Sweet Dreams! 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on January 29, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the

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. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. Nine matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show, and three of DDT's nine

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were on the line. The main event saw Yuji Hino defeat Kazusada Higuchi to win the

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for the second time. In other prominent matches, ShunMao (

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and Shunma Katsumata) successfully defended the KO-D Tag Team Championship against Omega ( Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi), and

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( Tetsuya Endo, Kotaro Suzuki and Yusuke Okada) defeated Pheromones ( Yuki "Sexy" Iino, Danshoku "Dandy" Dino and Koju "Shiningball" Takeda) to retain the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

Production

Background

The event featured nine

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that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed

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, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Event

The preshow portraited a comedic No fee rumble match featuring cosplayers of various popular wrestlers from other consecrated promotions such as Drew McIntyre, Luke Gallows, Great-O-Khan,

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or Tiger Mask. It was won by

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who last eliminated Sanshiro Takagi. The first match of the main card saw Kanon and

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picking up a victory over the teams of Disasterbox ( Kazuki Hirata and Toru Owashi), Akito and Antonio Honda, and Yuki Ishida and Yuya Koroku in four-way tag team action. Next,

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defeated Kazuma Sumi and Keigo Nakamura defeated Takeshi Masada in the first ever edition of the D Generations Cup, the successor of the former and folded

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. Next, The37Kamiina (

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and

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) and Shinya Aoki defeated Hikaru Machida, Thanomsak Toba and

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in six-man tag team action. Another six-action saw Chris Brookes, Harashima and Yukio Naya defeating Jun Akiyama, DDT Universal Champion Naruki Doi and Soma Takao. On the seventh bout of the event, Tetsuya Endo, Kotaro Suzuki and Yusuke Okada marked their first successful defense of the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship against Pheromones ( Danshoku Dino,

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and

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). In the semi main event,

and Shunma Katsumata secured their first defense of the KO-D Tag Team Championship against Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi. In the main event, Yuji Hino defeated Kazusada Higuchi to win the

for the second time in his career, ending the latter's reign at 210 days.

Results

Notes

References

External links

The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website
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