Ryōgoku Peter Pan (2009)

## Ryōgoku Peter Pan

Promotional poster for the event, featuring various DDT wrestlers

### Tagline(s)

"I Will Never Grow Up" (Japanese: 〜大人になんてなれないよ〜, Hepburn: *Otona ni nante narenaiyo*)

## Information

### City

Tokyo, Japan

**Ryōgoku Peter Pan** was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). The event took place on August 23, 2009, in Tokyo at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan. The event was the first event under the Peter Pan name and the first promoted under the Ryōgoku Peter Pan name, which became DDT's biggest annual event and began being called "the largest wrestling show in the Japanese independent circuit".

The event was headlined by HARASHIMA defending the KO-D Openweight Championship against the winner of the 2009 King of DDT Kota Ibushi. Another high-profile match scheduled for the show featured Masahiro Chono defeated Poison Julie Sawada. The event aired live on Fighting TV Samurai as a pay-per-view (PPV), and the dark match was broadcast on Ustream.

The event also featured three other title matches with The Italian Four Horseman (Francesco Togo and Piza Michinoku) defending the KO-D Tag Team Championship against Kudo and Yasu Urano, Jun Kasai and MIKAMI, and Kenny Omega and Mike Angels in a four-way tag team elimination match, Danshoku Dino facing Masa Takanashi in a Winner takes all match for the DDT Extreme Division, Omori Dream Fair, Big China Unified Sichuan, Umemura Personal Computer Copy and Paste, DJ Nira World, Jet World Jet, Gay World Anal, DJ Nira World And Strongest In History and Mid-Breath World Championships and Yoshihiko defending the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship in a Rumble rules match.

## Production

### Background

In 2008, DDT set a goal of promoting a show in the *Ryōgoku Kokugikan*. The event was announced on December 28, 2008 at the Never Mind and its name was revealed at a press conference on February 13, 2009. The event became DDT premier annual event and ended up being the biggest event in the independent circuit of Japanese wrestling. Afterwards, the ticket sales for the event became a financial success with the promotion selling almost 9,000 tickets. Leading to the event, DDT broadcasted their tour titled "Road to Ryōgoku" on Fighting TV Samurai.

## Event

The second dark match was a tag team deathmatch set to end at 5:00 pm in which the result would decide on the fate of Michael Nakazawa's anus. However, according to the rules of the match, every possible outcome would result in Nakazawa's anus being blown up by fireworks.

On the main card, the opening match saw the debut of Soma Takao.

The following match was a Rumble rules match in which Yoshihiko, an inflatable love doll with male make-up accompanied to the ring by Yusuke Inokuma, defended its Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship. During the match, Shoichi Ichimiya appeared under two different names: Giru Nakano, a parody of Bull Nakano and Keigi Mutoh, a parody of Keiji Mutoh. After being eliminated early on thus losing its title to Toru Owashi, Yoshihiko reappeared in the match as Sumo Yoshihiko and ended-up as the runner-up of the match.

After the match, Sumo Yoshihiko pinned Toru Owashi to win back the Ironman Heavymetalweight title and become the 825th champion.

The fifth match featured Mitsuya Nagai from Dradition and Munenori Sawa from Battlarts.

The sixth match was a unification match of nine titles (most of those being comedic titles). Danshoku Dino was holding the DDT Extreme Division Championship, the Omori Dream Fair Championship, the Greater China Unified Sichuan Openweight Championship, the Umemura Personal Computer Copy and Paste Championship and the DJ Nira World Championship while Masa Takanashi was holding the J.E.T. World Jet Championship, the Gay World Anal Championship, the DJ Nira World And Strongest In History Championship and the World Mid Breath Championship.

The seventh match featured The Great Sasuke from Michinoku Pro Wrestling and was a "Weapon Rumble" in which various weapons secretly chosen by the participants beforehand were being introduced one after an other at regular intervals. Some of those weapons included a bowl of oden, Kaientai Dojo joshi wrestler Bambi with a whip, a mobile phone and hypnosis.

The eighth match featured Masahiro Chono from New Japan Pro-Wrestling.

The ninth match featured Piza Michinoku from Kaientai Dojo as well as Jun Kasai from the hardcore promotion Pro-Wrestling Freedoms.

## Results

### Four-way tag team elimination match

 03 3 | Piza Michinoku | Francesco Togo and Piza Michinoku | Yasu Urano

## Footnotes

1. ↑ Rather than a fixed duration, the time limit was 5:00 pm.
2. ↑ Owashi becomes the 824th Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion.
3. ↑ Shoichi Ichimiya parodying Bull Nakano under the name *Giru Nakano* (偽ル中野, "Fake Nakano")
4. ↑ Shoichi Ichimiya parodying Keiji Mutoh under the name *Mutō Keigi* (武藤敬偽, "Fake Mutoh")
5. ↑ Yoshihiko dressed as a sumo wrestler