{"id":138074,"date":"2025-07-14T03:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=138074"},"modified":"2025-07-14T03:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:34:33","slug":"zack-sabre-jr-hiroshi-tanahashi-announced-for-ddt-wrestle-peter-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/07\/14\/zack-sabre-jr-hiroshi-tanahashi-announced-for-ddt-wrestle-peter-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack Sabre Jr. &#038; Hiroshi Tanahashi Announced for DDT Wrestle Peter Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Zack Sabre Jr. and The Ace Hiroshi Tanahashi are set to wrestle for DDT\u2019s biggest show of the year, Wrestle Peter Pan. Both announcements were made yesterday at ROCK IN RING 2025 in Korakuen Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138103\" style=\"width: 1980px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-138103 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/07\/11-44.jpg\" alt=\"A graphic for DDT Wrestle Peter Pan featuring Zack Sabre Jr. and Hiroshi Tanahashi.\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/07\/11-44.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/07\/11-44-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/07\/11-44-1024x528.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/07\/11-44-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/07\/11-44-1536x791.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: DDT Pro-Wrestling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year, DDT announced that it will be a two-day affair. Day one will be on August 30th at Higashin Arena, and day two will be at Korakuen Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was previously announced two weeks ago that ZSJ would be on the card, but no match was mentioned until yesterday at ROCK IN RING. He got involved in a shoving match with Schadenfreude International\u2019s Chris Brookes and Takeshi Masada after the latter\u2019s and Kosei Fujita\u2019s tag team victory. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris didn\u2019t seem to want to include Zack\u2019s stablemate in TMDK when they were celebrating the win, and was the one who initiated the whole thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">General Manager Imabayashi then settled things by booking a tag match for day one of Peter Pan, pitting ZSJ &amp; Fujita against Brookes &amp; Masada. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This marks ZSJ\u2019s second match in DDT after teaming with Brookes to face Yuki Ueno and MAO at April Fool&#8217;s last year. The confrontation ended with the four throwing around Schadenfreude\u2019s hand puppet, BunBun.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd34Jul 13 Korakuen show Highlights!<\/p>\n<p>GM: August 30th! Zack Sabre Jr. and Kosei Fujita vs Chris Brookes vs Takeshi Masada! Is what you guys want right? Let me confirm with the NJPW side!<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yEsfezywNo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/yEsfezywNo<\/a><a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ddtpro?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ddtpro<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/njpw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#njpw<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/scmo3zBZ9Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/scmo3zBZ9Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DDT Pro-Wrestling (English) (@ddtproENG) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddtproENG\/status\/1944241906940359151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before all that, after winning a 3-way match, Super Sasadango Machine proceeded to do one of his signature PowerPoint presentations. He surprised everyone when he finished it by announcing that Hiroshi Tanahashi will face one of DDT\u2019s most decorated wrestlers in Danshoku Dieno on day two of Peter Pan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although Tanahashi has wrestled in DDT before, Peter Pan will be the first time he wrestles Dieno in a singles match. This follows his participation in the NJPW vs DDT show last June 9th, which was co-produced by Sasadango and Toru Yano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The involvement of two of NJPW\u2019s biggest stars makes the two-day event an absolute must-watch. Both shows will be streamed live on <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestle-universe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wrestle Universe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, available for \u00a51,300 per month after a 1-week free trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>More from LWOS Pro Wrestling<\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Header Photo \u2013 DDT Pro-Wrestling \u2013 Stay<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"s2\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for more on DDT ROCK IN RING and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can watch Pro Wrestling NOAH, DDT, TJPW, and more on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ddtpro.com\/universe\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Wrestle Universe.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Zack Sabre Jr. and The Ace Hiroshi Tanahashi are set to wrestle for DDT\u2019s biggest show of the year, Wrestle Peter Pan. Both announcements were made yesterday at ROCK IN RING 2025 in Korakuen Hall. This year, DDT announced that it will be a two-day affair. Day one will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5576,"featured_media":138103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6505,13,12,14],"tags":[1029,172],"class_list":["post-138074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ddt-pro","category-international","category-news","category-njpw","tag-hiroshi-tanahashi","tag-zack-sabre-jr"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138104,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138074\/revisions\/138104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}