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Dramatic Dream Team
AcronymDDT
Founded1997
StyleSports Entertainment
HeadquartersJapan
Founder(s)Sanshiro Takagi
Owner(s)Sanshiro Takagi

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 sleaze 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.

Championships

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

  • DDT KO-D Openweight Championship – Koo (won June 3, 2007)
  • DDT KO-D Tag Team Championship – Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Michael Nakazawa (won April 1, 2007)
  • DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship – Kazuhiko Ogasawara (won September 26 2007) Belt Changed hands during a battle royal.
  • DDT Extreme Division Championship – Danshoku Dino (won November 3 2007)
  • DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship – Dorian Sawada Julie, Mango Fukuda and Toru Momowashi (won June 3 2007)

A notable KO-D Openweight Championship holder has been Dick Togo [2]. The Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship is defended anywhere against anyone, even during non-title matches or tag team matches, under 24/7 rules[3] (if there is an official DDT referee present, the title can be won and lost). This is more-or-less a parody to the same rules applied to the WWE Hardcore Championship. It is treated as a 'joke' championship, having been won by numerous female wrestlers and non-wrestlers (including children, animals and inanimate objects), having 2 wrestlers exchange the belt 62 times with each other in one night and being won from a wrestling fan winning an auction for the belt. The Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship is for teams of two male wrestlers and one female wrestler.

Former Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship holders include:

  • Erika Yamakawa - a female celebrity
  • A TV cameraman working for DDT
  • Sayoko Mita - a female newscaster for a cable television station
  • President Ramu - a little girl with the ability to chokeslam adults
  • W*ING Kanemura, Madman Pondo, J.C. Bailey and 2 Tuff Tony - noted hardcore/death-match wrestlers
  • Kitty-Chan - a stuffed 'Hello Kitty' doll
  • Mah-Kun - another stuffed doll, who defeated 'Kitty-Chan' for the belt
  • The chief chef of the Yakeyama Springs Inn where wrestlers were fighting in
  • A taxi driver
  • Kazuki Okubo, mixed martial artist, lost the belt during a subsequent MMA bout to Takashi Echigo
  • Kikutaro
  • A baseball bat
  • The Great Mampuku and AD Yamamoto - both characters from a TV show for children
  • Yatchan - A monkey
  • Three different ladders, which all fell on the champion during matches and a pinfall was counted
  • A miniature Dachshund dog called Cocolo

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/
  2. ^ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/kod-o.html
  3. ^ http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/ironman-hm.html
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