| Industry | Sports entertainment |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder(s) | Sanshiro Takagi |
| Headquarters | Shinjuku, Tokyo, JA |
| Area served | Japan |
| Owner(s) | Sanshiro Takagi |
| Website | www.ddtpro.com |
Dramatic Dream Team, better known by its initials DDT or its logo reading D2T, is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in 1997 by Sanshiro Takagi. 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).
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DDT currently has 5 recognized championships[1], the top titles being the KO-D (King of DDT) championships.
| Championship | Current champion(s) | Defeated | Date won | Location |
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| DDT KO-D Openweight Championship | KUDO | Shuji Ishikawa | July 24, 2011 | Tokyo, Japan |
| DDT KO-D Tag Team Championship | Yasu Urano and Yuji Hino | Keisuke Ishii and Shigehiro Irie | December 31, 2011 | Tokyo, Japan |
| DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship | Kanjyuro Matsuyama | Shigehiro Irie | December 29, 2011 | Osaka, Japan |
| DDT Extreme Division Championship | El Generico | Isami Kodaka | September 19, 2011 | Tokyo, Japan |
| DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship | Great Kojika, Mr. #6 and Riho | Antonio Honda, KUDO and Yasu Urano |
July 25, 2010 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship (also recognized by Big Japan and El Dorado among others) |
Marines Mask II | GENTARO | April 2, 2010 | Tokyo, Japan |
| UWA World Trios Championship | HARASHIMA, Touru Owashi and Yukihiro Abe | Hikaru Sato, Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga | December 26, 2010 | Tokyo, Japan |
The Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship is defended anywhere against anyone, even during non-title matches or tag team matches, under 24/7 rules[2] (if there is an official DDT referee present, the title can be won and lost), and unlike other Ironman championships does not need to be defended under 'Ironman' rules. The 24/7 'rule' is more-or-less a parody to the same rules that applied to the WWE Hardcore Championship. It is treated as a 'joke' championship, having two wrestlers, Yuukoh Miyamoto and Shinobi, exchange the belt 62 times with each other in one night (some of those title changes via Rock, Paper, Scissors) and being won from a wrestling fan winning an auction for the belt. Notable "champions" also include a dog and a ladder.
A regular match in DDT for the title is a 10-minute battle royal where the title can change hands any number of times, and the person who has the belt when the time limit expires can leave as champion. This is ironic in itself, as due to the 24/7 rules, the champion could be defeated for the belt right after the match finishes.
To date (May 2011), there have been over 900 title changes for the belt, which has been won by numerous female wrestlers and non-wrestlers, including children, animals and inanimate objects.
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