Into The Fight 2020

Into The Fight 2020
Promotional poster featuring most of the participants
Promotion	DDT Pro-Wrestling
Date	February 23, 2020
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Korakuen Hall
Attendance	1,194 [1]
Event chronology
← Previous Ultimate Party 2019 Next → Judgment 2020
Into The Fight chronology
← Previous 2019 Next → 2021

Into The Fight 2020 was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on February 23, 2020, 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 2020 featured seven 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

The third match on the card was dubbed "We Are A Family Six-Man Tag Team Match" and featured Danshoku Dino, Super Sasadango Machine, Yasu Urano, Shinya Aoki, Hiroshi Yamato, Kazuki Hirata and referee Yukinori Matsui all wearing Sasadango masks in order to prevent Dino from kissing his opponents amidst the recent coronavirus pandemic. During the matches, the identical masks quickly caused confusion as some participants started tagging in their opponents instead of their partners. After a brawl took all six participants in the hallway surrounding the hall, they re-entered the ring only to realize they were now seven. Everyone started to unmask to confirm their identities. A few seconds after the seventh man, "Someone", unmasked, the lights went out, the wrestlers disappeared and the match was declared invalid.

During the eight-person elimination tag team match, Akito eliminated Daisuke Sasaki with a Schoolboy. Sasaki was the holder of the Right to Challenge at Saitama Super Arena Sword which he had won at Sweet Dreams! 2020, on January 26. The sword granted its holder the right to challenge the KO-D Openweight Champion at Wrestle Peter Pan 2020, at the Saitama Super Arena, on June 7, but it could change hands anytime its holder was defeated in an official match. As a result of that elimination, Akito was declared the new holder of the sword. However, seconds after, Tetsuya Endo submitted Akito to eliminate him, winning both the match and the sword.

Next, British wrestler Chris Brookes won the inaugural DDT Universal Championship by defeating Konosuke Takeshita. This title was created as part of DDT's plans to expand internationally and reach a larger audience. After the match, as Brookes was addressing the fans, Daisuke Sasaki attacked him from behind with a chair and stole the belt.

In the main event, Masato Tanaka successfully defended the KO-D Openweight Championship against Mao before challenging Konosuke Takeshita at a future event.

Results

No.	Results [2] [1]	Stipulations	Times
1	Mad Paulie defeated Yukio Naya and Keigo Nakamura	Three-way match	02:35
2	Eruption (Kazusada Higuchi, Yukio Sakaguchi and Saki Akai) defeated Disaster Box (Toru Owashi and Naomi Yoshimura) and Mizuki Watase	Six-person tag team match	08:20
3	Danshoku Dino, Super Sasadango Machine and Yasu Urano vs. Shinya Aoki, Hiroshi Yamato and Kazuki Hirata ended in a no contest	Six-man tag team match	08:58
4	Cima and Soma Takao (with Mad Paulie) defeated Masahiro Takanashi and Makoto Oishi and Disaster Box (Harashima and Yuki Ueno)	Three-way tag team match	09:22
5	Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki and Tetsuya Endo) and #StrongHearts (T-Hawk and El Lindaman) (with Mad Paulie and Soma Takao) defeated All Out (Akito, Shunma Katsumata and Yuki Iino) and Chihiro Hashimoto	Eight-person elimination tag team match	15:30
6	Chris Brookes defeated Konosuke Takeshita	Singles match for the inaugural DDT Universal Championship	19:26
7	Masato Tanaka (c) defeated Mao	Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship	21:49
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Eight-person elimination tag team match

Eliminated	Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
1	Shunma Katsumata	El Lindaman	Pinfall	04:41
2	Chihiro Hashimoto	El Lindaman	Over the top rope	12:09
3	El Lindaman	Chihiro Hashimoto	Over the top rope	12:09
4	Yuki Iino	Daisuke Sasaki	Pinfall	14:04
5	Daisuke Sasaki	Akito [lower-alpha 1]	Pinfall	14:10
6	Akito	Tetsuya Endo [lower-alpha 2]	Submission	15:30
Survivors	Tetsuya Endo and T-Hawk

Footnotes

1. Akito won the Right to Challenge at Saitama Super Arena Sword.
2. Endo won the Right to Challenge at Saitama Super Arena Sword.

References

1. "DDT Into The Fight 2020". Cagematch.net. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
2. "Into The Fight 2020". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved February 23, 2020.
3. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2017.

External links

• The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website