Saitama
Super DDT 2015
(2015/2/15)
1. Yoshihiko,
Antonio Honda, Great Kojika vs. Akebono, Toru Owashi, Kazuki Hirata
The
HIRATA GO! magical glasses fad goes on, this time with Bono in the mix.
Dancemania is on! Yoshihiko is scarier than ever! Akebono doubts himself!
GOLD
2. 12-PERSON
BATTLE ROYAL for Ironman Heavymetalweight
Championship: Kubo Yukamoto © vs. Yasu Urano vs. Shunma Katsumata © vs.
Yuto Aijima vs. Soma Takao © vs. Hikaru Sato © vs. Bernard Ackah vs. Tomomitsu
Matsunaga © vs. Zeus © vs. Saki Akai vs. Makoto Oishi © vs. Aja Kong ©
Ridiculous(ly
fun), which is always the case with these looney Ironman Title matches, this
time we had the cameraman jumping Aja Kong backstage to win the title, among
many other things that happened. Pure camp.
**1/2
3. RULE
RUMBLE for DDT Extreme Championship:
Shiori Asahi vs. Akito ©
The
Rule Rumble gimmick means the match rules change every 90 seconds, which led to
one of the most creative matches I’ve seen lately, this was top notch
entertainment.
***3/4
4. KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship:
Shuten-doji (KUDO, Yukio Sakaguchi, Masa Takanashi) vs. Gorgeous Matsuno,
Brahman Shu, Brahman Kei ©
Whacky
Brahmans style match, first there was some really funny brawling through the
crowd before calling it a day inside the ring, starring Sakaguchi and Matsuno,
they had a surprisingly competitive round. Fun stuff.
***1/4
5. 4-WAY
SUPER TLC MATCH: Daisuke Sasaki & Suguru Miyatake vs. MIKAMI & Shuji
Ishikawa vs. Shigehiro Irie & Keisuke Ishii vs. Sanshiro Takagi & Jun
Kasai
So
basically the point of the match was to promote DDT’s next outdoor show, and
the prize Takagi and Kasai won is the right to compete in a Street Wrestling
Match there. Hehe. The match wasn’t super spectacular and they didn’t exactly
break any new ground here, but damn it if it wasn’t tons of fun and charm. Cute
little match worth of your time.
***1/2
6. Michael
Nakazawa vs. Danshoku Dino
I
understand the stories they were telling, but I’ve never been a Nakazawa fan (probably
my least favorite puro guy ever) and Dino’s act can be very amusing, but more
than often it’s not. Again, though, I get it why they did what they did here,
but they bored the shit out of me because I don’t care for the participants.
bad
7. Super
Sasadango Machine vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
PowerPoint
presentation, hilarious slides, banana peels, three Lehman shocks, narrated
video packages… Vintage SSM!
wat
8. KO-D Tag Team Championship: Daisuke
Sekimoto & Yuji Okabayashi vs. Konosuke Takeshita & Tetsuya Endo ©
Marvelous
match with interesting booking where the Strong BJ duo proved to be a more
complete and experienced tag team, as they dominated majority of the match,
basically they slowed the pace down and were systematically wearing down the
Happy Motel duo in all the slow paced workovers. The only way for the young champions
to gain some advantage was through heroic comebacks and rapid fire shots, which
led to great tag team wrestling. Seriously, the entire thing was beautifully
booked in this clear cut piece of storytelling, and I hope we get all the
one-on-one match variations possible, matter fact they already booked
Endo/Okabayashi for February 21st to play off the finish from this
match. Fuck yes, DDT!
****1/2
9. KO-D Openweight Championship:
Kota Ibushi vs. HARASHIMA ©
Excellent
main event between DDT’s biggest stars, HARASHIMA’s long reign is in real
danger here against his biggest rival. This was a three act match: careful/defensive
grappling and SHIMA working on Kota’s mid-section in the beginning, the second
act was fighting on the entrance stage and the third one was calling it a day
slowly but surely, Kota didn’t give the champ another opportunity to damage his
mid-section and that’s what prevailed. They threw some very rough smacks at
each other and the finish was amazing.
****1/2
Awesome
show with loads of hot shot entertainment, DDT delivered again.
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