Gilberto Style, Pom Replaces Raku, Naya’s Forbidden Training

BASARA “BASARA 204 ~OJI NI KITSUNE 21~”, 26/11/2022
Tokyo Oji BASEMENT MONSTAR

1. Daichi Kazato & Lil’ Kraken Vs Tsutomu Oosugi & Banana Senga
2. 3 Way Match: SAGAT Vs Daiki Shimomura Vs Takato Nakano
3. Trans-Am ★ Hiroshi Vs Ryota Nakatsu
4. FUMA Vs Yasu Urano
5. Isami Kodaka & Masato Kamino Vs Takumi Tsukamoto & Fuminori Abe

We’re building up to Isami Kodaka against Fuminori Abe for the Union MAX Title next month.

The FUMA Vs Yasu Urano match can be treated as an unofficial 3rd place playoff from the Chouten ~Itadaki~ tournament. Both of them were eliminated from the semi finals.

BASARA “BASARA 205 ~OJI NI KITSUNE 22~”, 26/11/2022
Tokyo Oji BASEMENT MONSTAR

1. Submission Tag Match: Daiki Shimomura & Takato Nakano Vs Man Man Kai Kind & Fuminori Abe
2. Jacket Tag Match: Daichi Kazato & Takumi Tsukamoto Vs Masato Kamino & Lil’ Kraken
3. Horror! Jusenkyo Single Match: Tsutomu Oosugi Vs Banana Senga (Special Referee: Isami)
4. Loser Loses Gilberto Style Match: Yasu Urano Vs Isami Kodaka
5. Kung Fu Yoga Allied Forces Vs Ninja USA Forces Counter Attack: Trans-Am ★ Hiroshi & FUMA Vs Ryota Nakatsu & SAGAT

Asian Kung Fu Revolution are producing the evening show. Can the alliance of Kung Fu and Yoga defeat American ninjas in the final battle of the night?

The Gilberto Style Match between Urano and Kodaka is taken from the anime Baki The Grappler. In the anime it is a contest where both fighters hold onto the same handkerchief while they fight. The first one to let go of the handkerchief loses. The “Loser Loses” wordplay is because the Loser Loses his honour in defeat.

Speed Of Sounds having a match against each other is notable by itself but the match title sounding like a reference to Ranma 1/2’s cursed springs has me confused over what they could be planning.

DDT “UTAN FESTA 2022”, 27/11/2022
Tokyo JR Omori Station East Exit Square

1. Yuki “Sexy” Iino & Danshoku “Dandy” Dieno Vs Akito & Kazuma Sumi
2. Sanshiro Takagi, Yusuke Okada & Shinichiro Kawamatsu Vs Toru Owashi, Toi Kojima & Takeshi Masada
3. Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON Vs HARASHIMA, Yukio Naya & Hideki Okatani
4. Special 6-Man Tag Match: Joey Janela, Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi Vs Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku
5. World Omori Title: Chikara (c) Vs Soma Takao
6. Omori Specialty Special 6-Man Tag Match: Kazusada Higuchi, Yuki Ishida & RSP Vs Yuki Ueno, MAO & Shunma Katsumata

Harimao will be without Naomi Yoshimura for a while but at least Kazusada Higuchi still has Yuki Ishida with him. They will team up with RSP to take on The 37KAMIINA.

We’re getting a preview of Joey Janela against Jun Akiyama. It may be the most normal action we’re going to get between the two as they prepare for the DDT Extreme Title match.

No Battle Royal to determine next year’s No. 1 Contender for the World Omori Title?

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “ALL RISE ’22”, 27/11/2022
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. 2 Vs 3 Handicap Match: Shoko Nakajima & Hyper Misao Vs Haruna Neko, Mahiro Kiryu & Kaya Toribami
2. Suzume Vs Yoshiko Hasegawa
3. Mizuki Vs Arisu Endo
4. Maki Itoh & Hikari Noa Vs Yuki Kamifuku & Nao Kakuta
5. Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe Vs Moka Miyamoto & Juria Nagano
6. EVE Title: Miyu Yamashita (c) Vs Millie McKenzie
7. Princess Tag Team Titles: Saki Akai & Yuki Arai (c) Vs Yuki Aino & Pom Harajuku
8. Princess Of Princess Title: Yuka Sakazaki (c) Vs Billie Starkz

Raku tested positive for covid and is unable to appear on this weekend’s show. Yuki Aino will now team with Pom Harajuku for the Princess Tag Team Titles match. Harajuku was chosen because the show coincides with the 4th anniversary of her debut match and this will be her first ever title shot.

DDT/ONLY WE “DRAMATIC DREAM TOUR 2022 IN CHIBA”, 03/12/2022
Chiba 2AW Square

1. Yusuke Okada & Kazuma Sumi Vs Hideki Okatani & Toi Kojima
2. Yuki “Sexy” Iino & Danshoku “Dandy” Dieno Vs Akito & Hiroshi Yamato
3. The 37KAMIINA Vs BURNING!: Yuki Ueno, MAO & Shunma Katsumata Vs Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yuya Koroku
4. ONLY WE x DDT Special Tag Match ~ DAMNATION T.A Vs PERON GRANDES!: Daisuke Sasaki & KANON Vs Shogun Okamoto Vs Akira Raijin
5. ONLY WE x DDT Special 6-Man Tag Match: Kazusada Higuchi, Yuki Ishida & Quiet Storm Vs Chris Brookes, RSP & Takeshi Masada
6. ONLY WE x DDT Special Tag Match: Yuji Hino & Makoto Oishi Vs HARASHIMA & Yukio Naya

Yoshimura’s injury changes the top matches for the DDT & ONLY WE collaboration. Ω now faces the team of HARASHIMA & Yukio Naya, giving Naya a chance to fight Yuji Hino again. Higuchi is now in a 6-Man Tag Match with Ishida and Quiet Storm against the international trio of Chris Brookes, RSP & Takeshi Masada.

DDT “D-OU GRAND PRIX 2022 THE FINAL”, 04/12/2022
Tokyo Korakuen Hall

1. Yuki “Sexy” Iino & Danshoku “Dandy” Dieno Vs Akito & Antonio Honda
2. Soma Takao, Hideki Okatani & Hikaru Machida Vs Yuya Koroku, Yuki Ishida & Takeshi Masada
3. BURNING Vs The 37KAMIINA!: Tetsuya Endo & Yusuke Okada Vs MAO & Shunma Katsumata
4. Special 6-Man Tag Match: Naruki Doi, Toru Owashi & Kazuki Hirata Vs HARASHIMA, Yukio Sakaguchi & Kazuma Sumi
5. Special 8-Man Tag Match: Kazusada Higuchi, Yuji Hino, Chris Brookes & RSP Vs Daisuke Sasaki, Minoru Fujita, MJ Paul & KANON
6. DDT Extreme Title: Joey Janela (c) Vs Jun Akiyama
7. D-Ou Grand Prix 2022 – Final: Yuki Ueno Vs Yukio Naya

Naya visited his father Takatoriki Tadashige this week to give him the latest report on his pro wrestling career as well as talk about his brother Oho’s currently impressive run at the Grand Sumo Tournament in Fukuoka. Naya told his father he was competing in the D-Ou Grand Prix and qualified for the final next month. Takatoriki praised his son for working hard but told him he always had weak luck. Everybody likes people who are hungry to succeed and try their best but those qualities can be useless if Naya does not have the spirit to bring down his opponent and win. So Takatoriki offered to teach Naya that spirit by using forbidden gambling training to improve his luck.

The training is forbidden because Takatoriki was a retired sumo wrestler who became blackballed from the sport after admitting to illegal gambling on baseball games which resulted borrowing large amounts of money to pay off his debts. Despite his dark history with gambling, he felt this was necessary and challenged Naya to beat him in a game of blackjack. Naya succeeded and his father promised to reward him with a 6 month gift voucher at a Personal Training gym if he wins the D-Ou Grand Prix.

Four of the D-Ou Grand Prix participants who failed to make the final now have to team up together and fight the entire DAMNATION T.A.

Naruki Doi returns and gets his request to fight HARASHIMA granted. It’s in a 6-Man Tag Match though and HARASHIMA has to fight against the rest of his DISASTER BOX stablemates.

Maybe Some TGS Stuff? Endo’s 10th Anniversary Tag Match, Apple And Tomato

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “TJPW AUTUMN TOUR ’22”, 16/09/2022
Shinjuku FACE

1. 3 Way Match: Hyper Misao Vs Yuki Kamifuku Vs Haruna Neko
2. Moka Miyamoto Vs Abadon
3. Rika Tatsumi Vs Mahiro Kiryu
4. Hikari Noa, Nao Kakuta & Kaya Toribami Vs Yuki Aino, Raku & Pom Harajuku
5. Shoko Nakajima & Arisu Endo Vs Yuka Sakazaki & Mizuki
6. International Princess Title Next Challenger Match: Miu Watanabe Vs Suzume

Now we know who Moka Miyamoto’s opponent is. It’s Abadon, the “Living Dead Girl” from AEW! There are a couple of AEW people in Japan this week for a variety of reasons. The main reason is for the Tokyo Game Show where AEW’s upcoming video game will be on display. A wrestling ring has been set up at THQ Nordic’s section of the convention hall and exhibition matches will be held during the week much like what was done at Gamescom in Germany last month. Haruo Murata hinted in a tweet that a few DDT and Tokyo Joshi Pro wrestlers could be involved in these matches. Since it is AEW related that suggests Konosuke Takeshita and Yuka Sakazaki (who is in the game) could be having matches there. Maki Itoh I’m doubtful of because she is travelling to North America for shows this weekend, if she hasn’t done so already. If there is DDT/TJPW related matches I will group them together in a post once they’re all done.

DDT “YUBUN PRESENTS DDT PRO WRESTLING IN IKEBUKURO FULL MOON FESTIVAL”, 01/10/2022
Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park Outdoor Theater Global Ring Theater

1. Yukio Naya Vs Yuya Koroku
2. Yuki “Sexy” Iino & Danshoku “Dandy” Dieno Vs Sanshiro Takagi & Kazuki Hirata
3. Toru Owashi & Makoto Oishi Vs Saki Akai & Hideki Okatani
4. Daisuke Sasaki & KANON Vs Yuji Hino & Takeshi Masada
5. Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada Vs HARASHIMA, MAO & Antonio Honda
6. Harimao Vs The 37KAMIINA!: Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida Vs Yuki Ueno, Shunma Katsumata & Toi Kojima

This is a free show taking place outdoors in Ikebukuro.

DDT “TETSUYA ENDO LOCAL TRIUMPH! GET ALIVE 2022 TOUR IN SHIROISHI”, 02/10/2022
Miyagi Shiroishi White Cube

1. Makoto Oishi Vs Takeshi Masada
2. Yuki “Sexy” Iino & Danshoku “Dandy” Dieno Vs Akito & Kazuki Hirata
3. Toru Owashi & Shunma Katsumata Vs Yuji Hino & Hideki Okatani
4. Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima Vs Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yukio Naya
5. Shiroishi Specialty Special Single Match: Antonio Honda Vs Saki Akai
6. Harimao Vs DAMNATION T.A: Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida Vs Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON
7. Tetsuya Endo Debut 10th Anniversary Match In Shiroishi: Tetsuya Endo & Yuya Koroku Vs HARASHIMA & Yukio Sakaguchi

Tetsuya Endo put together the main event for his homecoming show. He thinks very highly of HARASHIMA & Yukio Sakaguchi which is why he chose them to be his opponents for the 10th Anniversary Match.

DDT/ONLY WE “GET ALIVE 2022 TOUR IN CHIBA”, 08/10/2022
Chiba TKP Garden City

1. HARASHIMA & Toru Owashi Vs Chris Brookes & Takeshi Masada
2. Kazusada Higuchi, Naomi Yoshimura, Yuki Ishida & Akito Vs Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada & Yuya Koroku
3. The 37KAMIINA Vs Pheromones!: Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toi Kojima Vs Yuki “Sexy” Iino, Danshoku “Dandy” Dieno & Koju “Shining Ball” Takeda
4. Special Single Match: Shinya Aoki Vs Hiroshi Yamato
5. DDT x ONLY WE Special Tag Match I: Saki Akai & Shunma Katsumata Vs Hibiscus Mii & Kaji Tomato
6. DDT x ONLY WE Special Tag Match II: Quiet Storm & Yukio Naya Vs Shogun Okamoto & Akira Raijin
7. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Titles: Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul & KANON (c) Vs Yuji Hino, Makoto Oishi & Shiori Asahi

There’s the PERON GRANDES involvement I was worried about. Shogun Okamoto & Akira Raijin are there to ruin ONLY WE’s show unless Quiet Storm & Yukio Naya can stop them.

Do tomatoes and apples go well together? I never really thought about it until I saw Hibiscus Mii & Kaji Tomato be put on the same team together. Maybe Saki Akai & Shunma Katsumata can find out.

Will Shinya Aoki still have the Right To Challenge NFT in his possession when he takes on Hiroshi Yamato?

TOKYO JOSHI PRO “WRESTLE PRINCESS III”, 09/10/2022
Tokyo Dome City Hall

1. Princess Tag Team Titles: Saki Akai & Yuki Arai (c) Vs Rhia O’Reilly & Nightshade
2. Princess Of Princess Title: Shoko Nakajima (c) Vs Yuka Sakazaki

Riho will be part of the show, joining Max The Impaler as one of the guest attractions.

DDT/ONLY WE “DRAMATIC DREAM TOUR 2022 IN CHIBA” Results

DDT/ONLY WE “DRAMATIC DREAM TOUR 2022 IN CHIBA”, 05/06/2022
Chiba 2AW Square
123 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. Toi Kojima Vs Yuya Koroku ended in a Time Limit Draw (15:00).
2. Soma Takao & Kazuki Hirata defeated Toru Owashi & Antonio Honda when Takao pinned Honda with the Mad Splash (7:32).
3. Special Tag Match: Kaji Tomato & Naomi Yoshimura defeated Yuki Ueno & Shunma Katsumata when Yoshimura pinned Katsumata with the Harai Goshi (10:03).
4. HARASHIMA & Masahiro Takanashi defeated MAO & Yusuke Okada when HARASHIMA pinned Okada with the Somato (11:33).
5. Special Single Match: Daisuke Sasaki defeated Hiroshi Yamato with La Mistica Crossface Lock (11:47).
6. Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi defeated Yukio Sakaguchi, Hideki Okatani & Yuki Ishida when Higuchi pinned Ishida with the Brain Claw Slam (20:23).
7. ONLY WE x DDT Special 6-Man Tag Match – No DQ Match: Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya & Quiet Storm defeated Shogun Okamoto, Kenichiro Arai & Hoshitango when Hino pinned Hoshitango with the Muscle Spash onto the Chair (15:10).

Even though ONLY WE won their latest battle against PERON GRANDES, they are probably happier they don’t have to wrestle a No DQ Match anymore. Quiet Storm bragged about Yuji Hino winning the match by piling chairs on top of Hoshitango and then Muscle Splashing onto them. What can PERON GRANDES possibly do next time to beat that? Hino however was in a lot of pain and asked for the next match to just be held under normal rules. Akira Raijin was not at the show after he tested positive for covid. Kenichiro Arai took his place in the main event.

Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Kazusada Higuchi all made it clear they are on the same page together. If Higuchi can wrestle with them against his own teammates in Eruption then they are ready to show NOAH they mean business.

After their match, Daisuke Sasaki told Hiroshi Yamato to call him a taxi so he can go home to Niigata. He wants Kenoh to now he’ll be there and doesn’t want to get ambushed. Instead Sasaki’s going to ambush him again!

The newly freelance Kaji Tomato complained about Shunma Katsumata being too noisy during their tag match. Tomato admits he is noisy too but his noise is made out of high tension while Katsumata just sounds stupid. Perhaps they can have a singles match pitting “High Tension” against “NeppoWER!!” someday.

This was the last DDT show before “CYBERFIGHT FESTIVAL 2022” so a lot of the wrestlers used the time to make their final preparations for the show. Everyone is ready to do their best no matter where on the card they are placed.

DDT/ONLY WE “MAX BUMP 2022 TOUR IN CHIBA” Results

DDT/ONLY WE “MAX BUMP 2022 TOUR IN CHIBA”, 17/04/2022
Chiba 2AW Square
116 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. Soma Takao defeated Yuya Koroku with the Official Endless Waltz (8:41).
2. Pheromones Vs The Iyasareru!: Yuki “Sexy” Iino & Danshoku “Dandy” Dieno Vs Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda ended in a No Contest (11:33).
3. Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi & Hideki Okatani defeated Hiroshi Yamato, Naomi Yoshimura & Yuki Ishida when Higuchi pinned Ishida with the Brain Claw Slam (9:20).
4. Yukio Naya & KANON defeated Akito & Shunma Katsumata when Naya pinned Katsumata with the Back Drop (13:20).
5. BURNING Vs The 37KAMIINA!: Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada defeated Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toui Kojima when Okada pinned Kojima with the Sudden Death (20:29).
6. DDT x ONLY WE Special 6-Man Tag Match: HARASHIMA, Yuji Hino & Quiet Storm defeated Daisuke Sasaki, Shogun Okamoto & Akira Raijin when Storm pinned Raijin with the 50cm Arm Lariat (14:13).

Man, DDT helps out ONLY WE by co-promoting a few shows with them and they end up in the middle of a faction war! HARASHIMA sided with ONLY WE in the main event while Daisuke Sasaki teamed with their rivals from PERON GRANDES. The matchup led to Sasaki facing off with Yuji Hino with their past in DAMNATION together still fresh on their minds. Meanwhile Shogun Okamoto & Akira Raijin fought dirty whenever they could with plenty of ringside brawling and chair attacks. In the end however Quiet Storm fought from behind and with the help of his teammates, pinned Raijin with the 50cm Arm Lariat.

After the match Sasaki & Okamoto attacked ONLY WE with chairs until Yukio Naya ran into the ring for the rescue. Storm challenged Okamoto to a No DQ 6-Man Tag Match between ONLY WE and PERON GRANDES on 5th June when DDT and ONLY WE hold their next show in Chiba together. It will be Hino, Storm & Naya against Okamoto, Raijin and third member of their unit.

Tetsuya Endo and Yuki Ueno were stuck fighting outside the ring while their trios match reached its conclusion. Yusuke Okada picked up the win for his team and declared that BURNING will be holding both the KO-D Openweight Title and KO-D Tag Team Titles at the end of the Yokohama Budokan show on 1st May. On The 37KAMIINA side, everyone was frustrated with the loss as they move onto life without Konosuke Takeshita. According to Ueno, Takeshita left Japan this afternoon.

KANON is quickly learning that wrestling in DDT is not always a walk in the park (not literally in this case but there’s plenty of time for that yet). Despite his size advantage he had his struggles wrestling against Akito & Shunma Katsumata even though he ended up being on the winning team with Naya. What KANON learned coming out of the match is to become more ambitious otherwise he won’t rise above everyone else in DDT anytime soon.

A fired up Hideki Okatani tried picking a fight with Naomi Yoshimura but ended up having Yuki Ishida wanting a go at himself instead. Okatani even got Hiroshi Yamato mad by making fun of the seaweed he likes to sell at his merch stand. Good thing he had the rest of Eruption there to watch his back.

Everyone was given a scary warning when Danshoku Dieno said that Yuki Iino was not wearing anything underneath his wrestling gear today. The Iyasareru came up with a smart idea to tape his straps to his shoulders to prevent him from pulling them down. Unfortunately Iino eventually found the power to free himself from the tape and his costume. That led to Pheromones taking the match out of control, Hisaya Imabayashi calling it off and getting publicly executed for his troubles.

DDT/ONLY WE “ULTIMATE TAG LEAGUE 2022 IN CHIBA!!” Results

DDT/ONLY WE “ULTIMATE TAG LEAGUE 2022 IN CHIBA!!”, 20/02/2022
Chiba 2AW Square
109 Fans – Super No Vacancy

1. Soma Takao defeated Yuki Ishida with the Diving Foot Stomp (9:22).
2. Toru Owashi, Hiroshi Yamato & Kazusada Higuchi defeated Sanshiro Takagi, Chris Brookes & Antonio Honda when Yamato pinned Honda with (12:14).
3. Yuki Ueno, MAO & Toui Kojima defeated HARASHIMA, Naomi Yoshimura & Akito when MAO pinned Akito with the Wedding Clutch (13:32).
4. ONLY WE Special Single Match: Quiet Storm defeated Shogun Okamoto by Disqualification after a Weapon Attack (6:35).
5. Ultimate Tag League 2022 – B Block: Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul (4) defeated Yuki “Sexy” Iino & Yumehito “Fantastic” Imanari (4) when Paul pinned Imanari with the Death Valley Bomb (16:32).
6. DDT x ONLY WE Special 6-Man Tag Match: Yuji Hino, Kaji Tomato & Yukio Naya defeated Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama & Yusuke Okada when Hino pinned Okada with the Fuckin’ BOMB (21:16).

A Block

1. Tetsuya Endo & Jun Akiyama (6)
2. Konosuke Takeshita & Yuki Ueno (4)
3. Kazusada Higuchi & Hideki Okatani (2)
-. Yuji Hino & Yukio Naya (2)
5. Shuji Kondo & Kazuki Hirata (0)

B Block

1. HARASHIMA & Naomi Yoshimura (4)
-. Daisuke Sasaki & MJ Paul (4)
-. Yuki “Sexy” Iino & Yumehito “Fantastic” Imanari (4)
4. Shunma Katsumata & MAO (2)
-. Chris Brookes & Masahiro Takanashi (2)

Today’s show in Chiba was a cross promotion between DDT and ONLY WE. The latter is a small group of freelancers led by Yuji Hino. He teamed with Yukio Naya and Kaji Tomato to beat BURNING in the main event. Another co-promoted show between the two companies is scheduled for later this April.

DAMNATION T.A won’t make it to the Ultimate Tag League final but they still left their mark by slowing down Pheromones. The key to victory was Yuki Iino’s tights. Daisuke Sasaki grabbed it and pulled it off him while he was lured underneath the ring. DDT staff refused to let Iino continue wrestling in a G-string and Hisaya Imabayashi kept blocking him with shirts, towels or whatever he could find. Danshoku Dieno & Yumehito Imanari helped Iino give Imabayashi a “public execution” but Sasaki then used a pair of scissors to cut off Iino’s G-string! Iino finally reached his limit and went off to cover his shame while MJ Paul pinned Imanari with the Death Valley Bomb.

ONLY WE has a rival unit that made their presence felt on this show. Shogun Okamoto represents the PERON GRANDES faction and he attacked Quiet Storm with a chair to get himself disqualified. Storm swore to get revenge while Okamoto warned that wherever ONLY WE goes, so will PERON GRANDES!