KING of DDT 2011

May 5, 2011

With Sumo Hall approaching on the horizon, DDT has turned to its annual KING of DDT tournament to determine who will challenge for the KO-D Openweight Title on 24th July. The bracket is filled with wrestlers who are hungry for the chance to headline DDT’s biggest show of the year. The two previous winners HARASHIMA and Kota Ibushi are favourites to win, but this is by no means a two horse race. Antonio Honda and Hikaru Sato would love to reclaim the title they both held for the briefest of moments, Kenny Omega wants to have his best memory of Sumo Hall not be of that time Naomichi Marufuji dumped him on his head, KUDO and Makoto Oishi have both seen their games improve since the formation of Man’s Club and Michael Nakazawa is willing to “Bring It” just like his role model, The Rock.

The first two rounds will take place on 21st May at Shin-Kiba 1st RING. The Semi-Finals and Final will be held eight days later at Kyoto KBS Hall. Also on that show is Danshoku Dino’s latest battle with Bob Sapp’s Assassins.

DDT “KING OF DDT TOKYO”, 21/05/2011
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

01. King Of DDT – Round 1: Makoto Oishi Vs Kenny Omega
02. King Of DDT – Round 1: Antonio Honda Vs Seiya Morohashi
03. King Of DDT – Round 1: KUDO Vs Yasu Urano
04. King Of DDT – Round 1: Hikaru Sato Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga
05. King Of DDT – Round 1: Daisuke Sasaki Vs Super Shit Machine
06. King Of DDT – Round 1: HARASHIMA Vs MIKAMI
07. King Of DDT – Round 1: Keisuke Ishii Vs Shigehiro Irie
08. King Of DDT – Round 1: Michael Nakazawa Vs Kota Ibushi
09. King Of DDT – Round 2: Oishi/Omega Vs Honda/Morohashi
10. King Of DDT – Round 2: KUDO/Urano Vs Sato/Matsunaga
11. King Of DDT – Round 2: Sasaki/Machine Vs HARASHIMA/MIKAMI
12. King Of DDT – Round 2: Ishii/Irie Vs Nakazawa/Ibushi

DDT “KING OF DDT KYOTO”, 29/05/2011
Kyoto KBS Hall

1. King Of DDT – Semi Final:
2. King Of DDT – Semi Final:
3. Bob Sapp Games – 4th Stage: Danshoku Dino Vs Bob Sapp’s 4th Assassin
4. King Of DDT – Final:


DDT “FACTORY PRO WRESTLING AGAIN” Results

May 1, 2011

DDT “CHARITY WRESTLING SERIES ON THE ROAD – FACTORY PRO WRESTLING AGAIN”, 01/05/2011
Miyaji Ironworks
250 Fans

1. Sanshiro Takagi & Munenori Sawa defeated Kota Ibushi & Michael Nakazawa when Sawa submitted Nakazawa with an Octopus Hold on top of a forklift (33:31).
2. 4-On-1 Handicap: Kota Ibushi, Michael Nakazawa, Sanshiro Takagi & Munenori Sawa defeated The Factory God when Ibushi pinned God with a German Suplex into a container of lime powder (1:40).

One of the more unlikely places to find a wrestling show taking place in Japan today was the Miyaji Ironworks factory. DDT returned to the factory once again to hold another one of its infamous “Street Wrestling” events, this time to raise money for charity. Despite the forecast for a rainy afternoon possibly cancelling DDT’s plans, the area stayed dry and the show went on as planned. Ken Ohka was there as the announcer and gave out safety information to the fans in attendence. The match set for today was Sanshiro Takagi & Munenori Sawa Vs Kota Ibushi & Michael Nakazawa. All four wrestlers began the match wearing safety helmets and Takagi had his belly wrapped in plastic foil. He said it was for dieting reasons. The crowd circled around the four as the match began. Takagi paired off with Nakazawa while Ibushi and Sawa started to fight to another part of the factory. Sawa tried to attack Ibushi with some giant pincers but Ibushi fended him off with a large bucket of lime powder. The four would soon be covered in lime powder and they then moved onto the steel yard section. Ibushi placed Sawa onto a section of steel pipes and then climbed up a nearby crane. Sawa recovered and chased after Kota. Soon they were high up on the crane but before they could continue their fight, they noticed that someone was working up there. It was YOSHIHIKO! Angry that Ibushi and Sawa were interrupting his job, YOSHIHIKO attacked both of them. That wasn’t all, as he then dived off of the crane onto Takagi and Nakazawa below! YOSHIHIKO took no further part in the match and instead took his lunch break at the vending machines.

Takagi and Nakazawa were later seen fighting on top of the vending machines, where Takagi had his opponent in a Figure 4 Leg Lock. Ibushi and Sawa both reappeared sticking their heads out of the window above their partners. They both held kettles filled with boiling water out of the window and poured them onto Takagi and Nakazawa. Ibushi found a large wooden pallet and placed it down when Nakazawa approached him and complained about the boiling water. Ibushi responded by Suplexing Michael onto the pallet. Takagi & Sawa looked to take advantage with Takagi aiming to throw Sawa onto Michael with a Spicolli Driver. However, Michael moved out of the way and Sawa crashed onto the pallet. Takagi held back his opponents and even the referee with a high-pressure water cannon. The match moved onto the road outside the factory where Sawa & Takagi double teamed Ibushi. Some miscommunication involving a Shining Wizard hitting the wrong guy and a Cross Bomber attempt going wrong allowed Ibushi & Nakazawa to turn the tables yet they could not put Takagi away. Ibushi did two Moonsaults off of a truck. That soon came back to haunt him as Takagi crawled into a van and drove it into Ibushi! He went for a pin but only got himself a two count. The fighting travelled back into factory property where Ibushi dove off of a stack of pallets. Sawa switched on a forklift and used it to pin Ibushi and Takagi into a fence. Nakazawa attacked Sawa on the forklift’s pallet. He went for the No Michael, No Cry but it was countered into the Octopus Hold as the pallet was suddenly being lifted into the air. Nakazawa couldn’t break out and had to submit, giving Sawa & Takagi the victory!

However, that wasn’t the end. The song “Be My Baby” by Complex was suddenly playing in the background and a weird looking man covered in dust and paint appeared from the crane and danced down towards the crowd. He is the Factory God and he was angry that these four wrestlers made a mess of his factory! He challenged all of them to a match and it begun right there and then. He knocked down all four of his enemies and then charged towards Ibushi with a Flying Headbutt. Kota expertly dodged the attack and struck the Factory God with a High Kick. He then gave the God a German Suplex into a container of lime deposits to create an explosion of powder blocking everyone’s sight. As the smoke cleared, Ibushi was seen being triumphant in defeating the Factory God by pinning him for the three count. The show ended with Michael Nakazawa standing on top of the forklift getting the fans to yell out in unison “3…2…1…Miyaji Iron Works Co., Ltd.!”


DDT Okinawa Doubleshot Results

April 24, 2011

DDT “HIGH SIDE 2011”, 24/4/2011
Delfin Arena Kokusaidouri

1. HARASHIMA & MIKAMI defeated KUDO & Antonio Honda when MIKAMI pinned Honda with the 450 Splash (13:50).
2. Takao Soma defeated Michael Nakazawa with the Diving Guillotine Drop (6:46).
3. Sanshiro Takagi defeated Ken Ohka with the Sit Down Himawari Bomb (5:41).
4. Dick Togo & Yasu Urano defeated Kaijin Habu Otoko & Menso~re Oyaji when Togo pinned Oyaji with the Diving Senton (17:17).
5. Danshoku Dino & YOSHIHIKO defeated Kota Ibushi & Keisuke Ishii when Dino pinned Ishii with the YOSHIHIKO assisted Danshoku Driver (12:19).

DDT “WHAT WILL NOT COME 2011”, 24/4/2011
Delfin Arena Kokusaidouri

1. Sanshiro Takagi defeated Michael Nakazawa with a Clothesline (0:05).
1a. Sanshiro Takagi defeated Michael Nakazawa with a Stone Cold Stunner (0:07).
1b. Sanshiro Takagi defeated Michael Nakazawa with a Modified Himawari Bomb (6:04).
2. Takao Soma defeated Ken Ohka with a School Boy (9:10).
3. Danshoku Dino & YOSHIHIKO defeated Antonio Honda & MIKAMI when YOSHIHIKO pinned MIKAMI with a Huracanrana (13:08).
4. Shisaou & Gurukun Diver defeated Kota Ibushi & Keisuke Ishii when Shisaou pinned Ishii with the Last Ride Power Bomb (13:40).
5. HARASHIMA & KUDO defeated Dick Togo & Yasu Urano when HARASHIMA pinned Urano with the Somato (16:05).


Best Of The Golden Loving Super Jrs, DDT In K-DOJO

April 23, 2011

Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega have been chosen to compete in this year’s Best Of The Super Jr tournament over in New Japan. Ibushi reached the final of last year’s tournament. He lost to Prince Devitt in a dramatic finale that saw Ibushi suffer a dislocated shoulder, an injury that has constantly plagued him ever since. Kenny finished fourth in his group but left a strong impression in his field, holding wins over Koji Kanemoto and Ryusuke Taguchi. Both of the Golden Lovers will be in seperate groups again when the tour begin on 26th May with the final happening on 10th June. Ibushi will be joined in his group by Daisuke Sasaki, who went through the NEVER Road to the Super Jr. 2 Day Tournament to earn his spot here.

There will be some DDT talent involved in K-DOJO’s “Golden Week Special” series at the end of April. Yasu Urano is a regular for the promotion as he trained at K-DOJO. He is currently the UWA Middleweight Champion and has just defended the belt against Venom Ant (The Colony’s non-union, Japanese equivalent?) on today’s show. He will now defend the belt against a mystery opponent on 1st May. DDT presents their version of the Mega Powers as Kota Ibushi & YOSHIHIKO team together to go after the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Title currently held by Kengo Mashimo & Ryuichi Sekine. Hikaru Sato will also appear on the tour with his SEX-MEN teammate Munenori Sawa as they take on HIROKI & Kengo Mashimo for the STRONGEST-K Tag Team Titles. Last but not least, Dick Togo will be in involved in two matches, the most important of them being the final match Kaientai*DX will have together before Togo’s retirement.

K-DOJO “GWSP6”, 29/04/2011
Chiba Blue Field

WEW Hardcore Tag Team Title: Kengo Mashimo & Ryuichi Sekine (c) Vs Kota Ibushi & YOSHIHIKO

K-DOJO “GWSP6”, 01/05/2011
Chiba Blue Field

UWA Middleweight Title: Yasu Urano (c) Vs X

K-DOJO “GWSP6”, 03/05/2011
Chiba Blue Field

STRONGEST-K Tag Team Title: HIROKI & Kengo Mashimo (c) Vs Munenori Sawa & Hikaru Sato

K-DOJO “GWSP6 FINAL CLUB-K SUPER necessary…”, 05/05/2011
Chiba Blue Field

Kaientai*DX Final Countdown 4: TAKA Michinoku & HIROKI Vs Dick Togo & Yasu Urano

K-DOJO “CLUB-K SUPER take”, 18/06/2011
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Kaientai*DX Final Countdown FINAL: Kaz Hayashi, Dick Togo, TAKA Michinoku, MEN’s Teioh & FUNAKI Vs X, X, X & X

Finally, is love in the air for Kota Ibushi? It is according to a young and brash joshi hopeful named Yoshiko (No, not YOSHIHIKO). The 17 year old STARDOM wrestler apparently let slip that she wants to tie the knot with the shy Independent Genius. Not only that but she already has the date picked out: 24th July. That’s the same date as the DDT Sumo Hall show aswell as STARDOM’s first Korakuen Hall event. Is this just the hyper imagination of a lovesick teenager or will Kota take up the role of Prince Charming and sweep Yoshiko off her feet? I don’t know what Kenny will think of this. Kota & Yoshiko sitting in a tree…


DDT Double Bill, “MAX BUMP 2011” Card

April 23, 2011

DDT “HIGH SIDE 2011”, 24/4/2011
Delfin Arena Kokusaidouri

1. Sanshiro Takagi Vs Ken Ohka
2. Takao Soma Vs Michael Nakazawa
3. Dick Togo & Yasu Urano Vs Kaijin Habu Otoko & Menso~re Oyaji
4. HARASHIMA & MIKAMI Vs KUDO & Antonio Honda
5. Kota Ibushi & Keisuke Ishii Vs Danshoku Dino & YOSHIHIKO

DDT “WHAT WILL NOT COME 2011”, 24/4/2011
Delfin Arena Kokusaidouri

1. Antonio Honda & MIKAMI Vs Danshoku Dino & YOSHIHIKO
2. Takao Soma Vs Ken Ohka
3. Sanshiro Takagi Vs Michael Nakazawa
4. Kota Ibushi & Keisuke Ishii Vs Shisaou & Gurukun Diver
5. HARASHIMA & KUDO Vs Dick Togo & Yasu Urano

DDT “MAX BUMP 2011”, 04/05/2011
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Royal Rumble: DJ Nira Vs Michael Nakazawa Vs Keisuke Ishii Vs Rion Mizuki Vs Kazuki Hirata Vs Tanomusaku Toba Vs Makoto Oishi Vs Takao Soma Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Super Shit Machine Vs Emi Sakura Vs Brahman Shu Vs Brahman Kei Vs Choun-Shiryu
2. Kota Ibushi & KUDO Vs Hikaru Sato & Daisuke Sasaki
3. Gorgeous Matsuno Comeback Match: Gorgeous Matsuno & MIKAMI Vs Antonio Honda & Hoshitango
4. Bob Sapp Games – 3rd Stage: Danshoku Dino Vs Bob Sapp’s 3rd Assassin
5. KO-D Tag Team Titles: GENTARO & Yasu Urano (c) Vs HARASHIMA & HERO!
6. KO-D Openweight Title: Dick Togo (c) Vs Shuji Ishikawa

The KING OF DDT 1st Round lottery will take place during this show.

Tsurumi Amon has some big prize in store for the winner of the Royal Rumble.

This will be Hikaru Sato’s first match outside of the show opener since his self-imposed curtain jerking status. It also happens to include Kota Ibushi as one of his opponents. It was Sato’s big win over Ibushi back in October last year that led to him beating HARASHIMA for the KO-D Openweight Title one month later. Sato has been using his partnership with Kikutaro at the AJPW Jr. Tag League to warm himself up. He already made his mark by submitting Super Crazy in a league match a few days ago. With Sumo Hall coming ever closer, can he springboard himself back into the title race?


DDT In Nagoya Results

April 17, 2011

DDT, 17/04/2011
Diamond Hall, Nagoya
290 Fans

1. KUDO defeated Michael Nakazawa with a Back Spin Kick (9:07).
2. Tomomitsu Matsunaga defeated Kazuki Hirata with a Face Lock (6:12).
3. HERO! & Mr. #6 defeated DJ Nira & Antonio Honda when Mr. #6 pinned DJ Nira with a Moonsault (8:04).
4. Shigehiro Irie & Akito defeated Daisuke Sasaki & Keisuke Ishii when Akihito pinned Ishii with the Waterwheel Drop (12:03).
5. Kenny Omega defeated MIKAMI with the Croyt’s Wrath (10:49).
6. KO-D Tag Team Titles – Challengers No DQ & 5-Count Pin: GENTARO & Yasu Urano (c) defeated Takao Soma & Super Shit Machine when Urano pinned Machine with a Small Package (17:40).
*V2 for GENTARO & Urano.
7. 3 Way: Danshoku Dino defeated Kota Ibushi and HARASHIMA when Dino pinned Ibushi with a Gay-do Clutch (13:35).

The main event began with just Kota Ibushi and HARSHIMA fighting each other. Danshoku Dino was too busy chasing after members of the audience but he joined the match eventually just so he could cop a feel of his opponents as they grappled each other. Despite his shenanigans, all three wrestlers fought their hearts out. HARASHIMA was about to finish off Ibushi with the Swan Dive Somato only for Dino to catch him and plant a deep kiss followed by the Danshoku Driver. Kota knocked Dino out of the ring with a High Kick and turned his attention to HARASHIMA. Ibushi hit the Phoenix Splash and was a second away from winning when Dino leapt onto him and applied the Gay-Do Clutch to steal the victory. After the match, Dino, Ibushi & HARASHIMA positioned themselves to form the letters DDT, because 3D is the latest fad and they wanted in on it.


Tomorrow’s Card Rundown

April 12, 2011

DDT, 13/04/2011
Shinjuku FACE

1. Hikaru Sato Vs Kazuki Hirata
2. 3 Way: MIKAMI & Rion Mizuki Vs Michael Nakazawa & DJ Nira Vs KUDO & Makoto Oishi
3. HARASHIMA & HERO! Vs Kenny Omega & Keisuke Ishii
4. Yasu Urano Vs Super Shit Machine
5. GENTARO Vs Takao Soma
6. Danshoku Dino Vs Ryan Genesis
7. Dick Togo, Gedo & Tomohiro Ishii Vs Kota Ibushi, Antonio Honda & Daisuke Sasaki


NEVER Saw That Coming, Kenny Faces The Thunder, Kiku-Sato

April 7, 2011

NEVER.6 “ROAD TO THE SUPER JR. 2DAYS TOURNAMENT”, 07/04/2011
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
250 Fans

1. Road to the Super Jr. 2 Day Tournament – Block B – Round 1: Keisuke Ishii defeated Hiromu Takahashi with a Double Arm DDT (8:18).
4. Road to the Super Jr. 2 Day Tournament – Block B – Round 1: Madoka defeated Kazuki Hirata with the Ranhei (8:53)
6. Road to the Super Jr. 2 Day Tournament – Block A – Round 1: Daisuke Sasaki defeated Shinichiro Tominaga with the NOW or NEVER (10:08).
7. Road to the Super Jr. 2 Day Tournament – Block A – Round 1: Tsuyoshi Kikuchi defeated Ken Ohka with the Fireball Bomb (8:18).

Union’s hopes of getting involved in the Best Of The Super Juniors tour is not looking good. Both of their homegrown talent crashed out in the first round, Ken Ohka losing to TKG48 member Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Shinichiro Tominaga losing to Daisuke Sasaki. DDT faired a little better with Sasaki and Keisuke Ishii both going through to the next round. Kazuki Hirata was the only DDT rep who failed to get through, losing to Madoka. The tournament will finish on NEVER.7, taking place tomorrow.

NJPW, 15/05/11
Philadelphia Asylum Arena, USA

JAPW Light Heavyweight Title: Jushin Thunder Liger (c) Vs Kenny Omega

Kenny Omega has a big role to play when New Japan tours the United States. Back in America, Kenny spent a good part of his career in Jersey All Pro Wrestling. One of his most recent matches in the promotion was a 6-way Elimination match for the JAPW Light Heavyweight Title. He was knocked out of the match by the eventual winner, one Jushin Lyger. Now that Lyger is back in America for New Japan’s series of shows in the country, Kenny will challenge Lyger for the title one-on-one.

Hikaru Sato is getting ready to enter another tournament. This time he is going back to All Japan as a last minute entry for the AJPW Jr. Tag League. His partner? Kikutaro! Is this pairing strong enough to defeat the likes of Kaz Hayashi & KAI, Shuji Kondo & Hiroshi Yamato or Koji Kanemoto & Minoru? Did this year’s Wrestlemania have an exciting main event?


DDT “NON-FIX 3.16” Results

April 6, 2011

DDT “NON-FIX 3.16”, 06/04/2011
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
183 Fans

1. Hikaru Sato defeated Akito with an Ankle Hold (7:43).
2. MIKAMI & Hoshitango defeated Tanomusaki Toba & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi when Hoshitango pinned Toba with a Uranage (7:55).
3. Takao Soma, Tomimitsu Matsunaga & Super Shit Machine defeated Dick Togo, GENTARO & Yasu Urano by DQ when GENTARO used a chair on Soma (12:02).
4. 4 Way: HARASHIMA Vs Michael Nakazawa Vs Antonio Honda Vs DJ Nira ended in a No Contest (9:12).
5. Daisuke Sasaki defeated Keisuke Ishii with the NOW or NEVER (10:37).
6. Danshoku Dino, KUDO & Makoto Oishi defeated Kota Ibushi, Kenny Omega & Kazuki Hirata when Dino pinned Hirata with the Danshoku Driver (17:31).

After the main event, Tsurumi Amon approached Danshoku Dino in the ring to inform him of Bob Sapp’s latest Tweet. The message was a warning about Sapp’s next assassin. While they were reading the message, the ‘assassin’ suddenly appeared and entered the ring to attack Dino. Dino dodged him but accidentaly sent his attacker slamming into Tsurumi Amon and knocking him out. Dino and the wrestler fought to the back as the show ended.

The 4 Way match unintentionally started off as a 5 Way match. Minoru Fujita made his entrance along with the other competitors and Yukinori Matsui never noticed it. Tsurumi Amon had to stop the match and tell Matsui that Fujita wasn’t supposed to be here. He was eventually dragged away from ringside and the match continued. As the match progressed, DJ Nira formed an alliance with Michael Nakazawa and Antonio Honda and all three focused their attacks on HARAHSIMA. Nakazawa is starting to act like The Rock, but his attempts at The People’s Elbow ended badly when HARASHIMA rolled out of the way. HARASHIMA fought back but eventually the numbers game was proving too much. When all seemed lost, HARASHIMA was suddenly saved by HERO!, who cleared the ring. Matsui called for a No Contest as HARASHIMA was surprised to see himself being saved by his own alter ego.


Rion Mizuki Injured, Change For “NON-FIX 3.16”

April 5, 2011

Rion Mizuki has pulled out of tomorrow’s “NON-FIX” show due to a torn muscle in his right leg. Tsuyoshi Kikuchi will take his place in Match #2. The pairing for the match has also been changed. Mizuki was supposed to team with MIKAMI to take on Hoshitango & Tanomusaku Toba. Instead MIKAMI and Hoshitango will now team with each other while Kikuchi will team with Toba, despite breaking the guy’s nose a month ago.

DDT “NON-FIX 3.16”, 06/04/2011
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Hikaru Sato Vs Akito
2. MIKAMI & Hoshitango Vs Tanomusaki Toba & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi
3. Keisuke Ishii Vs Daisuke Sasaki
4. 4 Way: HARASHIMA Vs Michael Nakazawa Vs Antonio Honda Vs DJ Nira
5. Kota Ibushi, Kenny Omega & Kazuki Hirata Vs Danshoku Dino, KUDO & Makoto Oishi
6. Dick Togo, GENTARO & Yasu Urano Vs Takao Soma, Tomimitsu Matsunaga & Super Shit Machine