Into The Fight 2019

Into The Fight 2019
Promotional poster featuring various wrestlers
Promotion	DDT Pro-Wrestling
Date	March 21, 2019
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Korakuen Hall
Attendance	1,433 [1]
Event chronology
← Previous Judgment 2019 Next → Peter Pan 2019
Into The Fight chronology
← Previous 2018 Next → 2020

Into The Fight 2019 was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on March 21, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. ^{[2] [1]} The event aired domestically on Fighting TV Samurai and AbemaTV, and globally on DDT Universe, DDT's video-on-demand service.

Storylines

Into The Fight 2019 featured ten 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. ^[3]

Event

During the event, Michael Nakazawa had his final match before going to All Elite Wrestling. Originally, the match was supposed to be a five-on-one handicap match in which Nakazawa would face the team of Sanshiro Takagi, Masahiro Takanashi, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Keisuke Okuda and Hiroshi Yamato. However, during the match, Yamato hit Nakazawa with a "Sliding X" and pinned him for the win in only 18 seconds. Nakazawa was granted a rematch which he lost when Okuda submitted him with a cross armbreaker in 25 seconds. Eventually, all the participants agreed to change the match to a regular six-man tag team match that Nakazawa's team won.

The event also saw the two main multi-competitor titles change hands; Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling (Meiko Satomura, Dash Chisako and Chihiro Hashimoto) won the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship from All Out (Konosuke Takeshita, Akito and Yuki Iino), and Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki and Soma Takao) captured the KO-D Tag Team Championship from Moonlight Express (Mike Bailey and Mao).

The main event was a two-out-of-three falls match between Harashima and Muscle Sakai where each fall was competed under different rules. In the first fall, the competitors were playing a game of Daruma-san ga Koronda while wrestling. Whenever the phrase "Daruma-san ga Koronda!" (だるまさんが転んだ!, lit. "The Daruma Fell Over!") was shouted into the microphone, both wrestlers had to freeze. Failing to do so would result in a strike and the first one to get three strikes would be disqualified. Muscle Sakai won the first fall when Harashima got his third strike. In the second fall, both wrestlers had to constantly have a conversation with another person on their phones. Interrupting the call for three seconds would result in a disqualification. Harashima won the fall when Sakai's phone got knocked out of his hands and he failed to retrieve it in time. The final fall could only be won by getting pinned by the opponent for a three-count. Harashima won the fall when he kicked Sakai in the head and Sakai fell on top of him for the unintentional pin. As a result, Harashima retained the DDT Extreme Division Championship. ^[4]

Results

No.	Results [2] [1]	Stipulations	Times
1P	Shunma Katsumata defeated Mizuki Watase	Singles match	05:42
2	Bull James, Kota Umeda and Naomi Yoshimura defeated Damnation (Tetsuya Endo, Mad Paulie and Nobuhiro Shimatani)	Six-man tag team match	14:49
3	Sanshiro Takagi, Masahiro Takanashi, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Keisuke Okuda and Hiroshi Yamato defeated Michael Nakazawa	Five-on-one handicap match	00:18
4	Sanshiro Takagi, Masahiro Takanashi, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Keisuke Okuda and Hiroshi Yamato defeated Michael Nakazawa by submission	Five-on-one handicap match	00:25
5	Nuru Nuru Brothers (Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga) and Masahiro Takanashi defeated Sanshiro Takagi, Keisuke Okuda and Hiroshi Yamato	Six-man tag team match	08:50
6	Makoto Oishi, Antonio Honda and Asuka (with Furitsuke Kamen) defeated Disaster Box (Toru Owashi and Kazuki Hirata) and Saki Akai	Six-person tag team match	08:27
7	Riki Choshu, Kazusada Higuchi and Yuki Ueno defeated Shuten-dōji (Kudo and Yukio Sakaguchi) and Gota Ihashi	Six-man tag team match	09:26
8	Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling (Meiko Satomura, Dash Chisako and Chihiro Hashimoto) defeated All Out (Konosuke Takeshita, Akito and Yuki Iino) (c)	Six-person tag team match for the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship	15:34
9	Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki and Soma Takao) defeated Moonlight Express (Mike Bailey and Mao) (c)	Tag team match for the KO-D Tag Team Championship	14:52
10	Harashima (c) defeated Muscle Sakai (2–1)	Two-out-of-three falls hardcore match for the DDT Extreme Division Championship	13:35
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match P  – the match was broadcast on the pre-show

References

1. "DDT Into The Fight 2019". Cagematch.net. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
2. "Into the Fight 2019". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved March 4, 2020.
3. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
4. Dark angel (March 28, 2019). "DDT: "Into the Fight 2019" goodbye Nakazawa, message from Kenny Omega". superluchas.com. Retrieved April 18, 2021.

External links

• The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website