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Peter Pan (ピーターパン, Pītā Pan) is an annual major professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event, held by the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). The event is usually held in summer and is DDT's biggest, and arguably the most important, event of the year, equivalent to the Dragon Gate's Kobe Pro-Wrestling Festival and the NJPW's Wrestle Kingdom and it is regarded as DDT's flagship event.

Since 2009, the attendance began to grow over the years and the event was usually in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan, leading DDT to change the venue to the Nippon Budokan in 2012, in which the event, surpassed DDT's attendance records with 10,124 records. However, over the years the attendance began decreasing, leading DDT to announce they would change the venue to the Saitama Super Arena in the summer of 2020. The 2019 show had the lowest attendance in the event's history with 3,798 fans. Since 2009 has aired domestically on Fighting TV Samurai. In 2017, all events became available in their streaming service DDT Universe. The 2020 edition of the event, would be postponed, due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, following Japan's declaration of State of Emergency. On May 16, it was announced that Peter Pan, set to take place on June 6 and June 7, the event was previously scheduled for Saitama Super Arena in Saitama would instead be moved to the DDT TV Show Studio in Tokyo, without an audience on AbemaTV and Wrestle Universe.

DDT often invites other promotions from Japan to participate in their Peter Pan shows such as Big Japan Pro Wrestling, Dragon Gate, New Japan Pro Wrestling, Kaientai Dojo, Pro Wrestling Noah, Pro Wrestling Freedoms, Michinoku Pro Wrestling, and Wrestle-1. The shows have regularly featured wrestlers from all over Japan including Kazuchika Okada, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Naomichi Marufuji, Masahiro Chono, The Great Kojika, The Great Sasuke, Taka Michinoku, Tatsumi Fujinami and Shuji Kondo.

Events[]

# Event Date City Venue Attendance Main event
1 Ryōgoku Peter Pan (2009) August 23, 2009 Tokyo, Japan Ryōgoku Kokugikan 8,865 HARASHIMA (c) vs. Kota Ibushi for the KO-D Openweight Championship
2 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2010 July 25, 2010 8,800 Daisuke Sekimoto (c) vs. HARASHIMA for the KO-D Openweight Championship
3 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2011 July 24, 2011 8,660 Shuji Ishikawa (c) vs. Kudo for the KO-D Openweight Championship
4 Budokan Peter Pan (2012) August 18, 2012 Nippon Budokan 10,124 Kota Ibushi (c) vs. Kenny Omega for the KO-D Openweight Championship
5 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2013 August 18, 2013 Ryōgoku Kokugikan 9,000 Shigehiro Irie (c) vs. HARASHIMA for the KO-D Openweight Championship
6 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2014 August 17, 2014 9,100 HARASHIMA (c) vs. Isami Kodaka vs. Kenny Omega for the KO-D Openweight Championship
7 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2015 August 23, 2015 6,670 Kudo (c) vs. Yukio Sakaguchi for the KO-D Openweight Championship
8 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2016 August 28, 2016 5,394 Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Shuji Ishikawa for the KO-D Openweight Championship
9 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2017 August 20, 2017 5,900 Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Tetsuya Endo for the KO-D Openweight Championship
10 Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2018 October 21, 2018 6,259 Danshoku Dino (c) vs. Daisuke Sasaki for the KO-D Openweight Championship
11 Wrestle Peter Pan 2019 July 15, 2019 Ota City General Gymnasium 3,798 Tetsuya Endo (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship
12 Wrestle Peter Pan 2020 June 6, 2020
June 7, 2020
Tokyo, Japan DDT TV Show Studio 0[Note 1] Konosuke Takeshita vs. Yoshihiko in a Last Man Standing match
Masato Tanaka (c) vs. Tetsuya Endo for the KO-D Openweight Championship
13 Wrestle Peter Pan 2021 August 21, 2021 Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki 1,336 Jun Akiyama (c) vs. Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship
14 Wrestle Peter Pan 2022 August 20, 2022 Tokyo, Japan Ota City General Gymnasium 1,250 Kazusada Higuchi (c) vs. Tetsuya Endo for the KO-D Openweight Championship
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Footnotes[]

  1. The event was moved, rescheduled and held behind closed doors due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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