Dramatic Dream Team

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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.

[edit] Championships

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

• DDT KO-D Openweight Championship – Dick Togo (won May 6, 2008)
• DDT KO-D Tag Team Championship – MIKAMI & Tanomusaku Toba (won April 11, 2008)
• DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship – Kazuhiko Ogasawara (won September 26, 2007, won in battle royal)
• DDT Extreme Division Championship – Danshoku Dino (won November 3, 2007)
• DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship (for teams of two male wrestlers and one female wrestler) – Vacant (since June 3, 2007)

DDT also recognizes the Indepndent Junior Heavyweight Championship (also promoted by Big Japan and El Dorado among others), currently held by Ibushi Kota (since August 26, 2007)

A notable KO-D Openweight Championship holder has been Dick Togo ^[2].

[edit] 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^[3] (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 2 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.

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.

[edit] Former Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship holders

To date, there have been over 700 title changes for the belt, with Gorgeous Matsuno becoming the 700th champion, and has been won by numerous female wrestlers and non-wrestlers, including children, animals and inanimate objects.

[edit] Wrestlers

• Kikutaro
• President Ramu - a 'possessed' little girl with the ability to chokeslam adults
• W*ING Kanemura
• Madman Pondo
• JC Bailey
• 2 Tuff Tony
• Yuki Miyazaki - A female wrestler
• Muscle Sakai

[edit] Non-wrestlers

• Erika Yamakawa - a female celebrity
• A TV cameraman working for DDT
• Sayoko Mita - a female newscaster for a cable television station
• The chief chef of the Yakeyama Springs Inn where wrestlers were fighting in
• A taxi driver
• Shimon Nagao - A fan picked from the audience
• Kazuki Okubo, mixed martial artist, lost the belt during a subsequent MMA bout to Takashi Echigo
• The Great Mampuku and AD Yamamoto - both characters from a TV show for children
• Megumi Grace Asano - A referee
• Reiji Azuma - An elementary school boy
• Airi Ueda, Shiori Takahashi, & Minami Tanabe - Three elementary school girls, recognized together as co-champions

[edit] Animals

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

[edit] 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, which all fell on the champion and a pinfall was counted

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Pro-Wrestling Title Histories: Dramatic Dream Team
2. ^ KO-D (King Of DDT) Open-weight Title
3. ^ Ironman Heavymetalweight Title

[edit] External links

• http://www.ddtpro.com - Official DDT website
• http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/ - Title history of all DDT championships
• http://www.puroresufan.com/ddt/index.php - Fansite with results, roster

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