Apologies for the lack of updates on the rest of the “Beer Garden Pro-Wrestling” week. The results of every show after Day 1 have not been posted on DDT’s official site or any of the other puro fansites either. I will hopefully get the entire Ironman Heavymetalweight title history posted before the end of the week while I wait for further results. In the meantime, here’s a pic of Yukihiro Abe’s new T-shirt.
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A message was posted on DDT’s Twitter page saying that Muscle Sakai will soon retire from wrestling. His retirement will take place in Korakuen Hall for what will be the very last MUSCLE show on October 6th. Sakai will be taking over his family’s business, a metal molding & dye shop.
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With Sumo Hall now behind us, DDT will take it easy for the first week in August and the fans are invited to join in the fun. DDT will be hosting its “Beer Garden Pro-Wrestling” event, which is a week long period of shows held in Shin-Kiba 1st RING. The big appeal for everyone attending the shows is the food stalls run by the wrestlers while the matches take place, plus the plentiful amounts of beer available too. Each day the show is dedicated to a different DDT wrestler or group of wrestlers. The cards for each show often have some unique matches on display plus some surprising and unexpected appearances. Highlights from each night will be shown on an upcoming episode of DDT’s weekly Samurai TV show, Dramatic Fantasia.
DDT “BEER GARDEN PRO-WRESTLING, GEKKAN WAKATE TSUUSHIN DAY”
02/08/2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
DDT “BEER GARDEN PRO-WRESTLING, BELT HUNTER X HUNTER DAY”
03/08/2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
DDT “BEER GARDEN PRO-WRESTLING, SANSHIRO TAKAGI SUPERVISOR NEO MACHINE GUNS DAY”
04/08/2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
DDT “BEER GARDEN PRO-WRESTLING, DISASTER-BOX DAY”
05/08/2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
DDT “BEER GARDEN PRO-WRESTLING, KENNY & MICHAEL DAY”
06/08/2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
DDT “BEER GARDEN PRO-WRESTLING”
07/08/2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
DDT “BEER GARDEN PRO-WRESTLING, FINAL DAY”
08/08/2010
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
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A brief note on a few outside adventures featuring DDT related talent. Hikaru Sato is currently taking part in All Japan Pro Wrestling for their annual Jr. Heavyweight League. He is already onto a good start in the competition, pinning Hiroshi Yamato in their bout with a German Suplex to win 2 points in Block A. That show was held in Korakuen Hall and took place on the same day as DDT’s Peter Pan show in Sumo Hall. Sato’s next match takes place today in Saitama and his opponent is the AJPW Jr. Heavyweight Champion, Kaz Hayashi.
Kenny Omega will make his debut for Tajiri’s SMASH promotion on the 30th August in Shinjuku FACE. He will take on another Canadian wrestler, Mentallo, who has been a familiar face (er… mask) to SMASH fans since the promotion’s first show back in March.
Finally KO-D Tag Team Champion, Munenori Sawa will make a trip back to the US in September for the fifth EVOLVE show. He will be in the main event taking on Bryan Danielson in a match I am really excited to see take place.
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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ドラマティックファンタジア-live
Copy and paste the above link onto your address bar to access the Ustream channel DDT will use to broadcast the pre-show KO-D Tag Team Championship match on today’s Sumo Hall event online. Sanshiro Takagi & Munenori Sawa attempt to make it 8 consecutive defences when they face the Freedoms duo of Jun Kasai & Kamui. The match will begin at 3:30 pm local time, which will be around 7:30am GMT, 2:30 am Eastern and 11:30 pm Pacific.
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For a place as crazy as DDT, you’d think the place would be a great setting for a manga. Well, it turns out that there is one. Over the last year, a series of comics about several DDT wrestlers have been created to sell at shows. The comics are drawn by Kuni Harada, who was behind a popular manga series in the 1980s called Wrestling Superstar Retsuden. Now the latest volume of the DDT Retsuden series is unveiled. The subject for this comic is the blow-up doll sensation, YOSHIHIKO! The comic is priced at 1,000円 and will be available this Sunday at DDT’s Sumo Hall show. Previous volumes have been about Kota Ibushi, HARAHSIMA, Poison Sawada JULIE and Danshoku Dino, who had two volumes dedicated to him.
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Riho & Mr. #6’s new tag team partner for Sumo Hall will be the boss of Big Japan, the Great Kojika. It hasn’t been long since Kojika last wrestled in the Ryogoku. He appeared in a Battle Royal for Masahiro Chono’s 25th Anniversary show in October 2009 and is fresh off of defeating recently lost to GENTARO at the Freedoms show in Korakuen Hall from a month ago. So now we have a 68 year old man teaming with a 12 year old girl and an 8 year old masked boy.
Looking ahead to the future after Sumo Hall, the next DDT show to look forward too will be their annual visit to the Yamanashi Natureland park for the Campsite Pro Wrestling show. The event will be held on the 12th September and so far Sanshiro Takagi is announced to compete.
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As you all may or may not know, DDT wrestler Masa Takanashi suffered a very serious knee injury a couple of weeks back. It came shortly after he gave us one of the better matches of the year in wrestling when he wrestled DDT champ Daisuke Sekimoto.
Well, as would be expected with a guy from DDT who isn’t a major star, Takanashi isn’t exactly rolling in money. Unfortunately his surgery and other medical bills are as costly as you may think and he just plain can’t afford them. DDT have done some fundraisers for fans in Japan to help, and I believe they’ve been a nice boost. However there’s still a ways to go.
I figured that fans on this side of the world who were fans of Masa, DDT, or puro in general might want the opportunity to help also. I’ve been in touch with Michael Nakazawa about this, and he said it would be absolutely amazing and Takanashi would be bowled over by the thought of US and European fans helping him.
A paypal account will be setup and 100% of the proceeds (obviously) will go to Masa.
Thanks guys!
So let’s help Masa out. Also, when you donate choose “gift” on the options. Thank you for helping.
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Hello and welcome to Dramatic DDT, a blog that will follow the news and exploits of the DDT wrestling promotion. I am JamieOD and I have been a fan of DDT ever since watching that video of a Ladder winning the Ironman Heavymetalweight championship. Since then Dramatic Dream Team has grown from indie sleaze to one of the top indie promotions in Japan, the highlight taking place in August 2009 when DDT held a show at Sumo Hall. Ever since I had wanted to set up some sort of website to be a good source of DDT news and info. I’m not the most techno savvy person so a blog will have to do for now. Hopefully I’ll get to make sense of DDT’s shenanigans and you will enjoy it too.
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