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Sweet Dreams! 2024
Sweet Dreams! 2024 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on January 28, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. Eight matches were contested at the event, including one on the pre-show. The main event saw Yuki Ueno defeat Yukio Naya to retain the KO-D Openweight Championship. Production Background The event featured eight professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where 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. Event The show started with the ten-man confrontation of Sanshiro Takagi, Toru Owashi, Akito, Shinichiro Kawamatsu and Yuni who took on the team of Harashima, Antonio Honda, Takeshi Masada, Kazuma Sumi and Tomoya i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Ueno
is a Japanese professional wrestler working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), he is the former KO-D Openweight Champion (one reign) and former three-time DDT Universal Champion. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2016–present) Ueno made his professional wrestling debut at the 2016 edition of "Who's Gonna Top?" in a time-limit draw dark match against Akito. Throughout his career so far, he has worked mostly for DDT, but had several matches for other promotions such as Dradition where he worked alongside famous wrestlers such as Masato Tanaka, Yukio Sakaguchi and Super Tiger II. In May 2017, he was a participant in Kaientai Dojo's K-Metal League Tournament of which he reached but ultimately lost the final against Go Asakawa. He won the first title of his career at DDT's 21st Anniversary show, the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Koju Takeda and Kota Umeda after defeating Shuten-Dōji ( Kudo, Masahiro Taka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heel (professional Wrestling)
In professional wrestling, a heel (also known as a ''rudo'' in ''lucha libre'') is a wrestler who portrays a villain, "bad guy", "baddie", "evil-doer", or "rulebreaker", and acts as an antagonist to the Face (professional wrestling), faces, who are the heroic protagonist or "good guy" characters. Not everything a heel wrestler does must be villainous: heels need only to be booed or jeered by the audience to be effective characters, although most truly successful heels embrace other aspects of their devious personalities, such as cheating to win or using Glossary of professional wrestling terms#foreign object, foreign objects. "The role of a heel is to get 'heat,' which means spurring the crowd to obstreperous hatred, and generally involves cheating and any other manner of socially unacceptable behavior." To gain Heat (professional wrestling), heat (with boos and jeers from the audience), heels are often portrayed as behaving in an immoral manner by breaking rules or otherwise ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanon (wrestler)
Kanon (stylized in capital letters as KANON) is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to the Japanese promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling, where he is a two-time and reigning KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion (with Daisuke Sasaki and MJ Paul). Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2019–present) Kanon made sporadic freelancer appearances in various promotions from the Japanese independent scene. On the first night of Pro Wrestling Zero1's 2020 edition of the Furinkazan tournament, he teamed up with Hayato Tamura and Ren Ayabe in a losing effort against Asuka and Revengers (Masato Tanaka and Takuya Sugawara). At ''NOAH Sanctuary'', an event promoted by Pro Wrestling Noah on May 30, 2022, he teamed up with Daisuke Sasaki and MJ Paul to defeat Kongo (Hajime Ohara, Hi69 and Kenoh) in a six-man tag team match. Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out (2019–2022) Kanon made his professional wrestling debut at ''JTO Hajime'' on July 8, 2019, where he fell short to Ryuya Takekura. Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisuke Sasaki
is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), where is a former two-time DDT Universal Champion. In addition to that, in DDT, he is also a former three-time KO-D Openweight Champion, one-time DDT Extreme Champion, six-time KO-D Tag Team Champion, three-time KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion and a three-time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion. Sasaki has also made several appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), working in the promotion's junior heavyweight division. Professional wrestling career Early career (2005–2007) Trained by Dick Togo, Sasaki made his professional wrestling debut on October 22, 2005, facing Yuki Sato at a Super Crew event, which was promoted by Togo and mainly featured his trainees facing each other in matches. In early 2006, Sasaki took part in Kaientai Dojo's 2006 K-Metal League, where he won two of his five matches and failed to advance to the finals. In June 2006, Sasaki left for a year-long learning excursion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takeshi Masada
is a Japanese professional wrestler working for the Japanese promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling where he is a former two-time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion. Early life In his second year of junior high school, he was inspired to join DDT Pro-Wrestling after watching Kota Ibushi matches, street wrestling and Yoshihiko matches. Since his high school didn't have a wrestling club, he took up Shorinji Kempo instead, and in August 2019, he ranked third at the Inter-High School Intercollegiate Championship in '' dantai embu'' with the Osaka Prefectural Semboku Senior High School team. Professional wrestling career DDT Pro-Wrestling (2022–present) Masada joined DDT in May 2022, after taking a leave of absence from college. Masada made his professional wrestling debut three months later at Road To Peter Pan In Korakuen Hall on August 14, 2022, where he fell short to his trainer Harashima in singles competition. This was the fastest debut in DDT history. On December 29, at Never Mind 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Honda
is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name . He is working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). He is the son of actor Tetsu Watanabe. Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2005–present) One of the rising stars of DDT Pro-Wrestling in 2007, Honda started his career as one of the "Four Italian Horsemen". He later became the leader of the aWo (Aloha World Order) stable, mainly sticking to a Gimmick (professional wrestling), comedic gimmick. Honda made his professional wrestling debut as A. Yazawa at the Guts World Prowrestling's Guts World Vol. 2 event from March 15, 2005, where he teamed up with Cabbage Taro in a losing effort to Gutara and Potato Saburota. He participated in one of the longest matches in professional wrestling history, a Battle royal (professional wrestling), 108-man battle royal at Tenka Sanbun no Kei: New Year's Eve Special, a cross-over event held between Big Japan Pro Wrestling, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harashima
Harashima (stylised in all capital letters) (born July 6, 1974) is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is currently working in DDT Pro-Wrestling (formally Dramatic Dream Team), where he is a ten-time KO-D Openweight Champion and a former eleven-time KO-D Tag Team Champion. he is best known tenure Big Japan Pro Wrestling. Professional wrestling career Dramatic Dream Team/DDT Pro-Wrestling (2001–present) Hero! (2001–2005) After training in the Dramatic Dream Team dojo, Harashima made his professional wrestling debut in early 2001 as Konica Man and later became Hero! (stylised in all capital letters). Hero! challenged Asian Cougar for the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship on several occasions in late 2001 but was unable to defeat him. Continuing in 2002, Hero! mainly worked on the under-card, often teaming with fellow masked wrestler Konica Man #2. On April 25, Konica Man #2, in storyline poisoned by Poison Sawada Julie, turned on Hero!, unmasked and renamed hims ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuni (wrestler)
is a Japanese professional wrestler working for the Japanese promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling where he is one third of the current KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions in his current reign. He is known for being one of the youngest debuting male wrestlers of all time, as well as one of the youngest recognized champions in professional wrestling. Professional wrestling career As Yuni (2016–2020) Yuni (written in hiragana as ) made his professional wrestling debut at the early age of 8, in DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), at Osaka Octopus 2016 on December 4, where he teamed up with Shigehiro Irie and Yasu Urano, picking up a victory over New Wrestling Aidoru (Makoto Oishi, Mao and Shunma Katsumata). Over his debut, Yuni was compared to other early-starting wrestlers such as Ram Kaicho and Riho who also debuted under the age of ten. On March 20, 2017, at Judgement, Yuni teamed up with Jaguar Yokota, Keisuke Ishii and Masahiro Takanashi to defeat Toru Owashi, Kazuki Hirata, Antonio Honda and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akito (wrestler)
is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name . He is working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). Professional wrestling career Independent circuit (2009-present) Nishigaki made his professional wrestling debut at ''Sportiva It's Saturday Pro DX !! ~ Tsurumai Muso 09'' from November 28, 2009, an event hosted by the Sportiva Entertainment promotion, where he scored a defeat in front of Kekumo. He worked for other promotions such as Kaientai Dojo, where he worked alongside Michio Kageyama and Toru Sugiura to unsuccessfully challenge Silence (Daigoro Kashiwa, Kaji Tomato and Marines Mask) for the Chiba Six Man Tag Team Championship at Kaientai Dojo's 10th Anniversary on February 2, 2012. He also wrestled in cross-over events held between Dramatic Dream Team, Big Japan Pro Wrestling and Kaientai Dojo such as the ''BJW/ DDT/K-Dojo: Sapporo Pro-Wrestling Festa 2014'' on October 14, where he teamed up with Ryuichi Kawak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toru Owashi
is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name . He is best known for his work in DDT Pro-Wrestling, where he is a former KO-D Openweight Champion and two-time KO-D Tag Team Champion. Sumo career Initially aspiring to become a sumo wrestler like his father, former '' maegashira'' 3 Ōwashi Hitoshi, Ito joined the Wakamatsu stable in 1993 and adopted the shikona of Asaitō, which he later changed to Asawashi, meaning "Morning Eagle" in Japanese. However, he ended up leaving the sport due to a recurrent knee injury in January 1999, after having reached his highest rank of '' jonidan'' 42. His career record was 99 wins to 104 losses, with 28 absences due to injury. He worked as a chef until joining the Ultimo Dragon Gym in order to become a professional wrestler. Professional wrestling career Toryumon (2000–2004) He made his debut under his real name on September 2, 2000, in Mexico, defeating Masato Yoshino. He soon adopted the name of Toru Owashi and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanshiro Takagi
, better known by his ring name , is a Japanese professional wrestler and promoter who works for the Japanese wrestling promotion CyberFight, where he serves as executive vice president. He is one of the founding members and current chairman of United Japan Pro Wrestling. Takagi is the founder of DDT Pro-Wrestling, which is now part of the CyberFight umbrella. As a wrestler, Takagi's gimmick was that of a Stone Cold Steve Austin impersonator. Early life Takagi was born on January 13, 1970, in Toyonaka, Osaka. In middle school, he joined the school's judo club where he practiced wrestling techniques and bumps. After graduating from high school, he attended Komazawa University, where he eagerly attended professional wrestling matches due to the lack of a student wrestling club. In 1988, he queued up overnight to buy tickets for the Newborn UWF's launch event. Influenced by Akira Maeda's victory over Gerard Gordeau at the third Newborn UWF event, he briefly learned sambo fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery Communications
Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1982, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and TLC. In 2018, the company acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, adding networks such as Food Network, HGTV, and Travel Channel to its portfolio. Since the purchase, Discovery described itself as serving members of "passionate" audiences, and also placed a focus on streaming services built around its properties. Discovery owned or had interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European group of sports channels, most prominently the rightsholder of the Olympic Games throughout most of Europe), GolfTV (an international golf-focused streaming service, which is the international digital rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
