DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – TEAM DRIFT DAY” Results

July 31, 2014

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DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – TEAM DRIFT DAY”, 31/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
456 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. Former Student Wrestling Rhapsody: Soma Takao defeated Yumehito Imanari with the Diving Foot Stomp (9:21).
2. I Will Show You Pro Wrestling In Nagoya: Shigehiro Irie defeated Grampus Mask No. 4 with a Lariat (18:02).
3. Era Of Lariat Pro Is Over, Next Comes Knee Pro!: Danshoku Dino, Jumbo Kiku & Riho defeated Keisuke Ishii, Antonio Honda & Makoto Oishi when Riho pinned Oishi with the Somato (12:28).
4. Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie defeated Soma Takao & Atsushi Aoki when Ishii pinned Takao with the High Angle Double Arm DDT (23:01).

The main event featured the All Asia Tag Team Champions against the AJPW Jr. Heavyweight Champion… and Soma Takao. On the one hand, Takao had to face against his two friends Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie. On the other, he was teaming with Atsushi Aoki. Ishii pinned Takao and thanked everyone in the ring for their efforts, even Aoki. He then asked Aoki for a Jr. Title shot. Irie also went to ask for a title shot but Aoki immediately told him he was over the weight limit. Takao thanked Aoki for teaming with him, then asked for a title shot.

The Knee Pro Wrestling match featured everyone, including the referee doing Jumping Knee Strikes and pulling Jumbo Tsuruta poses.

The match between Shigehiro Irie and Grampus Mask No. 4 was supposed to celebrate wrestling in Nagoya. Unfortunately it took place under sadder circumstances because Nagoya’s Sportiva Arena will be closing down on 3rd August. Both Irie and Grampus cried over the news before their match began. Irie declared his love for Nagoya as he landed the match ending Beast Bomber.

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DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – HAPPY MOTEL DAY” Results

July 30, 2014

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DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – HAPPY MOTEL DAY”, 30/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
605 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Bra & Blindfold Watermelon Splitting Death Match: Antonio Honda defeated Daisuke Sasaki when Honda split the watermelon (13:50).
2. Wrestling Classroom From Those Days: Shigehiro Irie & Kazuaki Mihara defeated Konosuke Takeshita & TORU when Irie pinned TORU with the Beast Bomber (15:14).
3. Superman Comes To Japan!?: USA Offer Match: Hara Cena & Hiroshi Fukuda defeated Tsuyoso Michaels & HHHH (w/ Choina) when Fukuda pinned HHHH with the Perfect Plex (15:07).
4. Entetsu Challenge: Kenny Omega defeated Tetsuya Endo with the One-Winged Angel (19:52).

Tetsuya Endo was given a big opportunity by having a main event singles match against Kenny Omega. Endo had the crowd support which made Kenny feel a little bitter. Despite pulling out all the stops, Endo was eventually defeated but Kenny had to pull out the One-Winged Angel to win. Kenny said he was surprised at just how good Endo was today and that Endo worked hard because it was Happy Motel Day. Endo thanked him and said he joined DDT wanting to be like Kota Ibushi but he thinks Kenny is the best wrestler in the company. Kenny told Endo he could become a future KO-D Openweight Champion.

Ultimate Superstars Action returned for a special match. Hiroshi Fukuda came out as his Mr. Perfect character and teamed with Hara Cena (HARASHIMA) to battle HHHH (Danshoku Dino) & Tsuyoso Michaels (Antonio Honda). HHHH & Michaels were accompanied by Choina (Seiya Morohashi) and she interfered several times to dish out some low blows. One of those low blows was given to Michaels for some reason and he had to be taken to the back. HHHH used a hammer to weaken his opponents and then gave Fukuda the Pedigree. All of a sudden “Real American” played over the speakers and out came Antonio Hogan! HHHH hit Hogan with the hammer and followed with the Pedigree but Hogan Hulked up. He fought back and gave HHHH the Leg Drop. Hara Cena followed up with the Attitude Adjustment and Fukuda brought the match to an end with the Perfect Plex.

Kazuaki Mihara made himself look like Shigehiro Irie when they teamed together. He had the matching gear and also the matching green mohawk. After the match Konosuke Takeshita told the audience that Mihara and TORU may become big stars someday.

For the opener a watermelon was placed in a neutral corner of the ring. Antonio Honda and Daisuke Sasaki had to wear bras and blindfolds in order to wrestle. The first person to either split the watermelon or strip off their opponent’s bra would win. Honda wandered out of the ring and into the audience while Sasaki grabbed Daisuke Kiso and took off his shirt, revealing Kiso was wearing a bra too. Honda found Shun Miyatake (Trainee) at ringside and also discovered that he was wearing a bra under his shirt. Both Honda and Sasaki gave up trying to strip each other and instead went searching for the watermelon. Sasaki thought he found it and performed an Elbow Drop, hitting nothing but the canvas. Honda then tripped over Sasaki and landed on the watermelon, smashing it to pieces. Honda celebrated by eating a piece while the rest was cleaned off the ring and thrown into a garbage bag.

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DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – KENNY OMEGA, DAISUKE SASAKI AND GOTA IHASHI DAY” Results

July 29, 2014

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DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – KENNY OMEGA, DAISUKE SASAKI AND GOTA IHASHI DAY”, 29/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
585 Fans – Super No Vacancy

0. Exhibition Match: Super Strong Sasadango Scorpion Machine Jr. defeated Shunma Katsumata with the Tombstone Piledriver (5:29).
1. Dramatic Gloves Boxing Match: FUMA, Kazuki Hirata, Tetsuya Endo & Yukio Sakaguchi defeated Gota Ihashi (3-1).
1a. Boxing Vs Kickboxing: FUMA defeated Gota Ihashi by Knockout with a High Kick (R2 0:56).
1b. Lucha Libre Glove Rules: Tetsuya Endo defeated Gota Ihashi with La Magistral Cutback (4:43).
1c. Dance Boxing Match: Gota Ihashi defeated Kazuki Hirata with a School Boy (2:54).
1d. Vale Tudo Rules: Yukio Sakaguchi defeated Gota Ihashi by Referee Stoppage with Mounted Punches (2:12).
2. 4 Way Ladder Match: Hiroshi Fukuda defeated Daisuke Sasaki, SAGAT and Goro Jr. when Fukuda grabbed the beer (12:48).
3. Kenny Omega & Michael Nakazawa defeated Hikaru Shida & Tomomitsu Matsunaga when Nakazawa submitted Matsunaga with the HVS (23:42).
– Special Dark Match: Yasu Urano defeated Daisuke Kiso and DJ Nira by Neon Genesis Evangelion Gainax Ending (7:37).
4. Daisuke Sekimoto, Ryuichi Sekine & Antonio Honda defeated Kenny Omega, Daisuke Sasaki & Gota Ihashi when Sekimoto pinned Ihashi with the Deadlift German Suplex (19:51).

The main event was created when each of the active Golden Storm Riders chose which wrestlers they wanted to fight against. Gota Ihashi picked Ryuichi Sekine, Daisuke Sasaki picked Antonio Honda and Kenny Omega picked Daisuke Sekimoto. Their choices were to make sure they would be working hard. Depsite taking the pinfall and losing the match, Ihashi was praised by Omega for putting up a good fight. Ihashi even said he wanted to have a singles match with Sekimoto someday. The show ended with Sekimoto raising a toast to DDT and pro wrestling.

The delightful Hikaru Shida was there to team with Tomomitsu Matsunaga against Kenny & Michael Nakazawa. Shida’s butt word for today was “Beer” and Matsunaga joined in by having the word “Garden” scribbled on his backside. Kenny was happy to team with Nakazawa again and Nakazawa was happy to get physical with Shida. Nakazawa asked if lotion could be used in the match. Shida agreed but only if it meant she was allowed to use her bamboo sword as a weapon. Nakazawa agreed “because I use anything.” Omega and Matsunaga covered themselves in lotion and then slapped each other over and over. Everyone was eventually covered in oil and Shida used her sword to great effect. She and Matsunaga chased off Omega and found a bat to shove up Nakazawa’s backside. Omega returned armed with a lightsaber while wearing a Darth Vader helmet. Omega and Matsunaga had a lightsaber duel until Kenny said he was Matsunaga’s father. Omega wounded Matsunaga with the lightsaber and Nakazawa applied the HVS for the victory. After the match Kenny, Nakazawa and Matsunaga all began to sing the Frozen song “Let It Go” but Shida grabbed the mic from them. Kenny offered a handshake and then tried to hug Shida only to get blasted in the face with the bamboo sword.

All of the Ladder Match contenders were very thirsty so the obvious prize to hang above the ring was a can of beer inside a bucket. Hiroshi Fukuda lost a tooth in the match but won the beer.

Gota Ihashi had a rough day. Before he even had to think about the main event he had to go through a series of boxing style matches. First up was Boxing Vs Kickboxing against FUMA. Ihashi was knocked out with a High Kick. Next up was a Lucha Libre rules boxing bout against Tetsuya Endo. This was more of a wrestling match but both men still had to wear boxing gloves. Endo countered La Magistral Cradle to give Ihashi two losses in a row. Finally there was a Dance Boxing bout against Kazuki Hirata. Ihashi danced with Hirata for a bit but then pinned him with a School Boy. Kota Ibushi was there to watch over the match and when Yukio Sakaguchi suddenly appeared at ringside, Ibushi allowed him to fight Ihashi in a Vale Tudo match. Sakaguchi pretty much killed Ihashi with punches and kicks. Even though FUMA threw in the towel, Ibushi thought Ihashi still had a chance and let the fight continue. Sakaguchi beat the crap out of Ihashi even more to the point where the ref wanted to stop it but Ibushi was still convinced Ihashi had a chance. Finally Ibushi called for the end and awarded the fight to Sakaguchi. Ibushi said he was satisfied and assured the crowd Ihashi was all right.

There were two bonus matches on the show. One was planned by Sasaki and it was a Falls Count Anywhere bout between DJ Nira and Daisuke Kiso. Nira was placed in submission after submission. Yukinori Matsui was pulled out of the ring right before Nira submitted. Nira called Kiso a bully but also said if Kiso just went for the pin, he would let him win. Kiso did what Nira asked him and counted to three. However, the bell never rang and there was no announcement. Instead a bunch of people circled round Kiso and told him “Congratulations!” one after the other. Nira then attacked Kiso and dragged him under the ring. Matsui recovered, looked under the ring and decided that Yasu Urano was the winner because he was the only wrestler visible at ringside.

Kenny’s bonus match took place at the beginning of the show. When he said that he was suddenly greeted by a new masked gaijin wrestler who goes by the name Super Strong Sasadango Scorpion Machine Jr. Kenny decided the newcomer would face Shunma Katsumata. Machine beat him and offered a handshake afterwards but Katsumata rejected it.

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DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – SHUTEN-DOJI DAY” Results

July 29, 2014

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DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – SHUTEN-DOJI DAY”, 28/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
481 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. KUDO defeated Tomoya Kawamura with the Diving Double Knee Drop (9:04).
2. Riho & Kotori defeated Cherry & Masako Takanashi when Riho pinned Takanashi with the Junior High Roll (14:11).
3. Summer Feature New Ghost Story Numabukuro Death Match: Yoshiko defeated Shunma Katsumata with a Lariat (2:58).
Other Competitors: Danshoku Dino, Toru Owashi, Hoshitango and Sayaka Obihiro.
3a. Summer Feature New Ghost Story Numabukuro Death Match: Amon Tsurumi read a ghost story (28:46).
4. Yukio Sakaguchi & KUDO defeated Isami Kodaka & FUMA when Sakaguchi submitted FUMA with the Modified Cobra Clutch (16:56).

Everybody sang Happy Birthday to Yukio Sakaguchi after the main event. He turned 41 on 26th July. Masa Takanashi said that the show was not Shuten-dōji Day but Yukio Sakaguchi Day instead.

One thing to expect during Beer Garden week every year is a ghost story from Hisaya Imabayashi. This time around there was a 6 Way Match taking place in the ring. If the match didn’t end in 3 minutes, Imabayashi would begin his story. Danshoku Dino was scared but Yoshiko bragged that she would win in 3 minutes. She lived up to her word and pinned Shunma Katsumata with 2 seconds left to spare. However the match had to be restarted with a 30 second time limit and this time Yoshiko couldn’t pin Katsumata before the clock ran out. And so, Imabayashi began his tales…

I once knew a couple who decided to have a barbecue with their friends by the river during their summer vacation. Everyone was happy until the boyfriend whispered “When I say run away. We run. Got it?” “Eh? Why do you say such a thing?” A few minutes later the boyfriend yelled “Run away!” At that moment both of them ran far away from the river. When they finally stopped to catch their breath, the girlfriend asked “Why did we run away?” The boyfriend answered “Everybody was eating food out of their left hand.” “Is that strange? Are not all of them left handed?” “It is impossible for all of them to be left handed. They must be ghosts!”

…

I killed my wife. Fortunately our kindergarten son was fast asleep when I put the wife’s dead body in the car. I drove up to the mountains and dug a hole to bury her in. The next morning my son ate breakfeast as always and went to kindergarten as always. I never explained what happened to her and he never made a fuss about it. But soon he became curious and would look me in the eye. Soon it became unbearable and I wondered if he knew I killed my wife. Then one day when we had our meal he just stared at me and at last he spoke “Why are you giving Mommy a piggyback ride all the time?” I looked behind me but couldn’t see anything. My son then said “Mommy jumped off your back and ran away.” I was left with chills.

…

I killed a man’s wife while she was pregnant. I buried her beneath a bench under a cherry tree in the park. A few years later I walked past the tree and saw a child crying. I asked him “Where is your Mom?” In tears, he pointed to the bench under the tree. No way… He looked at me when I asked where his Dad was. “Dad is… You!”

Everybody in the ring was anticipating the jump scare but this time it did not happen. Imabayashi admitted he was feeling tired. He just returned from a funeral of his friend who died in a sudden accident. There was a strange atmosphere in the train that day. There were only a few passengers but everyone according to Imabayashi was as dumb as a bag of hammers. He felt a cold sensation in his back muscles as if something just gave him a tight hug. As the train journeyed on into the night he fell asleep until he heard a strange whisper, “You… Next up is you…” Imabayashi woke up and looked around but nobody was speaking to him.

Back in the ring Imabayashi pointed at the wrestlers everytime he said you, hoping to get some sort of frightened reaction. Toru Owashi just slapped his hand away. He looked forward Imabayashi’s ghost stories and was left disappointed. Katsumata said he became a pro wrestler just so he could get to hear the ghost story! Dino encouraged Imabayashi to try one more time. He did and this time his “YOU!” jump scare worked! He pointed at everyone in the ring one after the other, causing them to pass out in fright. Then “Wild Thing” played over the speakers while Imabayashi dumped bottles of water into the audience.

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DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – DDT DAY” Results

July 29, 2014

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DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – DDT DAY”, 27/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
616 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao defeated KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hoshitango when Ishii pinned Hoshitango with a Small Package (11:01).
2. Akito defeated Makoto Oishi by Referee Stoppage with the Wedding Clutch (7:52).
3. Beer Garden Specialty – Drunkers High: Saki Akai & Shunma Katsumata Vs Masa Takanashi & DJ Nira ended in a No Contest (12:34).
4. Michael Nakazawa, MIKAMI & Tomomitsu Matsunaga defeated Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata when Nakazawa submitted Hirata with the HVS (8:49).
5. Enter Sandman Falls Count Anywhere 3 Way Match: Super Sasadango Machine defeated Danshoku Dino and Antonio Honda when Machine pinned Dino with the Vertical Drop Lehman Shock (12:52).
6. New Year’s Eve Revenge!?: Konosuke Takeshita defeated Tetsuya Endo with a High Angle German Suplex (15:58).
7. Kenny Omega & Daisuke Sasaki defeated HARASHIMA & Yasu Urano when Sasaki pinned Urano after the Freedom Call (18:34).

Kenny Omega was on the winning side of the main event with Daisuke Sasaki. Omega told HARASHIMA that it was a good warm up for Sumo Hall but noted the absence of Isami Kodama. He then told the crowd that his first appearance for DDT was during Beer Garden week and some of his favourite memories are from the annual event.

DDT’s two new generation stars Konosuke Takeshita and Tetsuya Endo got to have their rematch from “NEVER MIND 2013” last December. The two Happy Motel members went full blast but like last time, Takeshita wound up on top. Takeshita was happy to show everyone how much he and Endo have grown since then. Endo thinks he has grown stronger and has more stamina. He is still young and will evolve more and more in the ring while having fun too.

If for some reason anybody in the audience was still feeling nostalgic for ECW, they got their fill with the Enter Sandman Falls Count Anywhere match. Danshoku Dino, Super Sasadango Machine and Antonio Honda all did The Sandman entrance and attacked each other with Singapore Canes and cans of beer. Sasadango eventually pinned Dino with the Vertical Drop Lehman Shock.

Michael Nakazawa’s hybrid training with Minoru Suzuki is beginning to pay off. He now has a new finishing move called the HVS, the Hybrid Venom Arm Sleeper. It’s a Sleeper Hold that is applied while Nakazawa smothers his opponent with his loose tights.

The rules of the Drunkers High Match was a wrestler had to drink a cup of sake everytime a pin attempt failed or a submission hold reached a rope break. Masa Takanashi and DJ Nira were already a little tipsy before the match even began. They and their opponents Shunma Katsumata & Saki Akai would go on to get hammered, toasting each other after every pin attempt and filling their cups over and over. Referee Daisuke Kiso even joined in and was accidentally knocked down by a Diving Cross Body from Akai who was too drunk to aim properly. Kiso kept getting attacked by everyone trying to stop the pinfalls and he demanded the match end as a No Contest. Akai gave him a Big Boot and was then joined by in the ring by KUDO & Yukio Sakaguchi for more rounds of sake.

The show ended with Kazuki Hirata dancing alone in the ring.

New information about the DDT Dramatic General Election was revealed at the start of the show. There will be 48 wrestlers involved but they will all be competing as part of their unit. The units announced so far are:

Smile Squash (HARASHIMA, Yasu Urano & Akito)
Shuten-dōji (KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi)
Team Dream Futures (Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao)
Golden Storm Riders (Kota Ibushi, Kenny Omega & Daisuke Sasaki)
Happy Motel (Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo)
T2Hide (Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata)
Otoko-Kata-Shinki (Danshoku Dino, Makoto Oishi & Shunma Katsumata)

Sanshiro Takagi wanted to name his team T2P because his and Toru Owashi’s first name begin with T and Kazuki Hirata begins with P. Hirata said that wasn’t true so Owashi tried to rename him Pira Hirata. Takagi eventually decided on naming his team T2Hide and then demanded they wrestle in a hexagonal shaped ring. Michael Nakazawa & Tomomitsu Matsunaga asked MIKAMI to join their unit but he rejected them and said he’d rather team with Gorgeous Matsuno because of the two of them go back a long way to DDT’s early days.

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Complete Beer Garden Cards

July 24, 2014

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – DDT DAY”, 27/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Makoto Oishi Vs Akito
2. Beer Garden Specialty – Drunkers High: Saki Akai & Shunma Katsumata Vs Masa Takanashi & DJ Nira
3. Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata Vs Michael Nakazawa, MIKAMI & Tomomitsu Matsunaga
4. KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hoshitango Vs Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao
5. Enter Sandman Falls Count Anywhere 3 Way Match: Danshoku Dino Vs Super Sasadango Machine Vs Antonio Honda
6. New Year’s Eve Revenge!?: Konosuke Takeshita Vs Tetsuya Endo
7. HARASHIMA & Yasu Urano Vs Kenny Omega & Daisuke Sasaki

What will be the biggest Japanese tribute to The Sandman this month, the 3 Way Fall Count Anywhere Match here or the pants Doc Gallows wore during the G1 Climax yesterday?

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – SHUTEN-DOJI DAY”, 28/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Cherry & Masako Takanashi Vs Riho & Kotori
2. KUDO Vs Tomoya Kawamura
3. Summer Feature New Ghost Story Numabukuro Death Match: Danshoku Dino Vs Toru Owashi Vs Hoshitango Vs Shunma Katsumata Vs Sayaka Obihiro Vs Yoshiko
4. Yukio Sakaguchi & KUDO Vs Isami Kodaka & FUMA

Gatoh Move gets involved with Riho & Kotori in action against Cherry and the returning Masako Takanashi.

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – KENNY OMEGA, DAISUKE SASAKI AND GOTA IHASHI DAY”, 29/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Kenny Omega & Michael Nakazawa Vs Hikaru Shida & Tomomitsu Matsunaga
2. 4 Way Ladder Match: Daisuke Sasaki Vs SAGAT Vs Goro Jr. Vs Hiroshi Fukuda
3. Dramatic Gloves Boxing Match: Gota Ihashi Vs FUMA, Kazuki Hirata & Tetsuya Endo
4. Kenny Omega, Daisuke Sasaki & Gota Ihashi Vs Daisuke Sekimoto, Ryuichi Sekine & Antonio Honda

Not only does Gota Ihashi have to box against three people but he also has to go against Daisuke Sekimoto straight afterwards. Just kill him now.

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – HAPPY MOTEL DAY”, 30/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Entetsu Challenge: Tetsuya Endo Vs Kenny Omega
2. Superman Comes To Japan!?: USA Offer Match: Hara Cena & Hiroshi Fukuda Vs Tsuyoso Michaels & HHHH (w/ Choina)
3. Bra & Blindfold Watermelon Splitting Death Match: Antonio Honda Vs Daisuke Sasaki
4. Wrestling Classroom From Those Days: Konosuke Takeshita & TORU Vs Shigehiro Irie & Kazuaki Mihara

HARASHIMA as John Cena should not surprise anybody.

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – TEAM DRIFT DAY”, 31/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. I Will Show You Pro Wrestling In Nagoya: Shigehiro Irie Vs Grampus Mask No. 4
2. Former Student Wrestling Rhapsody: Soma Takao Vs Yumehiro Imanari
3. Era Of Lariat Pro Is Over, Next Comes Knee Pro!: Keisuke Ishii Vs Danshoku Dino Vs Antonio Honda Vs Makoto Oishi Vs Jumbo Kiku Vs Riho
4. Soma Takao & Atsushi Aoki Vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie

Grampus Mask No. 4 is a gimmick inspired by the Nagoya Grampus football club.

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – SMILE SQUASH DAY”, 01/08/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Yasu Urano & Akito Vs Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata
2. DDT Sumo Gran Sumo Tournament: HARASHIMA Vs Daisuke Sasaki Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Keisuke Ishii Vs Hiroshi Fukuda Vs Konosuke Takeshita Vs X
3. Danshoku Dino Vs Shunma Katsumata
4. 3 Way Match: HARASHIMA Vs Yasu Urano Vs Akito

What is a day’s drinking in Japan without a little sumo to enjoy?

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – DDT FINAL DAY”, 02/08/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Jun Kasai Vs DJ Nira
2. Akito & Tetsuya Endo Vs Toru Owashi & Shunma Katsumata
3. Daisuke Sasaki & Gota Ihashi Vs Michael Nakazawa & Tomomitsu Matsunaga
4. Yasu Urano Vs MIKAMI
5. Rock ‘N’ Roll Death Match: A.YAZAWA Vs Sanshiro Takagi Vs Makoto Oishi Vs Kazuki Hirata
6. Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi Vs Keisuke Ishii & Soma Takao
7. Beer Garden Specialty! 6-Man Lottery Tag Match: HARASHIMA, Kenny Omega, Danshoku Dino, KUDO, Shigehiro Irie, Konosuke Takeshita

The teams for the main event will be determined by a lottery on the day of the show.

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Complete Card For “RYOGOKU PETER PAN 2014”

July 22, 2014

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DDT “RYOGOKU PETER PAN 2014 ~MAYBE SUMMER WILL CHANGE MY LIFE~”, 17/08/2014
Tokyo Ryogoku Kokugikan

0. Dark Match – DDT Vs Union: Daichi Kazato, SAGAT, Mitomi Masayuki & Tomoya Kawamura Vs Hoshitango, Rion Mizuki, Gota Ihashi & Shunma Katsumata
0. Dark Match – Tokyo Women’s Wrestling Offer Match: Miyu Yamashita, Chikage Kiba, KANNA, Shoko Nakajima, Yuka Sakazaki, Erin
1. Yasu Urano & Akito Vs MIKAMI & GENTARO
2. Iron Man Heavymetalweight Title – Battle Royal: Akihiro (c) Vs Daisuke Sasaki Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Kazuki Hirata Vs Tetsuya Endo Vs Gorgeous Matsuno Vs Toru Owashi Vs DJ Nira Vs Shiro Koshinaka Vs Nonoko Vs Ai Shimizu Vs FUMA Vs Kizaemon Saiga
3. Saki Akai, Makoto Oishi & Ladybeard Vs Aja Kong, Antonio Honda & Hiroshi Fukuda
4. Street Wrestling Match: Sanshiro Takagi & Jun Kasai Vs Minoru Suzuki & Michael Nakazawa
5. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi Vs Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao
6. DDT Extreme Title: Danshoku Dino (c) Vs Muscle Sakai
7. Special Single Match: Kota Ibushi Vs Shuji Kondo
8. Special Single Match: Konosuke Takeshita Vs Hiroshi Tanahashi
9. KO-D Openweight Title – 3 Way Match: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Kenny Omega Vs Isami Kodaka

The card for DDT’s biggest show of the year is now filled up. Due to the double KO on Sunday, HARASHIMA is still the KO-D Openweight Champion yet Kenny Omega still has a claim for a title shot. So Kenny has been added to the HARASHIMA Vs Isami Kodaka main event at Sumo Hall. I think the 3 Way match is sudden death, so HARASHIMA could lose the title without getting pinned.

Kota Ibushi is slowly recovering from the concussion he suffered earlier this month. He has begun to train again in preparation for his return at Sumo Hall. Ibushi was allowed to choose who his opponent will be. He wanted it to be someone he learned a lot from. As a joke he picked sumo wrestler Hakuho Sho, who is currently undefeated in the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament. Then he picked Sanshiro Azuma from a manga called Fighting Detectives. Ibushi finally gave a serious answer and decided Shuji Kondo from WRESTLE-1 will be his opponent. Ibushi and Kondo had matches together in dragondoor and El Dorado during 2005 and 2006. They last fought each other at the 2011 “ALL TOGETHER” show. Ibushi believes he developed his style because of his matches with Kondo.

LiLiCo and the Up Up Girls are some of the musical guests appearing on the show.

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DDT “ROAD TO RYOGOKU 2014” Results

July 20, 2014

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DDT “ROAD TO RYOGOKU 2014”, 20/07/2014
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
1,950 – Super No Vacancy Full House

1. Yasu Urano & GENTARO defeated MIKAMI & Tomomitsu Matsunaga when Urano submitted MIKAMI with a Headlock (8:59).
2. Special Single Match: Isami Kodaka defeated Akito with a Figure Four Arm Lock (10:38).
3. Special 6-Man Tag Team Match – Lucha Libre Rules: Sanshiro Takagi, Taiji Ishimori & Toru Owashi defeated Shuji Ishikawa, Daisuke Sasaki & Gota Ihashi when Ishimori pinned Ihashi with the 450 Splash (10:10).
4. Danshoku Dino, Makoto Oishi, Super Sasadango & DJ Nira defeated Michael Nakazawa, Kazuki Hirata, Hoshitango & Shunma Katsumata when Machine pinned Katsumata with the Vertical Drop Lehman Shock (11:00).
5. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles – 3 Way Match: KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi defeated Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo (c) and Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao when Takanashi pinned Endo with the Takatonic (11:30).
*Happy Motel fail in V1. Shuten-dōji becomes the 12th KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions!
6. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Kenny Omega ended in a Double Knockout (19:27).
*V2 for HARASHIMA. Kenny Omega cashed in his Right To Challenge Anytime, Anywhere Contract.

In one month’s time DDT returns to Sumo Hall for its biggest show of the year but after today’s show the main event has been altered. Kenny Omega cashed in his Right To Challenge Contract today and faced HARASHIMA for the KO-D Championship. Sumo Hall main eventer Isami Kodaka was at the timekeeper’s table to see who he will soon fight for the title. Both champion and challenger destroyed each other and at one point HARASHIMA delivered the Reverse Frankensteiner from the apron to the floor! Omega later came close to victory with the Croyt’s Wrath. The two then traded Somatos and Jumping Knee Strikes until they were both knocked out. Yukinori Matsui counted both of them out and ruled the match a draw.

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The draw officially counts as a successful defence for HARASHIMA and Amon Tsurumi declared the Sumo Hall main event will be HARASHIMA Vs Isama Kodaka for the KO-D Title. However, HARASHIMA wasn’t satisfied with the result and wanted another match with Kenny. Kodaka stepped in and said he wanted to face both HARASHIMA and Omega. Everybody came to the conclusion that the Sumo Hall main event will now be a 3 Way match for the title. HARASHIMA Vs Isami Kodaka Vs Kenny Omega!

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At the end of the show Sanshiro Takagi invited the entire roster into the ring and announced tickets for Sumo Hall were selling out. Takagi got everybody in the ring to chant “Sell! Sell! Sell!” The fans joined in but Takagi interrupted them and said they should be chanting “Buy! Buy! Buy!”

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Happy Motel’s reign as KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions was short lived, which is a running theme for this title’s entire existence. The belts were on the line in a 3 Way Trios match with no tag rules in effect. Happy Motel, Team Dream Futures and Shuten-dōji went at it until Masa Takanashi countered Tetsuya Endo’s Torture Bomb into the Takatonic for the three count. Since Drift were not involved with the result, Tsurumi decided that they will get the next title shot at Sumo Hall.

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Before Match #4 began, Danshoku Dino asked if he was going to defend the DDT Extreme Title at Sumo Hall. He got no answer and treated today’s 8-Man Tag bout as a throwaway match. Super Sasadango Machine got the pin and was happy to challenge Dino to a title match. He set up a powerpoint presentation to explain his challenge but Dino interrupted and said he will not fight him. Instead he wants to fight Muscle Sakai! Amon Tsurumi told Dino that Sakai is retired and currently working at his family’s business in Niigata. Machine left the ring and Sakai’s music suddenly played over the speakers. Suddenly Sakai appeared! He was crying with joy and said that even though he retired, he secretly visited Korakuen Hall in disguise every month to watch DDT. He accepted Dino’s challenge and it was made official by Tsurumi.

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Since Kota Ibushi’s 10th Anniversary Match no longer involved Kota Ibushi, the 6-Man Tag Team bout was changed into a Lucha Libre Rules match. Taiji Ishimori got into the spirit of things with Sanshiro Takagi & Toru Owashi. Ishimori afterwards said he enjoyed wrestling with them.

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GENTARO was very disappointed by MIKAMI for tapping out to a Headlock in their tag team match. He questioned if MIKAMI was not motivated anymore and was insulted because he himself went through a lot in order to wrestle again. Even if GENTARO is not the wrestler he used to be he still wrestles because it makes him happy. Yasu Urano told GENTARO to ignore MIKAMI. He said they won the match and shouldn’t have to worry about MIKAMI’s decline. GENTARO slapped Urano and said he isn’t like MIKAMI. “MIKAMI is a guy, dude!” As a result of this, GENTARO & MIKAMI will face Yasu Urano & Akito at Sumo Hall.

There were some announcements regarding DDT’s plans for the near future. The big one of course was their goal of going to the Saitama Super Arena next year. Sanshiro Takagi announced that DDT will be in the Saitama Super Arena Community Arena on 15th February, 2015. The Community Arena is a smaller section within the Super Arena territory but Takagi believes it is big enough to draw 5,000 fans. He also wants DDT to hold two major shows every year. The plan is for February and August to be when the major shows will take place.

The annual DDT48 General Election will now be replaced with a new election based on the different stables in DDT. For now it is called the DDT Dramatic General Election. It will take place from 31st August to 28th September.

Kota Ibushi apologised for being unable to compete on the show. He promised to be crazier than ever when he returns to “perfect condition”. He will have a singles match at Sumo Hall but his opponent is currently to be decided.

KUDO, Danshoku Dino and DJ Nira are the latest DDT wrestlers to get gender swapped characters for the Ring☆Dream online card game. DDT will also be collaborating with the Powerpuff Girls TV show for a t-shirt that will be available at Sumo Hall.

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DDT “HANDMADE IN JAPAN FES 2014” Results

July 19, 2014

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DDT “HANDMADE IN JAPAN FES 2014”, 19/07/2014
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4 Way Falls Count Anywhere Tag Team Match: Sanshiro Takagi & Jun Kasai defeated HARASHIMA & Akito, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi and Daisuke Sasaki & Gota Ihashi when Kasai pinned Ihashi with the Pearl Harbour Splash from a ladder through a table (28:35)

For the second year in a row DDT held a Falls Count Anywhere match at the HandMade In Japan Festival in Tokyo. Sanshiro Takagi brought along Jun Kasai to prepare for their big tag team match at “ROAD TO RYOGOKU 2014”. Today they went against three other teams in a big free for all that took place during the convention. Takagi & Kasai were able to win thanks to a custom bicycle they found that was made to look like a Sentai Bike. After the match Takagi said that the bicycle may be the weapon they need to beat Minoru Suzuki & Michael Nakazawa at Sumo Hall.

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Ibushi Pulled From G1, Beer Garden Cards

July 18, 2014

DDT “ROAD TO RYOGOKU 2014”, 20/07/2014
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. MIKAMI & Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Yasu Urano & GENTARO
2. Danshoku Dino, Makoto Oishi, Super Sasadango & DJ Nira Vs Michael Nakazawa, Kazuki Hirata, Hoshitango & Shunma Katsumata
3. Special Single Match: Isami Kodaka Vs Akito
4. Special 6-Man Tag Team Match: Sanshiro Takagi, Taiji Ishimori & Toru Owashi Vs Shuji Ishikawa, Daisuke Sasaki & Gota Ihashi
5. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles – 3 Way Match: Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo (c) Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi Vs Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao
6. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Kenny Omega
*Kenny Omega will cash in his Right To Challenge Anytime, Anywhere Contract.

Unfortunately Kota Ibushi has not recovered from his concussion and has to pull out of more shows. Even worse, Ibushi will no longer be competing in this year’s G1 Climax. The planned 10th Anniversary Match for Sunday has been postponed and several matches on the card have been changed.

GENTARO is a last minute addition to the card, returning to DDT for the first time since August 2012.

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – SHUTEN-DOJI DAY”, 28/07/2014
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1. Summer Feature New Ghost Story Numabukuro Death Match: Danshoku Dino Vs Toru Owashi Vs Hoshitango Vs Yoshiko
2. Yukio Sakaguchi & KUDO Vs Isami Kodaka & FUMA

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – KENNY OMEGA, DAISUKE SASAKI AND GOTA IHASHI DAY”, 29/07/2014
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1. Dramatic Gloves Boxing Match: Gota Ihashi Vs X
2. 5 Way Ladder Match: Daisuke Sasaki Vs Masa Takanashi Vs Antonio Honda Vs SAGAT Vs Goro Jr.

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – HAPPY MOTEL DAY”, 30/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Superman Comes To Japan!?: USA Offer Match: X Vs X
2. Entetsu Challenge: Tetsuya Endo Vs Kenny Omega

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – TEAM DRIFT DAY”, 31/07/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Era Of Lariat Pro Is Over, Next Comes Knee Pro!: Keisuke Ishii Vs Danshoku Dino Vs Antonio Honda Vs Makoto Oishi Vs Jumbo Kiku Vs Riho
2. Soma Takao & Atsushi Aoki Vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie

DDT “BEER GARDEN WRESTLING – SMILE SQUASH DAY”, 01/08/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Danshoku Dino Vs Shunma Katsumata
2. 3 Way Match: HARASHIMA Vs Yasu Urano Vs Akito

My favourite time of the year on the DDT calender is Beer Garden week. This is where DDT’s roster are at their most creative because they get to make the matches. So far we have ghost stories, a 5 Way Ladder match, some boxing, the return of Ultimate Superstars Action and a Smile Squash Triple Threat to look forward to. Unfortunately there is no more Lariat Pro Wrestling but in it’s place we get Knee Pro Wrestling. So expect the Boma Ye and Busaiku Knee Kick to be used a lot. There are two shows that have yet to have any matches booked for it. They are the first and final days of the series.

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