Wrestle Peter Pan 2020 is an upcoming two-day professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). The two shows will take place on June 6 and 7, 2020, at the DDT TV Show Studio in Tokyo, Japan. This was the twelfth Peter Pan and the second promoted under the Wrestle Peter Pan name, which is DDT's biggest annual event and has been called "the largest wrestling show in the Japanese independent circuit". This is the first time that the Wrestle Peter Pan was held on two nights, instead of taking place solely on one night.
The event will air live on CyberAgent's Abema TV online linear television service and Wrestle Universe streaming service. As part of CyberAgent's acquisition of Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) wrestlers from the promotion will also appear on the show. The event was originally scheduled to take place solely on June 7, 2020, at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, but the event was canceled in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only to be rescheduled on May 15, with the event, set to take place on June 6 and June 7 on two nights, for the first time in history. At the end of February, DDT began holding shows with no audience and only essential staff present, with all DDT programming being relocated to the DDT TV Show Studio in May.
The card will comprise 16 matches which are divided between the two nights. On the first night, the show will be headlined by Konosuke Takeshita facing Yoshihiko, in a Last Man Standing match. Another prominent match scheduled for the show featured Daisuke Sasaki defending the DDT Universal Championship in a three-way hardcore match against Isami Kodaka and Shunma Katsumata. On the second night, the show will be headlined by Masato Tanaka defending the KO-D Openweight Championship against the holder of the Saitama Super Arena Sword Tetsuya Endo. The second night also featured three other title matches with Shinya Aoki defending the DDT Extreme Division Championship against Yukio Naya in a Celebration! Release Restriction Rules match, Danshoku Dieno defending the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship against Makoto Oishi and Nautilus (Naomi Yoshimura and Yuki Ueno defending the KO-D Tag Team Championship against Strong Hearts (El Lindaman and T-Hawk).
Production
Background
Since 2009, DDT began annually producing shows in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan held in the summer, following the promotions financial success of the first event. This led to the event, becoming DDT's premier annual event and the biggest event in the independent circuit of Japanese wrestling. Since 2019, the event was renamed "Wrestle Peter Pan", the Peter Pan shows have been broadcast on pay-per-view (PPV).
Wrestle Peter Pan was officially announced on July 15, 2019, during a match between DDT's President Sanshiro Takagi and Super Sasadango Machine in the previous Wrestle Peter Pan. Takagi later commented on his decision to hold the event at the Super Saitama Arena, stating that the plan to run the event at the venue, came after the promotion didn't manage to completely sell the venue in two different events in 2015 and 2017, which were attended by 6,500 and 10,702 spectators, respectively, as well the promotion's financial growth, after selling out their events in the Ryogoku Kokugikan and their monthly events at Korakuen Hall.
Matches
Night 1
| # | Results | Stipulations | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DAMNATION (Soma Takao and Mad Paulie) vs. Keigo Nakamura and Hideki Okatani | Tag Team match | |
| 2 | Keisuke Ishii and HARUKAZE vs. Hiroshi Yamato and Saori Anou | Tag Team match | |
| 3 | Super Sasadango Machine vs. Pokotan | Singles match Yoshihiro Sakai Presidential CEO Inauguration Match In Niigata! | |
| 4 | Nobuhiro Shimatani vs. Seigo Tachibana | Singles match Between Wrestlers Who Want To Participate In DDT Regularly | |
| 5 | Jun Akiyama and Mizuki Watase vs. All Out (Akito and Yuki Iino) | Tag Team match | |
| 6 | Daisuke Sasaki versus Isami Kodaka vs. Shunma Katsumata | Hardcore three way match for the DDT Universal Championship | |
| 7 | Sanshiro Takagi, Kazusada Higuchi and Tomomitsu Matsunaga vs. KONGOH (Kenoh, Masa Kitamiya and Haoh) | Six-man tag team match | |
| 8 | Konosuke Takeshita vs. Yoshihiko | Last Man Standing match | |
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Night 2
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1P | Los Ingobernables de Japon (EVIL, Shingo Takagi and BUSHI) defeated Suzuki-gun (Taichi, El Desperado and Yoshinobu Kanemaru), Ryusuke Taguchi, Togi Makabe and Toru Yano (c), CHAOS (Tomohiro Ishii, Yoshi-Hashi and Robbie Eagles) and Bullet Club (Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens and Yujiro Takahashi) | Gauntlet match for the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship | 6:08 |
| 2 | Hiromu Takahashi and Ryu Lee defeated Jushin Thunder Liger and Naoki Sano (with Yoshiaki Fujiwara) | Tag Team match Jushin Thunder Liger Retirement Match II |
12:16 |
| 3 | Roppongi 3K (Sho and Yoh) (with Rocky Romero) defeated Bullet Club (El Phantasmo and Taiji Ishimori) (c) | Tag team match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship | 14:08 |
| 4 | Zack Sabre Jr. (c) defeated SANADA | Singles match for the British Heavyweight Championship | 12:32 |
| 5 | Jon Moxley (c) defeated Juice Robinson (with David Finlay) | Singles match for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship | 12:48 |
| 6 | Hirooki Goto defeated KENTA (c) | Singles match for the NEVER Openweight Championship | 16:12 |
| 7 | Jay White (with Gedo) defeated Kota Ibushi | Singles match | 24:58 |
| 8 | Chris Jericho defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi by submission | Singles match If Tanahashi had won, he would had received a match for the AEW World Championship |
22:24 |
| 9 | Tetsuya Naito (c; IWGP Intercontinental) defeated Kazuchika Okada (c; IWGP Heavyweight) | Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships | 35:37 |
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Notes
- ↑ The event will be held without a live audience due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Japan.