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Into The Fight 2016
Into The Fight 2016 was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on February 28, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. The event featured eight matches with three championships at stake and was headlined by a match between Shigehiro Irie and Harashima that would determine the first contender to the KO-D Openweight Championship then held by Isami Kodaka. The event aired domestically on Fighting TV Samurai. Storylines Into The Fight 2016 featured eight professional wrestling matches involving wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. Event Pre-show In the pre-show, a dark match saw the team of Mizuki Watase and Kota Umeda take on Hiroshi Fukuda and Guanchulo in an attempt to get rid of the King of Dark Championship. Contrary to regular profess ... [...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 matche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heel (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a ''rudo'' in '' lucha libre'') is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters. Not everything a heel wrestler does must be villainous: heels need only to be booed or jeered by the audience to be effective characters, although most truly successful heels embrace other aspects of their devious personalities, such as cheating to win or using foreign objects. "The role of a heel is to get 'heat,' which means spurring the crowd to obstreperous hatred, and generally involves cheating and pretty much any other manner of socially unacceptable behavior that will get the job done." To gain heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise taking advantage of their opponents outside the bounds of the standards of the match. Others do not (or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Package
In wrestling, a pin is achieved by holding an opponent's shoulders to the mat for a three count. Pinfall is the term used in professional wrestling which is a way to win the match for that person or team. Background A pinfall is a victory condition in various forms of professional wrestling that is met by holding (pinning) an opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat, usually until the referee counts to three. In professional wrestling, a pinfall is a common method of winning a match. The origin of the pinfall is the pin from amateur wrestling, whereby pinning an opponent to the mat will result in a victory despite any points scored. However, while an amateur wrestling pin need be only one or two seconds, the count in professional wrestling is based on the referee's arm gestures, regardless of how much actual time elapses, and is to three slaps of the mat. The count is broken (a near-fall) if the opponent manages to raise one or both of their shoulders off the mat, commonly by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shunma Katsumata
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2014–present) Katsumata is known for tenures with various Japanese professional wrestling promotions. On October 10, 2017 at Pro Wrestling Noah's The Great Voyage 2017 In Yokohama, he teamed up with Mao as a part of New Wrestling Aidoru and unsuccessfully challenged Ratel's ( Hayata and Yo-Hey) for the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. He took part in an cross-over event between DDT and Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling, at the DDT/Sendai Girls All Out X show on June 24, 2019 where he teamed up with Konosuke Takeshita and Yuki Iino as part of ALL OUT to defeat Dash Chisako, Chihiro Hashimoto and Meiko Satomura in a six-person intergender tag team match to win the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship. On March 4, 2018, he worked a match during the Wrestle-1's Cherry Blossom Tour in which he lost to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazusada Higuchi
is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2014–present) Higuchi made his professional wrestling debut at DDT Pro-Wrestling's ''DDT Dramatic Fanclub Vol. 1'', event from October 18, 2014, where he defeated Kota Umeda. He worked a match at ''BJW/DDT/K-DOJO Toshikoshi Pro-Wrestling 2015'', a cross-over event held between Big Japan Pro-Wrestling, DDT, and Kaientai Dojo from December 31, where he teamed up with Yoshihisa Uto, falling short to Harashima and Yuko Miyamoto in the Shuffle Tag Tournament. Higuchi participated in the Block B of the Pro Wrestling Noah 2018 Global League, where he scored 6 points after facing Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya, Muhammad Yone, Takashi Sugiura, Atsushi Kotoge, Maybach Taniguchi and Cody Hall. At ''TJP The God Of Pro Wrestling - My Arms Fell!'' event of Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling from December 27, 2018, Higu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship
The is a professional wrestling championship owned by the DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) promotion. The title was first announced during DDT's year-end event on December 23, 2012, becoming the promotion's fifth active title. The first champions were crowned on January 12, 2013. The title has also been defended in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) as part of a relationship between DDT and AJPW. The championship is contested for by teams of three wrestlers. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won as a result of a scripted match. , there have been 48 reigns shared among 55 wrestlers and 35 teams. The title is currently held by Naruki Doi, Toru Owashi and Kazuki Hirata who are in their first reign as a team. History DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) had previously promoted matches for the Jiyugaoka 6-Person Tag Team Championship, the Sea Of Japan 6-Person Tag Team Championship and the UWA World Trios Championship, but although all three titles were last held by DDT wrestlers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuki Hirata
is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). Professional wrestling career DDT Pro-Wrestling (2010-present) Hirata's first known match as a professional wrestler was a loss against Keisuke Ishii for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship at Judgement 2010 on March 14, 2010, however, he is known to have previously defeated Michael Nakazawa at a promotion's house show on February 28, 2010 to win the title. He is known for his affiliation with various stables such as T2Hii in which he paired with Sanshiro Takagi and Toru Owashi to win the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship at Dramatic General Election 2014 Final Voting Day - Last Hope Special on September 28, 2014 from Team Dream Futures (Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie and Soma Takao). The other stable he took part in is Disaster Box, and he teamed up with fellow stablemates Toru Owashi and Yuki Ueno to unsuccessfully challenge Damnation (Mad Paulie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toru Owashi
is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name . He is best known for his work in DDT Pro-Wrestling, where he is a former KO-D Openweight Championship, KO-D Openweight Champion and two time KO-D Tag Team Championship, KO-D Tag Team Champion. Professional wrestling career Initially aspiring to become a sumo wrestler like his father, Ito joined the Wakamatsu stable and adopted the shikona of Asa Ito, which he later changed to Asawashi, meaning "Morning Eagle" in Japanese. However, he ended up leaving the sport due to a recurrent knee injury in January 1999. He worked as a chef until joining the Toryumon (Último Dragón), Ultimo Dragon Gym in order to become a professional wrestler. Toryumon (2000–2004) He made his debut under his real name on September 2, 2000 in Mexico. He soon adopted the name of Toru Owashi and the character of a strong, Heel (professional wrestling), villainous loner. After being moved along with his entire class to Toryumon 2000 Project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanshiro Takagi
, better known by his ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler. Takagi's gimmick is that he is Stone Cold Steve Austin. He is known in Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) and around the micro-indy scene for his hilarious promos and natural charisma as well as his extensive use of comedy in his matches. He is the president of DDT and has also worked as the chief executive officer of Wrestle-1. He became the new president of Pro Wrestling Noah when CyberAgent purchased the company. Career Takagi was trained by Goro Tsurumi and started at his International Pro Wrestling revival promotion, IWA Kakuto Shijuku. Soon, however, Takagi broke off, seeing that IWAKS's limited exposure would only limit him to be an independent wrestler, in 1997 he formed DDT (Dramatic Dream Team), which not only would promote in Tokyo (as opposed to Tsurumi's Chigasaki, Kanagawa base), but also be based on the entertainment wrestling kingpin of the day, World Wrestling Entertainment. Since then Takagi's show h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pin (professional Wrestling)
In wrestling, a pin is achieved by holding an opponent's shoulders to the mat for a three count. Pinfall is the term used in professional wrestling which is a way to win the match for that person or team. Background A pinfall is a victory condition in various forms of professional wrestling that is met by holding (pinning) an opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat, usually until the referee counts to three. In professional wrestling, a pinfall is a common method of winning a match. The origin of the pinfall is the pin from amateur wrestling, whereby pinning an opponent to the mat will result in a victory despite any points scored. However, while an amateur wrestling pin need be only one or two seconds, the count in professional wrestling is based on the referee's arm gestures, regardless of how much actual time elapses, and is to three slaps of the mat. The count is broken (a near-fall) if the opponent manages to raise one or both of their shoulders off the mat, commonly by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of Dark Championship
The was a professional wrestling championship created by Amon Tsurumi. The champion was forced to wrestle exclusively in dark matches on DDT shows. Contrary to regular professional wrestling championships, the title was not rewarded to the winner of the match, but was given to the loser instead. Title history List of combined reigns In the context of this title rules, a defense means a loss. See also *Dramatic Dream Team *Professional wrestling in Japan Professional wrestling in Japan has existed for many years. The first Japanese to involve himself in catch wrestling, the basis of traditional professional wrestling, was former sumo wrestler Sorakichi Matsuda. There were subsequent attempts before ... References {{King of Dark Championship DDT Pro-Wrestling championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Match
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence of fans so as not to reveal the nature of the business. Into the 21st century, widespread discussion on the Internet has popularized these terms. Many of the terms refer to the financial aspects of professional wrestling in addition to in-ring terms. A B C D E F G H I J K L M mic work, mic skills, microphone work The ability to generate reaction from the audience using words, and generally by spea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
