Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere

The **Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere** is a battle royal established by DDT Pro-Wrestling promotion in 2012. The holder of the contracts have a rule that only in matches they can lose their contracts (if the holder of the contract is pinned, submitted or even by TKO the contract is passed to the opponents that got the win. This needs to be in a professional wrestling match and not at any time) it's similar to due WWE's Money in the Bank, where the prize in the match is an elbow pad containing a contract for a championship match, which can be "cashed in" by the holder of the briefcase at any point in the year following their victory. The first matches were contested in 2012 and the winners of their contracts could get any championship match, for one of DDT Championships.

## History

### 2012

This was invented by the DDT general manager Amon Tsurumi on March 2012. At the end of March, Tsurumi announced that the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere would be a Royal Rumble at the April Fool event. Then Tsurumi announced that the match had a bonus of having five separate envelopes hanging above the ring. Inside each envelope was a contract. The first competitor to grab hold of an envelope would win the prized contract kept inside. Nobody knew which envelope contains which contract.

Then the contract holder could choose a championship match for any of DDT Championships including the KO-D Openweight Championship, DDT Extreme Division Championship or the KO-D Tag Team Championship (if the holder chose a partner) or becoming the next Ken Ohka at any time. Then later on April Fool the Royal Rumble served to crown the first holders to have the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere. The winners of each respective matches were Yuji Hino, Masa Takanashi, DJ Nira, Keita Yano and Tomomitsu Matsunaga. Later that night, Takanashi successfully cashed in his newly won Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere on Sanshiro Takagi to become the new KO-D Openweight Champion. On May 4 Hino successfully cashed in his Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere on Takanashi to become the new KO-D Openweight Champion. Then Tomomitsu Matsunaga who also won the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere seeds GENTARO to be his partner and both unsuccessfully challenged Hino and Yasu Urano on June 3 for the KO-D Tag Team Championship. Meanwhile, Makoto Oishi won the Ken Ohka Anytime, Anywhere contract to become Ken Ohka when he wanted and on July 29 DJ Nira who was also a holder of the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere unsuccessfully challenged Kota Ibushi for the KO-D Openweight Championship.

### 2013

The following year, Yukio Sakaguchi, Sanshiro Takagi, Keisuke Ishii, HARASHIMA and DJ Nira became the holders of the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere. Then Takagi lost his Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere to Yasu Urano. This followed up with Urano losing his contract to Akito. Then on March 31, Akito lost his contract to Makoto Oishi and Urano pinned Ishii in a match to win his contract. Later Oishi cashed in his contract on the KO-D Openweight Champion Shigehiro Irie and Irie managed to retain his title. Then on April 10, Takagi defeated Nira to win his contract. However, Nira on his contract back three days later and HARASHIMA lost his contract to MIKAMI and Sakaguchi unsuccessfully challenged Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. The following day, Nira lost his contract to El Samurai. Urano then lost his contract to Daisuke Sasaki. Ishii regained his contract from Urano on May 26. Emi Sakura became the first female to win the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere contract. Then on June 23 Sasaki and Ishii cashed in their contract unsuccessfully challenging Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Samurai was the only wrestler to cash in his contract. Yuji Okabayashi also had a contract and he also unsuccessfully challenged Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship.

### 2014

In 2014 the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere started in March instead of April. At Judgement, Akito, Tetsuya Endo, Masa Takanashi, Kazuki Hirata, Guanchulo and Super Sasadango Machine became the contract holders. Then Hirata won Takanashi contract and Hirata lost his contract to Daisuke Sasaki. Then Shigehiro Irie also won a contract defeating Endo. Honda then won two contracts defeating Guanchalo and Endo. Then Endo won one of Honda's contracts back. On April 29 Honda lost his remaining contract to Yasu Urano and Endo lost his contract to HARASHIMA. At the main event, Akito unsuccessfully challenged Kudo for the KO-D Openweight Championship. After the match, Urano cashed in his contract, but he ended up losing to Kudo. On May 21 HARASHIMA cashed in his contract defeating Kudo to win the KO-D Openweight Championship and becoming the second wrestler to successfully cashing in his contract. Irie then lost his contract to Makoto Oishi. Urano then won Oishi's contract. On June 29 Urano lost his contract to Kenny Omega. Later that night Machine cashed in his contract unsuccessfully challenging HARASHIMA for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Then on August Omega cashed in his contract unsuccessfully challenging HARASHIMA for the KO-D Openweight Championship. The match also included Isami Kodaka.

### 2015

On the next year, the contract holders were Tetsuya Endo, Yasu Urano, Masa Takanashi, Kazusada Higuchi and Antonio Honda. Endo and Takanashi's contracts were different, Endo was for a championship match at the King of Dark Championship and Takanashi's contract was to hold his own show. Endo couldn't have his championship due to a foot injury. Then another contract was on the line in another battle royal. Instead of having a battle royal Endo contract was awarded to Hiroshi Fukuda. However, Fukuda lost his contract to Yoshihiko. On April 26 Yoshihiko's contract changed hands three times after Yoshihiko was defeated by Tomomitsu Matsunaga. Then Matsunaga was pinned by DJ Nira and then Nira was defeated by Saki Akai. On April 29 Kudo won Honda's contract and Daisuke Sasaki won Urano's contract. On May 24 Kudo won one of Sasaki's contract and Higuchi unsuccessfully cashed in his contract against HARASHIMA failing to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. On May 24 Danshoku Dino then won Sasaki's contracts. Dino lost one of his contracts against Ken Ohka and the other to Masa Takanashi. On June 28 Urano won Takahashi contract. Later that night Urano cashed in his contract against Kudo. During the match, Ohka suddenly appeared cashed in his contract and he managed to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. However, while Ohka was celebrating Kudo successfully cashed in his remaining contract defeating Ohka for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Kudo became the first wrestler to successfully cashed in the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere twice.

### 2016

In 2016 the original holders became Kazusada Higuchi, Ken Ohka, Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Toru Owashi. Then another battle royal was made of another Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere contract. This led on March 26 Saki Akai, Danshoku Dino and Antonio Honda becoming the new holders. Later that night Ohka failed to cash in his contract losing to reigning KO-D Openweight Champion HARASHIMA. Then Kouki Iwasaki won Matsunaga's contract, Mizuki Watase won Akai's contract Watase then lost his contract to Danshoku Dino and Honda lost his contract to Daisuke Sasaki. One was transferred over to Makoto Oishi and then Oishi lost his contract to Yukio Sakaguchi. On May 8 Sakaguchi failed to cash in his contract being defeated by Sasaki at his KO-D Openweight Championship title match. Then the other contract that Dino had was also transferred over to Oishi again. The Oishi lost his contract to Kazuki Hirata. Hirata then lost his contract to Guanchulo in which Guanchulo lost to Mizuke Watase. Then Dino lost his remaining contract to Yuko Miyamoto. Higuchi lost his contract to Tetsuya Endo on July 3. Then Miyamoto, Owashi and Endo unsuccessfully challenged Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship. on three different occasions.

### 2017

In this year of 2017 the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere contract started in April instead of March. The winners of the originals contracts where Royce Isaacs, Akito, Keisuke Ishii, Yoshihiro Takayama and Shigehiro Irie. This happened on April 8, in this night Akito cashed in his contract unsuccessfully challenging Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship. HARASHIMA then won Irie's contracts. However, HARASHIMA lost this contract to Kazusada Higuchi. Isaacs lost his contract to Sanshiro Takagi but then won it back. Kazuki Hirata and Nobuhiro Shimatani also had contract. Then Hirata and Isaacs lost their contracts to Makoto Oishi. Shimatani lost his contract to Naomi Yoshimura. Takayama then lost his contract to Yasu Urano. Urano then cashed in his contract unsuccessfully challenging Konosuke Takeshita for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Then Takeshita won Higuchi contract but then Takeshita lost his contract to Mike Bailey and Mad Paulie won Oishi's contract, but he would lose his contract back to Keisuke Ishii. Ishii, Bailey and Yoshimura all cashed in on Takeshita but Takeshita managed to retain the title alt al times.

### 2018

In this year, the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere contract started on May 29 in the sixth episode of DDT's “LIVE! MAJI MANJI”. DDT originally booked a battle royal to decide the 1# Contendership to the KO-D Openweight Championship, which Kazusada Higuchi won. The contracts would then be grabbed by Mizuki Watase, Tetsuya Endo, MAO, Antonio Honda, Ken Ohka and Meiko Satomura. Instead of receiving a KO-D Openweight Championship match, Ohka received a Punishment match in the seventh episode of DDT's “LIVE! MAJI MANJI”. On June 2 Honda lost his contract to Hiramito Dragon during a six-man tag team match. The following day, MAO lost his contract to Mizuki Watase during a tag team match, in which Watase lost one of his contracts to MAO's partner Mike Bailey. On June 9 Bailey lost his contract after he unmasked Hiratimo Dragon and Bailey gave his contract as a gift for unmasking him. On June 10 Mizuki Watase lost his second contract to Mad Paulie. On June 17, Paulie lost his contract to HARASHIMA. On March 24, Higuchi unsuccessfully challenged Shigehiro Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship. Following the match, HARASHIMA announced that he would cash in his contract against Irie in a later date. On July 3, Dragon lost both of his contracts to Yuki Iino and Yukio Sakaguchi. Later in the same day, Endo lost his contract to Akito in Six-man tag team match. On July 14 Akito lost his contract to Antonio Honda. Later that night, Kouki Iwasaki won Yuki Iino's contract. On July 15, Hirata won Antonio Honda's contract. On July 22 Sakaguchi lost his contract to Sammy Guevara and later unsuccessfully challenged Shigehiro Irie for the KO-D Openweight Championship before HARASHIMA also unsuccessfully challenging Irie for his KO-D Openweight Championship. During that night, Iwasaki lost his contract to Super Sasadango Machine. On July 29, Hirata lost his contract to Makoto Oishi. During this time, Satomura lost her contract during WWE's Mae Young Classic, thus making that contract inactive. On August 14, Oishi lost his contract to Meiko Satomura, thus regaining a contract and Sasadango Machine gave his contract to Danshoku Dino as a gift and Dino later in the night defeated Shigehiro Irie to win KO-D Openweight Champion. On August 29, Satomura successfully cashed in her contracts against Danshoku Dino for the KO-D Openweight Championship becoming the first female wrestler to win the title.

### 2019

In this year, the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere contract started on February 23. For the first time in the contract history DDT only introduced three contracts, in three matches with three different stipulations. The winners of the originals contracts where Makoto Oishi, who won a four-way match, Yuki Iino, who defeated Kota Umeda in a sinles match and Tetsuya Endo, who won his contract in a three-way with over the top rope rules. Oishi was the first wrestler to lose his contract, after dropping it to Kazuki Hirata on March 2. The following day, Hirata lost his contract to Yoshihiko. In the same night, Kota Umeda defeated Iino in a singles match to win his contract, before losing it to Keisuke Ishii on April 4. Also on April 4, Hirata regained his contract from Yoshihiko. In that night, Endo successfully cashed in his contract against his DAMNATION stablemate Daisuke Sasaki to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. On April 11, Hirata lost his contract to Hiroshi Yamato. Yamato would lose his contract to Sanshiro Takagi on April 28. On May 19, Ishii unsuccessfully cashed in his contract against Tetsuya Endo for the KO-D Openweight Championship. On June 19, Takagi unsuccessfully cashed in his contract against Tetsuya Endo for the KO-D Openweight Championship.

### 2020

In 2020 the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere started in January where Tetsuya Endo, Makoto Oishi, Yukio Naya, Antonio Honda, Danshoku Dino, Daisuke Sasaki Shinya Aoki and Yasu Urano became the original contract holders, with the exception of Urano's contract being the Saitama Super Arena Sword. Shortly after, Sasaki asked DDT's Assistant Producer Hisaya Imabayashi, if he could cash in his contract to win Urano's Saitama Super Arena Sword, leading Sasaki to successfully cash in his contract to win the Saitama Super Arena Sword. On February 1, DDT announced three more contracts, which were won by Akito, Naomi Yoshimura, and Yuki Iino. February 2, Cody Hall defeated Yuki Iino to win his contract. On February 9, Yoshimura lost his contract to Danshoku Dino and Akito lost his contract to Mad Paulie. On February 10, Hall would vacate his contract and leave DDT following a remark he made about the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. On February 23 Sasaki lost his sword to Akito only to lose the sword to Sasaki's stablemate Tetsuya Endo. On March 3, Yuki Iino defeated Yukio Naya, Naomi Yoshimura, Kazuki Hirata, Mizuki Watase, Soma Takao, Kazusada Higuchi, MAO, and Makoto Oishi to win Cody Hall's contract. On March 7, Royce Chambers defeated Danshoku Dino to win his second contract and later his contract to Tetsuya Endo. On March 22, MAO defeated Mad Paulie to win his contract. On May 2, 2020, Endo would lose his sword to Kazusada Higuchi. However, Endo would regain his sword from Higuchi on May 16. On June 2, Yoshihiko defeated Yuki Iino to win Iino's second contract and seven days later lost his contract Akito. On June 7, Endo successfully cashed in his sword to defeat Masato Tanaka to win KO-D Openweight Championship at Wrestle Peter Pan 2020. On June 14, MAO lost his contract to Yuki Ueno and Ueno later in the night unsuccessfully cashed in his contract against Tetsuya Endo.

### 2022

In 2022 the Right to Challenge Anytime, Anywhere started in August where Shinya Aoki became the rights holder after defeating Yuji Hino, Chris Brookes, Shunma Katsumata, Makoto Oishi, Kazuki Hirata, Yusuke Okada, Yukio Naya, Hideki Okatani and Yuya Koroku in Battle Royal to receive the envelope, unlike the previous years instead of being awared a contract, Aoki instead got awarded an NFT with DDT wanting the Right To Challenge prize to be represented with something was never used before and was later revealed to be an NFT that was created to prevent the title shot from being forged or stolen like the previous years with the holder needing to set up their own account for the NFT to be claimed and stored. On October 12, Aoki unsuccessfully cashed in his NFT to defeat Kazusada Higuchi to win KO-D Openweight Championship at Get Alive 2022.

## Matches

### Record

 KO-D Tag Team Championship | 0
 Saitama Super Arena Sword