Empty Can Death Match, Mio Vs Arisa, 2nd Tokyo Princess Cup, Matsuyama Festival

June 10, 2015

UNION “AMANIMOMAKEZU UNION 2015”, 17/06/2015
Shin-kiba 1st RING

1. Road To The Best Of Independent Junior – 4 Way Match: Isami Kodaka Vs Madoka Vs Ryota Nakatsu Vs Daichi Kazato
2. Western Type Gentleman And Lady First Tag Death Match: Daichi & Cherry Vs Hiroshi Fukuda & Aoi Ishibashi
3. MEN’S Teioh, Kazushi Miyamoto & SAGAT Vs Ladybeard, Mitomi Masayuki & Seiya Morohashi
4. Union Fly To Everywhere World Title: Hibiscus Mii (c) Vs Mio Shirai
5. UWA World Tag Team Titles – Empty Can Death Match: Shuji Ishikawa & Masato Shibata (c) Vs Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei
6. Union MAX Title: FUMA (c) Vs Yusuke Kubo

Drinking is permitted at certain times in the Empty Can Death Match. When a wrestler finishes the drink he can use the empty can as a legal weapon. Fans are also encouraged to throw their empty cans into the ring when they are told to.

Yusuke Kubo is grateful for the opportunity to wrestle for the Union MAX Title. Not just for himself but for FUMA and the rest of the new generation in Union.

At the age of 28, Hiroshi Fukuda is beginning to consider retirement and what his lasting impact will be on the industry. He wants future generations of Japanese wrestlers to behave more like the gentlemen from Europe and the United States. To prove his point he put together a mixed tag team match to show how gentlemen should treat ladies.

UNION, OZ ACADEMY, WAVE, ICE RIBBON “M.I.O 4”, 19/06/2015
Shinjuku FACE

1. Women’s Single Match: Chikayo Nagashima Vs Risa Sera
2. 6-Person Tag Match: Misaki Ohata, Tsukasa Fujimoto & MAyumi Ozaki Vs Hiroshi Fukuda, Hamuko Hoshi & Mochi Miyagi
3. Mixed Tag Match: Aja Kong & SAGAT Vs Shuji Ishikawa & Neko Nitta
4. 4 Organization 4 Way Match: Dynamite Kansai Vs Aoi Kizuki Vs Cherry Vs Kaho Kobayashi
5. Hard Mixed Singles Match: Isami Kodaka Vs Yumi Ohka
6. Main Event Singles Match: Mio Shirai Vs Arisa Nakajima

Mio Shirai Vs Arisa Nakajima has a nice ring to it.

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “THE GIRLS BATTLE 2015 ROUND 6”, 20/06/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MON☆STAR

1. 3 Way Match: Nonoko Vs Shoko Nakajima Vs MIZUHO
2. Miyu Yamashita Vs Yuka Sakazaki
3. KANNA Vs Hyper Misao
4. Saki Akai & Ai Shimizu Vs Erin & Akane Miura

The Tokyo Princess Cup returns for a second year and the first round draw will take place on this show. Nonoko was the first winner and is among the eight participants in this year’s tournament. The winner will get to produce her own Tokyo Joshi event. The other competitors are Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima, Yuka Sakazaki, Erin, Akane Miura, KANNA and Ai Shimizu.

DDT “WRESTLE FESTIVAL IN MATSUYAMA 2015”, 21/06/2015
Matsuyama Comprehensive Community Center Exhibition Hall

1. Kazuki Hirata Dancing Stars First Landing: Sanshiro Takagi & Kazuki Hirata Vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie
2. Matsuyama Castle Wrestling Elegence Battle: HARASHIMA Vs MIKAMI
3. 3 Way Tag That In Reckless Of Hereditary Are Only Loss From Childhood: KUDO & Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Antonio Honda & Konosuke Takeshita

I don’t understand those match titles and I don’t think I want to understand those match titles.


Arrogant Bastards Heading To DDT, Ohka’s Road To KO-D, Brahmans Prepare For Union

May 26, 2015

DDT “AUDIENCE 2015”, 31/05/2015
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

0. King Of Dark Title: Gota Ihashi (c) Vs Kota Umeda
1. Danshoku Dino, Makoto Oishi & Super Sasadango Machine Vs Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita & Hiroshi Fukuda
2. Yasu Urano, Akito & Aja Kong Vs Yukio Sakaguchi, Masa Takanashi & Saki Akai
3. MIKAMI & Shuji Ishikawa Vs Kazusada Higuchi & Shunma Katsumata
4. T2Hide New Members Audition: Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Kouki Iwasaki, DJ Nira, Devin Sparks & Ric Ellis
5. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao (c) Vs Kota Ibushi, Daisuke Sasaki & Suguru Miyatake
6. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs KUDO
*KUDO will cash in his Right To Challenge Anytime, Anywhere Contract.

The main event is back on! KUDO reclaimed his Right To Challenge contract from Daisuke Sasaki and still intends to cash it in at Korakuen Hall at the end of the month.

Devin Sparks & Ric Ellis are a Californian tag team known as The Arrogant Bastards. They approached Sanshiro Takagi requesting to participate in the audition for new T2Hide members. Takagi’s advice to them on Twitter is if they can dance better than Kazuki Hirata, they will pass the audition.

Aja Kong is back. She is still the Iron Man Heavymetalweight Champion last time I checked.

GANBARE☆WRESTLING “HOWEVER 2015”, 07/06/2015
Tokyo BASEMENT MON☆STAR

1. Power Of Dreams Vs Enjo-gun: Yumehito Imanari & Chikara Vs Shibata & Mitomi Masayuki
2. Oretachi Nario No – Road To KO-D!?: Ken Ohka Vs Yukihiro Abe

Ken Ohka is now a marked man because of the Right To Challenge contract he currently possesses. Yukihiro Abe has challenged him to a match for the contract. Abe sees this as an opportunity to return to DDT, win the KO-D Title and face all of the new wrestlers that have appeared since he left. Ohka is determined not to lose. However there is danger lurking in the background. Mitomi Masayuki from Enjo-gun also wants a match with Ohka and is not happy to be ignored.

UNION “AMANIMOMAKEZU UNION 2015”, 17/06/2015
Shin-kiba 1st RING

1. Union Fly To Everywhere World Title: Hibiscus Mii (c) Vs Mio Shirai
2. UWA World Tag Team Titles: Shuji Ishikawa & Masato Shibata (c) Vs Brahman Shu & Brahman Kei
3. Union MAX Title: FUMA (c) Vs Yusuke Kubo

The Brahman Brothers are coming to challenge Shuji Ishikawa & Masato Shibata for the UWA Tag Team Titles. The Brahmans think the champions are freaks. In their minds Ishikawa acts like he’s Jesus and Shibata looks like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. The Brahmans are preparing for the match by eating a lot of hamburgers and coming up with tactics to attack Shibata’s feet because that is his weak point.


DDT “YAROZ VOL. 2” Results

March 3, 2015

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DDT “YAROZ VOL. 2”, 03/03/2015
Shin-kiba 1st RING
172 Fans

1. Ryuichi Sekine defeated Gota Ihashi with the Combine (7:00).
2. Ganbare☆Wrestling Offer Match: Ken Ohka defeated Tiger Bedscene with the Spear Of Flame (8:46).
3. Bra & Panty From Bubble Match: Suguru Miyatake Vs Takayuki Ueki ended in a No Contest (10:32).
4. Shuji Ishikawa & Kazusada Higuchi defeated Antonio Honda & Ryota Nakatsu when Ishikawa pinned Nakatsu with the Running Knee Lift (14:10).
5. YaroZ Army Vs Ikemen Army – Audience Lumberjack & Fans Bring The Weapons Death Match: Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Shigehiro Irie defeated Jiro Kuroshio, Madoka & Hiroshi Fukuda when Irie pinned Fukuda with the YaroZ Bomber (14:43).

B-boys Brother Mon & Brother Tommy returned with their YaroZ event in Shin-kiba to go against the BOYZ show happening at the same time in Shinjuku. While BOYZ is exclusively for women, the audience at the YaroZ show was exclusively men. The YaroZ Vs BOYZ dynamic was further pushed with a Bastards Vs Pretty Boys main event. The attendance number for the show proves the plan didn’t work. BOYZ outdrew them by over triple.

Sanshiro Takagi and Hiroshi Fukuda traded insults at the start of the show. Takagi got so angry he wanted the main event 6-Man Tag to be an Audience Lumberjack match and any item the fans gave them could be used as weapons. The fans got a chance to be even more involved when Takagi invited them to be involved in the Train Attack on Fukuda. Even the Samurai! TV cameraman got involved! Shigehiro Irie finished the job with the Beast Bomber and the crowd yelled “Go Home!” at the defeated pretty boy team.

The Bed-In Girls Mai Chusonji and Kaori Masukoji were involved with the Suguru Miyatake Vs Takayuki Ueki match. The women took sides and acted as managers while the wrestlers were not allowed to touch them. The women slowly took off their clothes during the match until they were down to their bra and panties. Hirata and Ueki spent more time fighting their urges than fighting each other as the women did their striptease. The temptation eventually proved too much and on seperate occassions both wrestlers tried to grope the girls. The lights dimmed and the girls stripped Miyatake of his wrestling tights, leaving him with a fan to cover his modesty. Ueki then pulled out a handgun and threatened to arrest Miyatake for his obscene display. The match was declared a no contest.

Gota Ihashi channelled the spirit of UWF for his match against Ryuichi Sekine. Fat lot of use that was for him. Sekine outstruck him and made him tap to the Combine.


The Sun That Illuminates Over Union

February 26, 2015

UNION “MARCH OF UNION IN OSAKA”, 01/03/2015
Osaka Minato Ward Community Center

1. Kazushi Miyamoto & SAGAT Vs Seiya Morohashi & Daichi Kazato
2. Tomoya Kawamura Osaka Gaisen: Shuji Ishikawa Vs Tomoya Kawamura
3. “Mr. Perfect” Hiroshi Fukuda World Cup – Round 2: Hiroshi Fukuda Vs Taiyouto Kamen & X
4. Union Fly To Everywhere World Title: Mio Shirai (c) Vs Cherry
5. Union MAX Title: FUMA Vs Isami Kodaka

So far one Osaka wrestler has answered Hiroshi Fukuda’s challenge. Taiyouto Kamen is from Dotonbori Pro and is described as the sun that illuminates over Osaka. Slots are still open for more Osaka wrestlers to enter the challenge.

Ladybeard, Yuuya Kubo and Ryota Nakatsu will also wrestle on the show.

DDT “YAROZ VOL. 2”, 03/03/2015
Shin-kiba 1st RING

1. Gota Ihashi Vs Ryuichi Sekine
2. Ganbare☆Wrestling Offer Match: Ken Ohka Vs Tiger Bedscene
3. Suguru Miyatake Vs Takayuki Ueki
4. Shuji Ishikawa & Kazusada Higuchi Vs Antonio Honda & Ryota Nakatsu
5. YaroZ Army Vs Ikemen Army: Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Shigehiro Irie Vs Jiro Kuroshio, Madoka & Hiroshi Fukuda

YaroZ is turning into a spin-off brand so the King Of Dark Title might not apply for this show if Gota Ihashi is still champion.


DDT, FREEDOMS, APACHE ARMY “KOICHIRO KIMURA MEMORIAL BOX OFFICE” Results

December 8, 2014

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DDT, FREEDOMS, APACHE ARMY “KOICHIRO KIMURA MEMORIAL BOX OFFICE”, 08/12/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
??? Fans (Attendance Withheld)

1. KUDO & Kazuhiro Tamura defeated Hi69 & Seiya Morohashi when KUDO pinned Morohashi with the Diving Double Knee Drop (11:42).
2. Eagle Wrestling Offer Match: Kazunori Yoshida & Hiroyuki Kondo defeated Super Judoist & Hiroya Mine when Kondo pinned Judoist with a Rolling Cradle (11:28).
3. Battle Royal: Kintaro Kanemura defeated Rikiya Fudo with a Cradle (17:05).
Other Competitors: Naoshi Sano, Kengo Takai, Daisaku Shimoda, Ken Ohka, Mitsunobu Kikuzawa, HAZARD, Ricky Fuji, Gorgeous Matsuno, Kazuhiko Ogasawara, Poison Sawada JULIE (w/ Hebida Hebi-kaibo)
4. Daijiro Matsui & Masashi Takeda defeated Hikaru Sato & Masato Shibata when Matsui submitted Shibata with a Cross Armbreaker (11:53).
5. Sanshiro Takagi, NOSOWA Rongai & MIKAMI defeated Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO & Tomohiko Hashimoto when Takagi pinned GENTARO with the Sit Down Himawari Bomb (16:09).

Wrestlers from around the scene gathered together to celebrate the late Koichiro Kimura who passed away in October. The main event saw Sanshiro Takagi, NOSOWA Rongai & MIKAMI taking on Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO & Tomohiko Hashimoto. Takagi got the pinfall and took the microphone afterwards. He thanked everyone for putting the show together and said Kimura is now watching his friends from heaven. Kazunori Yoshida of Eagle Wrestling announced another tribute show to be held in Tatebayashi Citizen Gymnasium on March 13th next year. MIKAMI gathered everyone in the ring for a commemorative group photo with Kimura’s portrait to close out the show.

The semi-main event was centred around UWF as all four fighters entered to the UWF theme song.

The Battle Royal was originally scheduled to feature 10 wrestlers but it turned out there was a few extra entries in store. One of them was Poison Sawada JULIE coming out of retirement for one night only. Sawada used his Snake Magic to eliminate a couple of wrestlers but his powers wouldn’t work on Kazuhiko Ogasawara. Kintaro Kanemura went on a hot streak when he eliminated Gorgeous Matsuno with the Blast Yama Special and then won by pinning Rikiya Fudo with a Small Package.

Former DDT referee Megumi Grace Asano was the special official for some of the matches.


God Bless DDT Tomorrow, Kimura Memorial, Hard Hit Moonrize

November 29, 2014

DDT “GOD BLESS DDT 2014”, 30/11/2014
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

0. Dark Match – DNA 6-Man Tag Team Match: Tomoya Kawamura, Shun Miyatake, Koju Iwasaki, Kota Umeda, Ryota Nakatsu, Kazusada Higuchi
1. Serious-gun Vs Comical-gun: KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi, MIKAMI & Gota Ihashi Vs Antonio Honda, Michael Nakazawa, Hoshitango & DJ Nira
2. Next DDT Extreme Title Challenger 3 Way Match: Masa Takanashi Vs Keisuke Ishii Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga
3. “Wella Professionals” Presents Hair & Make Up Match: Kota Ibushi & Shunma Katsumata Vs Yasu Urano & Akito
4. Dark Match Of Truth – Special Singles Match: Shigehiro Irie Vs Daisuke Sasaki
5. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata (c) Vs Brahman Shu, Brahman Kei & Gorgeous Matsuno
6. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo (c) Vs Makoto Oishi & X
*X is Shiori Asahi.
7. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Soma Takao

This is it for Soma Takao. Can he prove he is on the main event level or was he just lucky to get the title shot?

Despite being out of action to recover from a fracture right heel, Sanshiro Takagi is being forced to defend the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles along with Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata. Probably not the best timing to do this given the big story in wrestling this week. But it will most likely be a comedy match so he should be ok.

KUDO will debut a new theme song on this show. Farewell Shaolin Soccer soundtrack!

DDT, FREEDOMS, APACHE ARMY “KOICHIRO KIMURA MEMORIAL BOX OFFICE”, 08/12/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. KUDO & Kazuhiro Tamura Vs Hi69 & Seiya Morohashi
2. Eagle Wrestling Offer Match: Kazunori Yoshida & Hiroyuki Kondo Vs Super Judoist & Hiroya Mine
3. Battle Royal: Kouhiro Kanemura Vs Naoshi Sano Vs Ken Ohka Vs Daisaku Shimoda Vs Rikiya Fudo Vs Ricky Fuji Vs Kazuhiko Ogasawara Vs Gorgeous Matsuno
4. Hikaru Sato & Masato Shibata Vs Daijiro Matsui & Masashi Takeda
5. Sanshiro Takagi, NOSOWA Rongai & MIKAMI Vs Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO & Tomohiko Hashimoto

Takagi should be healed in time for the show.

HARD HIT “~MOONRIZE~”, 21/12/2014
Shinjuku FACE

1. Kenta Hattori Vs Hiroshi Kobayashi
2. Ryuki Ueyama Vs Hayato Mashita
3. Atsushi Aoki Vs Chongwen Ito
4. Hiromitsu Kanehara Vs Koji Iwamoto
5. Hikaru Sato Vs Ryo Kawamura

Hiromitsu Kanehara has fought in UWFi, Pride, Pancrase, DEEP and RINGS.


Ibushi Shoot Boxing, Honda’s Tiger Rope, Hair & Make Up Match

November 11, 2014

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Kota Ibushi will compete in a shoot boxing exhibition match on 30th November. The event is QueSeraJapon Presents SHOOT BOXING S-cup in Sumo Hall. The plan came together when DDT president Sanshiro Takagi and Shoot Boxing Association chairman Takeshi Caeser met during a magazine interview. Caeser asked Takagi if there were any pro wrestlers who would be a good fit for shoot boxing. Takagi immediately thought of Ibushi due to his karate background. Ibushi thinks it is a fun idea. He gets to introduce shoot boxing to pro wrestling fans and pro wrestling to shoot boxing fans. His opponent is to be determined but Takeshi did consider trying to bring in Kazushi Sakuraba. The event takes place the same day DDT is in Korakuen Hall but Ibushi said he will be on both shows.

DDT “SMILE SQUASH BOX OFFICE ~I WANT TO SEE THE SMILES OF EVERYONE~”, 12/11/2014
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Akito, Kazuki Hirata & FUMA Vs Koji Iwamoto, Shunma Katsumata & Tetsuya Endo
2. Toru Owashi & DJ Nira Vs Makoto Oishi & X
3. Texas Tiger Rope Death Match: Masa Takanashi Vs Antonio Honda
4. 3 Way Tag Team Match: Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao Vs KUDO & Yukio Sakaguchi
5. DDT Sumo Tournament Aki-Basho: HARASHIMA, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Konosuke Takeshita, Keisuke Ishii, Michael Nakazawa, Goto Ihashi, Shuji Ishikawa, Daisuke Sekimoto
6. Yasu Urano Vs Kendo Kashin
7. HARASHIMA & Akito Vs Sanshiro Takagi & Togi Makabe

Antonio Honda has demanded his match with Masa Takanashi should be turned into a Texas Tiger Rope Death Match. Honda wants a definitive winner in this match and is treating it like a big blow off match to a longtime rivalry.

DDT “AOBA CASTLE LOVE SONG IN SENDAI 2014”, 23/11/2014
Miyagi Yume Messe West Wing Hall

1. 3 Way Match: Daisuke Sasaki Vs Keisuke Ishii Vs Antonio Honda
2. Makoto Oishi & Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo
3. Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Michael Nakazawa Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi
4. Kota Ibushi Vs Gorgeous Matsuno
5. HARASHIMA & Yasu Urano Vs Shigehiro Irie & Soma Takao
6. DDT Extreme Title – Catch Wrestling Rules: Akito (c) Vs MIKAMI

DDT “DRAMATIC GRAPHICS NIIGATA 2014”, 24/11/2014
Niigata Toriyano Gymnasium

1. 3 Way Match: Shigehiro Irie Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs DJ Nira
2. Sanshiro Takagi & Toru Owashi Vs Michael Nakazawa & MIKAMI
3. Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Keisuke Ishii & Soma Takao
4. Makoto Oishi Vs Tetsuya Endo
5. Super Sasadango Machine Vs Antonio Honda
6. HARASHIMA, Yasu Urano & Akito Vs KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi

DDT “GOD BLESS DDT 2014”, 30/11/2014
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Comprehensive Beauty Trading Company Presents Hair & Make Up Match: X Vs X
2. Dark Match Of Truth – Special Singles Match: Shigehiro Irie Vs Daisuke Sasaki
3. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata (c) Vs Brahman Shu, Brahman Kei & Gorgeous Matsuno
4. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo (c) Vs Makoto Oishi & X
5. KO-D Openweight Title: HARASHIMA (c) Vs Soma Takao

DDT is being sponsored by a beauty cosmetics company for this show. As part of the sponsorship, there will be a match featuring wrestlers going through a makeover and fighting over who is more beautiful.

DDT, FREEDOMS, APACHE ARMY “KOICHIRO KIMURA MEMORIAL BOX OFFICE”, 08/12/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

A free show dedicated to the late Koichiro Kimura will be held in Shin-Kiba 1st RING. Wrestlers from DDT, FREEDOMS and Apache Army will be involved, including Sanshiro Takagi, MIKAMI, Takashi Sasaki, Tomohiko Hashimoto, NOSAWA Rongai, Daisaku Shimoda, Rikiya Fudo, GENTARO, Naoshi Sano, Kintaro Kanemura and Kazunori Yoshida. Kimura’s family are also expected to attend.


UNION “UNION SCHOOL FESTIVAL 2014” Results

October 11, 2014

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UNION “UNION SCHOOL FESTIVAL 2014”, 11/10/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING
189 Fans – No Vacancy

1. Mitomi Masayuki defeated Tomoya Kawamura with a Vertical Drop Brainbuster (9:28).
2. Shuji Ishikawa, SAGAT & Ryu Gouma defeated Mio Shirai, Cherry & Ladybeard when Ishikawa pinned Cherry with the Splash Mountain (11:08).
3. Shibata defeated Seiya Morohashi with a Lariat (5:38).
4. Isami Kodaka & FUMA defeated Daichi Kazato & Madoka when Kodaka pinned Kazato with the Zan Isamu Leg (12:43).
5. Hiroshi Fukuda Send Off Battle Royal: MEN’S Teioh defeated SAGAT with the Perfect Plex (21:17).
Order of Elimination: Nazo Fukumen J, Mitomi Masayuki, Ladybeard, Mame Endo, Tomoya Kawamura & Daichi Kazato, Goro Jr., Ryuma Go, Shuji Ishikawa, Cherry, FUMA, A.YAZAWA, Mio Shirai, Hosomino Shyboy, Isami Kodaka and SAGAT.

Today’s Union show featured the final appearance of Hiroshi Fukuda before he transfers over to All Japan. Unfortunately Fukuda suffered a dislocated shoulder blade during the week and was unable to wrestle. He told the fans that the injury is healing slowly and he will not rush back to the ring before he is ready.

Fukuda hosted the main event Royal Rumble that was created to crown the new Mr. Perfect. The match saw the return of a Nazo Fukumen, the mysterious masked man gimmick Fukuda was involved with last year when he was banished from Union. This one was unmasked by SAGAT and revealed to be Jun Kasai! The rest of the field was filled with Union wrestlers and unexpected participants such as A.YAZAWA, Mame Endo and musician Hosomino Shyboy. MEN’S Teioh was the last man standing, lastly pinning SAGAT with the Perfect Plex. Fukuda presented Teioh with a crown, cloak and tambourine to officially recognise him as the 2nd generation Mr. Perfect!

Daichi Kazato refused to shake hands with Isami Kodaka after the semi-main event. Shibata recorded the match with his GoPro and said he will send it to Hikaru Sato so they can prepare for the UWA World Tag Team Title match on 3rd November.

The inter-gender trios match became more heated when Ryu Gouma blamed Union’s joshi division for impacting the company’s profits. Cherry argued that couldn’t be true. She also said she was the only person in the match who finished in the Dramatic General Election Top 20. Gouma said he was using this match to assess each woman’s worth and would restructure Union’s finances based on that information. He even suggested getting rid of the women’s division entirely. Mio Shirai wondered if Gouma was paranoid because he isn’t in a relationship. Gouma snapped and attacked Shirai to start the match. Shuji Ishikawa almost destroyed Cherry when he attempted to give her the Splash Mountain outside the ring but Shirai came to the rescue. Cherry later hit the Cherryton Bomb and Spring Night Love for a nearfall but Ishikawa hit back with the Fire Thunder Driver. He then hit the Splash Mountain inside the ring for the victory.


Extremely Normal Title Match, Protein Vs Liquor Title Match, Annual Omori Title Match

October 10, 2014

UNION “UNION SCHOOL FESTIVAL 2014”, 11/10/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Mitomi Masayuki Vs Tomoya Kawamura
2. Seiya Morohashi Vs Shibata
3. Shuji Ishikawa, SAGAT & Ryu Gouma Vs Mio Shirai, Cherry & Ladybeard
4. Hiroshi Fukuda Send Off Battle Royal: MEN’S Teioh Vs Jun Kasai Vs Mame Endo Vs Goro Jr. X
5. Isami Kodaka & FUMA Vs Daichi Kazato & Madoka

Hiroshi Fukuda suffered a dislocated shoulder blade and will be unable to wrestle in his Union farewell match. There is no date set yet for his return to the ring for any promotion.

DDT “SAPPORO WRESTLING FESTA 2014”, 12/10/2014
Sapporo Teisan Hall

1. MIKAMI Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga
2. Tokyo From GO! – 4 Way Match: Danshoku Dino Vs Antonio Honda Vs Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Kazuki Hirata
3. Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie Vs Tomoya & Makoto Oishi
4. HARASHIMA, Yasu Urano & Michael Nakazawa Vs Kota Ibushi, Daisuke Sasaki & DJ Nira
5. DDT Extreme Title: Akito (c) Vs Soma Takao
6. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo (c) Vs KUDO & Masa Takanashi

The main event is protein shakes vs liquor. Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo plan to drink protein shakes as a toast for their victory on Sunday. Masa Takanashi is pretty insulted that they would drink protein shakes instead of alcohol.

Akito has decided his DDT Extreme Title match against Soma Takao will just be a normal singles match. Akito still remembers when he lost to Takao in a King of DDT qualifying match back in May. He is still bitter over the defeat and wants to prove he can beat Takao without any crazy stipulation aiding him. He’ll start defending the Extreme Title the way it is supposed to be defended once he beats Takao. Also since DDT is currently being passed over to a new generation of wrestlers, Akito wants to make the Extreme Title as prestigious as the KO-D Openweight Title.

HARD HIT “HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE – PART 1”, 13/10/2014
Sapporo Teisan Hall

1. B Rules: Keitaro Kawamura Vs Akihiro Yamamoto
2. B Rules: Masaki Miyabo Vs Takashimi Ono
3. B Rules: Akira Yamamoto Vs Masaki Nishi
4. B Rules: Toshiaki Kindaichi Vs Red Dragon
5. G Rules: Yoshito Takeuchi Vs Kazuyasu Takahashi
6. B Rules: Masahiro Nina Vs Satoshi Wakahara
7. B Rules: Hokuto Omori Vs Gen Sasaki
8. B Rules: Liger Kanzaki Vs Tetsuo Onuma

This weekend’s Hard Hit event will be split into two shows. The first show will be dedicated to amateur fights featuring competitors from the POWER OF DREAM promotion.

HARD HIT “HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE – PART 2”, 13/10/2014
Sapporo Teisan Hall

1. Hiroshi Kozakai Vs Shibata
2. Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Hayato Mashita
3. Tomoya Miyashita Memorial Tag Match: Mitsuhisa Sunabe & Shuichiro Katsumura Vs Manabu Hara & Yukio Kubota
4. Ryo Kawamura Vs Super Tiger
5. Hikaru Sato Vs HARASHIMA
6. Kenichi Yamamoto 20th Anniversary & Retirement Match: Kenichi Yamamoto Vs Ryuki Ueyama

The second show features the retirement of Kenichi Yamamoto as well as Hikaru Sato Vs HARASHIMA in the semi-main event.

The tag team match is dedicated to Tomoya Miyashita, a POWER OF DREAM fighter who passed away from leukaemia in 2011.

DDT “UTAN FESTA 2014”, 19/10/2014
Tokyo JR Omori Station

1. Yukio Sakaguchi & Masa Takanashi Vs Keisuke Ishii & Shigehiro Irie
2. Tokyo Joshi Pro Presents: Miyu Yamashita, KANNA & Erin Vs Nonoko, Shoko Nakajim & Yuka Sakazaki
3. Next Omori Title Challenger Battle Royal: Sanshiro Takagi Vs MIKAMI Vs KUDO Vs Makoto Oishi Vs Michael Nakazawa Vs Tomomitsu Matsunaga Vs Soma Takao
4. UTAN FESTA Exhibition Match: Asaki Honda Vs Shibata
5. Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki Vs Chikara & Yumehito Imanari
6. HARASHIMA, Yasu Urano & Akito Vs Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo
7. Omori World Title: Danshoku Dino (c) Vs Gurukun Mask

A World Title match one year in the making! Every October DDT holds a show outside the Tokyo JR Omori Station. The event features the Omori World Title, a championship that is usually only defended at this event. Danshoku Dino has held the title since 2009 and it was a vital part of his infamous GAY Crown title run that year. Former Okinawa Pro wrestler Gurukun Mask won a Battle Royal at last year’s event to become this year’s No. 1 contender.


Pigging Out, Wrestling Festivals, Hard Hit Pilgrimage

October 2, 2014

DDT “YOKOHAMA TWILIGHT 2013 ~AUTUMN~”, 05/10/2014
Yokohama Radiant Hall

1. 3 Way Match: Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Shigehiro Irie Vs DJ Nira
2. Akito & MIKAMI Vs Keisuke Ishii & Soma Takao
3. Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata Vs Danshoku Dino, Makoto Oishi & Shunma Katsumata
4. Goodbye Pigging: Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo Vs Michael Nakazawa, Tomomitsu Matsunaga & Gota Ihashi
5. Next KO-D Tag Team Title Challengers Match: Kota Ibushi & Daisuke Sasaki Vs KUDO & Masa Takanashi
6. HARASHIMA & Yasu Urano Vs Isami Kodaka & FUMA

Farewell Pigging, we hardly knew you. The unit has been forced to disband after they finished last in the DDT Dramatic General Election. This weekend they have one more match together against Happy Motel. But this is something like the fifth time Michael Nakazawa & Tomomitsu Matsunaga were forced to split up so they’ll probably be teaming up again in the future.

UNION “UNION SCHOOL FESTIVAL 2014”, 11/10/2014
Shin-Kiba 1st RING

1. Mitomi Masayuki Vs Tomoya Kawamura
2. Seiya Morohashi Vs Shibata
3. Shuji Ishikawa, SAGAT & Ryu Gouma Vs Mio Shirai, Cherry & Ladybeard
4. Hiroshi Fukuda Send Off Battle Royal: Hiroshi Fukuda Vs MEN’S Teioh Vs Mame Endo Vs X
5. Isami Kodaka & FUMA Vs Daichi Kazato & Madoka

I think this is Hiroshi Fukuda’s final match before he goes to All Japan.

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “OYAKETSU FESTA 2014”, 12/10/2014
Keisei Main Line Station Rotary Kozunomori

1. KANNA Vs Shoko Nakajima
2. Miyu Yamashita & Erin Vs Nonoko & Yuka Sakazaki

This is a free show taking place in the middle of a festival.

DDT “SAPPORO WRESTLING FESTA 2014”, 12/10/2014
Sapporo Teisan Hall

1. 4 Way Match: Danshoku Dino Vs Antonio Honda Vs Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Kazuki Hirata
2. KO-D Tag Team Titles: Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo (c) Vs Winners of 5/10 Challenger Match
3. DDT Extreme Title: Akito (c) Vs Soma Takao

Happy Motel will get their first KO-D Tag Team Title defence against either members of the Golden☆Storm Riders or Shuten-dōji.

HARD HIT “HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE”, 13/10/2014
Sapporo Teisan Hall

1. Hiroshi Kozakai Vs Shibata
2. Yukio Sakaguchi Vs Hayato Mashita
3. Ryo Kawamura Vs Super Tiger
4. Tomoya Miyashita Memorial Tag Match: Mitsuhisa Sunabe & Shuichiro Katsumura Vs Manabu Hara & Yukio Kubota
5. Kenichi Yamamoto 20th Anniversary Match: Kenichi Yamamoto Vs Ryuki Ueyama
6. Hikaru Sato Vs HARASHIMA