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DDT Universal Championship
The is a professional wrestling championship in the Japanese promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling. Announced on December 28, 2019, at the D-Oh Grand Prix 2020 final event, the DDT Universal Championship was created as part of DDT's plans to expand internationally and reach a larger audience. , there have been eight reigns shared between five different wrestlers. Yuki Ueno is the current champion in his second reign. Title history On January 7, it was announced that the inaugural match would pit Konosuke Takeshita against Chris Brookes. Brookes won the title at Into The Fight 2020, on February 23, 2020. As he was making his victory speech, Brookes was ambushed by Daisuke Sasaki who challenged him for the title before stealing the belt. Sasaki went on to defeat Brookes for the title at Judgement 2020: DDT 23rd Anniversary, on March 20. Brookes captured the title back in the main event of DDT TV Show! #8, on June 27. He successfully defended it against his fellow Englishman Drew Parker on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Ueno
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2016–present) Ueno made his professional wrestling debut at the 2016 edition of "Who's Gonna Top?" in a time-limit draw dark match against Akito. Throughout his career so far, he has worked mostly for DDT, but had several matches for other promotions such as Dradition where he worked alongside famous wrestlers such as Masato Tanaka, Yukio Sakaguchi and Super Tiger II. In May 2017, he was a participant in Kaientai Dojo's K-Metal League Tournament of which he reached but ultimately lost the final against Go Asakawa. He won the first title of his career at DDT's 21st Anniversary show, the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Koju Takeda and Kota Umeda after defeating Shuten-Dōji ( Kudo, Masahiro Takanashi and Yukio Sakaguchi) in a six-man tag team match. He also won the KO-D Tag Team Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Parker
Drew Jacob Parker (born 29 December 1997) is a Welsh professional wrestler, currently working as a freelancer and is best known for his tenure with the Japanese promotions Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), and for his time in the British independent circuit. Professional wrestling career British independent circuit (2012–2019) Parker made his professional wrestling debut in the British circuit and is known for his matches in various promotions. At ''ATTACK! Memento Mori'', an event promoted by Attack! Pro Wrestling on 18 November 2018, he teamed up with Chuck Mambo as "Nothing To Prove" and unsuccessfully challenged Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) and The Hunter Brothers (Jim Hunter & Lee Hunter) for the Attack! Tag Team Championship in a three-way tag team match. Progress Wrestling (2017–2019) He worked for Progress Wrestling, making appearances at their signature events such as the ''PROGRESS Chapter 76: Hello Wembley!'' from 30 September 2018, where he compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestle Peter Pan 2022
Wrestle Peter Pan 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on August 20, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ota City General Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. This was the fourteenth event in the Peter Pan series and the fourth promoted under the "Wrestle Peter Pan" name. The event featured nine matches with three of DDT's eight championships on the line. In the main event, Kazusada Higuchi defeated Tetsuya Endo to retain the KO-D Openweight Championship. Other prominent matches saw Yuki Ueno defeat Masahiro Takanashi to win the DDT Universal Championship, and Joey Janela defeated Shunma Katsumata in a Hardcore match to retain the DDT Extreme Championship. Production Background Since 2009, DDT began annually producing shows in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan held in the summer, following the promotions financial s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DDT Pro Wrestling
is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion based in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Its name stands for Dramatic Dream Team, which was the promotion's official name from 1997 to 2004. 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. In 2017, DDT was sold to CyberAgent. Takagi retained his position, while Takahiro Yamauchi took over as the new DDT director. DDT 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. DDT has had agreements with various MMA and professional wrestling promotions around the world. DDT's biggest event is Peter Pan, held each year since 2009. 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 matc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jun Kasai
(born September 9, 1974) is a Japanese professional wrestler, primarily competing for Pro Wrestling Freedoms. Dubbed the for his violent and often self-harmful style of hardcore wrestling, Kasai is considered a breakthrough talent in Japanese wrestling, able to work both hardcore and technical styles. Outside Freedoms, Kasai has worked for the original Pro Wrestling Zero-One, Hustle, Ice Ribbon, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) and Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW). Professional wrestling career In 1998, Kasai made his debut in a Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) event in Osaka during the Deathmatch Wrestling boom of the late 90s. As BJW established a working relationship with American promotion Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) at the turn of the millennium, Kasai joined the stable "CZW Warriors" (CZW Army) and feuded against the "BJW Warriors". Kasai formed the stable "Big Dealz" in 2001, with John Zandig, Nick Mondo, Wifebeater, Z-Barr and Trent Acid. Since then Kasai has wrestled ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcore Wrestling
Hardcore wrestling is a form of professional wrestling where disqualifications, count-outs, and all other different rules do not apply. Taking place in usual or unusual environments, hardcore wrestling matches allow the use of numerous items, including ladders, tables, chairs, thumbtacks, barbed wire, light tubes, shovels, baseball bats (sometimes wrapped in barbed wire), golf clubs, hammers, axe handles, chains, crowbars, wrenches, tongs, and other improvised weapons used as foreign objects. Although hardcore wrestling is a staple of most wrestling promotions, where they are often used at the climaxes of feuds, some promotions (such as Big Japan Pro Wrestling, International Wrestling Syndicate, IWA-MS, Game Changer Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling) specialize in hardcore wrestling, with many matches performed in this manner. Hardcore wrestling was first acknowledged as a major wrestling style in Japan with promotions such as Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and W*ING. It then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DDT 25th Anniversary
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochloride. Originally developed as an insecticide, it became infamous for its environmental impacts. DDT was first synthesized in 1874 by the Austrian chemist Othmar Zeidler. DDT's insecticidal action was discovered by the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller in 1939. DDT was used in the second half of World War II to limit the spread of the insect-borne diseases malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods". By October 1945, DDT was available for public sale in the United States. Although it was promoted by government and industry for use as an agricultural and household pesticide, there were also concerns about its use from the beginning. Opposition to DDT was focused by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestle Peter Pan 2021
Wrestle Peter Pan 2021 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on August 21, 2021, in Kawasaki, Japan, at the Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki. The event aired live on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. This was the thirteenth event in the Peter Pan series and the third promoted under the "Wrestle Peter Pan" name. This edition was also the first to take place outside of Tokyo. The event featured twelve matches. In the main event, Konosuke Takeshita defeated Jun Akiyama to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. Other prominent matches saw Daisuke Sasaki defeat Yuki Ueno to win the DDT Universal Championship, Chris Brookes and Jun Kasai defeat Shunma Katsumata and Mao in a hardcore match and the debuts of 18-year old Ilusion and 13-year old El Unicorn. Production Background Since 2009, DDT began annually producing shows in the Ryōgoku Kokugika ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanagawa
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanagawa Prefecture borders Tokyo to the north, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northwest and Shizuoka Prefecture to the west. Yokohama is the capital and largest city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Kawasaki, Sagamihara, and Fujisawa. Kanagawa Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast on Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay, separated by the Miura Peninsula, across from Chiba Prefecture on the Bōsō Peninsula. Kanagawa Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with Yokohama and many of its cities being major commercial hubs and southern suburbs of Tokyo. Kanagawa Prefecture was the political and economic center of Japan durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Economy of Japan, Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
