“WHO’S GONNA TOP?” Matches Added, DDT48 Standings, Sawada Injured, Ibushi Returning

August 31, 2010

Two matches have been announced for “Who’s Gonna Top? 2010” set to take place in Korakuen Hall on the 26th September. Our new KO-D Tag Team Champions already have their first defence lined up and it couldn’t be against a tougher team. Disaster BOX are the challengers with HARASHIMA looking to add another title to go along with the KO-D Openweight Title currently around his waist while another Tag Title reign would be just peaches for Toru Owashi. Probably the kind he can wear on his head. However, the odd couple of Shiro Koshinaka & Danshoku Dino were able to defeat two highly regarded teams in the DDT roster to become the champs. A successful first defence here will clear the highest profile challengers off the table for the time being.

The second match will be Muscle Sakai’s final appearance on the main DDT brand, and could there be any better choice than Sanshiro Takagi to be his opponent? With his retirement coming just over a week later, I look forward to seeing Sakai provide a lot of entertainment here before he’s gone for good.

DDT “WHO’S GONNA TOP? 2010”
26/09/2010
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1. Muscle Sakai Last DDT Match: Sanshiro Takagi Vs Muscle Sakai
2. KO-D Tag Team Championship: Shiro Koshinaka & Danshoku Dino (c) Vs HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi

As of 29th August 2010, the DDT48 Election standings are as follows:

01. HARASHIMA　(117 votes)
02. Danshoku Dino　(111 votes)
03. Kota Ibushi　(92 votes)
04. MIKAMI　(84 votes)
05. Sanshiro Takagi　(81 votes)
06. YOSHIHIKO　(78 votes)
07. Hikaru Sato　(77 votes)
08. Dick Togo　(74 votes)
09. Shigehiro Irie    (66 votes)
10. Kenny Omega　(60 votes)
11. Yasu Urano　(53 votes)
12. Michael Nakazawa    (51 votes)
13. KUDO & Antonio Honda　(48 votes)
15. Toru Owashi & Daisuke Sasaki　(39 votes)
17. Yukihiro Abe, Shuji Ishikawa & Cherry　(33 votes)
20. Takao Soma　(32 votes)
21. Keisuke Ishii　(30 votes)

The top three have received a huge boost in votes and it’s expected that DDT’s three most known names would be on top. Shigehiro Irie is the most notable drop and languishes in the middle of the pack. It’s becoming clear that the fight for the 18th spot will be the most frantic. A tie for the final spot at the end is starting to look likely.

Turns out Poison Sawada JULIE is injured. He’s gone into hibernation after receiving elbow surgery. No more rattling snake magic for a while then.

Kota Ibushi will make his return for the Campsite Pro Wrestling show on 12th September. So far only he and Sanshiro Takagi have been announced to compete.

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Omega Vs Devitt Confirmed For NJPW Main Event!

August 30, 2010

In a battle that could be more epic than an X Vs Sigma showdown, Kenny Omega will be representing DDT on the 3rd September when he challenges Prince Devitt for the IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title in the main event of New Japan’s Kotetsu Yamamoto Memorial Show. Omega called out Devitt right after beating the Irishman’s tag team partner Ryusuke Taguchi at the most recent DDT Korakuen Hall show. Devitt accepted his challenge and it didn’t take long for the NJPW office to confirm the match.

NJPW “KOTETSU YAMAMOTO MEMORIAL SHOW”
9/3/10
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

7. IWGP Jr. Heavyweight Title: Prince Devitt (c) Vs Kenny Omega

Edit: The news is all about Omega today as he took part in SMASH.7 over at Shinjuku FACE. He defeated SMASH’s own resident Canadian, Mentallo with the Croyt’s Wrath.

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Full Card For “THINKING OF SUMMER VACATION 2010”

August 27, 2010

DDT “THINKING OF SUMMER VACATION 2010”
29/08/2010
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Rion Mizuki, Takao Soma & Kazuki Hirata Vs Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & X
2. Dick Togo & Antonio Honda Vs KUDO & Yasu Urano
3. Toru Owashi Presents GM Decision Battle Royal: Toru Owashi Vs Muscle Sakai Vs Hikaru Sato Vs Tomimitsu Matsunaga Vs Hoshitango Vs Yukihiro Abe Vs Michael Nakazawa
4. Special Singles Match: Kenny Omega Vs Ryusuke Taguchi
5. KO-D Tag Team Title, 3 Way Match: Sanshiro Takagi & Munenori Sawa (c) Vs MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba Vs Shiro Koshinaka & Danshoku Dino
6. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Daisuke Sasaki

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Last DDT48 Message, Hikaru Sato In ZERO1

August 25, 2010

The fifth and final video message for the DDT48 Election has been released on DDT’s Ustream channel.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9129079

Toru Owashi, Yasu Urano, Shoichi Uchida, Hideki Shiota, Yoshiaki Yago (who deserves to get in just for the guitar solo alone), Kyosuke Sasaki (audio only), DJ Nira (audio and images only) and YOSHIHIKO (announced message).

With that, all 48 candidates have put forth their opening statements and will spend the next month campaigning for the fans votes.

Hikaru Sato will be travelling over to ZERO1 to take part in the annual Tenka-Ichi Jr. Tournament. This will be his second Jr. tournament this year, after a fair showing in All Japan’s Jr. Heavyweight League. The premise of the Tenka-Ichi is based on Dragonball, with each wrestler being given a special sphere to carry down to matches. The match winners take the balls from the losers and eventually the tournament champion has possession of all of them. The grand prize for winning the Tenka-Ichi and collecting all the spheres will be a special wish granted to the winner. Maybe Hikaru’s wish will be to open a maid cafe.

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Ustream Videos – DDT48 Election, KO-D Tag Title Match @ Sumo Hall

August 23, 2010

The fourth campaign video for the DDT48 Election was posted during the weekend on DDT’s Ustream channel. Around 40 of the candidates have now sent out messages through the videos making their case for earning a spot on the 24th October Korakuen Hall event.

By the way, has anyone noticed that Poison Sawada JULIE isn’t taking part in this? I don’t know if he’s out with an injury.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9020306

Michael Nakazawa, 726, Tatsuhiko Yoshino, Yuki Sato, Hiro Tsumaki, Chou-un Shiryu, Akito, GENTARO and Kota Ibushi.

That wasn’t the only thing added to DDT’s Ustream page. The KO-D Tag Team Title match that took place before the Sumo Hall show has been posted in full. So if you have 20 minutes to spare, enjoy watching Sanshiro Takagi & Munenori Sawa brawl with Jun Kasai & Kamui all around the arena.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9053396

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DDT Election 2010 – The Campaign Begins Now!

August 18, 2010

The preparations for the upcoming “DDT 48” Election went under way this week with the candidates recording video messages urging fans to vote them into the October 24th show in Korakuen Hall. The messages have so far been split into three seperate videos. There are a few absent faces but chances are they will give their messages in a fourth video to be posted soon. Links to the videos and who features in them are as follows:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/8923090

Futoshi Miwa, Rion Mizuki, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Shuji Ishikawa, Ryu Gouma, Madoka (who is at a loss for words), Hikaru Sato (doing a good Koji Kanemoto impression) and Kenny Omega.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/8929786

Danshoku Dino, Takao Soma, Yukihiro Abe, Seiya Morohashi (looking deeply disturbed), MIKAMI, Keisuke Ishii, Tanomusaku Toba (singing “Imagine” by John Lennon), KUDO, Kazuki Hirata, Antonio Honda, Shigehiro Irie (imitating the jumping noise from Super Mario Bros), HARASHIMA, Daisuke Sasaki, Mr. Magic and Sanshiro Takagi.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/8986990

Hideki Shiota, Kazunori Huzioka, Cherry, Dick Togo, Isami Kodaka, Pedro Takaishi, Hoshitango and Keita Yano (“My name is Keita In The House!”).

The last video and some possible extras will be posted on DDT’s UStream site, which can be found in the link below.

http://ustre.am/ktaL

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“Thinking Of Summer Vacation” Card So Far

August 13, 2010

DDT “THINKING OF SUMMER VACATION 2010”
29/08/2010
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Special Singles Match: Kenny Omega Vs Ryusuke Taguchi
2. KO-D Tag Team Title, 3 Way Match: Sanshiro Takagi & Munenori Sawa (c) Vs Suicide Boyz (MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba) Vs Shiro Koshinaka & X
3. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Daisuke Sasaki

The three big matches for DDT’s return to Korakuan Hall are set. HARASHIMA gets his first defence of the KO-D Openweight Title by taking on Daisuke Sasaki. The former Italian 4 Horsemen member won a four man tournament at the end of Beer Garden week to earn his title shot. Since the Horsemen disbanded, Sasaki found himself grouped with DDT’s rookies. A good performance against HARASHIMA might bring him up to the next stage of his career.

The team behind the “Greatest Title Run Ever” ™ faces its toughest challenge yet. Sanshiro Takagi & Munenori Sawa put their KO-D Tag Team Championships on the line in a Three Way match featuring one of DDT’s most established tag teams. The Suicide Boyz of MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba became the No. 1 Contenders by winning the Tag Team Gauntlet at Sumo Hall and have already held the DDT Tag belts twice together. If that wasn’t enough of a challenge for Takagi & Sawa, the second team will be made up of Hip Attack master Shiro Koshinaka and a mystery partner. The champs already have a victory over Koshinaka, when he teamed with Mammoth Honda at Beer Garden. This time Koshinaka might have a trick up his sleeve. I can’t confirm it but I think earlier today Danshoku Dino expressed great interest in teaming with Koshinaka. I wonder why…

The Jr. Heavyweight relationship between DDT and New Japan brings us a rematch from this year’s Best Of The Super Juniors. Kenny Omega came out of the tournament with some big wins, including one over Ryusuke Taguchi. Now Taguchi is heading over to DDT to avenge that loss. Personally, I am hoping that matches like these will eventually lead to an Apollo 55 Vs Golden Lovers IWGP Tag Title match somewhere down the line.

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DJ Nira’s Evil Plan

August 10, 2010

Step 1: Steal Michael Nakazawa’s “Anus Dynamite”. This was done at the final Shin Kiba 1stRING show before Sumo Hall. To celebrate DDT’s success, Sanshiro Takagi had Nakazawa get ready to position the dynamite where the sun don’t shine and set it off. But before the fuse was lit, Yago Aznable and his crew ambushed them. DJ Nira grabbed the dynamite out of Nakazawa’s nether regions and fled.

Step 2: Attach the Anus Dynamite to Yago’s Space Colony. Set the power to full blast and guide the Colony on course to planet Earth. When entering the Earth’s atmosphere, switch off everything. Gravity will do the rest of the work.

Step 3: Make sure the Space Coloney is still falling down until you crash into “Sumo Palace”. Congratulations, you just performed mass genocide!!

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Michael Nakazawa Injured – Removed As CEO

August 10, 2010

It’s been a tough month for Michael Nakazawa. He dramatically saved Sumo Hall from Yoshiaki Yago’s evil plan to crash his space shuttle straight into the Ryogoku. The battle took a lot out of “Negetive Charisma” and it was feared that he would be doomed to lost in space forever. Luckily the fans in Sumo Hall formed together and used the lights from their cellphones to guide him home.

Unfortunately Nakazawa is now on the injured list recovering from a concussion suffered at some point during the Beer Garden shows. As if things weren’t bad enough, Nakazawa has been stripped of his role as DDT’s CEO (WWE General Manager). Toru Owashi has been chosen as the temporary CEO until the decision is made to determine the next person to permanently take the role.

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DDT Election 2010

August 9, 2010

DDT introduced an interesting concept that will build up to its 24th October show in Korakuen Hall. Between now and October, fans will vote for who they want to see appear on the show, choosing from 48 different wrestlers with the possibility of more being added as the election goes on. When the election ends and the votes are counted, the top 18 choices will make it into the 24/10 show and will enter a tournament on the night. The tournament grand prize will be 1,000,000 yen plus a KO-D Openweight Title shot. Should the KO-D Champion be the winner then he has the right to select his next challenger. All wrestlers involved in the ballot are being encouraged to promote their election campaign on their blogs, Twitters and so on.

People can only vote if they have a ticket to any of the DDT shows between now and October. One vote is given for one ticket. Another vote is given for every 3,000 yen spent at the merch table during shows. Voting ends on 6th October at the MUSCLE Korakuen Hall finale. The results will then be revealed the next day over at Shinkiba 1st RING.

The following is the list of wrestlers eligable for votes. More could possibly be added in the future.

DDT

01. Sanshiro Takagi (高木三四郎)
02. HARASHIMA
03. Kota Ibushi (飯伏幸太)
04. Danshoku Dino (男色ディーノ)
05. Dick Togo (ディック東郷)
06. MIKAMI
07. KUDO
08. Yasu Urano (ヤス・ウラノ)
09. Kenny Omega (ケニーオメガ)
10. Tanomusaku Toba (タノムサク鳥羽)
11. Michael Nakazawa (中澤マイケル)
12. Hikaru Sato (佐藤光留)
13. Hoshitango (星誕期)
14. Toru Owashi (大鷲透)
15. Antonio Honda (アントーニオ本多)
16. Daisuki Sasaki (佐々木大輔)
17. Tomomitsu Matsunaga (松永智充)
18. Yukihiro Abe (安部行洋)
19. Keisuke Ishii (石井慧介)
20. Takao Soma (高尾蒼馬)
21. Rion Mizuki (美月凛音)
22. Yusuke Inokuma (猪熊裕介)
23. Futoshi Miwa (三和太)
24. Shigehiro Irie (入江茂弘)
25. Kazuki Hirata (平田一喜)

DDT Alumni

26. Yoshiaki Yago (矢郷良明)
27. GENTARO
28. Shoichi Uchida (内田祥一)
29. Hideki Shiota (塩田英樹)

Union

30. Shuji Ishikawa (石川修司)
31. Isami Kodaka (木高イサミ)
32. Seiya Morohashi (諸橋晴也)
33. Cherry (チェリー)
34. 726
35. Ryu Gouma (竜剛馬)
36. Hiro Tsumaki (妻木洋夫)

Union Alumni

37. Kyosuke Sasaki (佐々木恭介)
38. Madoka (円華)
39. DJ Nira (DJニラ)
40. Keita Yano (矢野啓太)

MUSCLE

41. Pedro Takaishi (ペドロ高石)
42. Chou-un Shiryu (趙雲子龍)
43. Mr. Magic (ミスターマジック)
44. Kazunori Huzioka (藤岡典一)

Young Communication

45. Tatsuhiko Yoshino (吉野達彦)
46. Yuki Sato (佐藤悠己)
47. Akito (彰人)

Other

48. YOSHIHIKO (ヨシヒコ)

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