Wrestle Peter Pan 2022

Wrestle Peter Pan 2022
Promotional poster featuring Kazusada Higuchi
Promotion	CyberFight
Brand(s)	DDT
Date	August 20, 2022
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Ota City General Gymnasium
Attendance	1,250 [1]
Tagline(s)	DDT does not shy away from "strength". [lower-alpha 1]
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Wrestle Peter Pan 2022 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on August 20, 2022, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Ota City General Gymnasium. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. This was the fourteenth event in the Peter Pan series and the fourth promoted under the "Wrestle Peter Pan" name.

The event featured nine matches with three of DDT's nine championships on the line. In the main event, Kazusada Higuchi defeated Tetsuya Endo to retain the KO-D Openweight Championship. Other prominent matches saw Yuki Ueno defeat Masahiro Takanashi to win the DDT Universal Championship, and Joey Janela defeated Shunma Katsumata in a Hardcore match to retain the DDT Extreme Championship. ^[2]

Production

Background

Since 2009, DDT began annually producing shows in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan held in the summer, following the promotions financial success of the first event. This led to the event becoming DDT's premier annual event and one of the biggest event on the independent circuit of Japanese wrestling. Since 2019, the event was renamed "Wrestle Peter Pan".

Storylines

The event featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where 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 show portraited three title matches, one of them marking a title change. The first one saw Joey Janela retaining the DDT Extreme Championship against Shunma Katsumata to secure his fourth consecutive defense. Yuki Ueno succeeded in winning the DDT Universal Championship for the second time in his career after defeating Masahiro Takanashi. The main event saw Kazusada Higuchi defending the KO-D Openweight Championship for the first time against Tetsuya Endo who relinquished the title one month earlier due to injury, with this being considered his rightful rematch. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Results

No.	Results [7]	Stipulations	Times [1]
1	Burning (Yusuke Okada and Yuya Koroku) and Ilusion defeated Toui Kojima, Yuki Ishida and Takeshi Masada by pinfall	Six-man tag team match [8]	9:11
2	Pheromones (Yuki "Sexy" Iino, Danshoku "Dandy" Dino and Koju "Shiningball" Takeda) (with Yumehito "Fantastic" Imanari) defeated Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya and Super Sasadango Machine and Disaster Box (Toru Owashi and Kazuki Hirata) and Antonio Honda by pinfall	Three-way match [8]	12:18
3	Harashima and Eruption (Yukio Sakaguchi and Hideki Okatani) defeated Naomi Yoshimura, Kota Umeda and Keisuke Okuda by pinfall	Six-man tag team match [8]	12:44
4	Osamu Nishimura, Makoto Oishi and Akito defeated Shinichiro Kawamatsu, Sanshiro Takagi and Soma Takao by pinfall	Six-man tag team match [9]	14:47
5	Jun Akiyama and Saki Akai defeated Chris Brookes and Asuka by pinfall	Mixed tag team match [10]	15:21
6	Joey Janela (c) defeated Shunma Katsumata by pinfall	Hardcore match for the DDT Extreme Championship [11]	18:56
7	Yuki Ueno defeated Masahiro Takanashi (c) by pinfall	Singles match for the DDT Universal Championship [8]	14:26
8	The 37Kamiina (Konosuke Takeshita and Mao) and Yasu Urano defeated Dick Togo and Damnation T.A (Daisuke Sasaki and Kanon) (with MJ Paul) by pinfall	Six-man tag team match [8]	20:41
9	Kazusada Higuchi (c) defeated Tetsuya Endo by pinfall	Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship [8]	25:24
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match

Notes

1. Japanese: ＤＤＴは〝強さ〟から逃げない。, Hepburn: DDT wa "tsuyosa" kara nigenai.

References

1. Kreikenbohm, Philip (August 20, 2022). "DDT Wrestle Peter Pan 2022". cagematch.net. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
2. Dark Angelita (August 24, 2022). "DDT: «Wrestle Peter Pan 2022» Kazusada Higuchi es el monarca máximo". Superluchas.com (in Spanish). Retrieved August 24, 2022.
3. Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
4. Jake R. (August 25, 2022). "DDT WRESTLE PETER PAN 2022 (AUGUST 20) RESULTS & REVIEW". voicesofwrestling.com. Retrieved December 24, 2022.
5. Johnson, Jamie (August 20, 2022). "DDT Wrestle Peter Pan 2022 Review". monthlypuroresu.com. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
6. Pollock, John (August 20, 2022). "DDT Wrestle Peter Pan 2022: Kazusada Higuchi retains KO-D Openweight title". POSTWrestling . Retrieved August 20, 2022.
7. Daly, Wayne (August 20, 2022). "DDT Results: Wrestle Peter Pan 2022 – Tokyo, Japan (8/20)". wrestling-news.net. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
8. DDT Pro-Wrestling. 東京・大田区総合体育館「WRESTLE PETER PAN 2022」. ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Retrieved June 19, 2022.
9. ""Tosei to kusei, dotchi ga tsuyoi no ka" Jimintō togikai giin to kugikai giin no puroresu batoru ga kettei!" 「都政と区政、どっちが強いのか」自民党都議会議員と区議会議員のプロレスバトルが決定！ [LDP Tokyo Metropolitan Council members and Ward Council members will engage in a wrestling battle over who is stronger in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government or the Ward Government!]. battle-news.com (in Japanese). July 3, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
10. DDT Pro-Wrestling [@ddtproENG] (July 8, 2022). "Akai and Akiyama teams up! His first mixed-gender match!" (Tweet). Retrieved July 9, 2022– via Twitter.
11. DDT Pro-Wrestling [@ddtproENG] (June 19, 2022). "International Special Hardcore Match! Joey Janela vs Shunma Katsumata!" (Tweet). Retrieved June 19, 2022– via Twitter.

External links

• The official DDT Pro-Wrestling website