Dramatic Dream Team
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| Industry | Professional wrestling |
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| 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).
DDT is the parent promotion of Union Pro, which holds events approximately twice a month,.[1] and 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]
Championships
Active
DDT currently has 5 recognized championships,[4] the top titles being the KO-D (King of DDT) championships.
| Championship | Current champion(s) | Defeated | Date won | Location |
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| KO-D Openweight Championship | Harashima | Shigehiro Irie | August 18, 2013 | Tokyo, Japan |
| KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship | Team Homo Sapiens (Aja Kong, Danshoku Dino and Makoto Oishi) | Akebono, Sanshiro Takagi and Toru Owashi | December 23, 2013 | Tokyo, Japan |
| KO-D Tag Team Championship | Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi) | Yankii Ni Cho Kenju (Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto) | January 26, 2014 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship | Yasu Urano | Masa Takanashi | January 26, 2014 | Tokyo, Japan |
| DDT Extreme Division Championship | Harashima | Antonio Honda | November 4, 2013 | Osaka, Japan |
Inactive
| Championship | Current champion(s) | Defeated | Date won | Location |
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| 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 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 |
Union Pro
| Championship | Current champion(s) | Defeated | Date won | Location |
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| Union Max Championship | Ivan Markov | Shuji Ishikawa | December 11, 2013 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Union Fly to Everywhere World Championship | Cherry | Kaori Yoneyama | May 3, 2013 | Tokyo, Japan |
| World Aipoke Championship | Seiya Morohashi | Madoka, Masayuki Mitomi, Mio Shirai | December 11, 2013 | Tokyo, Japan |
Annual tournaments
| Tournament | Last winner(s) | Last held | Location |
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| DDT48 | Danshoku Dino | October 2, 2013 | Tokyo, Japan |
| King of DDT | Harashima | July 7, 2013 | Osaka, Japan |
Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship
The Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship is defended anywhere against anyone, even during non-title matches or tag team matches, under 24/7 rules[5] (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 had 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.
Former Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions
As of January 2014 there have been over 980 title changes for the belt, which has been won by numerous male and female wrestlers and non-wrestlers, including children, animals and inanimate objects.
Animals
- Yatchan - A monkey
- Cocolo - A miniature Dachshund dog.
Inanimate objects
- Kitty-Chan - a stuffed 'Hello Kitty' doll
- Mah-Kun - another stuffed doll, who defeated 'Kitty-Chan' for the belt
- A baseball bat - lost the belt after being broken in half as a 'KO' decision
- Three different ladders - each fell on the champion and a pinfall was counted, with some successfully defending the title by not being pinned during the time limit battle royal matches.
- Chiririn - a chicken doll
- Mr. Kasai - a stuffed Jun Kasai doll. Mr. Kasai has won the belt twice.
- A Pro Wrestling Wave poster.
- Ice Ribbon ringside mat.
- A pint of beer.
- A stick of yakitori.
- A steel chair.
- "Kōmyō", a painting by Akihiro Miwa.
- YOSHIHIKO - An inflatable 'love doll'. Wrestlers treat it as if it actually was an active wrestler, and actually sell moves "done" by him/her, mostly high flying moves. For some moves, like outside dives, YOSHIHIKO is helped by one or more assistants, who throw him out of the ring, pull his foot on the ropes, etc. Opposing wrestlers make like those assistants are not there and are part of YOSHIHIKO. The original YOSHIHIKO was 'killed' by an Antonio Honda knee drop which caused its head to burst open, and was replaced by a second YOSHIHIKO, who is also a 'love doll', only modified to resemble the Great Muta. The second YOSHIHIKO was killed by Kenny Omega by a giant swing that sent YOSHIHIKO out of the ring, thus splitting his head open and revealing cotton stuffing. Later on in that match however, a third YOSHIHIKO came out resembling The Undertaker's old American Bad Ass gimmick, even using the same theme music. Following that match, the third YOSHIHIKO was shot to death by Antonio Honda. A fourth YOSHIHIKO, resembling Hulk Hogan, debuted shorty afterwards.
- Akihiro, another inflatable love doll and the supposed sister of Yoshihiko. Made its debut on August 18, 2013.
- Jay's maw - yet another inflatable love doll - only this time a very large one.
Non-existent
- Misutero - An "invisible wrestler" i.e. non-existent. Opponents sell moves of a wrestler who isn't there, and the title is held by nothing and no-one but the wrestlers and referees act as if they can see and pin the "invisible wrestler". Muscle Sakai "won" the title from this "invisible wrestler" by using a "ray gun" and "infrared visor" to shoot the "invisible wrestler", winning the belt on a KO decision.
Roster
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Tokyo Joshi Pro
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Staff
- Amon Tsurumi – DDT General Manager
- Daisuke Kiso – Referee
- Mic Inoue – Time keeper
- Minami Momochi – Tokyo Joshi Pro ring announcer
- Naomi Susan – Union Pro representative
- Rikiya Shindo – Ring announcer
- Rumi Kazama – Union Fly to Everywhere World Championship Commissioner
- Tetsuya Koda – Tokyo Joshi Pro representative
- Yukinori Matsui – Referee
Notes
- ↑ "Union Pro". Dramatic Dream Team (in Japanese). Retrieved January 24, 2012.
- ↑ "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". Dramatic Dream Team (in Japanese). June 4, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
- ↑ "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～". Dramatic Dream Team (in Japanese). Retrieved August 18, 2012.
- ↑ Pro-Wrestling Title Histories: Dramatic Dream Team
- ↑ Ironman Heavymetalweight Title
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dramatic Dream Team. |
- http://www.ddtpro.com - Official DDT website
- http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/ - Title history of all DDT championships
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