Later that month, in storyline, Michael Nakazawa stepped down as the CEO of DDT and Amon Tsurumi became the General Manager of the promotion. Later in March, Takagi announced the DDT48 (later renamed Dramatic Sōsenkyo), which was a fan vote where the winner received a shot at the KO-D Openweight Championship.
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In March 2010, DDT announced a working relationship with Big Japan Pro Wrestling. In 2009, DDT announced that they were going to become a stock company, turning their company from private to public. The group was established as a means to aid the many competing wrestling promotions in Japan.
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DDT would later become a member of the Global Professional Wrestling Alliance. DDT and Dragon Gate held their first co-promoted show, Dramatic Dream Gate on Apin Shinjuku Face in Tokyo, Japan. Later in 2007 DDT announced a working relationship with Dragon Gate. In November 2006, DDT announced the creation of their fourth active title the DDT Extreme Championship. Then the company focused on the feud between the face stable Italian Four Horsemen and the heel stable Disaster Box. This led to Sanshiro Takagi taking over the promotion as the new president. On DecemIchimiya retired from professional wrestling and announced his departure from DDT. In 2005, indie promotion Union Pro Wrestling was revived by DDT.
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In October, DDT got a timeslot on Fighting TV Samurai, creating their regular broadcast program DDT Dramatic Fantasia. On 2004, DDT rebranded to DDT Pro-Wrestling yūgen gaisha renaming the promotion to DDT Pro-Wrestling. In January 2020, DDT's parent company CyberAgent purchased Pro Wrestling Noah, with DDT's executives taking over Noah's operations and Noah's content appearing on DDT's streaming service Wrestle Universe. DDT is in many ways a parody of American pro wrestling, particularly WWE, using over-the-top gimmicks (most notably Danshoku Dino) as well as unique match types including hardcore matches 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). The cards' matches tend to be a mixture of Japanese lucharesu (a mix of lucha libre and traditional puroresu), worked shoot-style, hardcore brawling and comedy matches. DDT's biggest event is Peter Pan, held each year since 2009.
DDT has had agreements with various MMA and professional wrestling promotions around the world. Takagi retained his position, while Takahiro Yamauchi took over as the new DDT director.ĭDT became one of the top promotions in Japanese independent wrestling by creating a unique sports entertainment style, often parodying WWE, with a Japanese puroresu flair to the matches. Founded in March 1997 by Shintaro Muto, the promotion was eventually bought and managed by Shoichi Ichimiya until December 2005, when Sanshiro Takagi took over as the new president. Its name stands for Dramatic Dream Team, which was the promotion's official name from 1997 to 2004. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.DDT Pro-Wrestling ( DDTプロレスリング, DDT Puroresuringu) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Stay tuned to the Last Word on Pro Wrestling for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. Speaking of that promotion, Chris Brookes’ final match in the UK before jetting off to Japan for a year will be a SCHADENFREUDE & Friends event in February. The group have also started up their own promotion, SCHADENFREUDE & Friends, based in Manchester, with Brookes starting up a rivalry of sorts for Dani Luna that saw the pair engage in a Cumulative 20 Count Match on the promotion’s second show. As part of the SCHADENFREUDE group in Fight Club: Pro (FCP), he became a two-time Tag Team Champion with Kid Lykos and then with Kyle Fletcher, as well as being a one-time FCP Champion.
Back in the UK, Brookes was always one of the biggest names on the scene, but he’s really become an even bigger asset since the likes of Pete Dunne, Trent Seven, and Tyler Bate all started appearing for WWE on a more regular basis.