2024 DDT Pro-Wrestling event
Dramatic Infinity 2024 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on September 29, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. The event aired on CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.[2][3]
Eight matches were contested at the event. The main event saw Kaisei Takechi and The37Kamiina (Mao and Yuki Ueno) defeat Schadenfreude International (Chris Brookes, Masahiro Takanashi and Takeshi Masada). Other top matches included Yuki Iino defeating Yukio Naya to retain the DDT Universal Championship, and Akito and Yuni defeated Kazuma Sumi and Shunma Katsumata in a IPPON Lighttube tag team deathmatch for Katsumata's DDT Extreme Championship. Akito pinned Katsumata to win the title.
The event featured 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.[4]
The event started with the tag team confrontation between Jun Akiyama and Keigo Nakamura, and Harashima and KO-D Openweight Champion Shinya Aoki, solded with the victory of the latter team. After the bout concluded, Harashima challenged Aoki for the latter's Openweight Championship in a bout which was set to take place on October 20, 2024. Next up, Tetsuya Endo, Yuya Koroku and Soma Takao picked up a victory over Kazuki Hirata, Toru Owashi and Yuki Ishida in six-man tag team competition. The third bout saw KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions Daisuke Sasaki, MJ Paul and Kanon outmatching Antonio Honda and Illusion) and To-y in another six-man tag team confrontation. In the fourth bout, Makoto Oishi defeated Danshoku Dino to win the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, only to lose it back to Dino in another immediate match. The sixth bout saw Akito and Yuni teaming up with Shunma Katsumata and Kazuma Sumi in a IPPON Lighttube tag team deathmatch in which Katsumata defended his DDT Extreme Championship. Akito and Yuni won the match, but Akito won the title by scoring the pinfall on Katsumata. After the bout concluded, Akito nominated Danshoku Dino as his next challenger in a bout which was set to take place on October 20, 2024. In the semi main event, Yuki Iino defeated Yukio Naya to secure the first successful defense of the DDT Universal Championship in that respective reign. After the bout concluded, To-y challenged Iino to a title match which was set to take place on October 13, 2024.
In the main event, The37Kamiina (Mao and Yuki Ueno) and Kaisei Takechi defeated Schadenfreude International (Chris Brookes, Masahiro Takanashi and Takeshi Masada) in six-man tag team competition, which represented Takechi's second ever professional wrestling bout.
- ^ a b Kreikenbohm, Philip (September 29, 2024). "DDT Dramatic Infinity 2024 ~ 3 Hour Special ~". cagematch.net. Retrieved September 29, 2024.
- ^ DDT Pro-Wrestling. "DDT ProWrestling" DRAMATIC INFINITY 2024 3時間スペシャル. ddtpro.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 30, 2024. Retrieved September 29, 2024.
- ^ "Watch DRAMATIC INFINITY 2024 on WRESTLE UNIVERSE" DRAMATIC INFINITY 2024 ～3時間スペシャル～. wrestle-universe.com. Wrestle Universe. Retrieved September 29, 2024.
- ^ Grabianowski, Ed (January 13, 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved September 29, 2024.
