DDT Audience
| Audience | |
|---|---|
| Promotions | DDT Pro-Wrestling |
| First event | Audience 2003 |
| Last event | Audience 2022 |
Audience was a recurring professional wrestling event held by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) in spring. Originally held by DDT as an independent promotion between 2003 and 2018, it was then held by CyberFight as DDT-branded events. The first of these was a tour of smaller events outside of Tokyo in May 2021, followed by one final main edition in 2022.
History
Between 2003 and 2018, Audience was produced by DDT Pro-Wrestling, an independent promotion founded in 1997 by Shintaro Muto and Pro Wrestling Crusaders alumni Kyohei Mikami, Kazushige Nosawa and Sanshiro Takagi.[1] The event was held in spring. In 2020, DDT and its subsidiaries merged with Pro Wrestling Noah into a new company called CyberFight owned by the digital advertising company CyberAgent, with DDT and Noah persisting as separate brands under the CyberFight umbrella.[2] The Audience name was then used in May 2021 for a tour of smaller events held in Hamamatsu, Fukuoka and Kumamoto.[3] Finally, it was used for one last edition in 2022.
Events
Results
2003
| Audience 2003 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | Dramatic Dream Team | ||
| Date | July 17, 2003 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,506[4] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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| No. | Results[4] | Stipulations | Times[14] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hero! defeated O.K.Revolution and Azusa Kudo | Two-on-one handicap match | 8:20 | ||
| 2 | Thanomsak Toba and Daichi Kakimoto defeated Kudo and Shuji Ishikawa | Tag team match | 10:20 | ||
| 3 | Tomohiko Hashimoto, Yuki Nishino and Miyuki Maeda defeated Super Uchuu Power, Issei Fujisawa and Yuki Miyazaki | Six-person tag team match | 9:23 | ||
| 4 | Mr. Strawberry (Cpt), Yoshihiro Sakai and Ofune (with Showa-ko) defeated Mr. Amegican (Cpt), Seiya Morohashi and Futoshi Miwa (with Miwa Kaicho and Thunder) | Captain's Fall Máscara Contra Máscara six-person tag team match | 17:11 | ||
| 5 | Takashi Sasaki defeated Mikami (c) | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 21:38 | ||
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2004
| Audience 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | July 1, 2004 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,482[5] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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| No. | Results[5] | Stipulations | Times[15] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kudo defeated Kota Ibushi | Singles match | 6:30 | ||
| 2 | NEO Machine Guns (Yuki Miyazaki and Tanny Mouse) defeated Showa-ko and Cherry | Tag team match | 10:12 | ||
| 3 | Suicibeboyz (Mikami and Thanomsak Toba) defeated Daichi Kakimoto and Masahiro Takanashi | Tag team match | 8:50 | ||
| 4 | Jako Kyodan (Poison Sawada Julie, Yusuke Inokuma and Gorgeous Matsuno) defeated Hero!, Shuji Ishikawa and Futoshi Miwa | Six-man tag team match | 12:30 | ||
| 5 | Koichiro Kimura and Katsuhiko Nakajima defeated Danshoku Dino and Kenshin | Tag team match | 13:18 | ||
| 6 | Kensuke Sasaki and Agira Hokuto defeated Tomohiko Hashimoto and Seiya Morohashi | Tag team match | 7:29 | ||
| 7 | Sanshiro Takagi and Ryuji Ito defeated Akarengers (Takashi Sasaki and Gentaro) (c) | Tag team match for the KO-D Tag Team Championship | 17:36 | ||
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2005
| Audience 2005 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | June 29, 2005 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,338[16] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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| No. | Results[16] | Stipulations | Times[16] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomohiko Hashimoto defeated Toshi | Singles match | 5:59 | ||
| 2 | Cherry won by last pinning Gorgeous Matsuno[i] | 10-minute Battle Royal for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship | 10:00 | ||
| 3 | Rey Cubano and Havana Guerrero (with Antonio Honda) defeated Daichi Kakimoto and Kota Ibushi | Tag team match | 13:18 | ||
| 4 | Jako Kyodan (Poison Sawada Julie, Akeomi Nitta, Osamu Namiguchi and Jun Inomata) defeated Danshoku Dino, Yusuke Inokuma, Muscle Sakai and Shuji Ishikawa | Death Fight | 13:18 | ||
| 5 | MoroToba (Seiya Morohashi and Thanomsak Toba) (c) defeated Shoichi Ichimya and Futoshi Miwa | Tag team match for the KO-D Tag Team Championship | 11:48 | ||
| 6 | Toru Owashi and Shogo Takagi defeated Mikami and Hero! | No disqualification tag team match | 12:47 | ||
| 7 | Sanshiro Takagi (c) defeated Kudo | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 15:31 | ||
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- ^ Other participants included The Bloody (interim champion), Yuki Miyazaki, Maru, Toshie Uematsu, Yumi Ohka, and Keiko Saito.
2006
| Audience 2006 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | June 4, 2006 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,588[17] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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| No. | Results[18][17] | Stipulations | Times[17] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1D | The Mac defeated Antonio Honda by disqualification | Singles match | 5:36 | ||||
| 2 | Seiya Morohashi defeated Masami Morohashi | Singles match | 7:43 | ||||
| 3 | Harashima and Guillermo "Chango" Akiba defeated Daichi Kakimoto and Tomomitsu Matsunaga | Tag team match | 10:23 | ||||
| 4 | Milano Collection A. T. defeated Kota Ibushi | Singles match | 11:37 | ||||
| 5 | Toru Owashi won by last eliminating King Pocoda and Muscle Sakai[i] | Six-man Disaster Box New Members Selection Battle Royal | 10:17 | ||||
| 6 | Italian Four Horsemen (Francesco Togo and Mori Bernard) (c) defeated Suicideboyz (Mikami and Thanomsak Toba) | Tag team match for the KO-D Tag Team Championship | 21:18 | ||||
| 7 | Sanshiro Takagi and Poison Sawada Julie defeated Tatsutoshi Goto and Mitsuya "Who?" Nagai | No disqualification match | 18:53 | ||||
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- ^ Other participants included Máscara Gayrrero Jr., Michael Nakazawa, and Yusuke Inokuma.
2007
| Audience 2007 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | July 1, 2007 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,185[19] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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| No. | Results[20][19] | Stipulations | Times[19] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1D | Gorgeous Matsuno vs. Koryuki ended in a time limit draw | Singles match | 10:00 | ||||
| 2 | Seiya Morohashi defeated Masa Takanashi | Singles match | 9:10 | ||||
| 3 | Suicideboyz (Mikami and Thanomsak Toba) and Hoshitango defeated Fruits Army (Mango Fukuda, Durian Sawada Julie and Japanese Balloon) | Six-man tag team match | 9:22 | ||||
| 4 | Sanshiro Takagi and Kota Ibushi defeated Katsumi Usuda and Manabu Hara | Tag team match | 13:24 | ||||
| 5 | Nurunuru Brothers (Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga) (c) vs. Italian Four Horsemen (Prince Togo and Antonio "The Dragon" Honda) ended in a double countout | Tag team match for the KO-D Tag Team Championship | 10:17 | ||||
| 6 | Toru Owashi vs. Harashima vs. Danshoku Dino vs. Muscle Sakai vs. Yusuke Inokuma ended in a no contest[i] | Five-way ladder match for the Disaster Box elder stock | 9:38 | ||||
| 7 | Koo (c) defeated Kudo | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 19:06 | ||||
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- ^ The match was restarted twice, ending in a no contest decision each time.
2015
| Audience 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | May 31, 2015 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 2,200[9] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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2016
| Audience 2016 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | May 29, 2016 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,633[10] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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| No. | Results[10] | Stipulations | Times[22] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1D | Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Kouki Iwasaki defeated Heddi French and Rekka | Tag team match | 5:50 | ||||
| 2 | Kenso (with Cherry) defeated Sanshiro Takagi | Singles match As a result, Kenso earned a spot in the 2016 King of DDT Tournament. | 5:59 | ||||
| 3 | Danshoku Dino, Joey Ryan and Antonio Honda defeated Shuten Doji (Masa Takanashi and Kota Umeda) and Saki Akai, Kat-Too (Makoto Oishi and Shunma Katsumata) and Mao Inoue, and T2Hii (Toru Owashi and Kazuki Hirata) and Guanchulo | Anywhere Start four-way six-person tag team match | 8:01 | ||||
| 4 | Shuji Ishikawa and Mad Paulie defeated Tetsuya Endo and Kazusada Higuchi | Tag team match | 8:02 | ||||
| 5 | LiLiCo defeated Super Sasadango Machine (c) | Singles match for the DDT Extreme Championship | 7:05 | ||||
| 6 | Team Dream Futures (Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie and Soma Takao) (c) defeated Smile Squash (Harashima, Akito and Yasu Urano) | Six-man tag team match for the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship | 9:57 | ||||
| 7 | Konosuke Takeshita defeated Daisuke Sasaki (c) | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 24:42 | ||||
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2017
| Audience 2017 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | May 28, 2017 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,384[11] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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| No. | Results[11] | Stipulations | Times[23] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1P | Mad Paulie defeated Tomomitsu Matsunaga | Singles match | 5:03 | ||||
| 2 | Shuten Doji (Kudo, Yukio Sakaguchi and Masahiro Takanashi) defeated T2Hii (Toru Owashi and Hirata Collection A. T.) and Hiranito Collection a. t. | Italian rules match | 5:57 | ||||
| 3 | Saki Akai and Heidi Katrina defeated Antonio Honda and Nobuhiro Shimatani | Tag team match | 3:36 | ||||
| 4 | NωA (Makoto Oishi, Shunma Katsumata and Mao) (c) defeated Fantastic Memories (Danshoku Dino and Keisuke Ishii) and Royce Isaacs | Six-man tag team match for the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship | 5:26 | ||||
| 5 | Smile Squash (Harashima and Soma Takao) defeated All Out (Akito and Diego) | Tag team match | 9:21 | ||||
| 6 | Minoru Suzuki and Rocky Kawamura defeated Sanshiro Takagi and Super Sasadango Machine | Tag team match | 10:44 | ||||
| 7 | Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki, Shuji Ishikawa and Tetsuya Endo) defeated Shigehiro Irie, Kazusada Higuchi and Kouki Iwasaki | Six-man tag team match | 8:55 | ||||
| 8 | Konosuke Takeshita (c) defeated Yasu Urano | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 28:31 | ||||
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2018
| Audience 2018 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | May 20, 2018 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,064[12] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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| No. | Results[12] | Stipulations | Times[24] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1P | Tomomitsu Matsunaga defeated Rekka | Singles match | 5:55 | ||||
| 2 | Takatimo Dragón, Hiratino Dragón, Rihotimo Dragón and Toru Owashi defeated Shuten Doji (Kudo, Yukio Sakaguchi and Masahiro Takanashi) and Saki Akai by disqualification | Eight-person tag team match | 7:26 | ||||
| 3 | Damnation (Tetsuya Endo and Mad Paulie) defeated Kouki Iwasaki and Shota, Mike Bailey and Mao, and Jason "The Gift" Kincaid and Mizuki Watase | Four-way tag team match | 6:30 | ||||
| 4 | Kota Umeda vs. Kazusada Higuchi ended in a double knockout | Singles match | 6:58 | ||||
| 5 | Konosuke Takeshita defeated Shunma Katsumata | Singles match | 13:01 | ||||
| 6 | Danshoku Dino, Antonio Honda and Super Sasadango Machine defeated Makoto Oishi, Nobuhiro Shimatani and Daiki Shimomura (with Yuki Iino) | Six-man tag team match | 9:44 | ||||
| 7 | Soma Takao defeated Harashima | Singles match | 8:41 | ||||
| 8 | Shigehiro Irie (c) defeated Keisuke Ishii | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 18:25 | ||||
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2022
| Audience 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | May 22, 2022 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 529[13] | ||
| Audience chronology | |||
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| No. | Results[13] | Stipulations | Times[25] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naomi Yoshimura defeated Yuki Ishida | Singles match | 5:45 | ||
| 2 | Pheromones (Yuki "Sexy" Iino, Danshoku "Dandy" Dino and Akito) (with Yumehito "Fantastic" Imanari) defeated Disaster Box (Harashima and Toru Owashi) and Antonio Honda | Six-man tag team match | 10:52 | ||
| 3 | Yuki Ueno defeated Kazuki Hirata | Singles match | 9:13 | ||
| 4 | Prominence (Suzu Suzuki and Akane Fujita) defeated Super Hardcore Girls (Carousel♥Shun and Elizabeth♥Toi) | Hardcore match | 12:18 | ||
| 5 | Burning (Tetsuya Endo, Jun Akiyama, Yusuke Okada and Yuya Koroku) defeated Yuji Hino, Yukio Naya, Ilusion and El Unicorn | Eight-man tag team match | 14:38 | ||
| 6 | Mao and Asuka defeated Calamari Drunken Kings (Chris Brookes and Masahiro Takanashi) (c) | Tag team match for the KO-D Tag Team Championship | 14:08 | ||
| 7 | Damnation T.A. (Daisuke Sasaki, Kanon and MJ Paul) defeated Eruption (Yukio Sakaguchi, Kazusada Higuchi and Hideki Okatani) | Tournament final for the vacant KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship | 20:04 | ||
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