“MONTHLY YOUNG COMMUNICATIONS” Card, HARASHIMA Vs Honda

March 18, 2011

DDT “MONTHLY YOUNG COMMUNICATIONS MARCH EDITION”, 18/03/2011
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Rion Mizuki Vs Ryuichi Sekine
2. Shota Vs Satoshi Hiroshi Kazato
3. Shigehiro Irie Vs Jun Nishikawa
4. Kazuki Hirata Vs Hiromu Takahashi
5. Keisuke Ishii & Hiro Tsumaki Vs Hiro Tonai & Akito

Kazuki Hirata Vs Hiromu Takahashi is a rematch from the 24/02 NEVER.5 show. Takahashi won that match with a Fisherman Suplex. This time Hirata has the home promotion advantage in DDT.

DDT “JUDGEMENT 2011 ~DDT 14TH ANNIVERSARY~”, 27/03/2011
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Danshoku Dino Vs Bob Sapp’s Assassin
2. HARASHIMA Vs Antonio Honda
3. KO-D Openweight Title Challenge Right Fight +α Anytime and Anywhere Battle Royal: KUDO, Makoto Oishi Vs Daisuke Sasaki Vs Keisuke Ishii Vs Shigehiro Irie Vs Takao Soma Vs Super Shit Machine Vs Tomimitsu Matsunaga Vs Kenny Omega Vs Michael Nakazawa Vs GENTARO Vs Yasu Urano Vs Shuji Ishikawa Vs Seiya Morohashi Vs Ken Ohka
4. KO-D Openweight Title: Dick Togo (c) Vs Kota Ibushi

HARASHIMA Vs Antonio Honda has been added to the 14th Anniversary show. A year ago, the result would be obvious but now I am not so sure. Honda has recently held both the Interim KO-D Championship and the KO-D Tag Team Championship with Daisuke Sasaki. He has shown that he is capable of putting up a fight against anyone from Dick Togo to Hiroyoshi Tenzan. The match may prove to be more challenging for HARASHIMA than I would think. This is a chance for Honda to prove that he is at HARASHIMA’s level and start the road to becoming a fully fledged KO-D Openweight Champion.

The event will also feature the return of at least two names from DDT’s past, Rojo Del Sol and Tsunehito Naito. Rojo Del Sol showed up in DDT during the year 2000 and is a two time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion. Former UWF fighter Tsunehito Naito wrestled for DDT in 1999 and went through the Malenko Dojo over in Florida.


Awww, Ain’t That Sweet

February 21, 2011

A cute little story that took place during Valentine’s Day last week. The custom in Japan on Valentine’s Day is for women to give gifts such as chocolate to men. The girls from Ice Ribbon took part and all gave out Valentine’s Day chocolates to some of their favourite male wrestlers. Among the recipients of the chocolates were HARASHIMA who got a present from Riho, and Ken Ohka who got a gift from Hikari Minami. Let’s see if the men will return the favour on 14th March, aka White Day.


DDT “DRAMATIC 2011 FEBRUARY SPECIAL” Results

February 11, 2011

DDT “DRAMATIC 2011 FEBRUARY SPECIAL”, 11/02/2011
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
490 Fans

1. Makoto Oishi & Yuki Sato defeated Rion Mizuki & Kazuki Hirata when Oishi submitted Hirata with a Sharpshooter (9:32).
2. Takao Soma & Tomomitsu Matsunaga defeated Hikaru Sato & Tanomusaku Toba when Soma pinned Toba with the Diving Guillotine Drop (10:02).
3. Dick Togo defeated DJ Nira with a Crippler Crossface (6:44).
4. GENTARO & Yasu Urano Vs Antonio Honda & Hoshitango when Urano pinned Honda with a Jacknife Pin (12:51).
5. Kenny Omega defeated Michael Nakazawa with the Croyt’s Wrath (11:50).
6. Royal Rumble: HARASHIMA defeated Kota Ibushi, KUDO, Danshoku Dino, Daisuke Sasaki, Keisuke Ishii and Minoru Fujita (23:44).
6a. Minoru Fujita eliminated MIKAMI by Ring Out.
6b. Keisuke Ishii eliminated Kota Ibushi by Ring Out.
6c. Minoru Fujita eliminated Keisuke Ishii by Ring Out.
6d. Daisuke Sasaki eliminated Minoru Fujita by Ring Out.
6e. Daisuke Sasaki eliminated Danshoku Dino with the NOW OR NEVER.
6f. KUDO eliminated Daisuke Sasaki with the Diving Double Knee Drop.
6g. HARASHIMA eliminated KUDO with the Somato.

HARASHIMA gets to challenge Dick Togo for the KO-D Openweight Title at Korakuen Hall on 27th February.

Kenny Omega stripped down to a Danshoku Dino style rainbow thong during his match with Michael Nakazawa. This was to combat Nakazawa’s habit of stripping down to a thong during his comebacks.

Two of the main events for the upcoming 6th March tripleshot were announced. Cruiser’s Game will have MIKAMI & The Great Sasuke teaming up to face Dick Togo & TAKA Michinoku. As a reward for winning the Battle Royal at the end of January, Keisuke Ishii will host his own show. He will be against Takao Omori in the main event of that card.

A match that will have repercussions on this year’s Sumo Hall event will take place at the next Korakuen Hall show. Danshoku Dino, Tanomusaku Toba, DJ Nira and Tsuyoshi Kikuchi are among those involved but what kind of match it will be was not revealed.


Yago, Isami, Dino & HARASHIMA Go Round The Indys

November 24, 2010

There has been some DDT and Union involvement in other promotions this month. Over in SMASH, Yoshiaki Yago was defeated by Akira Shoji while Isami Kodaka fought on the winning team in the semi-main event. A day earlier, Danshoku Dino made an appearance for the NEO Joshi promotion and defeated 5-Time former Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, Tanny Mouse. Finally HARASHIMA was in Big Japan earlier in the month to take on Shinya Ishikawa in Shinya’s return match from injury. HARASHIMA earned the victory with the always reliable Somato.

SMASH.10, 22/11/2010
Tokyo JCB Hall
3,200 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

4. Akira Shoji defeated Yoshiaki Yago with a Headbutt (6:23).
7. Hardcore Match: Super Crazy, KUSHIDA & Isami Kodaka defeated Hajime Ohara, Häijy-Heimo Ukonselkä & Jessica Love when KUSHIDA pinned Love with the Midnight Express (18:54).

NEO “STAND OUT IN OSAKA”, 21/11/2010
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium #2
627 Fans – No Vacancy

4. Danshoku Dino defeated Tanny Mouse with the Danshoku Driver (9:29).

BJW “DAINICHI DASH”, 06/11/2010
Yokohama Nigiwaiza
141 Fans – Super No Vacancy Full House

5. Shinya Ishikawa Return Match: HARASHIMA defeated Shinya Ishikawa with the Somato (12:47).