Dramatic Dream Team

Dramatic Dream Team
Industry Professional wrestling
Founded 1997
Founder Sanshiro Takagi
Headquarters Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Area served
 Japan
Owner Sanshiro Takagi
Website www.ddtpro.com

DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDTプロレスリング DDT Puroresuringu) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in 1997 by Sanshiro Takagi. DDT, also written as D2T, stands for Dramatic Dream Team, which was the promotion's official name from 1997 to 2009. It became one of the top names in Japanese indy wrestling by creating a unique Sports Entertainment style with a Japanese puroresu flair to the matches.

DDT started producing pay-per-view digests of its product on DirectTV during late 1999 to 2003 when they finally got an hour's timeslot on Samurai TV, Japan's premier sports channel which shows a lot of professional wrestling from both Japan and the United States.

The cards' matches tend to be a mix of Japanese lucharesu, semi-worked shoot-style, hardcore brawling and comedy matches. DDT is in many ways a parody of American pro wrestling, particularly World Wrestling Entertainment, using over-the-top gimmicks (most notably Danshoku Dino) as well as unique match types including a hardcore match in a campsite (which featured use of bottle rockets as weapons), an "Office Deathmatch" (where the ring was set up to resemble a section of an office building, complete with cubicle walls and computers), and a "Silence Match" (where wrestlers were forbidden to make loud noises, resulting in slow-motion chops and punches and featuring the commentary team speaking in a faux-whisper).

DDT was the parent promotion of Union Pro Wrestling, which held events approximately twice a month,[1] and is the parent of Tokyo Joshi Pro, which was founded in June 2012.[2]

DDT celebrated its 15th anniversary on August 18, 2012, by holding its first ever event in Nippon Budokan.[3]

On August 17, 2015, it was announced that Union Pro would be folding after its 10th anniversary event on October 4, 2015.[4] Three days after its folding, Union was replaced by a new promotion named Pro Wrestling Basara, which launched in January 2016.[5]

In October 2016, DDT announced "DDT Universe", a new streaming service for events held by DDT, Basara, Tokyo Joshi Pro and Ganbare☆Puroresu. The service is set to launch in January 2017.[6]

Championships

Active

DDT currently has 6 recognized championships,[7] the top titles being the KO-D (King of DDT) championships.

Championship Current champion(s) Defeated Date won Days held Location
KO-D Openweight Championship Harashima Shuji Ishikawa December 4, 2016 1 Osaka, Japan
KO-D Tag Team Championship Konosuke Takeshita and Mike Bailey Damnation
(Daisuke Sasaki and Tetsuya Endo)		 December 4, 2016 1 Osaka, Japan
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship Damnation
(Daisuke Sasaki, Mad Polley and Tetsuya Endo) 		Team Drift
(Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie and Soma Takao)		 August 6, 2016 121 Kasukabe, Japan
Ironman Heavymetalweight ChampionshipHyota EchizenyaKotatsu December 4, 2016 1 Osaka, Japan
DDT Extreme Division Championship Jun Kasai Danshoku Dino December 4, 2016 1 Osaka, Japan
King of Dark Championship Nobuhiro Shimatani Chikara September 25, 2016 71Tokyo, Japan

Inactive

Championship Last champion(s) Defeated Date won Location
DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship Shit Heart♥Foundation
(Hikaru Sato, Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga) 		Great Kojika, Mr. #6 and Riho November 3, 2010 Tokyo, Japan
Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship
(also recognized by Big Japan and El Dorado among others) 		Hiroki Daigoro Kashiwa November 6, 2011 Tokyo, Japan
UWA World Trios Championship Disaster-Box
(Harashima, Toru Owashi and Yukihiro Abe)		Shit Heart♥Foundation
(Hikaru Sato, Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga) 		December 26, 2010 Tokyo, Japan

Annual tournaments

Tournament Last winner(s) Last held Location
Dramatic Sousenkyo Harashima September 29, 2016 Tokyo, Japan
King of DDT Shuji Ishikawa June 26, 2016 Tokyo, Japan

Roster

Harashima
Konosuke Takeshita
Damnation
Jun Kasai

DDT Pro-Wrestling

Ring name Notes
Akito
Antonio Honda Freelancer
Cherry
Daisuke Sasaki KO-D Tag Team Champion
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion
Danshoku Dino
DJ Nira Freelancer
Gorgeous Matsuno
Gota Ihashi
Harashima KO-D Openweight Champion
Hoshitango
Jun Kasai DDT Extreme Division Champion
Freedoms
Kai Wrestle-1
Kazuki Hirata
Keisuke Ishii
Ken Ohka Ganbare☆Puroresu
Konosuke Takeshita KO-D Tag Team Champion
Kudo
Ladybeard
LiLiCo
Mad Polley KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion
Makoto Oishi
Masahiro Takanashi
Masayuki Mitomi Freelancer
Mike Bailey KO-D Tag Team Champion
Saki Akai
Sanshiro Takagi
Seiya Morohashi Freelancer
Shigehiro Irie Inactive; on an indefinite learning excursion
Shuji Ishikawa Freelancer
Soma Takao
Super Sasadango Machine World Aipoke Champion
Freelancer
Tetsuya Endo KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion
Tomomitsu Matsunaga
Toru Owashi Freelancer
Yasu Urano
Yoshihiko
Yukio Sakaguchi
Yuko Miyamoto 666

DDT New Attitude

Ring name Notes
Dai Suzuki
Daiki Shimomura
Guanchulo
Kazusada Higuchi
Kota Umeda
Kouki Iwasaki
Mao Inoue
Mizuki Watase
Nobuhiro Shimatani King of Dark Champion
Rainbow Kawamura
Rekka
Suguru Miyatake
Syunma Katsumata

Pro Wrestling Basara

Ring name Notes
Daichi Kazato
Fuma
Isami Kodaka
Ryota Nakatsu
Ryu Gouma
Ryuichi Sekine
Sagat
Takumi Tsukamoto
Trans-Am★Hiroshi
Yusuke Kubo

Tokyo Joshi Pro

Ring name Notes
Ai Shimizu Freelancer
Akane Miura
Azusa Takigawa
Chikage Kiba
Erin
Hyper Misao
Kanna
Marika Kobashi
Miyu Yamashita Tokyo Princess of Princess Champion
Mizuho
Nodoka Onesan
Nonoko
Rika Tatsumi
Syoko Nakajima
Yuka Sakazaki
Yuu

Staff

Dropkick Bar

Dropkick Bar is a professional wrestling, boxing and mixed martial arts-themed sports bar owned and operated by DDT. Professional wrestling personalities make appearances at the bar.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Union Pro". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved January 24, 2012.
  2. ↑ "2012年06月04日（月）　DDT新規事業として『東京女子プロレス』を設立、代表は甲田哲也氏". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). June 4, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ "武道館ピーターパン～DDTの15周年、ドーンと見せます超豪華4時間SP～". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved August 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ "【記者会見】10・4後楽園の10周年記念興行で解散、石川はフリーに。「最後にどデカい花火を打ち上げましょう」（イサミ）「『ユニオンプロレス、ここにあり』という記憶に残る大会にしたい」（石川）「完全燃焼したい」（スーザン）". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). August 17, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ "【記者会見】イサミが新団体旗揚げ！　団体名は「プロレスリングBasara」、旗揚げ戦は1・21新宿！　所属選手も発表／諸橋、イサミ、ビアードはDDT所属、石川＆三富はフリー、久保はTEC所属に". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). October 7, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ "DDT独自の動画配信サービス「DDT Universe」開設！　2017年1月スタート！". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). October 24, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  7. ↑ Pro-Wrestling Title Histories: Dramatic Dream Team
  8. ↑ "10 of the best bars in Tokyo for karaoke and other weird stuff". The Guardian. February 1, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  9. ↑ "ドロップキック". Gurunavi (in Japanese). Retrieved June 10, 2015.

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