{"id":43352,"date":"2019-04-04T23:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T03:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=43352"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T15:48:41","slug":"two-new-gaijin-announced-for-ddt-pro-tour-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/04\/04\/two-new-gaijin-announced-for-ddt-pro-tour-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Gaijin Announced for DDT Pro Tour in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s <strong>Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) Pro<\/strong> promotion has announced two new\u00a0<em>gaijin<\/em> (foreigner) wrestlers joining the company for a tour starting next week, featuring an emerging star from both the US and Canada. They revealed that US indie star <strong>Ricky Starks<\/strong> and Canadian indie star <strong>&#8220;Psycho&#8221; Mike Rollins<\/strong> would be joining the company starting April 11, with their first match paired together in a tag team triple threat against <strong>MOONLIGHT EXPRESS<\/strong> (<strong>Mike &#8220;Speedball&#8221; Bailey &amp; MAO<\/strong>) and <strong>DAMNATION<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Nobuhiro Shimatani &amp;\u00a0Soma Takao<\/strong>. DDT Pro has proven to be a great learning ground for international wrestlers, as names like\u00a0<strong>Kenny Omega,\u00a0<\/strong>Bailey, <strong>Joey Ryan,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Sami Zayn, Finn Balor, Aleister Black, Facade<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Jason Kincaid\u00a0<\/strong>have spent time with DDT Pro and come out more rounded wrestlers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New foreigners appearing from 4.11 Shinkiba:<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Starks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/starkmanjones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@starkmanjones<\/a> <br \/>Mike Rollins <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iAmPsychoMike?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@iampsychomike<\/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\/QTyFbNJU4x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/QTyFbNJU4x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DDT\/TJPW English Update (D\/TEU) (@ddtpro_eng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddtpro_eng\/status\/1113034273672630273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>RICKY STARKS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36438\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36438\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/20479579_1869597916390411_609243802200893201_n-e1548394114980.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: James Musselwhite \/ Portrait of a Wrestler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ricky Starks spent years as part of the tag team <strong>Extra Talented<\/strong>, but for much of the early days, his partner <strong>Aaron Solo<\/strong> was better known for his appearances in the WWE (in NXT and 205 Live) and being the fiancee for WWE Superstar <strong>Bayley<\/strong>. But the Texas indie star Starks has emerged as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/25\/indie-watch-extra-talented-absolute-ricky-starks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top prospects out of the South to pay attention in 2019<\/a>. He&#8217;s had some bangers the past year, and experiencing Japan will only make him a better performer &#8211; he spent time in the UK indie scene 2017, with <strong>PROGRESS, Fight Club: PRO, Southside Wrestling Entertainment (SWE)<\/strong> and <strong>ATTACK!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[FREE MATCH] Ricky Starks vs. Sammy Guevara - INSPIRE PRO WRESTLING\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IdhyW0leJAc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>MIKE ROLLINS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43354\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43354\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/04\/D1PB9ibWwAEnRG2-e1554434698519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Shooting the Indies \/ twitter.com\/shoottheindies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mike Rollins is a perfect Canadian indie star to send to DDT Pro, who are well known for allowing comedy to be a heavy part of its stories. &#8220;Psycho Mike&#8221; is a fan favourite in the Southern Ontario indies of Canada, where he&#8217;s a regular with <strong>Smash Wrestling, Destiny Wrestling, Superkick&#8217;D<\/strong> and <strong>Border City Wrestling<\/strong>, as well as in the Quebec indies. A lovable lunatic (who has been having some issues with his Conscience lately, hearing voices over the loudspeaker that are directing his motions &#8211; it&#8217;s been hilarious). He had one of the greatest comedy matches of 2018 in Smash against <strong>Kikutaro<\/strong>. But don&#8217;t be fooled by his goofiness, Rollins can wrestle. He was a former Smash Tag Team Champion with <strong>Pepper Parks<\/strong> in the <strong>Well Oiled Machines<\/strong> and a former Destiny Champion and <strong>Alpha-1<\/strong> Alpha Male Champion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FREE MATCH - Mike Rollins vs Kikutaro - The Best Of 2018\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NjwTHNv4PBo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) Pro promotion has announced two new\u00a0gaijin (foreigner) wrestlers joining the company for a tour starting next week, featuring an emerging star from both the US and Canada. They revealed that US indie star Ricky Starks and Canadian indie star &#8220;Psycho&#8221; Mike Rollins would be joining the company starting April 11, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":43355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[6505,2,13],"tags":[1299,1855,4318],"class_list":["post-43352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ddt-pro","category-featured","category-international","tag-ddt-pro","tag-mike-rollins","tag-ricky-starks"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43352","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}