Ultimate Party (2019)

Promotional poster for the event, featuring various wrestlers and the returning Kenny Omega

### Tagline(s)

DDT Group Big Gathering! (Japanese: 〜DDTグループ大集合！〜, Hepburn: *DDT gurūpu dai shūgō*)

## Information

### City

Tokyo, Japan

**Ultimate Party (2019)** was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). The event took place on November 3, 2019, in Tokyo at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. This was the first event under the Ultimate Party name.

The show was headlined by Konosuke Takeshita facing HARASHIMA in a double title match for the the KO-D Openweight and DDT Extreme Division Championships. The event aired live on DDT's streaming service DDT Universe. As per the theme of the event, all championships across the all of DDT's sub-brands — Ganbare☆Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Basara, and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling — were defended at the event. The event was also notable for featuring the return of Kenny Omega to the promotion after being absent for four years.

The card comprised 14 matches, which included eight title matches with a chair defending the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship in a Rumble rules match, ASUKA, Danshoku Dino, Mizuki, Trans-Am★Hiroshi and Yuki Iino facing Super Sasadango Machine, Yuna Manase, Jiro Kuroshio, Hiroshi Yamato and Makoto Oishi for the vacant KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship, Keisuke Ishii defending the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship against Fuminori Abe, Takato Nakano, Takumi Tsukamoto and Yasu Urano defending the UWA World Trios Championship against DAMNATION (Tetsuya Endo, Mad Paulie and Nobuhiro Shimatani) and Ken Ohka, Yumehito Imanari and Miss Mongol in a three-way match, Daydream (Rika Tatsumi and Miu Watanabe) defending the Princess Tag Team Championship against NEO Biishiki-gun (Saki-sama and Misao), DAMNATION (Daisuke Sasaki and Soma Takao) defending the KO-D Tag Team Championship against All Out (Akito and Shunma Katsumata), Iron Priest (FUMA and Yusuke Kubo) and Sento Minzoku (Minoru Fujita and Daiki Shimomura) in a four-way match, Ryuichi Sekine defending the Union MAX Championship against Masahiro Takanashi and Shoko Nakajima defending the Princess of Princess Championship against Yuka Sakazaki.

## Production

### Background

Usually, DDT holds two major events each year, often in venues such as the Ryōgoku Kokugikan, the Nippon Budokan or the Ota City General Gymnasium, since 2019 DDT began holding the Ultimate Party with the show taking place in the *Ryōgoku Kokugikan*, followed by Judgment pay-per-view event. As per the theme of the event, all championships across the all of DDT's sub-brands — Ganbare☆Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Basara, and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling — were defended at the event. On February 23, 2020 at Into The Fight, DDT announced that Kenny Omega would be returning the promotion for the event, after four years, teaming with Riho against Antonio Honda and Miyu Yamashita. Omega had previously made his debut for DDT in August 2008, forming a popular team with Kota Ibushi, know as the Golden☆Lovers, before winning DDT's premier championship title the KO-D Openweight Championship, before leaving the promotion in October 2014, to New Japan Pro-Wrestling once his DDT contract expired.

### Storylines

The Ultimate Party 2019 event featured fourteen 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.

The event was headlined by Konosuke Takeshita facing HARASHIMA in a double title match for the KO-D Openweight and DDT Extreme Division Championships. On September 1, 2019 at Osaka Octupus, after Konosuke Takeshita successfully defended the KO-D Openweight Championship against Shinya Aoki, Takeshita challenged the winner of the DDT Extreme Division Championship match between Jiro Kuroshio, HARASHIMA and Tetsuya Endo on September 29, to a double title match, to determine the best wrestler in the promotion. At the event on September 29, HARASHIMA defeated Endo and Kuroshio in a three-way elimination match to become the new DDT Extreme Division Champion. Afterwards, Takeshita confronted HARASHIMA, reminding him that he previously defeat him on March 20, 2017 at Judgement for his second reign of the KO-D Openweight Championship. As part of predule match before the event, on October 6, Takeshita and his All Out stablemates Shunma Katsumata and Yuki Iino sucessfully defended the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship against HARASHIMA and his Disaster-Box stablemates Yuki Ueno and Naomi Yoshimura. On October 13, Takeshita and HARASHIMA faced off ina tag team match, which Takeshita made HARASHIMA to submit, while applying the *Walls of Takeshita*, after HARASHIMA's Disaster-Box stablemate Toru Owashi threw the title, forcing the referee to stop the match. This result was repeated on october 27 in their last pre-match.

In the Princess of Princess Championship match, Shoko Nakajima defended her title against Yuka Sakazaki. On September 15, Nakajima successfully defended the Princess of Princess Championship against Misao. Afterwards, Nakajima decided that her next title defense would be at Ultimate Party, before nominating her tag team partner Yuka Sakazaki as her next challenger. The following day, it was announced that Nakajima would be going on excursion to Mexico starting on November 5. On October 27, Nakajima pinned Sakazaki during a six-man tag team match.

In the Union MAX Championship match, Ryuichi Sekine defended his title against Masahiro Takanashi. On September 24, after Sekine successfully defended the Union MAX Championship against SAGAT, Sekine announced that he would be defending his title at Ultimate Party. Afterwards, DDT's Masahiro Takanashi came to the ring and challenged Sekine to a title match, which Sekine accepted, claiming he would win the match for BASARA.

On September 29, after DAMNATION (Daisuke Sasaki and Soma Takao) defended the KO-D Tag Team Championship against ALL OUT (Akito and Yuki Iino), after Sasaki called out any team to challenge them. Afterwards, Iron Priest (FUMA and Yusuke Kubo) came out and demanded it to be a hardcore match, before another team from Basara Sento Minzoku (Minoru Fujita and Daiki Shimomura) and ALL OUT members Akito and Shunma Katsumata also came out, with Sasaki accepting their challenges setting the four-way hardcore match at Ultimate Party.

On October 19, after NEO Biishiki-gun (Saki-sama and Misao) defended the Princess Tag Team Championship against Pink Ready (Yuki Kamifuku and Mina Shirakawa), Daydream (Rika Tatsumi and Miu Watanabe) came out and challenged them to a title match at Ultimate Party. Afterwards, Tatsumi tried to embrace with Misao, but she refused stating that power, strength, the titles and Saki-sama were the only things that matter, before accepting the title match.

On September 29, Keisuke Ishii defeated Shuichiro Katsumura to win the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship. Afterwards, Ishii stated that he wanted to make Ganbare☆Wrestling more appealing than DDT and BASARA, leading Fuminori Abe to ask Ishii to be his first challenger, revealing that BASARA wanted to clear out all of the championships, before becoming independent from DDT.

Also on September 29, it was announced that the KO-D 10-Man Tag Team Championship would be vacated due to the titles not being defended in the for two years. It was also announced that the match to crown the new champions would be contested between a team led by Danshoku Dino and a team led by Super Sasadango Machine. On October 9, it was announced that Dino would be teaming with ASUKA, Mizuki, Trans-Am★Hiroshi and Yuki Iino, while Machine would be teaming with Yuna Manase, Jiro Kuroshio, Hiroshi Yamato and Makoto Oishi.

The event also included a title match for the UWA World Trios Championship with Takato Nakano, Takumi Tsukamoto and Yasu Urano defending their titles against DAMNATION (Tetsuya Endo, Mad Paulie and Nobuhiro Shimatani) and Ken Ohka, Yumehito Imanari and Miss Mongol in a three-way match and a chair defending the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship in a Rumble rules match.

## Notes

1. ↑ Matsuno becomes the 1,376th champion.
2. ↑ SAGAT becomes the 1,436th champion.
3. ↑ Matsuno becomes the 1,437th champion.
4. ↑ Hirata becomes the 1,438th champion.