The Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title has changed hands a couple of more times over in Osaka Pro since last week. Apple Miyuki lost the belt to Kushinbo Kamen on 7th January despite just beating him in a singles match. Kamen used the 24/7 rule to his advantage and immediately cradled her for the pin. The next day Black Buffalo submitted Kamen to become champion during a 3 Way Match with Billyken Kid also involved. He then scored a rare title defence against Ebessan the day afterwards. However, his title reign ended today when Apple Miyuki’s ghastly alter ego Miyuki Matsuyama won the title. Miyuki is currently the 886th champion. DDT returns to Osaka in two days but so far there is no word in anyone making the trip over to the Minami Move On Arena to bring the title back to its home promotion.
Iron Man Title In Osaka Update
January 12, 2012
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New Year Matches, Mio’s Sexxxy Problem
January 8, 2012DDT “DDT MUSIC!”, 14/01/2012
Osaka Yodogawa Ward Center
1. Akito Vs Kazuki Hirata
2. 3 Way Tag Match: Antonio Honda & Keita Yano Vs Michael Nakazawa & Shoichi Uchida Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Takao Soma
3. Big New Year’s Match: Yuji Hino Vs Daisuke Sasaki
4. Big New Year’s Match: Yasu Urano Vs Masa Takanashi
5. Big New Year’s Match: Sanshiro Takagi Vs DJ Nira
6. Big New Year’s Match: Kenny Omega Vs Shigehiro Irie
7. KUDO, Danshoku Dino & Makoto Oishi Vs HARASHIMA, Hikaru Sato & Keisuke Ishii
Some of the results from today’s Shin-Kiba 1st RING event has led to the card for next week’s Osaka show being reshuffled. The rivalry brewing between Crying Wolf and certain members of the DDT roster will continue with Yasu Urano facing Masa Takanashi and Daisuke Sasaki taking on the bug brute Yuji Hino. This is all setting up the KO-D Tag Team Title match which is mentioned below. Meanwhile the “First 4 Way Match Of The Year” is now the “First 3 Way Tag Match Of The Year” with Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Takao Soma representing DDT, Antonio Honda & Keita Yano representing Crying Wolf and Michael Nakazawa & Shoichi Uchida representing a DDT and Osaka Pro alliance.
DDT “IN CHIBA 2012”, 22/01/2012
Chiba Port Arena
1. Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie Vs Hikaru Sato & Michael Nakazawa
2. HARASHIMA & Ryuichi Sekine Vs Antonio Honda & Keita Yano
3. Sanshiro Takagi Vs Takao Soma
4. Lottery Bonus Match! Angel Vs Devil Showdown!: DJ Nira Vs Jaki Numawzawa
5. Danshoku Dino, KUDO & Makoto Oishi Vs Kenny Omega, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Kazuki Hirata
6. KO-D Tag Team Title: Yasu Urano & Yuji Hino (c) Vs Masa Takanashi & Daisuke Sasaki
With Daisuke Sasaki scoring the pin on Yasu Urano at Shin-Kiba, he and Masa Takanashi get the first shot at the new KO-D Tag Team Champions.
As the winner of the 2012 New Year Rumble, DJ Nira now has to face Jaki Numazawa from Big Japan. Will his Rocket Punch be able to take down the “Black Angel”?
Sanshiro Takagi’s call for wrestlers wanting to join his new “anti-establishment” unit has been answered by Takao Soma. The two are no strangers to each other as Soma was a part of Takagi’s TKG48 unit.
DDT “SWEET DREAMS! 2012”, 29/01/2012
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1. Makoto Oishi, Akito & Hiroshi Fukuda (w/ Hikari Minami) Vs Yasu Urano, Antonio Honda & Keita Yano
2. New Year Dream Match: Keisuke Ishii Vs Yuji Hino
3. New Year Dream Match: Kenny Omega Vs HARASHIMA
4. KO-D Openweight Title: KUDO (c) Vs Danshoku Dino
Homoiro Clover Z is doing pretty well for itself so far. Win or lose, they will still hold possession of the KO-D Openweight Title after the main event. If KUDO beats Danshoku Dino, he will set the record for most KO-D Title defences. However, now that they are being pitted against Crying Wolf a more threatening challenge could be just around the corner for them.
UNION “FORTUNE DEMONS 2012”, 10/02/2012
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
1. Mio Shirai Vs Sexxxy Eddy
2. Ken Ohka Vs El Generico
3. Shuji Ishikawa & Shigehiro Irie Vs Kengo Ohka & Madoka
Mio Shirai is going to be in for a long night and I’m sure Sexxxy Eddy would agree with me (but not in the way I meant).
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Omega In AJPW: Here Comes A New Challenger!
January 6, 2012
AJPW, 03/02/2012
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
AJPW World Jr. Heavyweight Title: Kenny Omega (c) Vs Kaz Hayashi
Kenny Omega has a big name in place for his third defence of the AJPW Jr. Heavyweight Title next month. In fact it is the man who holds the most successful Jr. Title reign in All Japan history, Kaz Hayashi! Both champion and challenger met at a press conference where the match was announced for the 2nd February event in Korakuen Hall. Omega was accompanied by Michael Nakazawa but was able to spend a lot of time speaking in Japanese by himself. Kenny explained that Nakazawa was there to make sure no one was taking advantage of him as champion and to protect him from any unprofessional behaviour by the All Japan wrestlers. Kenny also tried to rile up Hayashi by saying the people in charge of All Japan love him because he is a “cool champion”. So much so that Kenny believes they secretly want him to beat Kaz.
“Everybody wants a cool champion,” says Kenny. “Let’s just look at the matches in general. Everyone has to agree that my matches… are always, ALWAYS, not sometimes, the best match not just in All Japan. These are the best Junior matches in all of Japan.”
Some big claims by Omega and he’s ready to back them up when he faces Hayashi next month.
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Iron Man Title Tours Osaka Pro
January 5, 2012For those wondering where the infamous Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title has been for the last couple of weeks, the belt is currently making its way around the Osaka Pro locker room. When we last left the the title, Shigehiro Irie was the champion. He travelled down to the Osaka Minami Move On Arena on 29th December to compete on one of the small weekday Osaka Pro events to face Kanjyuro Matsuyama in the main event. Irie won that match but afterwards was pinned by Matsuyama in a sneak attack, losing the Iron Man Title to the Prima Donna kabuki wrestler.
The very next day, Tigers Mask won the belt by pinning both Matsuyama & Naoki Setoguchi at the same time in a 3 Way Match. The day after that was New Year’s Eve and the title switched hands yet again when Takoyakida defeated Tigers Mask in an impromptu challenge before that day’s show began. New Year’s Day was a break in the daily title changes as Takoyakida was on the winning side of a tag team match. The 2nd January however saw Ebessan defeat Takoyokida in the main event to win both the Iron Man Title and the Osaka Owarai Title. That title reign only lasted three days as Apple Miyuki defeated Ebessan on another weekday show.
Miyuki is still in possession of the belt as of this post and is Iron Man Champion #883. Her next match in Osaka Pro will be against Kushinbo Kamen on the 7th. Osaka Pro are holding 7 more shows until DDT visits Osaka on the 14th so there is a strong chance we will see many more title changes from now until then. However, both shows on the 14th January take place at the same time in different parts of Osaka, so chances of a DDT wrestler bringing the belt home looks slim at the moment.
Thanks to Extreme Party and Osaka Hurricane for the updates.
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MIKAMI Injured, Omega Returns
January 4, 2012DDT “DRAMATIC 2012 JANUARY SPECIAL”, 08/01/2012
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
1. 2012 New Year Match: Poison JULIE Sawada Vs Hoshitango
2. Hikaru Sato & Michael Nakazawa Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Kazuki Hirata
3. HARASHIMA & Gorgeous Matsuno Vs Kenny Omega & DJ Nira
4. Sanshiro Takagi & Shota Vs Takao Soma & Rion Mizuki
5. Yasu Urano, Antonio Honda, Yuji Hino & Keita Yano Vs Masa Takanashi, Daisuke Sasaki, Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie
6. Year Of Homorio Clover Z: KUDO, Makoto Oishi & Hikari Minami Vs Danshoku Dino, Hiroshi Fukuda & Akito.
7. Annual New Year Rumble:
DDT “DDT MUSIC!”, 14/01/2012
Osaka Yodogawa Ward Center
1. First 4 Way Match Of The Year: Antonio Honda Vs Michael Nakazawa Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Shoichi Uchida
2. Akita Vs Kazuki Hirata
3. Yasu Urano, Yuji Hino & Keita Yano Vs Masa Takanashi, Daisuke Sasaki & Takao Soma
4. Big New Year’s Match: Sanshiro Takagi Vs DJ Nira
5. Big New Year’s Match: Kenny Omega Vs Shigehiro Irie
6. KUDO, Danshoku Dino & Makoto Oishi Vs HARASHIMA, Hikaru Sato & Keisuke Ishii
MIKAMI is now on the injured list with a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder. He will miss the 8th January show in Shin-Kiba and the 14th January show in Osaka at the very least.
Kenny Omega returns to DDT action after a successful 2nd defence of his AJPW Jr. Heavyweight Title over Hiroshi Yamato over in All Japan. He has his sights set on Shigehiro Irie for Osaka but before that, he is teaming with the master of the Rocket Punch, DJ Nira to face HARASHIMA & Gorgeous Matsuno in Shin-Kiba. One could only imagine the destruction that would be caused by a combined Hadouken-Rocket Punch attack
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Final Card For Indie New Year’s Eve Show
December 30, 2011“NEW YEARS EVE PRO-WRESTLING 2011 ~ SAMURAI TV! 15TH ANNIVERSARY”, 31/12/2011
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
0. Dark Match: The Winger & Madoka Vs Yasu Urano & Owen Phoenix
1. Young Six Man Tag Match: Toru Sugiura, Hiroshi Fukuda & Kotao Nasu Vs Daichi Sasaki, Masashi Otani & Dyna Mido
2. Young Emperor Cup – New Generation 8-Man Tag Match: Hiro Tonai, Takumi Tsukamoto, Takao Soma & HAYATA Vs Masaki Okimoto, Jun Ogawauchi, Akito & Kouzy
3. GENTARO, HARASHIMA & Yoshihito Sasaki Vs Kazuhiro Tamura, Kamui & Mototsugu Shimizu
4. Danshoku Dino Produce: Danshoku Dino Vs Atsushi Ohasi Vs Kaji Tomato Vs Shinobu Vs Mame Endo Vs Spark Aoki Vs Karate Brahman Vs GUTS Ishijima Vs Mio Shirai
5. World No. 1 Independent Tag Team Gauntlet: Jun Kasai & Jaki Numazawa Vs Yuko Miyamoto & Isami Kodaka Vs Shiori Asahi & Makoto Oishi Vs Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei Vs Tsutomu Oosugi & Hercules Senga Vs Masashi Takeda & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Hide Kubota & Yasu Kubota Vs Natsuki☆Taiyo & Yoshiko Vs Sanshiro Takagi & TAKA Michinoku Vs Great Dear & Antonio Honda Vs Daisuke Harada & Atsushi Kotoge Vs Emi Sakura & Masa Takanashi Vs CHANGO & Amigo Suzuki Vs Chou-un Shiryu & Dynasty Vs Ryuji Yamakawa & Shadow WX
6. Fluorescent Lighttubes Death Match: Ryuji Ito & Takashi Sasaki Vs Abdullah Kobayashi & Ken Ohka
7. Naomichi Marufuji Vs Tatsuhiko Yoshino
8. Daisuke Sekimoto & Shuji Ishikawa Vs Kengo Mashimo & Ryuichi Sekine
Ryuji Yamakawa & Shadow WX from Big Japan won the Occupation Of The Indies fan vote to compete in the Tag Team Gauntlet.
Danshoku Dino is using the subtitle “Laugh, Wrestling Should Not Be Angry” to describe his match.
The winning team in the Young Emperor Cup will receive a chance to train with MEN’s Teioh in 2012.
The dark match will have a 19 minute time limit.
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“NEVER MIND 2011” Press Conference
December 28, 2011
DDT “NEVER MIND 2011”, 31/12/2011
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
0. Dark Match: Rion Mizuki Vs Shota
1. Michael Nakazawa & Hikaru Sato Vs Antonio Honda & Keita Yano
2. Runner Vs Runner: Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Kazuki Hirata
3. Kenny Omega & DJ Nira Vs Masa Takanashi & Daisuke Sasaki
4. 48 Group Vs Homoiro Clover Z – 5 Vs 5 Elimination: Sanshiro Takagi, Vladamir Nagai, Ivan Markov, Poison JULIE Sawada & Hoshitango (w/ Bonnie) Vs Danshoku Dino, Makoto Oishi, Gran Hamada, Akito & Hiroshi Fukuda (w/ Hikari Minami)
5. HARASHIMA & Takao Soma Vs Katsuhiko Nakajima & Satoshi Kajiwara
6. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie (c) Vs Yasu Urano & Yuji Hino
7. KO-D Openweight Title: KUDO (c) Vs MIKAMI
Yesterday DDT held a press conference in Shinjuku to get the thoughts of several wrestlers who will compete at “NEVER MIND 2011” on New Year’s Eve. An important note about the main event was announced. The KO-D Openweight Title match between KUDO and MIKAMI will allow the usage of ladders without any risk of disqualification. KUDO is aiming to tie the record for most defences of the KO-D Title, currently held by Sanshiro Takagi with five wins. MIKAMI has gone through intensive training for this match and wants to be the man representing DDT as champion for its 15th Anniversary. With the allowance of ladders for the match now in effect, this gives MIKAMI a great advantage to win the championship.
When KUDO and MIKAMI were done, Hikaru Sato and Michael Nakazawa were next up. The two will team up to face the Crying Wolf pair of Antonio Honda & Keita Yano in the show opener. Nakazawa has begun pestering Sato to become his regular tag team partner again. He promises that if they beat Honda & Yano, they will transform into a brand new tag team and not become the Hentai team they used to be. Sato tried to ignore him and brought up the year he’s had. Sato won the DDT48 General Election, wrestled semi-actively for All Japan and bought a new suit worth 300,000 yen. He told Nakazawa that he will accept the stipulation but added that if they lose to Crying Wolf, Nakazawa will have to fight Sato in a Pancrase rules match.
The press conference finished up with Sanshiro Takagi, Danshoku Dino and Makoto Oishi making an appearance to talk about the 48 Group Vs Homoiro Clover Z 10-Man Tag Team match. Dino said he was looking forward to the “orgy” while Takagi talked about bringing in the KGB48, PJS48 and SUMO48 to join his TKG Rogue Army. The two began to argue until Tsurumi Amon interrupted them. Amon then announced that the 10-Man Tag will now be an Elimination Tag Team match.
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Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2011
Credit for the picture goes to Extreme Party.
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Cherry Vs Ayumi, Music In Osaka
December 25, 2011
UNION “1…2…3…UNION!”, 03/01/2012
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1. Loser Must Follow Winner On Twitter: Hiroshi Fukuda (w/ Rumi Kazama) Vs RG
2. CMLL World Women’s Title: Ayumi Kurihara (c) Vs Cherry
3. Americas World Mixed Tag Team Titles: NOSAWA Rongai & Io Shirai (c) Vs Ken Ohka & Mio Shirai
4. Sanshiro Takagi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi Vs KENSO & Yoshiaki Yago
5. 3 Way Tag Team: Vladimir Nagai & Ivan Markov (w/ Bonnie) Vs Kengo Mashimo & Madoka Vs Masao Orihara & Big Morohashi
6. Shuji Ishikawa & Shigehiro Irie Vs Daisuke Sekimoto & Kazuki Hashimoto
7. DDT Extreme Title – TLC (Tonkachi, Ladders & Chairs): El Generico (c) Vs Isami Kodaka
Union held a press conference on Christmas Eve to promote the Cherry Vs Ayumi Kurihara match for 3rd January at Korakuen Hall. It was announced that the match would now be for the CMLL World Women’s Title. Ayumi said she has strong impressions of Cherry and she hopes to entertain the Union fans. Cherry said that nobody is safe when they wrestle Kurihara and used Ayumi’s victory over Yoshiko Tamura to win the NWA Women’s Pacific Title and NEO Singles Title last year as an example. She also mentioned this will be the fifth singles match between the two in their careers. Ayumi has won all four previous singles matches so Cherry is desperate to finally beat her.
DDT “DDT MUSIC!”, 14/01/2012
Osaka Yodogawa Ward Center
1. Big New Year’s Match: Sanshiro Takagi Vs DJ Nira
2. Big New Year’s Match: Kenny Omega Vs Shigehiro Irie
3. KUDO, Danshoku Dino & Makoto Oishi Vs HARASHIMA, MIKAMI & Keisuke Ishii
DDT’s first show in Osaka for 2012 sees two big singles matches taking place. Sanshiro Takagi, who now looks to be regularly appearing in DDT again since his move to Union, faces DJ Nira in what will be an epic battle of wits, Yuzupon Kicks and Rocket Punches. Meanwhile Kenny Omega faces a beefier foe in the form of Shigehiro Irie. 2011 was the best year yet for Irie with pinfalls of Kota Ibushi and Shuji Ishikawa aswell as a couple of KO-D Tag Team Title reigns. Meanwhile Omega spent time in New Japan and All Japan, laying claim to the AJPW Jr. Heavyweight Title. His match with Irie could prepare him for a certain future challenger as AJPW’s Shuji Kondo has made it known to the public that he wants to win the title from Omega.
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Tonkachi, Ladders & Chairs (Oh My!), BIG “G” BANG
December 21, 2011UNION “1…2…3…UNION!”, 03/01/2012
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1. Loser Must Follow Winner On Twitter: Hiroshi Fukuda (w/ Rumi Kazama) Vs RG
2. Cherry Vs Ayumi Kurihara
3. Americas World Mixed Tag Team Titles: NOSAWA Rongai & Io Shirai (c) Vs Ken Ohka & Mio Shirai
4. Sanshiro Takagi & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi Vs KENSO & Yoshiaki Yago
5. 3 Way Tag Team: Vladimir Nagai & Ivan Markov (w/ Bonnie) Vs Kengo Mashimo & Madoka Vs Masao Orihara & Big Morohashi
6. Shuji Ishikawa & Shigehiro Irie Vs Daisuke Sekimoto & Kazuki Hashimoto
7. DDT Extreme Title – TLC (Tonkachi, Ladders & Chairs): El Generico (c) Vs Isami Kodaka
Union held its latest press conference in Shinjuku’s Dropkick Bar today to announce more news and matches for their big 3rd January show at Korakuen Hall. The conference began with Naomi Susan being joined by Isami Kodaka. Naomi told everyone she received an e-mail from El Generico about how he just defended the DDT Extreme Championship in Hawaii. Generico also said in the e-mail that he wanted his match against Kodaka to be fought under TLC rules. In this case the T in TLC does not stand for tables, but for Tonkachi which is a giant hammer previously used in Union by Chinese wrestler Cao Zhang. Isami said he wanted to win the belt back at any cost and accepted the TLC match.
After Kodaka’s portion was finished, the conference moved onto the new team of Shuji Ishikawa & Shigehiro Irie, together now known as BIG “G” BANG. The name is taken from a South Korean boy band for some reason.* It was then announced that Shuji & Irie will face Daisuke Sekimoto & Kazuki Hashimoto from Big Japan on 3rd January. Shuji & Daisuke are definitly no strangers to each other. It was Sekimoto who defeated Ishikawa to win the KO-D Openweight Title back in 2010. Irie described Sekimoto as being as strong as a gorilla. He compared his own strength to a dangerous bear that could kill a hippopotamus. Irie then said that hippos kill more people in Africa than any other animal, so that makes him very dangerous.
The Union show will be the second wrestling show taking place in Korakuen Hall on the 3rd. All Japan will have a show taking place earlier in the day with Kenny Omega defending the AJPW Jr. Heavyweight Title against Hiroshi Yamato in the semi-main. The Union show might be the fifth match Daisuke Sekimoto will have in Korakuen Hall in 3 days. He’s wrestling for ZERO-1 on the 1st, Big Japan & All Japan in the 2nd and finally All Japan and Union on the 3rd, all shows taking place in Korakuen. Crazy.
*Anyone else notice DDT’s trend of naming groups after musical acts lately?
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