{"id":7933,"date":"2017-09-23T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2021-12-28T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:49:38","slug":"japans-ddt-pro-sold-cyberagent-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/09\/23\/japans-ddt-pro-sold-cyberagent-ventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s DDT Pro Sold To CyberAgent Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DDT Pro,<\/strong> one of Japan&#8217;s top wrestling promotions, announced yesterday that the company had been purchased by <strong>CyberAgent Ventures<\/strong>, a Japanese internet and media magnate. The deal was announced by DDT Pro President <strong>Sanshiro Takagi<\/strong> on his personal Twitter.<\/p>\n<h3>Japan&#8217;s DDT Pro Sold To CyberAgent Ventures<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3053\u306e\u305f\u3073\u3054\u7e01\u304c\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3057\u3066\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793eDDT\u30d7\u30ed\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u306f\u30b5\u30a4\u30d0\u30fc\u30a8\u30fc\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c8\u30b0\u30eb\u30fc\u30d7\u306e\u4e00\u54e1\u3068\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002\u30b5\u30a4\u30d0\u30fc\u30a8\u30fc\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c8\u3055\u3093\u306f\u300eAbemaTV\u300f\u3092\u904b\u55b6\u3057\u3066\u304a\u308a\u3001\u305d\u3053\u3067\u306e\u9732\u51fa\u3092\u56f3\u308b\u3053\u3068\u3067\u3001\u82e5\u3044\u4e16\u4ee3\u306b\u3088\u308a\u30a2\u30d4\u30fc\u30eb\u3057\u3001\u8a8d\u77e5\u5ea6\u3092\u5411\u4e0a\u3055\u305b\u3001\u66f4\u306a\u308b\u696d\u52d9\u62e1\u5927\u3092\u76ee\u6307\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002<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\/UxlLVegFFt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/UxlLVegFFt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u9ad9\u6728\u4e09\u56db\u90ce SanshiroTakagi (@t346fire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/t346fire\/status\/911107982045323264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to reports from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solowrestling.com\/new\/64395-ddt-prowrestling-es-comprada-por-cyberagent\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">solowrestling.com<\/a>, DDT Pro sold all 100% of its shares to CyberAgent with the intent of DDT Pro joining CyberAgent&#8217;s other wrestling ventures (<strong>Pro-Wrestling BASARA, Ganbare Wrestling, Tokyo Joshi Pro-Wrestling<\/strong>, and <strong>DNA<\/strong>) on it&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Abema TV<\/strong>, a 24-hour internet channel.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, Takagi will remain as DDT Pro&#8217;s President, but this move officially means that DDT Pro is no longer an indie promotion in Japan &#8211; in fact, it&#8217;s now Japan&#8217;s wealthiest promotion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CyberAgent<\/a>&#8216;s capital is listed as\u00a07,203 million yen (approx. $64m USD), while <strong>Bushiroad<\/strong>, NJPW&#8217;s parent company, <a href=\"https:\/\/bushiroad.co.jp\/en\/company\/group\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lists its capital for NJPW<\/a> at 92.5 million yen (approx. $825k). CyberAgent director\u00a0<strong>Takahiro Yamauchi<\/strong> will now take over as the new managing director of DDT Pro.<\/p>\n<p>DDT Pro (Dramatic Dream Team) was founded in 1997 by Takagi and created a new sense of Sports Entertainment in Japan, featuring more outlandish and comedic wrestling, a stark contrast to the Strong Style of All-Japan and NJPW. Many tops stars went through DDT, such as current NJPW stars <strong>Kenny Omega<\/strong> and <strong>Kota Ibushi<\/strong>, as well as WWE Superstars like <strong>Sami Zayn<\/strong> (back during his <strong>El Generico<\/strong> days). DDT&#8217;s 24\/7 belt, the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, has also been a huge prop in <strong>Joey Ryan<\/strong>&#8216;s past few years (he&#8217;s a 44x Champion).<\/p>\n<p>No further news yet on how this ownership will change the company&#8217;s vision going forward, but the hopes are that partnering with an internet media company will help <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/category\/international\/ddt-pro\/\" target=\"_self\">DDT Pro<\/a> expand it&#8217;s audience in Japan (and globally) and attract a younger audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DDT Pro, one of Japan&#8217;s top wrestling promotions, announced yesterday that the company had been purchased by CyberAgent Ventures, a Japanese internet and media magnate. The deal was announced by DDT Pro President Sanshiro Takagi on his personal Twitter. Japan&#8217;s DDT Pro Sold To CyberAgent Ventures \u3053\u306e\u305f\u3073\u3054\u7e01\u304c\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3057\u3066\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793eDDT\u30d7\u30ed\u30ec\u30b9\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u306f\u30b5\u30a4\u30d0\u30fc\u30a8\u30fc\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c8\u30b0\u30eb\u30fc\u30d7\u306e\u4e00\u54e1\u3068\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002\u30b5\u30a4\u30d0\u30fc\u30a8\u30fc\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c8\u3055\u3093\u306f\u300eAbemaTV\u300f\u3092\u904b\u55b6\u3057\u3066\u304a\u308a\u3001\u305d\u3053\u3067\u306e\u9732\u51fa\u3092\u56f3\u308b\u3053\u3068\u3067\u3001\u82e5\u3044\u4e16\u4ee3\u306b\u3088\u308a\u30a2\u30d4\u30fc\u30eb\u3057\u3001\u8a8d\u77e5\u5ea6\u3092\u5411\u4e0a\u3055\u305b\u3001\u66f4\u306a\u308b\u696d\u52d9\u62e1\u5927\u3092\u76ee\u6307\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002#ddtpro pic.twitter.com\/UxlLVegFFt &mdash; \u9ad9\u6728\u4e09\u56db\u90ce SanshiroTakagi (@t346fire) September 22, 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":7934,"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":[1475,1299],"class_list":["post-7933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ddt-pro","category-featured","category-international","tag-cyberagent","tag-ddt-pro"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933","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=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}