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Wrestle Peter Pan 2019 was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). The show took place on July, 15 2019, at the Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. This was the eleventh Peter Pan and the first promoted under the Wrestle Peter Pan name and was the first Peter Pan event to have its name written in rōmaji, which is DDT's biggest annual event and has been called "the largest wrestling show in the Japanese independent circuit".

The event aired live on CyberAgent's Abema TV online linear television service and DDT's DDT Universe streaming service. As part of  the event wrestlers from DDT's Joshi's sub-brand Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJP) appeared on the show.

Production

Background

Since 2009, DDT began annually producing shows in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan held in the summer under the name Peter Pan, becoming DDT premier annual event and the biggest event in the independent circuit of Japanese wrestling. Following the financial success of the first and following shows, DDT held a show at the Nippon Budokan, which also ended being a success with DDT selling out 10,124 tickets. Since 2013, the event returned to be held at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in August. On December 30, 2018, DDT announced that the event would be renamed to "Wrestle Peter Pan". Instead of the event being held at the traditional Ryōgoku Kokugikan, DDT announced that event would be held at Ota City General Gymnasium. The event was the first Peter Pan to have its name written in rōmaji.

Leading to the event, DDT was looking for various sponsors for the show. Their first sponsorship announced data with a tax accounting for the dark matches, due to the fact that it wasn't it was never been done before. On May 28, 2019, it was announced that Yoshiaki Yatsu, Joey Ryan, Chris Brookes, and Mike Bailey would take part in the show. On June 30, it was announced that Yatsu would not take part in the show after injuring himself during training.

Storylines

The Wrestle Peter Pan 2019 event featured twelve professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. 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.

In June 2019, DDT president Sanshiro Takagi and Super Sasadango Machine were putting together their match for the event, Sasadango felt a championship was needed to make it important, but he also wanted to inspire the DDT fans of their age and tell them they could still perform. The later announced the creation of the O-40 Championship which was considered a parody of NJPW's IWGP U-30 Openweight Championship that existed during the mid 2000s.

Event

Other on-screen personnel
Role: Name:
Commentators Sayoko Mita
Haruo Murata
Saki Akai (guest)
Danshoku Dino (guest)
Ring announcer Inoue Mic
Referees Yukinori Matsui
Daisuke Kiso

First on the undercard was an exhibition match presented by Hotel Cent Inn Kurashiki between trainee Keigo Nakamura and Kota Umeda.

Next was a six-woman tag team match presented by JPA, an accounting management company, featuring Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling talents.

On the main card, Saki Akai faced Yoshiko from SEAdLINNNG.

Next, Akito defended the DDT Extreme Division Championship against Asuka in an Ippon Fluorescent Light Tube Deathmatch in which a single light tube was used. Per the rules, whoever would break the tube would be declared the loser of the match.

Before the next match, a backstage segment was shown in which Toru Owashi, the then Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, broke up an argument between Gorgeous Matsuno and masked wrestler Furitsuke Kamen. Matsuno and Furitsuke began fighting until Furitsuke was unmasked, revealing that he was actually Lucky Ikeda, a well-known tarento. In the confusion, Ikeda pinned Owashi to become the 1,375th champion.

During the Rumble rules match, the title went from Ikeda to Matsuno to Tomomitsu Matsunaga to Mad Paulie and then to Kazuki Hirata before Hirata was eventually eliminated by Yukio Sakaguchi. Michiaki Nakano from Souken Holdings, a sponsor of the match, presented Sakaguchi with the match prize then tried to pin him but Sakaguchi stopped him.

Next was a match dubbed "2nd Generation Human Windmill vs. 3rd Generation Taihō" between Hideki Suzuki (whose nickname is "The 2nd Generation Human Windmill") and Yukio Naya (the grandson of Taihō Kōki, the 48th yokozuna in the sport of sumo wrestling).

Sanshiro Takagi faced Super Sasadango Machine in a Weapon Rumble match in which various weapons secretly chosen by the participants beforehand were being introduced one after another at regular intervals. This was a title match for the inaugural O-40 Championship, a title reserved for wrestlers over 40 years old.

Next, mixed martial artist Shinya Aoki faced Danshoku Dino in a match with special rules. The match was limited to ten rounds lasting three minutes each, every odd numbered round would be fought under strict fighting rules with no pins allowed and every even numbered round would be fought under regular professional wrestling rules with "courtship" allowed. Mina Shirakawa was the ring girl for the odd numbered rounds and Yuki Iino was the "ring boy" for the even numbered rounds.

Next, Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki and Soma Takao) defended the KO-D Tag Team Championship against the team of Harashima and Yasu Urano in a match sponsored by Souken Holdings.

In the main event, Konosuke Takeshita challenged Tetsuya Endo for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Takeshita won the bout and was granted a 2,000,000 yen prize and one year of Blackout products by Casting Dot JP Co., Ltd., the sponsor of the match.

Reception

Thomas Fischbeck in his review of Voices of Wrestling said that "Kongoh vs DDT was fun", and praised the main event, which "sure some will hate as it was part of that cinematic style, although done very ironically". For the whole event, Fischbeck said that "it would be disingenuous to not say this was the "worst" Peter Pan in many years, but that is the situation we're under with empty arena [...] this was pretty good, although truthfully you could probably just watch the top two matches and end up much happier."

Stuart Iversen in his review of Ramblings About Wrestling said "the doors might be locked, but DDT is still going to give us a Peter Pan, and, in a totally original idea", he also added, "that was a very enjoyable show [...] there was any straight-up match [...], but it was a fun, easy watch."

John Dinsdale in his review of Wrestling Steel Chair said the event "was an absolutely mental day of action with a series of explosive matches culminating in the greatest cinematic spectacle to hit wrestling". He also praised the main event of the first night for being "the perfect measure of comedy, horror, and direct parody of the WWE style of cinematic wrestling."

Results

Template:Professional wrestling results table

Rumble rules match

Order[1] Wrestler Order eliminated By Time
1 Lucky Ikeda (c) 1 Gorgeous Matsuno[lower-alpha 1] 3:37
2 Gorgeous Matsuno 2 Tomomitsu Matsunaga[lower-alpha 2] 3:48
3 Tomomitsu Matsunaga 3 Mad Paulie[lower-alpha 3] 5:40
4 Pokotan 7 Shiro Koshinaka 14:09
5 Oishi, MakotoMakoto Oishi 8 Shiro Koshinaka 18:34
6 Kazuki Hirata 14 Yukio Sakaguchi 20:04
7 Paulie, MadMad Paulie 4 Kazuki Hirata[lower-alpha 4] 7:49
8 Yuki Kamifuku 6 Joey Ryan 11:43
9 Kuro-chan, Kuro-chan 5 Yuki Kamifuku 11:30
10 Sakaguchi, YukioYukio Sakaguchi Winner
11 Ryan, JoeyJoey Ryan 9 Shiro Koshinaka 18:34
12 Yamato, HiroshiHiroshi Yamato 10 Shiro Koshinaka 18:34
13 Owashi, ToruToru Owashi 13 Kazuki Hirata 19:08
14 Koshinaka, ShiroShiro Koshinaka 12 Kazuki Hirata 19:08
15 Antonio Honda 11 Kazuki Hirata 19:08

Notes

  1. DDT Results 2019 . Dramatic DDT. Retrieved on 2020-02-04.


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