Into The Fight 2017

Into The Fight 2017
Promotional poster featuring Nobuhiro Shimatani, Harashima, Konosuke Takeshita and Dick Togo
Promotion	DDT Pro-Wrestling
Date	February 19, 2017
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Korakuen Hall
Attendance	1,280 [1]
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Into The Fight 2017 was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on February 19, 2017, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. ^{[2] [1]} The event aired domestically on Fighting TV Samurai. ^[3]

Storylines

Into The Fight 2017 featured eight professional wrestling matches involving wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. ^[4]

Event

During the event, Nobuhiro Shimatani defeated Gota Ihashi in a King of Dark Championship dark match. Contrary to regular professional wrestling titles, this one is awarded to the loser of the match who is then forced to wrestle in dark matches. Having lost the bout, Ihashi was declared the new champion.

The team of Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi, Kazuki Hirata and Saki Akai defeated Michael Nakazawa, Masahiro Takanashi, Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Cherry in a Loser Exiled Overseas match, thus forcing Nakazawa to leave Japan.

Next was a three-way match for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship. The champion going into the match was a kotatsu table in its second reign as champion after having accidentally pinned the former champion Hyota Echizenya during a brawl caused by Dai Suzuki and Gota Ihashi. During the match, Antonio Honda was defeated when he swung the kotatsu table into the ropes and it bounced back landing on top of him for the pinfall.

The next match saw the participation of Yoshihiro Takayama. ^[5]

Results

No.	Results [6] [7]	Stipulations	Times [2]
1D	Nobuhiro Shimatani (c) defeated Gota Ihashi	Singles match for the King of Dark Championship	05:01
2	Smile Squash (Akito, Soma Takao and Yasu Urano) defeated NωA (Makoto Oishi, Mao and Shunma Katsumata) and Guanchulo, Kouki Iwasaki and Mizuki Watase	Three-way match	08:07
3	T2Hii (Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi and Kazuki Hirata) and Saki Akai defeated Michael Nakazawa, Masahiro Takanashi, Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Cherry	Loser Exiled Overseas eight-person tag team match	10:08
4	Kotatsu (c) defeated Keisuke Ishii and Antonio Honda	Three-way match for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship	09:01
5	Yoshihiro Takayama and Kazusada Higuchi defeated Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki and Mad Paulie)	Tag team match	10:04
6	Danshoku "Bin Bin" Dino vs. Colt "Boom Boom" Cabana ended in a no contest	Singles match	09:23
7	Tetsuya Endo defeated Yukio Sakaguchi	Singles match	12:39
8	Harashima and Kudo defeated Konosuke Takeshita and Dick Togo	Tag team match	20:54
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match D  – this was a dark match

References

1. "DDT Into The Fight 2017". Cagematch.net. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
2. "DDT Into the Fight 2017". Wrestlingdata.com. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
3. Malkavar, Gin (February 22, 2017). "DDT Results: "Into the Fight 2017" (February 19)". solowrestling.mundodeportivo.com (in Spanish). Retrieved April 18, 2021.
4. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
5. Dark Angel (February 20, 2017). "DDT: Results "Into The Fight 2017" - 19/02/2017 - The company is ready for the celebration of 20 years of existence". superluchas.com. Retrieved December 25, 2022.
6. Into The Fight 2017. DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved February 8, 2021.
7. Zohash Wrestling (February 19, 2017). "DDT INTO THE FIGHT 2017 19 FEB 2017 MATCHES AND RESULTS". zohash.com. Retrieved December 25, 2022.^{[ dead link ‍]}

External links

• The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website