The Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere is a battle royal established by DDT Pro-Wrestling promotion in 2012. The holder of the contracts have a rule that only in matches they can loose their contracts (if the holder of the contract is pinned, submmitted or even by TKO the contract is passed to the opponents that got the win. This needs to be in a professional wrestling match and not at anytime) it's similar to due WWE's Money in the Bank, where the prize in the match is a elbow pad containing a contract for a championship match, which can be "cashed in" by the holder of the briefcase at any point in the year following their victory.
The first matches were contested in 2012 and the winners of their contracts colud get any championship match, for one of DDT Championships.
History
2012
This was invented by the DDT general manager Amon Tsurumi on March 2012. At the end of march Tsurumi announced that the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere would be a Royal Rumble at the April Fool event. Then Tsurumi announced that the match had a bonus of having five seperate envelopes hanging above the ring. Inside each envelope was a contract. The first competitor to grab hold of an envelope would won the prized contract kept inside. Nobody knowed which envelope contains which contract.
Then the contract holder could choose a championship match for any of DDT Championships including the KO-D Openweight Championship, DDT Extreme Division Championship or the KO-D Tag Team Championship (if the holder choosed a partner) or becoming the next Ken Ohka at anytime. Then later on April Fool the Royal Rumble served to crown the first holders to have the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere. The winners of each respective matches were Yuji Hino, Masa Takanashi, DJ Nira, Keita Yano and Tomomitsu Matsunaga. Later that nigh, Takanashi successfully cashed in his newly won Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere on Sanshiro Takagi to become the new KO-D Openweight Champion. On May 4 Hino successfully cashed in his Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere on Takanashi to become the new KO-D Openweight Champion. Then Tomomitsu Matsunaga who also won the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere choosed GENTARO to be his partner and both unsuccessfully challenged Hino and Yasu Urano on June 3 for the KO-D Tag Team Championship. Meanwhile, Makoto Oishi won the Ken Ohka Anytime, Anywhere contract to become Ken Ohka when he wanted and on July 29 DJ Nira who was also an holder of the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere unsuccessfully challenged Kota Ibushi for the KO-D Openweight Championship.
2013
The following year, Yukio Sakaguchi, Sanshiro Takagi, Keisuke Ishii, HARASHIMA and DJ Nira became the holders of the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere. Then Takagi lost his Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere to Yasu Urano. This followed up with Urano losing his contract to Akito. Then on March 31, Akito lost his contract to Makoto Oishi and Urano pinned Ishii in a match to win his contract. Later Oishi cashed in his contract on the KO-D Openweight Champion Shigehiro Irie and Irie managed to retain his title. Then on April 10 Takagi defeated Nira to win his contract. However Nira on his contract back three days later and HARASHIMA lost his contract to MIKAMI and Sakaguchi unsucessfully challenged Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. The following day, Nira lost his contract to El Samurai. Urano then lost his contract to Daisuke Sasaki. Ishii regained his contract from Urano on May 26. Emi Sakura became the first female to win the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere contract. Then on June 23 Sasaki and Ishii cashed in their contract unsucessfully challenging Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Samurai was the only wrestler to cash in his contract. Yuji Okabayashi also had an contract and he also unsucessfully challenged Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship.
2014
In 2014 the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere started in March intead of April. At the Judgement PPV, Akito, Tetsuya Endo, Masa Takanashi, Kazuki Hirata, Guanchulo and Super Sasadango Machine became the contract holders. Then Hirata won Takanashi contract and Hirata lost his contract to Daisuke Sasaki. Then Shigehiro Irie also won a contract defeating Endo. Honda then won two contracts defeating Guanchalo and Endo. Then Endo won one of Honda's contracts back. On April 29 Honda lost his remaining contract to Yasu Urano and Endo lost his contract to HARASHIMA. At the main event, Akito unsucessfully challenged Kudo for the KO-D Openweight Championship. After the match Urano cashed in his contract, but he ended up losing to Kudo. On May 21 HARASHIMA cashed in his contract defeating Kudo to win the KO-D Openweight Championship and becoming the second wrestler to successfully cashing in his contract. Irie then lost his contract to Makoto Oishi. Urano then won Oishi's contract. On June 29 Urano lost his contract to Kenny Omega. Later that night Machine cashed in his contract unsucessfully challenging HARASHIMA for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Then on August Omega cashed in his contract unsucessfully challenging HARASHIMA for the KO-D Openweight Championship. The match also included Isami Kodaka.
2015
On the next year, the contract holders were Tetsuya Endo, Yasu Urano, Masa Takanashi, Kazusada Higuchi and Antonio Honda. Endo and Takanashi's contracts were different, Endo was for a championship match at the King of Dark Championship and Takanashi's contract was to held his own show. Endo couldn't had his championship due to a foot injury. Then another contract was on the line in another battle royal. Instead of having a battle royal Endo contract was awarded to Hiroshi Fukuda. However Fukuda lost his contract to Yoshihiko. On April 26 Yoshihiko's contract changed hands three times after Yoshihiko was defeated by Tomomitsu Matsunaga. Then Matsunaga was pinned by DJ Nira and then Nira was defeated by Saki Akai. On April 29 Kudo won Honda's contract and Daisuke Sasaki won Urano's contract. On May 24 Kudo won one of Sasaki's contract and Higuchi unsucessfully cashed in his contract against HARASHIMA failling to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. On May 24 Danshoku Dino then won Sasaki's contracts. Dino lost one of his contracts against Ken Ohka and the other to Masa Takanashi. On June 28 Urano won Takahashi contract. Later that night Urano cashed in his contract against Kudo. During the match, Ohka suddenly appeared cashed in his contract and he managed to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. However while Ohka was celebrating Kudo sucessfully cashed in his remaining contract defeating Ohka for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Kudo became the first wrestler to sucessfully cashed in the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere twice.
2016
In 2016 the original holders became Kazusada Higuchi, Ken Ohka, Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Toru Owashi. Then another battle royal was made of another Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere contract. This led on March 26 Saki Akai, Danshoku Dino and Antonio Honda becoming the new holders. Later that night Ohka failed to cash in his contract losing to reigning KO-D Openweight Champion HARASHIMA. Then Kouki Iwasaki won Matsunaga's contract, Mizuki Watase won Akai's contract Watase then lost his contract to Danshoku Dino and Honda lost his contract to Daisuke Sasaki. One was transferred over to Makoto Oishi and then Oishi lost his contract to Yukio Sakaguchi. On May 8 Sakaguchi failed to cash in his contract being defeated by Sasaki at his KO-D Openweight Championship title match. Then the other contract that Dino had was also transferred over to Oishi again. The Oishi lost his contract to Kazuki Hirata. Hirata then lost his contract to Guanchulo in which Guanchulo lost to Mizuke Watase. Then Dino lost his remaing contract to Yuko Miyamoto. Higuchi lost his cotract to Tetsuya Endo on July 3. Then Miyamoto, Owashi and Endo unsucessfully challenged Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship. on three different occassions.
2017
In this year of 2017 the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere contract started in April instead of March. The winners of the originals contracts where Royce Isaacs, Akito, Keisuke Ishii, Yoshihiro Takayama and Shigehiro Irie. This happened on April 8, in this night Akito cashed in his contract unsucessfully challenging Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship. HARASHIMA then won Irie's contracts. However HARASHIMA lost this contract to Kazusada Higuchi. Isaacs lost his contract to Sanshiro Takagi, but then won it back. Kazuki Hirata and Nobuhiro Shimatani also had contract. Then Hirata and Isaacs lost their contracts to Makoto Oishi. Shimatani lost his contract to Naomi Yoshimura. Takayama then lost his contract to Yasu Urano. Urano then cashed in his contract unsuccessfully challeging Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Then Takeshita won Higuchi contract but then Takeshita lost his contract to Mike Bailey and Mad Paulie won Oishi's contract, but he would loose his contract back to Keisuke Ishii. Ishii, Bailey and Yoshimura all cashed in on Takeshita but Takeshita managed to retain the title all times.
Matches
Cash-in matches
| Won match and title. | Lost match | Never used the contract | Lost contract | Won and Lost contract |
2012
| No. | Contact Holder | Status | Date | Location | Event | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masa Takanashi | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 1, 2012 | Tokyo | April Fool 2012 | Takanashi defeated Sanshiro Takagi to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. |
| 2 | Yuji Hino | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | May 4, 2012 | Tokyo | Max Bump 2012 | Hino defeated Takanashi to win the KO-D Openweight Championship |
| 3 | DJ Nira | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | July 29, 2012 | Tokyo | Beer Garden Fight 2012 | Nira failed to defeat Kota Ibushi for the KO-D Openweight Championship. |
| 4 | Keita Yano | Set up a DDT show | April 1, 2012 | Tokyo | April Fool | Yano used the contract to made his show between DDT and Pro Wrestling Wallabee on July 1. |
| 5 | Tomomitsu Matsunaga | Opportunity with the GENTARO for the KO-D Tag Team Championship | June 3, 2012 | Tokyo | Dramatic 2012 June Special | Matsunga choosed GENTARO to be his partner an both unsucessfully challenged Crying Wolf (Yasu Urano and Yuji Hino) for the KO-D Tag Team Championship. |
| 6 | Makoto Oishi | Could be the next Ken Ohka anytime | April 1, 2012 | Tokyo | April Fool | Oishi never used his contract. |
2013
| No. | Contact Holder | Date | Location | Event | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yukio Sakaguchi | April 13, 2013 | Tokyo | April Fool 2013 | Sakaguchi unsucessfully challenged Shigehiro Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. |
| 2 | Sanshiro Takagi | March 24, 2013 | Sendai | Judgment Series 2013 in Sendai | Lost his contract to Yasu Urano. |
| 3 | Keisuke Ishii | June 23, 2013 | Tokyo | What Are You Doing 2013 | Won and lost his contract and then unsucessfully challenged Shigehiro Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. |
| 4 | HARASHIMA | April 13, 2013 | Tokyo | April Fool 2013 | Lost his contract to MIKAMI. |
| 5 | DJ Nira | May 11, 2013 | Tokyo | Gatoh Move Japan Tour.40 | Won and lost his contract back three times. |
| 6 | Makoto Oishi | March 31, 2013 | Osaka | Osaka 24 Zone Tour | Oishi unsucessfully challenged Shigehiro Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. |
| 7 | Yasu Urano | May 26, 2013 | Hiroshima | Road to Ryogoku in Hiroshima | Lost his contract to Keisuke Ishii. |
| 8 | Akito | March 31, 2013 | Osaka | Osaka 24 Zone Tour | Lost his contract to Makoto Oishi. |
| 9 | Kazuki Hirata | June 15, 2013 | Yokohama | BJW Nigiwai Theatre | Hirata won the contract as El Samurai. Lost his contract to Yuji Okabayashi. |
| 10 | MIKAMI | April 13, 2013 | Tokyo | April Fool 2013 | MIKAMI never used his contract. |
| 11 | Daisuke Sasaki | June 23, 2013 | Tokyo | What Are You Doing 2013 | Sasaki unsucessfully challenged Shigehiro Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. |
| 12 | Yuji Okabayashi | July 21, 2013 | Tokyo | Road To Ryogoku 2 Days In 2013 | Okabayashi unsucessfully challenged Shigehiro Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. |
| 13 | Emi Sakura | May 11, 2013 | Tokyo | Gatoh Move Japan Tour.40 | Sakura never used her contract. |
2014
| No. | Contact Holder | Status | Date | Location | Event | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akito | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 29, 2014 | Tokyo | Max Bump 2014 | Akito unsucessfully challenged Kudo for the KO-D Openweight Championship. |
| 2 | Tetsuya Endo | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 29, 2014 | Tokyo | Max Bump 2014 | Lost his contract to HARASHIMA. Then he won it back from Antonio Honda. |
| 3 | Masa Takanashi | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | March 29, 2014 | Tokyo | All Night Entertaniment | Lost his contract to Kazuki Hirata. |
| 4 | Kazuki Hirata | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | March 29, 2014 | Tokyo | All Night Entertaniment | Lost his contract to Daisuke Sasaki Won Masa Takanashi's contract. However Hirata never used it. |
| 5 | Guanchulo | A match against Kikutaro | March 30, 2014 | Tokyo | Sanshiro Takagi All-Night Shin-Kiba | Failed to defeat Kikutaro in a singles match. |
| 6 | Super Sasadango Machine | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | June 29 2014 | Tokyo | King of DDT 2014 | Machine unsucessfully challenged HARASHIMA for the KO-D Openweight Championship. |
| 7 | Daisuke Sasaki | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | March 29, 2014 | Tokyo | All Night Entertaniment | Won Kazuki Hirata's contract. Sasaki never used the contract. |
| 8 | Shigehiro Irie | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | May 29, 2014 | Tokyo | Road to Ryogoku in Tansu | Lost his contract to Makoto Oishi. |
| 9 | Antonio Honda | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 20, 2014 (Endo) April 29, 2014 (Urano) |
Kagoshima (Endo) Tokyo (Urano) |
Road To Ryogoku In Kagoshima (Endo) Max Bump 2014 (Urano) |
Lost his contracts to Yasu Urano and Tetsuya Endo. |
| 10 | Yasu Urano | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 29, 2014 (Kudo) June 29, 2014 (Omega) |
Tokyo | Max Bump 2014 (Kudo) King of DDT 2014 finals (Omega) |
Urano unsucessfully challenged Kudo for the KO-D Openweight Championship Won Makoto Oishi's contract and lost it to Kenny Omega. |
| 11 | HARASHIMA | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | May 25, 2014 | Aichi | Friendship, Effort, Victory! | Won Tetsuya Endo's contract. Successfully cashed in his contract defeating Kudo to win the KO-D Openweight Chmpionship. |
| 12 | Makoto Oishi | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | May 11, 2014 | Sapporo | Road to Ryogoku in Sapporo | Lost his contract to Yasu Urano. |
| 13 | Kenny Omega | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | August 17, 2014 | Tokyo | Ryogoku Peter Pan 2014 | Omega unsucessfully challenged HARASHIMA for the KO-D Openweight Championship. The match also included Isami Kodaka. |
2015
| No. | Contact Holder | Status | Date | Location | Event | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tetsuya Endo | Opportunity for the King of Dark Championship | March 29, 2015 | Tokyo | Judegment 2015 | Endo never recieve his championship match due to an injury. |
| 2 | Yasu Urano | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 29, 2015 June 28, 2015 |
Tokyo | Max Bump 2015 King Of DDT 2015 Tokyo (Kudo) |
Urano lost his contract to Daisuke Sasaki. Later Urano won Masa Takanashi and failed to cash in his KO-D Openweight Championship shot against Kudo after Ken Ohka appeared and cashed in his contract and won the match. |
| 3 | Masa Takanashi | Set up a DDT show and a opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | June 28, 2015 | Tokyo | King Of DDT 2015 Tokyo | Takanashi hosted his show on July 22 and lost his contract to Yasu Urano. |
| 4 | Kazusada Higuchi | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | May 24, 2015 | Sapporo | Road to Ryogoku in Sapporo | Urano lost his contract to Daisuke Sasaki. Higuchi failed to cash in his KO-D Openweight Championship shot losing to HARASHIMA. |
| 5 | Antonio Honda | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 29, 2015 | Tokyo | Max Bump 2015 | Lost his contract to Kudo. |
| 6 | Hiroshi Fukuda | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 24, 2015 | Chiba | Super Pro Wrestling Day-1 | Lost his contract to Yoshihiko. |
| 7 | Yoshihiko | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 26, 2015 | Chiba | Super Pro Wrestling Day-2 | Lost his contract to Tomomitsu Matsunaga. |
| 8 | Tomomitsu Matsunaga | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 26, 2015 | Chiba | Super Pro Wrestling Day-2 | Lost his contract to DJ Nira. |
| 9 | DJ Nira | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 26, 2015 April 29, 2015 |
Chiba Tokyo |
Super Pro Wrestling Day-2 Max Bump 2015 |
Lost his contract to Saki Akai and won it back |
| 10 | Saki Akai | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 26, 2015 | Chiba | Super Pro Wrestling Day-2 | Lost her contract to DJ Nira. |
| 11 | Kudo | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | May 31, 2015 June 28, 2015 |
Tokyo | Audience 2015 King Of DDT 2015 Tokyo |
Won one of Daisuke Sasaki contracts. Sucessfully cashed in his contract defeating HARASHIMA to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. Won one of Daisuke Sasaki contracts. After losing the KO-D Openweight Championship to Ken Ohka, Kudo cashed in his contract and defeated Ohka to become the new champion. |
| 12 | Daisuke Sasaki | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | April 29, 2015 May 24, 2015 |
Tokyo Sapporo |
Max Bump 2015 Thank You Teisen! Goodbye Teisen! ~With Love and Gratitude from DDT~ |
Won Yasu Urano's contract and also won battle royal which Urano took part to wins two contracts. Lost his remaining contracts to Danshoku Dino. |
| 13 | Danshoku Dino | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | May 24, 2015 | Sapporo | Thank You Teisen! Goodbye Teisen! ~With Love and Gratitude from DDT~ | Won Daisuke Sasaki's contracts but he never used those contracts. |
| 14 | Ken Ohka | Opportunity for the KO-D Openweight Championship | June 28, 2015 | Tokyo | King Of DDT 2015 Tokyo | Sucessfully cashed in his contract during a match where Kudo faced Yasu Urano for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Ohka pinned Kudo to win the championship. |