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DDT Pro

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Poster

Established
1997 (27 years old)

First Recorded Event

Current Season
2022

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Location
Japan

Gender
Mixed

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Results

Dramatic Infinity Tour In Sapparo Day 1 (18 Sep 24)

Dramatic Infinity Tour In Shiroishi Tetsuya Endo Homecoming (17 Sep 24)

Dramatic Infinity Tour In Osaka Takeshi Masada Homecoming (09 Sep 24)

Friendship Effort and Victory In Nagoya (08 Sep 24)

Meet and Greet and Fight In September (07 Sep 24)

Summer Vacation Memories Tour In Yokohama (17 Aug 24)

Beer Garden Fight In Shinjuku Day 1 (15 Aug 24)

GCW (12 Aug 24)

After Peter Pan In Nagoya Day 2 (01 Aug 24)

After Peter Pan In Nagoya Day 1 (31 Jul 24)

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DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDTプロレスリング, DDT Puroresuringu) 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 matches. 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).

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.

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