Dramatic Dream Team, better known by its initials DDT or its logo reading D2T, is a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

 promotion founded in 1997 by Sanshiro Takagi

Sanshiro Takagi

is a Japanese professional wrestler. Takagi plays a parody of Stone Cold Steve Austin of World Wrestling Federation fame.He is known in DDT and around the micro-indy scene for his hilarious promos and natural charisma as well as his extensive use of comedy in his matches.-Career:Sanshiro Takagi was...

. It became one of the top names in Japanese indy wrestling by creating a unique Sports Entertainment style with a Japanese puroresu flair to the matches.

DDT started producing Pay-Per-View digests of its product on DirectTV during late 1999 to 2003 when they finally got an hour's timeslot on Samurai TV, Japan's premier sports channel which shows a lot of professional wrestling from both Japan and the United States.

The cards' matches tend to be a mix of Japanese lucharesu, semi-worked shoot-style, hardcore brawling and comedy matches. DDT is in many ways a parody of American pro wrestling, particularly World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...

, using over-the-top gimmicks (most notably Danshoku Dino

Danshoku Dino

' is a Japanese professional wrestler. Dino plays an overly exaggerated homosexual character similar to the likes of Adrian Street.His ring name comes from the character Baron Dino from the manga series Sakigake!! Otokojuku.-Career:...

) as well as unique match types including a hardcore match in a campsite (which featured use of bottle rockets as weapons), an "Office Deathmatch" (where the ring was set up to resemble a section of an office building, complete with cubicle walls and computers), and a "Silence Match" (where wrestlers were forbidden to make loud noises, resulting in slow-motion chops and punches and featuring the commentary team speaking in a faux-whisper).

Championships

DDT currently has 5 recognized championships, the top titles being the KO-D (King of DDT) championships.

Championship	Current champion(s)	Defeated	Date won	Location
DDT KO-D Openweight Championship KO-D Openweight Championship The DDT KO-D Openweight Championship is the top singles title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Dramatic Dream Team. The title was established in 2000.-Title history:-List of reigns by length:As of , ....	KUDO	Shuji Ishikawa	July 24, 2011	Tokyo, Japan
DDT KO-D Tag Team Championship	Keisuke Ishii and Shigehiro Irie	Danshoku Dino Danshoku Dino ' is a Japanese professional wrestler. Dino plays an overly exaggerated homosexual character similar to the likes of Adrian Street.His ring name comes from the character Baron Dino from the manga series Sakigake!! Otokojuku.-Career:...  and Makoto Oishi Makoto Oishi is a Japanese wrestler, currently working for Kaientai Dojo, where he is one half of the Strongest-K Tag Team champions along with Shiori Asahi and is a former Independent Junior Heavyweight Champion and UWA World Middleweight Champion. He has held all 3 belts at the same time...	October 10, 2011	Sapporo, Japan
DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship	Gorgeous Matsuno	Michael Nakazawa	August 28, 2011	Tokyo, Japan
DDT Extreme Division Championship DDT Extreme Division Championship The DDT Extreme Division Championship is a singles title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Dramatic Dream Team. The title was established in 2006.-Title history:...	El Generico El Generico Rami Sebei is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name El Generico. Sebei uses the gimmick of a luchador from Mexico...	Isami Kodaka	September 19, 2011	Tokyo, Japan
DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag Team Championship The DDT Jiyugaoka Six-Person Tag TeamChampionship is Six person tag team title in the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Dramatic Dream Team. The title was established in 2003.-Title history:...	Great Kojika, Mr. #6 and Riho	Antonio Honda, KUDO and Yasu Urano	July 25, 2010	Tokyo, Japan
Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship	Marines Mask II	GENTARO	April 2, 2010	Tokyo, Japan
UWA World Trios Championship UWA World Trios Championship The UWA World Trios Championship is a tag team professional wrestling championship created by the Mexican Universal Wrestling Association and defended there until the UWA closed in 1995....	HARASHIMA Harashima Harashima is a wrestler for Dramatic Dream Team and is in the faction Disaster-Box with Toru Owashi. He is a 4-time KO-D Openweight Champion and five time KO-D Tag Team Champion, currently holding the latter with Minoru Fujita, who is performing under his old Hero! gimmick.-Career:Harashima... , Touru Owashi Touru Ito , better known with the alias , is a Japanese wrestler for Dramatic Dream Team and is in the faction Disaster-Box with Harashima. He has also been in El Dorado Wrestling as leader of the faction Animal planet...  and Yukihiro Abe	Hikaru Sato, Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga	December 26, 2010	Tokyo, Japan

The DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship

The Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship is defended anywhere against anyone, even during non-title matches or tag team matches, under 24/7 rules (if there is an official DDT referee present, the title can be won and lost), and unlike other Ironman championships does not need to be defended under 'Ironman' rules. The 24/7 'rule' is more-or-less a parody to the same rules that applied to the WWE Hardcore Championship

WWE Hardcore Championship

The World Wrestling Entertainment Hardcore Championship is a hardcore wrestling championship in World Wrestling Entertainment and is contested under "hardcore" rules, meaning there is no disqualifications, no countouts, and pin falls could be counted anywhere...

. It is treated as a 'joke' championship, having two wrestlers, Yuukoh Miyamoto and Shinobi, exchange the belt 62 times with each other in one night (some of those title changes via Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock-paper-scissors is a hand game played by two people. The game is also known as roshambo, or another ordering of the three items ....

) and being won from a wrestling fan winning an auction for the belt. Notable "champions" also include a dog and a ladder.

A regular match in DDT for the title is a 10-minute battle royal where the title can change hands any number of times, and the person who has the belt when the time limit expires can leave as champion. This is ironic in itself, as due to the 24/7 rules, the champion could be defeated for the belt right after the match finishes.

Former Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship holders

To date (May 2011), there have been over 900 title changes for the belt, which has been won by numerous female wrestlers and non-wrestlers, including children, animals and inanimate objects.

Current Wrestlers

• Cherry(wrestler)-Female Wrestler
• Daisuke Sasaki
• Danshoku Dino
  Danshoku Dino
  ' is a Japanese professional wrestler. Dino plays an overly exaggerated homosexual character similar to the likes of Adrian Street.His ring name comes from the character Baron Dino from the manga series Sakigake!! Otokojuku.-Career:...
  
  
• Dick Togo
• HARASHIMA
  Harashima
  Harashima is a wrestler for Dramatic Dream Team and is in the faction Disaster-Box with Toru Owashi. He is a 4-time KO-D Openweight Champion and five time KO-D Tag Team Champion, currently holding the latter with Minoru Fujita, who is performing under his old Hero! gimmick.-Career:Harashima...
  
  
• Ken Ohka
• Kota Ibushi
• KUDO
• Masa Takanahashi
• Michael Nakazawa
• Muscle Sakai
• Poison Sawada JULIE

Inanimate objects

• Kitty-Chan - a stuffed 'Hello Kitty
  Hello Kitty
  is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Yuko Shimizu. She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow. The character's first appearance on an item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974 and brought to the United States...
  
  ' doll
• Mah-Kun - another stuffed doll, who defeated 'Kitty-Chan' for the belt
• A baseball bat - lost the belt after being broken in half as a 'KO' decision
• Three different ladders - each fell on the champion and a pinfall was counted, with some successfully defending the title by not being pinned during the time limit battle royal matches.
• Chiririn - a chicken doll
• Mr. Kasai - a stuffed Jun Kasai
  Jun Kasai
  is a Japanese professional wrestler, primarily competing for Big Japan Pro Wrestling. Dubbed the Crazy Monkey for his violent and oftentimes self-harmful style of hardcore wrestling, Kasai is considered a breakthrough talent in Japanese wrestling, able to work both hardcore and technical styles...
  
   doll. Mr. Kasai has won the belt twice.
• A Pro Wrestling Wave poster.
• YOSHIHIKO - An inflatable 'love doll'. Wrestlers treat it as if it actually was an active wrestler, and actually sell moves "done" by him/her, mostly high flying moves. For some moves, like outside dives, YOSHIHIKO is helped by one or more assistants, who throw him out of the ring, pull his foot on the ropes, etc. Opposing wrestlers make like those assistants are not there and are part of YOSHIHIKO. The original YOSHIHIKO was 'killed' by an Antonio Honda knee drop which caused its head to burst open, and was replaced by a second YOSHIHIKO, who is also a 'love doll', only modified to resemble the Great Muta. The second YOSHIHIKO was killed by Kenny Omega by a giant swing that sent YOSHIHIKO out of the ring, thus splitting his head open and revealing cotton stuffing. Later on in that match however, a third YOSHIHIKO came out resembling The Undertaker's old American Bad Ass gimmick, even using the same theme music. Following that match, the third YOSHIHIKO was shot to death by Antonio Honda. A fourth YOSHIHIKO, resembling Hulk Hogan, debuted shorty afterwards.

Non-existent

• Misutero - An "invisible wrestler" i.e. non-existent. Opponents sell moves of a wrestler who isn't there, and the title is held by nothing and no-one but the wrestlers and referees act as if they can see and pin the "invisible wrestler". Muscle Sakai "won" the title from this "invisible wrestler" by using a "ray gun" and "infrared visor" to shoot the "invisible wrestler", winning the belt on a KO decision.

External links

• http://www.ddtpro.com - Official DDT website
• http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/ddt/ - Title history of all DDT championships