{"id":140952,"date":"2025-08-29T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=140952"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:53:40","slug":"ddt-wrestle-peter-pan-2025-preview-day-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/08\/29\/ddt-wrestle-peter-pan-2025-preview-day-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DDT Wrestle Peter Pan 2025 Preview Day 1 &#038; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DDT Pro-Wrestling is set to end August with a bang as they present Wrestle Peter Pan 2025 for two days in Tokyo. Day 1 will be held at Higashin Arena tomorrow, August 30, 3:00 p.m. JST\/2 a.m. ET, and day 2 will be at Korakuen Hall, August 31, 11:00 a.m. JST\/10:00 p.m. ET, August 30.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both shows will be live-streamed on <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestle-universe.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wrestle Universe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which offers a seven-day free trial for new users. English translations of promos will be done live on their English X account: <\/span><a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ddtproENG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/x.com\/ddtproENG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are the matches lined up for the two-day extravaganza:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Wrestle Peter Pan 2025 Day 1 Match Card:<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Main Event: KO-D Openweight Championship &#8211; Kazusada Higuchi (c) vs. Jun Akiyama<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Semifinal: KO-D Tag Team Championship &#8211; Yuki Iino &amp; Yukio Naya (The Apex) (c) vs. Daisuke Sasaki &amp; Hideki Okatani (Damnation T.A.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8th match: Zack Sabre Jr. &amp; Kosei Fujita (TMDK) vs. Chris Brookes &amp; Takeshi Masada (Schadenfreude International)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7th match: Muscle Sakai Retirement 15th Anniversary Match &#8211; Minoru Suzuki vs. Muscle Sakai<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6th match: DDT Extreme Championship &#8211; To-y (c) vs. Yuya Koroku<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5th match: Yuki Ueno &amp; Shinya Aoki &amp; Kazuma Sumi vs. MAO &amp; KANON (Strange Love Connection) &amp; Kumadori<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4th match: Ilusion &amp; MJ Paul &amp; Haruto Sakuraba (Damnation T.A.) vs. Akito &amp; Naomi Yoshimura &amp; Daichi Sato<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3rd match: Danshoku Dieno vs. Kazuki Hirata vs. Antonio Honda<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2nd match: Soma Takao &amp; Rukiya vs. Shinichiro Kawamatsu &amp; Yuki Ishida<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1st match: Hinata Kasai Debut Match &#8211; HARASHIMA vs. Hinata Kasai<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_141003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141003\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-141003 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/08\/22-36.jpg\" alt=\"A graphic for DDT Wrestle Peter Pan 2025.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/08\/22-36.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/08\/22-36-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/08\/22-36-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/08\/22-36-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/08\/22-36-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: DDT Pro-Wrestling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><b>Wrestle Peter Pan 2025 Day 2 Match Card:<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Double Main Event II: KO-D Openweight Championship &#8211; Winner of Higuchi vs. Akiyama vs. Yuki Ueno<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Double Main Event I: DDT Universal Championship &#8211; Minoru Suzuki (c) vs. MAO<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5th match: Hiroshi Tanahashi (NJPW) vs. Danshoku Dieno<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4th match: Yuki Iino &amp; Yukio Naya (The Apex) vs. HARASHIMA &amp; Shinya Aoki*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3rd match: Daisuke Sasaki &amp; Hideki Okatani (Damnation T.A.) vs. Chris Brookes &amp; Takeshi Masada (Schadenfreude International) vs. Naomi Yoshimura &amp; Yuki Ishida (Harimao)*<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2nd match: Loser of Day 1 main event &amp; Super Sasadango Machine &amp; Akito vs. KANON &amp; Kazuki Hirata &amp; Antonio Honda<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1st match: To-y &amp; Daichi Sato &amp; Rukiya &amp; Hinata Kasai vs. Ilusion &amp; Yuya Koroku &amp; Munetatsu Nakamura &amp; Kazuma Sumi<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*- <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">match order could change depending on the result of the KO-D Tag title match on day one<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ja\">\ud83d\udd3d\u5927\u4f1a\u8a73\u7d30<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TutWSt8mOn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/TutWSt8mOn<\/a><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd3d\u30c1\u30b1\u30c3\u30c8<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8IgDIpguw9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/8IgDIpguw9<\/a><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd3d\u751f\u914d\u4fe1<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3qUKkEHZMM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/3qUKkEHZMM<\/a><a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WrestlePeterPan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WrestlePeterPan<\/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:\/\/t.co\/ShmuYEUgov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ShmuYEUgov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DDT ProWrestling (@ddtpro) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddtpro\/status\/1961307881304985909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><b>Higuchi Faces Akiyama for the KO-D Belt Again<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kazusada Higuchi and Jun Akiyama will wrestle once again for the KO-D Openweight title, but on opposite sides of the coin this time around. When they first fought for the title four years ago, Akiyama was the champion, and he was victorious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Higuchi would get his revenge a year later when he eliminated Akiyama from the King of DDT tournament, beating him in the semifinals to win the tourney eventually and the then vacant KO-D Openweight title for the first time in his career. Both wrestlers having one win against each other gives more weight to their third encounter, headlining DDT\u2019s biggest show of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Akiyama will turn 56 in October and is looking to prove that he is still a force to be reckoned with in the industry, and to do that, he will have to defeat Higuchi, who has been on a roll since returning from injury last March. Who will prevail and go on to defend on day two at Korakuen against Yuki Ueno?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Apex Defends Against Damnation T.A.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reigning KO-D Tag Team champions will defend their titles for the second time against the challenge of Damnation Total Addiction\u2019s Daisuke Sasaki and Hideki Okatani. This match now has bigger implications for day two, as announced at the event\u2019s press conference on August 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DDT announced that whichever team wins on day one will have to defend the tag titles on day two. Whichever team loses will wrestle in the third match on day two, while the champions will be in the fourth match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be The Apex\u2019s size, strength, and athleticism against Damnation T.A.&#8217;s underhanded tactics, violence, and Sasaki\u2019s veteran savvy. Whichever team wins will have challenging assignments the following day, as Damnation will be in a three-way tag and Iino and Naya will face the dangerous combination of HARASHIMA &amp; Shinya Aoki.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Suzuki Head-to-Head Against MAO<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DDT Universal champion Minoru Suzuki is set for a busy weekend, as he will face Muscle Sakai on day one and defend his title against three-time Universal champion MAO. Two matches of different magnitudes for the battle-tested vet, but also two opportunities to inflict pain against a couple of DDT\u2019s finest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MAO competed in NJPW\u2019s Best of the Super Junior a few months back, showing the world once again that DDT wrestlers can hang with the world\u2019s finest. While he has been Universal champion before, he will face a completely different monster in Suzuki, who\u2019s looking to solidify his reign and add on more accomplishments to what is already a legendary career.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>TMDK vs. Schadenfreude, Tanahashi vs. Dieno<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A couple of cross-promotional matches also highlight this year\u2019s Peter Pan shows as the stars of NJPW come to visit. On day one, a tag team match between the team of reigning IWGP World Heavyweight champion Zack Sabre Jr. and Kosei Fujita, and two-time KO-D Openweight champion Chris Brookes and Takeshi Masada will take place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ZSJ wrestled his first match in DDT in April 2024, tagging with his fellow Brit Brookes. This time, they will be on opposite sides as leaders of their own units, teaming up with two bright young stars in Fujita and Masada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On day two, it will be The Ace and President of NJPW, Hiroshi Tanahashi, wrestling Danshoku Dieno. Appropriately branded as a dream match, this singles match will feature the styles that were at the forefront of the two promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ja\">\ud83d\udd3d\u5927\u4f1a\u8a73\u7d30<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LWlKteI8Bv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/LWlKteI8Bv<\/a><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd3d\u751f\u914d\u4fe1<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8KhSQqUVU5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/8KhSQqUVU5<\/a><a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WrestlePeterPan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WrestlePeterPan<\/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:\/\/t.co\/9TYgDPySr5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/9TYgDPySr5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DDT ProWrestling (@ddtpro) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddtpro\/status\/1961285451589021718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\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 Wrestle Peter Panand 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>DDT Pro-Wrestling is set to end August with a bang as they present Wrestle Peter Pan 2025 for two days in Tokyo. Day 1 will be held at Higashin Arena tomorrow, August 30, 3:00 p.m. JST\/2 a.m. ET, and day 2 will be at Korakuen Hall, August 31, 11:00 a.m. JST\/10:00 p.m. ET, August 30.Both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5576,"featured_media":141002,"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":[6505,13,2192],"tags":[2282,4902],"class_list":["post-140952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ddt-pro","category-international","category-wrestling","tag-jun-akiyama","tag-kazusada-higuchi"],"modified_by":"Michael Joseph Sugue, Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140952","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=140952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141100,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140952\/revisions\/141100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}