Dramatic Dream Team
| 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 sleaze 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.
Championships
DDT currently has 5 recognized championships[1], the top titles being the KO-D (King of DDT) championships.
- DDT KO-D Openweight Championship – Koo (won June 3, 2007)
- DDT KO-D Tag Team Championship – Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Michael Nakazawa (won April 1, 2007)
- DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship – Shoichi Ichimiya (won 2007-08-11)
- DDT Extreme Division Championship – Nobutaka Araya (won 2007-08-26)
- DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship – Dorian Sawada Julie, Mango Fukuda and Toru Momowashi (won 2007-06-03)
A notable KO-D Openweight Championship holder has been Dick Togo [2]. The Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship is defended anywhere against anyone, even during non-title matches or tag team matches, under 24/7 rules[3] (if there is an official DDT referee present, the title can be won and lost). This is more-or-less a parody to the same rules applied to the WWE Hardcore Championship. It is treated somewhat as a 'joke' championship, having been won by numerous female wrestlers and non-wrestlers (including children, animals and inanimate objects) and being won from a wrestling fan winning an auction for the belt. The Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship is for teams of two male wrestlers and one female wrestler.
Former Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship holders include:
- Erika Yamakawa - a female celebrity
- A TV cameraman working for DDT
- Sayoko Mita - a female newscaster for a cable television station
- President Ramu - a little girl with the ability to chokeslam adults
- W*ING Kanemura, Madman Pondo, J.C. Bailey and 2 Tuff Tony - noted hardcore/death-match wrestlers
- Kitty-Chan - a stuffed 'Hello Kitty' doll
- Mah-Kun - another stuffed doll, who defeated 'Kitty-Chan' for the belt
- The chief chef of the Yakeyama Springs Inn where wrestlers were fighting in
- A taxi driver
- Kazuki Okubo, mixed martial artist, lost the belt during a subsequent MMA bout to Takashi Echigo
- Kikutaro
- A baseball bat
- The Great Mampuku and AD Yamamoto - both characters from a TV show for children
- Yatchan - A monkey
- Three different ladders, which all fell on the champion during matches and a pinfall was counted
- A miniature Dachshund dog called Cocolo
Notes
- ^ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/
- ^ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/kod-o.html
- ^ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/ironman-hm.html
External links
- http://www.ddtpro.com - Official DDT website
- http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/ - Title history of all DDT championships
- http://www.puroresufan.com/ddt/index.php - Fansite with results, roster
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