya Kawamura Vs Dai Suzuki & Kikutaro
3. Kouki Iwasaki Vs Kotaro Nasu
4. Shunma Katsumata Vs Kota Umeda
5. Suguru Miyatake Vs Yuko Miyamoto

Suguru Miyatake’s rookie adventure next leads him to Yuko Miyamoto. Prepare for him to get beat up again.

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “THE GIRLS BATTLE 2015 ROUND 2”, 08/02/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MONSTAR

1. Yuka Sakazaki Vs Ai Shimizu
2. Shoko Nakajima Vs Erin
3. Nonoko & Akane Miura Vs Miyu Yamashita & KANNA

The Nonoko Vs Miyu Yamashita feud continues.

DDT “SAITAMA SUPER DDT 2015”, 15/02/2015
Saitama Super Arena – Community Arena

0. King Of Dark Title – First Champion Final: Gota Ihashi & DJ Nira Vs Hiroshi Fukuda & Hoshitango
*Loser becomes champion.
0. Dark Match – DNA 6-Man Tag Team Match: Tomoya Kawamura, Dai Suzuki, Kazusada Higuchi, Ryota Nakatsu, Kota Umeda, Kouki Iwasaki
1. Love Of Memory: Danshoku Dino Vs Michael Nakazawa (w/ Shigeru Matsuzaki)
2. Special Single Match: Super Sasadango Machine Vs Kazushi Sakuraba
3. Akebono Army Vs Yoshihiko Army: Akebono, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata Vs Yoshihiko, Antonio Honda & Great Kojika
4. Super TLC Match: Sanshiro Takagi & Jun Kasai Vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie Vs Daisuke Sasaki & Suguru Miytake Vs MIKAMI & Shuji Ishikawa
5. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title – Battle Royal: Aja Kong (c) Vs Yasu Urano Vs Makoto Oishi Vs Soma Takao Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Shunma Katsumata Vs Saki Akai Vs Bernard Ackah Vs Yuto Aijima Vs Hikaru Sato Vs Zeus
6. DDT Extreme Title: Akito (c) Vs X
*X is Shiori Asahi.
7. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Gorgeous Matsuno, Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi
8. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo (c) Vs Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi
9. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Kota Ibushi

Zeus and Hikaru Sato fill up the vacated spots in the Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title Battle Royal.

Hiroshi Fukuda and Hoshitango have been added to the King Of Dark Title match. Fukuda demanded to be included until he found out about the rules.

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Sasadango Vs Sakuraba: Once In A Lunchtime! King Of Dark Title

January 20, 2015

UNION “YUMI NIMO MAKEZU 2015”, 24/01/2015
Yokohama Radiant Hall

1. SAGAT & Tomoya Kawamura Vs Goro Jr. & Ryota Nakatsu
2. Ladybeard & Riho Vs Cherry & Ryu Gouma
3. Modoka (w/ Harumi Tachibana) Vs Daichi Kazato
4. Union Fly To Everywhere World Title: Mio Shirai (c) Vs Aoi Ishibashi
5. “Mr. Perfect” Hiroshi Fukuda Comeback & Kazushi ‘s GYM Bodybuilding Circle Reunion Memorial Match: Hiroshi Fukuda & MEN’S Teioh Vs Kazushi Miyamoto & Seiya Morohashi
6. UWA World Tag Team Titles: Isami Kodaka & FUMA (c) Vs Shuji Ishikawa & Masato Shibata

Shuji Ishikawa has chosen U-File Camp fighter Masato Shibata as his partner for the UWA World Tag Team Title match. Ishikawa said there are now less big guys in wrestling than there used to be and what’s better in pro wrestling than big guys colliding into each other? So he has picked someone similar in size to himself to be his teammate.

Mio Shirai admitted she doesn’t know a lot about her next challenger Aoi Ishibashi. However, overcoming the odds is what a champion does so Shirai is willing to take the risk of not studying Ishibashi before their match.

DDT “SWEET DREAMS 2015”, 25/01/2015
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Road To Iron Man Battle Royal: Yasu Urano Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Soma Takao Vs Shunma Katsumata Vs Saki Akai Vs Bernard Ackah
2. Road To Kazushi Sakuraba: Super Sasadango Machine Vs Sanshiro Takagi
3. Road To KO-D 6 Man Tag: Gorgeous Matsuno, Gota Ihashi & DJ Nira Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi
4. Road To Super TLC: Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Ire Vs Daisuke Sasaki & Suguru Miyatake Vs MIKAMI & Shuji Ishikawa
5. Road To Akebono Army Vs Yoshihiko Army: Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata Vs Antonio Honda & Great Kojika (w/ Yoshihiko)
6. Just Before Saitama Super Arena – Super Special 6 Man Tag Match: HARASHIMA, Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo Vs Kota Ibushi, Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi
7. DDT Extreme Title – No Rope Escape Match: Akito (c) Vs Makoto Oishi

Akito’s reign of technical wrestling over the DDT Extreme Title now brings him into a match where rope escapes are not in effect. He and Makoto Oishi will have to rely on other means to avoid submission holds. Or maybe they both have a few moves up their sleeve that would benefit from rope usage.

GANBARE☆WRESTLING “~CHAPTER 2 2ND SEASON~ VOL. 10”, 08/02/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MON☆STAR

1. URRC Vs Erokawa Principle ~No Calories Recording Diet Super Fight~: Angela Ami Vs Kana
2. Let’s Go!! Bedscene!!: Osamu Namiguchi & Tiger Bedscene Vs Yoshihiro Horaguchi & Shinichiro Tominaga
3. Confrontation Of A Dream! Gundan Vs Gundan ~TOP OF THE SUPER ARMY~: Gundan Hitori Vs Ishihara Gundan Man
4. Karate Vs Karate Chop Part 2: Chikara & Yumehito Imanari Vs Kazuhiko Ogasawara & Karate Zebra
5. The Participation Story EPISODE 3 – Moment, Heart, Repeatedly ~ Both Of You, Dance Like You Want To Win!: Ken Ohka & Yukihiro Abe Vs Shota & Tomoya Kawamura

Ganpuro’s ranks have been boosted with the addition of Yukihiro Abe to the roster. Ken Ohka will be relying on him to get some revenge on the turncoat Shota.

UNION, OZ ACADEMY, WAVE, ICE RIBBON “M.I.O 2”, 14/02/2015
Shinjuku FACE

1. Sonoko Kato & Ryo Mizunami Vs Tsukasa Fujimoto & Miyako Matsumoto
2. Isami Kodaka & Mika Iida Vs Yumi Ohka & Daichi Kazato
3. Four Organisations 4 Way Match: Tsukushi Vs Shu Shibutani Vs Cherry Vs Mayumi Ozaki
4. Fairy Nihonbashi, Dynamite Kansai & Shuji Ishikawa Vs Seiya Morohashi, Mochi Miyagi & Aja Kong
5. Mio Shirai Vs Io Shirai

Naomi Susan noted that the relationship Union now has with Oz Academy, Pro Wrestling WAVE and Ice Ribbon thanks to Shirai’s multi-contract has created some fresh women’s matches in Union.

DDT “SAITAMA SUPER DDT 2015”, 15/02/2015
Saitama Super Arena – Community Arena

0. King Of Dark Title – First Champion Final: Gota Ihashi Vs DJ Nira
0. Dark Match – DNA 6-Man Tag Team Match: Tomoya Kawamura, Dai Suzuki, Kazusada Higuchi, Ryota Nakatsu, Kota Umeda, Kouki Iwasaki
1. Love Of Memory: Danshoku Dino Vs Michael Nakazawa (w/ Shigeru Matsuzaki)
2. Special Single Match: Super Sasadango Machine Vs Kazushi Sakuraba
3. Akebono Army Vs Yoshihiko Army: Akebono, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata Vs Yoshihiko, Antonio Honda & Great Kojika
4. Super TLC Match: Sanshiro Takagi & Jun Kasai Vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie Vs Daisuke Sasaki & Suguru Miytake Vs MIKAMI & Shuji Ishikawa
5. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title – Battle Royal: Aja Kong (c) Vs Yasu Urano Vs Soma Takao Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Hoshitango Vs Shunma Katsumata Vs Saki Akai Vs Bernard Ackah Vs Yuto Aijima Vs Makoto Oishi
6. DDT Extreme Title: Akito (c) Vs X
*X is Shiori Asahi.
7. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Gorgeous Matsuno, Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi
8. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo (c) Vs Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi
9. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Kota Ibushi

Super Sasadango Machine’s opponent for Saitama Super Arena (the Community Arena, not the giant stadium) is none other than Kazushi Sakuraba! Sasadango’s only knew beforehand that he was getting a “super-heavyweight” opponent. Both men are said to be enthusiastic about the match.

Details have emerged for DDT’s newest… championship? Accomplishment? Reward? Whatever it is, the King Of Dark Title is only defended in dark matches and the first champion will either be Gota Ihashi or DJ Nira. However, the first champion will be whoever loses the match. For you see, the King of Dark is forced to wrestle only in dark matches until they win. Victories by the champion is what causes title changes so I assume defeats count as title defences. It is the championship nobody wants unless you want to wrestle early!

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Fukuda Ready To Return

January 15, 2015

UNION “YUMI NIMO MAKEZU 2015”, 24/01/2015
Yokohama Radiant Hall

1. Modoka (w/ Harumi Tachibana) Vs Daichi Kazato
2. “Mr. Perfect” Hiroshi Fukuda Comeback & Kazushi ‘s GYM Bodybuilding Circle Reunion Memorial Match: Hiroshi Fukuda & MEN’S Teioh Vs Kazushi Miyamoto & Seiya Morohashi
3. UWA World Tag Team Titles: Isami Kodaka & FUMA (c) Vs Shuji Ishikawa & X

Hiroshi Fukuda is healthy and ready get back to action. While recovering Fukuda has eaten nothing but the best food he could buy for 1,500 yen. He believes his shoulder is now in tip top shape and he wants to show off his “dynamite body” again.

Shuji Ishikawa is on the search for a partner to go after the UWA World Tag Team Titles. Who will he choose to go against Isami Kodaka & FUMA?

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Union Cam And Out, Saitama Previews

January 8, 2015

DDT “DNA 2”, 09/01/2015
Shinjuku FACE

1. Dai Suzuki Vs Shota
2. Kouta Umeda Vs Ryuichi Sekine
3. Tomoya Kawamura Vs Jiro Kuroshio
4. Ryota Nakatsu & Kouki Iwasaki Vs Hideki Suzuki & Koji Iwamoto
5. Kazusada Higuchi & Shunma Katsumata Vs Katsuhiko Nakajima & Mitsuhiro Kitamiya
6. Suguru Miyatake Vs Jun Kasai

Suguru Miyatake says he will do his best to go home alive.

UNION “NEW YEAR UNION 2015”, 10/01/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MON☆STAR

1. Ryu Gouma Vs Goro Jr.
2. Madoka Vs Ryota Nakatsu
3. Tomoya Kawamura Vs Awamori Man
4. Cam & Out Tag Match: FUMA, Daichi Kazato, SAGAT & Mio Shirai Vs Isami Kodaka, Shuji Ishikawa, Seiya Morohashi & Cherry

The main event will be an elimination tag match with a difference. Wrestlers who get pinned, submitted or counted out are still in the match but must join the other team. The match continues until one team loses all of its members.

Awamori Man is from Ryukyu Dragon Pro Wrestling, an Okinawa based indie.

DDT “DRAMATIC TENPOZAN! 2015”, 11/01/2015
Osaka Port Kumin Center

1. Makoto Oishi Vs Ryota Nakatsu
2. Sanshiro Takagi & Toru Owashi Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Kiai Ryuuken Ecchan
3. Keisuke Ishii Vs MIKAMI
4. Konosuke Takeshita Vs Tetsuya Endo Vs Shunma Katsumata & Suguru Miyatake
5. New Year’s Annual Rock ‘N’ Roll Death Match: A. YAZAWA Vs Kazuki Hirata Vs DJ Nira Vs Shoichi Uchida
6. HARASHIMA, Yasu Urano & Akito Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi

The Rock ‘N’ Roll Death Match returns. There will be beer and music aplenty.

DDT “DRAMATIC KAIYUKAN! 2015”, 12/01/2015
Osaka Port Kumin Center

0. Dark Match: Kazusada Higuchi Vs Ryota Nakatsu
1. Sanshiro Takagi & Toru Owashi Vs Suguru Miyatake & DJ Nira
2. Antonio Honda & Tetsuya Endo Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga & HAYATA
3. Akito & MIKAMI Vs Makoto Oishi & Shunma Katsumata
4. Konosuke Takeshita Vs Kushinbo Kamen
5. Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi
6. HARASHIMA & Yasu Urano Vs Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki

Konosuke Takeshita takes on his toughest challenge yet… A wrestling clown!

DDT “ROAD TO SAITAMA SUPER ARENA 9”, 18/01/2015
Saitama Industrial Technology Centre

1. Saki Akai Iron Man Recapture Send Off: Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Saki Akai, MIKAMI & Gota Ihashi
2. Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Shunma Katsumata
3. Shigehiro Irie Vs DJ Nira
4. Konosuke Takeshita Vs Kazuki Hirata
5. Infomercial Match: Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi Vs Antonio Honda & Tetsuya Endo
6. KUDO & Masa Takanashi Vs Keisuke Ishii & Soma Takao
7. HARASHIMA, Yasu Urano & Akito Vs Kota Ibushi, Daisuke Sasaki & Suguru Miyatake

Saki Akai is preparing to win back the Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title from Aja Kong. A few of the others are going to help out with a tune up match.

DDT “SWEET DREAMS 2015”, 25/01/2015
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Road To KO-D 6 Man Tag: Gorgeous Matsuno, Gota Ihashi & DJ Nira Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi
2. Road To Super TLC: Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Ire Vs Daisuke Sasaki & Suguru Miyatake Vs MIKAMI & Shuji Ishikawa
3. Road To Akebono Army Vs Yoshihiko Army: Antonio Honda & Great Kojika (w/ Yoshihiko) Vs Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata
4. Just Before Saitama Super Arena – Super Special 6 Man Tag Match: HARASHIMA, Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo Vs Kota Ibushi, Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi
5. DDT Extreme Title: Akito (c) Vs Makoto Oishi

A few previews of “SAITAMA SUPER DDT 2015” fill up the next Korakuen Hall show.

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Complete Card For “SAITAMA SUPER DDT 2015”

January 5, 2015

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DDT “SAITAMA SUPER DDT 2015”, 15/02/2015
Saitama Super Arena – Community Arena

1. Love Of Memory: Danshoku Dino Vs Michael Nakazawa (w/ Shigeru Matsuzaki)
2. Special Single Match: Super Sasadango Machine Vs X
3. Akebono Army Vs Yoshihiko Army: Akebono, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata Vs Yoshihiko, Antonio Honda & Great Kojika
4. Super TLC Match: Sanshiro Takagi & Jun Kasai Vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie Vs Daisuke Sasaki & Suguru Miytake Vs MIKAMI & Shuji Ishikawa
5. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title – Battle Royal: Aja Kong (c) Vs Yasu Urano Vs Soma Takao Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Gota Ihashi Vs Hoshitango Vs Shunma Katsumata Vs Saki Akai Vs Bernard Ackah Vs Yuto Aijima Vs DJ Nira Vs Makoto Oishi
6. DDT Extreme Title: Akito (c) Vs X
7. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Gorgeous Matsuno, Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi
8. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo (c) Vs Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi
9. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Kota Ibushi

Kota Ibushi is currently reeling from yesterday’s defeat to Shinsuke Nakamura in the Tokyo Dome. He’ll have another chance at claiming some gold back in DDT when he faces the most dominant KO-D Openweight Champion in the company’s history, HARASHIMA.

Happy Motels face their greatest challenge yet in the form of Big Japan’s literal strongest duo, Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi. The young champions have already gone through many of DDT’s regular teams but none of them are on the level of Strong BJ.

The KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles have gone through its most craziest matches ever since it went around the waists of Gorgeous Matsuno & the Brahman Brothers. Their title defences have turned into hardcore brawls with suitcases, bowling balls, a pig head and black ink all involved. So pretty much your regular Brahman Brothers match. Hardcore drinkers Shuten-dōji are the next team stepping into the ring with them.

The loser of the 25th January DDT Extreme Title match between Akito and Makoto Oishi will be in the Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title Battle Royal. The winner will defend the Extreme Title against someone to be determined. Since most if not all of the active roster is booked already I think the challenger will come from outside of DDT. Maybe a Union guy now that I think about it.

Speaking of the Iron Man Title, Aja Kong now possesses the belt and has challenged all comers to try and take it off her. Among them is the previous champion Saki Akai who will surely love to get revenge for Kong spoiling her big moment. Bernard Ackah will also be there after the failed bodyguard and second Super Sasadango Machine admitted he wanted to do pro wrestling.

The Super TLC Match involves 10 Tables, 3 Ladders (1x3m high, 2x2m high) and 100 Chairs. Sanshiro Takagi & Jun Kasai reform their Crazy & President team to face members of Team Dream Futures, Golden☆Storm Riders and the veteran team pairing of MIKAMI & Shuji Ishikawa.

The teams led by Akebono and Yoshihiko have been chosen. Akebono has T2Hide members Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata on his side. This means we could see Akebono be forced to do the Magnum TOKYO dance with Hirata! Yoshihiko has recruited Antonio Honda and The Great Kojika. At 72 years old Kojika is still going at it in the ring.

Super Sasadango Machine faces a mystery opponent. Heck if I know who it is. What’s worse is Machine may not be able to figure out how to prepare for the match. How can he set up a PowerPoint presentation if he doesn’t know what he is up against?

Michael Nakazawa’s final match in DDT, at least for now, is against a fully recovered Danshoku Dino. Nakazawa is moving to Singapore to focus on his career as a fitness instructor. Dino is returning from a hernia.

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Fighting Comedians, Wrestling Schoolgirls, Sweet Dreams & Saitama Slam

January 5, 2015

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “THE GIRLS BATTLE 2015 ROUND 1”, 10/01/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MONSTAR

1. KANNA Vs Erin
2. Miyu Yamashita Vs Ai Shimizu
3. Nonoko & Akane Miura Vs Shoko Nakajima & Yuka Sakazaki

The newly named Fighting Comedians take on Bust Deluxe in the main event.

Chikage Kiba has opted not to wrestle on the show because she is not satisfied with her recent practices and is not prepared.

DDT “ROAD TO SAITAMA SUPER ARENA 9”, 18/01/2015
Saitama Industrial Technology Centre

1. Infomercial Match: Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi Vs X & X

The Infomercial match is for Pu Joshi Hyaku Kei, a book of wrestling schoolgirl drawings. Everyone in the match will wrestle in schoolgirl outfits.

DDT “SWEET DREAMS 2015”, 25/01/2015
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. HARASHIMA, Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo Vs Kota Ibushi, Daisuke Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi
2. DDT Extreme Title: Akito (c) Vs Makoto Oishi

Champions Vs Challengers is the match you should pay attention to on this show.

DDT “SAITAMA SLAM SPECIAL! 2015 ~TELETAMA BROADCASTING 1ST ANNIVERSARY~”, 21/03/2015
Saitama Kasukabe Hall

1. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs X

DDT’s celebrates its first year on Teletama with a KO-D Openweight Title defence. Will this be Kota Ibushi’s first defence or will HARASHIMA be gunning for V9?

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