Dramatic Dream Team
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| Dramatic Dream Team | |
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Acronym | DDT |
| Established | 1997 |
| Style | Sports Entertainment |
| Location | Japan |
| Founder(s) | Sanshiro Takagi |
| Owner(s) | Sanshiro Takagi |
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.
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[edit] Championships
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDT KO-D Openweight Championship | Harashima | Sanshiro Takagi | May 4, 2009 | Tokyo, Japan |
| DDT KO-D Tag Team Championship | Francis Togo & PIZA Michinoku | Kota Ibushi & Kenny Omega | May 10, 2009 | Hakata, Japan |
| DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship | Yusuke Inokuma | Zeppin Menchi Katsu | June 29, 2009 | Tokyo, Japan |
| DDT Extreme Division Championship | Danshoku Dino | Michael Nakazawa | June 29, 2009 | Tokyo, Japan |
| DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship | Antonio Honda, KUDO and Yasu Urano |
Metal Vampire (Koo, Toru Owashi and Super Vampire) |
July 6, 2008 | Tokyo, Japan |
| Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship (also recognized by Big Japan and El Dorado among others) |
Makoto Oishi | Madoka | September 14, 2008 | Tokyo, Japan |
| UWA World Trios Championship | Antonio Honda, Francis Togo, & PIZA Michinoku | Men's Teioh, Danshoku Dino and Yuhi Sato | December 29 2008 | Tokyo, Japan |
[edit] The DDT 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[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 2 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.
[edit] Former Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship holders
To date, there have been over 700 title changes for the belt, with Gorgeous Matsuno becoming the 700th champion, and has been won by numerous female wrestlers and non-wrestlers, including children, animals and inanimate objects.
[edit] Wrestlers
- Kikutaro
- W*ING Kanemura
- Madman Pondo
- JC Bailey
- 2 Tuff Tony
- MIKAMI
- Kota Ibushi
- Danshoku Dino
- Muscle Sakai
- Michael Nakazawa
- Yuki Miyazaki - A female wrestler
- Toshie Uematsu - A female wrestler
- President Ramu - a 'possessed' little girl with the ability to chokeslam adults
[edit] Non-wrestlers
- Erika Yamakawa - a female celebrity
- A TV cameraman working for DDT
- Sayoko Mita - a female newscaster for a cable television station
- The chief chef of the Yakeyama Springs Inn where wrestlers were fighting in
- A taxi driver
- Shimon Nagao - A fan picked from the audience
- Kazuki Okubo, mixed martial artist, lost the belt during a subsequent MMA bout to Takashi Echigo
- The Great Mampuku and AD Yamamoto - both characters from a TV show for children
- Megumi Grace Asano - DDT's female referee
- Yukinori Matsui - DDT's male referee
- Reiji Azuma - An elementary school boy
- Airi Ueda, Shiori Takahashi, & Minami Tanabe - Three elementary school girls, recognized together as co-champions
- Nao Saejima - An adult video actress
[edit] Animals
- Yatchan - A monkey
- Cocolo - A miniature Dachshund dog.
[edit] 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.
- Yoshihiro - Another stuffed doll. Wrestlers treat him as if he actually was an active wrestler, and actually sell moves "done" by him, including Huracanadas and Great Muta-style green mist.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Notes
[edit] External links
- http://www.ddtpro.com - Official DDT website
- http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/ - Title history of all DDT championships
- http://ddt.puroresufan.com/ - Fansite with results, roster
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