DDT Pro-Wrestling

*DDT Pro-Wrestling Co., Ltd.*
DDT Puroresu Kabushiki-kaisha
株式会社DDTプロレスリング
	; The logo of DDT Pro-Wrestling
Acronym	DDT
Trading name	Dramatic Dream Team (1997-2004); DDT Pro Wrestling (2004-Present)
Native name	DDTプロレスリング
Romanized name	DDT Puroresu
Type	Public
Industry	Professional wrestling; Puroresu
Corporate number	6011101052361
Founded	January 31, 1997
Founder(s)	Shintaro Muto
Owner(s)	Sanshiro Takagi
Style	Sports entertainment; Puroresu; Catch wrestling
Headquarters	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Japan
Key people	Sanshiro Takagi; (President); Danshoku Dino; (Producer)
Products	Television; Publishing; Merchandise; Streaming network service
Services	Licensing
Number of employees	approximately 81
Divisions	DDT Universe; DDT Shop
Website	Official Japanese Website

DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDTプロレスリング, DDT Puroresuringu) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in 1997 by Shintaro Muto. DDT, also written as D₂T, stands for Dramatic Dream Team, which was the promotion's official name from 1997 to 2004. It became one of the top names in Japanese indie 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 a timeslot on Fighting TV Samurai, Japan's premier combat sports channel which shows professional wrestling from both Japan and the United States.

The cards' matches tend to be a mixture of Japanese lucharesu (a mix of lucha libre and traditional puroresu), worked shoot-style, hardcore brawling and comedy matches. DDT is in many ways a parody of American pro wrestling, particularly WWE, using over-the-top gimmicks (most notably Danshoku Dino) 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).

DDT was the parent promotion of Union Pro Wrestling, which held events approximately twice a month, and is the parent of Tokyo Joshi Pro, which was founded in June 2012.

DDT celebrated its 15th anniversary on August 18, 2012, by holding its first ever event in Nippon Budokan.

On August 17, 2015, it was announced that Union Pro would be folding after its 10th anniversary event on October 4, 2015. Three days after its folding, Union was replaced by a new promotion named Pro Wrestling Basara, which launched in January 2016.

In October 2016, DDT announced "DDT Universe", a new streaming service for events held by DDT, DNA, Basara, Tokyo Joshi Pro and Ganbare☆Puroresu. The service launched on January 23, 2017.

On July 5, 2017, it was announced that DDT had entered into a partnership with Canada's Canadian Wrestling’s Elite promotion.

Company history

Formation (1997)

Championships and accomplishments