Dramatic Dream Team

Dramatic Dream Team

Industry	Sports entertainment
Founded	1997
Founder(s)	Sanshiro Takagi
Headquarters	Shinjuku, Tokyo, JA
Area served	Japan
Owner(s)	Sanshiro Takagi
Website	www.ddtpro.com

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 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. DDT is in many ways a parody of American pro wrestling, particularly World Wrestling Entertainment, using over-the-top gimmicks (most notably Danshoku Dino) as well as unique match types including a hardcore match 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).

Championships

DDT currently has 5 recognized championships^[1], the top titles being the KO-D (King of DDT) championships.

Championship	Current champion(s)	Defeated	Date won	Location
DDT KO-D Openweight Championship	KUDO	Shuji Ishikawa	July 24, 2011	Tokyo, Japan
DDT KO-D Tag Team Championship	Keisuke Ishii and Shigehiro Irie	Danshoku Dino and Makoto Oishi	October 10, 2011	Sapporo, Japan
DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship	Gorgeous Matsuno	Michael Nakazawa	August 28, 2011	Tokyo, Japan
DDT Extreme Division Championship	El Generico	Isami Kodaka	September 19, 2011	Tokyo, Japan
DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship	Great Kojika, Mr. #6 and Riho	Antonio Honda, KUDO and Yasu Urano	July 25, 2010	Tokyo, Japan
Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship (also recognized by Big Japan and El Dorado among others)	Marines Mask II	GENTARO	April 2, 2010	Tokyo, Japan
UWA World Trios Championship	HARASHIMA, Touru Owashi and Yukihiro Abe	Hikaru Sato, Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga	December 26, 2010	Tokyo, Japan

The DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship

The Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship is defended anywhere against anyone, even during non-title matches or tag team matches, under 24/7 rules^[2] (if there is an official DDT referee present, the title can be won and lost), and unlike other Ironman championships does not need to be defended under 'Ironman' rules. The 24/7 'rule' is more-or-less a parody to the same rules that applied to the WWE Hardcore Championship. It is treated as a 'joke' championship, having two wrestlers, Yuukoh Miyamoto and Shinobi, exchange the belt 62 times with each other in one night (some of those title changes via Rock, Paper, Scissors) and being won from a wrestling fan winning an auction for the belt. Notable "champions" also include a dog and a ladder.

A regular match in DDT for the title is a 10-minute battle royal where the title can change hands any number of times, and the person who has the belt when the time limit expires can leave as champion. This is ironic in itself, as due to the 24/7 rules, the champion could be defeated for the belt right after the match finishes.

Former Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship holders

To date (May 2011), there have been over 900 title changes for the belt, which has been won by numerous female wrestlers and non-wrestlers, including children, animals and inanimate objects.

Current Wrestlers

• Cherry(wrestler)-Female Wrestler
• Daisuke Sasaki
• Danshoku Dino
• Dick Togo
• HARASHIMA
• Ken Ohka
• Kota Ibushi
• KUDO
• Masa Takanahashi
• Michael Nakazawa
• Muscle Sakai
• Poison Sawada JULIE

Animals

• Yatchan - A monkey
• Cocolo - A miniature Dachshund dog.

Inanimate objects

• Kitty-Chan - a stuffed 'Hello Kitty' doll
• Mah-Kun - another stuffed doll, who defeated 'Kitty-Chan' for the belt
• A baseball bat - lost the belt after being broken in half as a 'KO' decision
• Three different ladders - each fell on the champion and a pinfall was counted, with some successfully defending the title by not being pinned during the time limit battle royal matches.
• Chiririn - a chicken doll
• Mr. Kasai - a stuffed Jun Kasai doll. Mr. Kasai has won the belt twice.
• A Pro Wrestling Wave poster.
• YOSHIHIKO - An inflatable 'love doll'. Wrestlers treat it as if it actually was an active wrestler, and actually sell moves "done" by him/her, mostly high flying moves. For some moves, like outside dives, YOSHIHIKO is helped by one or more assistants, who throw him out of the ring, pull his foot on the ropes, etc. Opposing wrestlers make like those assistants are not there and are part of YOSHIHIKO. The original YOSHIHIKO was 'killed' by an Antonio Honda knee drop which caused its head to burst open, and was replaced by a second YOSHIHIKO, who is also a 'love doll', only modified to resemble the Great Muta. The second YOSHIHIKO was killed by Kenny Omega by a giant swing that sent YOSHIHIKO out of the ring, thus splitting his head open and revealing cotton stuffing. Later on in that match however, a third YOSHIHIKO came out resembling The Undertaker's old American Bad Ass gimmick, even using the same theme music. Following that match, the third YOSHIHIKO was shot to death by Antonio Honda. A fourth YOSHIHIKO, resembling Hulk Hogan, debuted shorty afterwards.

Non-existent

• Misutero - An "invisible wrestler" i.e. non-existent. Opponents sell moves of a wrestler who isn't there, and the title is held by nothing and no-one but the wrestlers and referees act as if they can see and pin the "invisible wrestler". Muscle Sakai "won" the title from this "invisible wrestler" by using a "ray gun" and "infrared visor" to shoot the "invisible wrestler", winning the belt on a KO decision.

Notes

1. ^ Pro-Wrestling Title Histories: Dramatic Dream Team
2. ^ Ironman Heavymetalweight Title

External links

• http://www.ddtpro.com - Official DDT website
• http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/ - Title history of all DDT championships