| Into The Fight | |
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| Promotions | DDT Pro-Wrestling (2005–2020) CyberFight (2021–2024) |
| Brands | DDT Pro-Wrestling (2021–2024) |
| First event | Into The Fight 2005 |
| Last event | Into The Fight 2024 |
Into The Fight (sometimes stylized as Into the Fight) was a recurring professional wrestling event held annually by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) around February. Originally held by DDT as an independent promotion from 2005 to 2020 (except for 2006), it was then held by CyberFight for three editions held as DDT-branded events in 2021, 2023 and 2024. The name "Into The Fight" was a reference to the 1998 Misia song "Into the Light," which was used as DDT's theme until 2014.
History
From 2005 to 2019, Into The Fight was produced by DDT Pro-Wrestling, an independent promotion founded in 1997 by Shintaro Muto and Pro Wrestling Crusaders alumni Kyohei Mikami, Kazushige Nosawa and Sanshiro Takagi.[1] In 2020, DDT and its subsidiaries merged with Pro Wrestling Noah into a new company called CyberFight owned by the digital advertising company CyberAgent, with DDT and Noah persisting as separate brands under the CyberFight umbrella.[2] Into The Fight was then held in 2021, 2023 and 2024 as a DDT-branded event.
Events
Results
2005
| Into The Fight 2005 | |||
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| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | January 30, 2005 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,800[3] | ||
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| No. | Results[3] | Stipulations | Times[21] | ||
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| 1 | Nobutaka Moribe defeated Daichi Kakimoto | Singles match | 7:36 | ||
| 2 | Hero! and Kudo defeated Riki Sensyu and Kenshin | Tag team match | 8:23 | ||
| 3 | Taka Michinoku defeated Kota Ibushi | Singles match | 8:42 | ||
| 4 | Sanshiro Takagi and Ryuji Ito defeated Tomohiko Hashimoto and Yoshiya | Hardcore tag team match | 14:46 | ||
| 5 | MoroToba (Seiya Morohashi and Thanomsak Toba) (c) defeated Shoichi Ichimiya and Yacchan | Real Jungle Fight Ladder match for the KO-D Tag Team Championship | 8:42 | ||
| 6 | Jako Kyodan (Poison Sawada Julie, Akeomi Nitta, Inokuma Sentoin, Jaiant and Sentoin-ko) defeated Gorgeous Matsuno, Danshoku Dino, Muscle Sakai, Futoshi Miwa and Masa Takanashi (with Cherry) 2–1 | Ten-person best two-out-of-three falls match | 13:18 | ||
| 7 | Dick Togo (c) defeated Mikami | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 22:15 | ||
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2007
| Into The Fight 2007 | |||
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| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 25, 2007 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,390[4] | ||
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| No. | Results[4][22] | Stipulations | Times[23] | ||||
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| 1D | Gorgeous Matsuno (with Yusuke Inokuma) vs. Tomomitsu Matsunaga ended in a time limit draw | Singles match | 8:00 | ||||
| 2 | Fruits Army (Mango Fukuja and Durian Sawada Julie) defeated Suicideboyz (Mikami and Thanomsak Toba) | Tag team match | 6:56 | ||||
| 3 | Hoshitango defeated Michael Nakazawa | Singles match | 8:56 | ||||
| 4 | Sanshiro Takagi defeated Yoshiaki Yago (with DJ Nira and Blue K) | Hardcore Locker Room Deathmatch | 13:26 | ||||
| 5 | Toru Owashi and Taru defeated Kudo, Muscle Sakai and Ken Ohka | Three-on-two handicap match | 16:49 | ||||
| 6 | Hawaii Army aWo (King Ala Moana, Prince Togo, Koo and Antonio "The Dragon" Honda) defeated DDT Young Main Unit (Seiya Morohashi, Masa Takanashi, Daichi Kakimoto and Kota Ibushi) | Eight-man tag team match | 14:55 | ||||
| 7 | Harashima (c) defeated Danshoku Dino | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 20:21 | ||||
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2008
| Into The Fight 2008 | |||
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| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 3, 2008 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,194[5] | ||
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| No. | Results[5] | Stipulations | Times[24] | ||
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| 1 | Choun Shiryu and Yukihiro Abe defeated Daisuke Sasaki and Rion Mizuki | Tag team match | 9:16 | ||
| 2 | Metal Vampires (Toru Owashi and Seiya Morohashi) defeated Koo and Masami Morohashi | Tag team match | 12:39 | ||
| 3 | Dick Togo defeated Antonio Honda | Singles match | 15:02 | ||
| 4 | Harashima and Munenori Sawa defeated Yoshihito Sasaki and Daichi Kakimoto | Tag team match | 14:27 | ||
| 5 | Kota Ibushi (c) defeated Thanomsak Toba | Singles match for the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship As a result, Ibushi also won Toba's Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship. | 16:49 | ||
| 6 | Yasu Urano won by last eliminating Michael Nakazawa[i] | Royal Rumble to determine the No. 1 contender for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 31:35 | ||
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- Order of entrance: Michael Nakazawa, Sanshiro Takagi, Poison Sawada Julie, Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Muscle Sakai, Yasu Urano, Masa Takanashi, Gentaro, Hoshitango, Kudo, Danshoku Dino, and Yoshiaki Yago.
Order of elimination: Tomomitsu Matsunaga, Muscle Sakai, Poison Sawada Julie, Hoshitango, Sanshiro Takagi, Yoshiaki Yago, Masa Takanashi, Danshoku Dino, Gentaro, Kudo, and Michael Nakazawa.
2009
| Into the Fight 2009 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 22, 2009 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,378[6] | ||
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| No. | Results[6] | Stipulations | Times[25] | ||
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| 1 | Sasaki & Gabbana defeated Keisuke Santa Maria | Singles match | 9:13 | ||
| 2 | Danshoku Dino [C] defeated Michael Nakazawa and Kayako Nakazawa [C] | Two-on-one handicap Captain's Fall match | 8:49 | ||
| 3 | Yukihiro Abe won by last eliminating Hoshitango[i] | Six-man battle royal | 5:25 | ||
| 4 | Jun Kasai defeated Mikami | Hardcore match | 10:24 | ||
| 5 | Hikaru Sato defeated Yasu Urano, and Thanomsak Toba | Three-way match to determine the No. 1 contender for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 10:13 | ||
| 6 | Italian Four Horsemen (Francesco Togo, Antonio Honda and Piza Michinoku) (c) defeated French Army (Louis Takanashi XIV, Jacques de Atsushinu and Minoru Polnareff) | Six-man tag team match for the UWA World Trios Championship | 14:40 | ||
| 7 | Sanshiro Takagi (c) defeated Kota Ibushi | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 24:44 | ||
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- The other participants were Toru Owashi, Kazuhiro Tamura, Rion Mizuki, and Poison Sawada Julie.
2010
| Into the Fight 2010 | |||
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| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 11, 2010 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,455[7] | ||
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| No. | Results[7] | Stipulations | Times[26] | ||
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| 1 | Italian Four Horsemen (Antonio Honda and Sasaki & Gabbana) defeated Gota Ihashi and Soma Takao | Tag team match | 11:06 | ||
| 2 | Mikami defeated Tomomitsu Matsunaga | Singles match | 8:26 | ||
| 3 | Michael Nakazawa, Masa Takanashi, Hikaru Sato and Keisuke Ishii defeated Toru Owashi, Hoshitango, Yukihiro Abe and Aika Ando (with Yoshinori Yamamoto, Gorgeous Matsuno and Junko Tashiro)[i] | Eight-person tag team match | 0:44 | ||
| 4 | Golden☆Lovers (Kota Ibushi and Kenny Omega) defeated Harashima and Kengo Mashimo | Tag team match | 8:19 | ||
| 5 | Hentai Big Boss (Sanshiro Takagi and Munenori Sawa) defeated Kudo and Yasu Urano (c) | Tag team match for the CMLL KO-D Tag Team Championship | 19:34 | ||
| 6 | Shuji Ishikawa (c) defeated Danshoku Dino | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 19:37 | ||
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- The match was restarted twice after it originally ended in two successive no contest decisions.
2011
| Into the Fight 2011 | |||
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| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 27, 2011 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,262[8] | ||
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| No. | Results[8] | Stipulations | Times[27] | ||||
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| 1D | Seiya Morohashi defeated Hoshitango | Singles match | 5:14 | ||||
| 2 | Keisuke Ishii and Akito defeated Mikami and Rion Mizuki | Tag team match | 5:27 | ||||
| 3 | From the Northern Country (Antonio Honda and Daisuke Sasaki) defeated Shit Heart♥Foundation (Michael Nakazawa and Tomomitsu Matsunaga) | Tag team match | 12:13 | ||||
| 4 | Kota Ibushi defeated Shigehiro Irie | Singles match | 8:19 | ||||
| 5 | Danshoku Dino defeated DJ Nira, Thanomsak Toba, Tsuyoshi Kikuchi, and Kazuki Hirata | Scramble Bunkhouse Falls Count Anywhere match for a match at Judgement 2011 | 13:08 | ||||
| 6 | Soma Takao defeated Hikaru Sato | Hair vs. Hair no disqualification match | 14:13 | ||||
| 7 | Granma (Gentaro and Yasu Urano) (c) defeated Dan's Club (Kudo and Makoto Oishi) | Tag team match for the CMLL KO-D Tag Team Championship | 14:09 | ||||
| 8 | Dick Togo (c) defeated Harashima | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 20:43 | ||||
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2012
| Into the Fight 2012 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 19, 2012 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,408[9] | ||
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| No. | Results[9] | Stipulations | Times[28] | ||
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| 1 | SeXXXy Eddy and Keita Yano defeated Shigehiro Irie and DJ Nira | Tag team match | 11:56 | ||
| 2 | Masa Takanashi, Tsukasa Fujimoto and Yuiga defeated Homoiro Clover Z (Akito, Hiroshi Fukuda and Hikari Minami) | Six-person tag team match | 8:11 | ||
| 3 | Sanshiro Takagi, Soma Takao, Shiro Koshinaka and Masashi Aoyagi defeated Hiro Saito, Tomo Matsunaga, Kei Ishii and Hoshi Tango | Eight-man tag team match | 10:02 | ||
| 4 | Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi) defeated Do-Hentai-Dan (Hikaru Sato and Michael Nakazawa) | Tag team match | 13:02 | ||
| 5 | Crying Wolf (Yasu Urano and Yuji Hino) (c) defeated Makoto Oishi and Masao Inoue | Tag team match | 16:59 | ||
| 6 | El Generico and Harashima defeated Kenny Omega and Kudo | Tag team match | 21:19 | ||
| 7 | Danshoku Dino (c) defeated Antonio Honda | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 31:19 | ||
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2013
| Into The Fight 2013 | |||
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| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 17, 2013 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 1,532[10] | ||
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| No. | Results[10] | Stipulations | Times[29] | ||||
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| 1D | Hiroshi Fukuda defeated DJ Nira | Singles match | 6:08 | ||||
| 2 | Monster Army (Antonio Honda, Daisuke Sasaki, Hoshitango and Yuji Hino) defeated Mikami, Masa Takanashi, Tomomitsu Matsunaga and Tetsuya Endo | Eight-man tag team match | 9:23 | ||||
| 3 | Sanshiro Takagi and Michael Nakazawa defeated Toru Owashi and Ken Ohka[i] | Tag team match | 6:57 | ||||
| 4 | Jushin Thunder Liger and Hiromu Takahashi defeated Yukio Sakaguchi and Akito | Tag team match | 9:40 | ||||
| 5 | Team Dream Futures (Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie and Soma Takao) defeated Golden☆Rendez-Vous (Kota Ibushi and Gota Ihashi) and Yoshihiko | Six-man tag team match | 12:18 | ||||
| 6 | Urashimakudo (Kudo and Yasu Urano) defeated Danshoku Dino and Makoto Oishi | Tag team match | 17:17 | ||||
| 7 | Kenny Omega (c) defeated Harashima | Singles match for the KO-D Openweight Championship | 20:24 | ||||
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- The match was restarted after it originally ended in a 7-second win for Owashi and Ohka.
2014
| Into The Fight 2014 | |||
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| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 23, 2014 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Korakuen Hall | ||
| Attendance | 2,028[11] | ||
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- Order of entrance: Daichi Kakimoto, Yasu Urano (c), Gorgeous Matsuno, DJ Nira, Kazuki Hirata, Saki Akai, Emi Sakura, Gota Ihashi, Akito, and Guanchulo.
Order of elimination: Gorgeous Matsuno, Kazuki Hirata, Saki Akai, Yasu Urano, Emi Sakura, DJ Nira, Akito, Guanchulo, and Gota Ihashi.
2015
| Into the Fight 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Promotion | DDT Pro-Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 21, 2015 | ||
| City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Venue | Shinjuku Face | ||
| Attendance | 650[12] | ||
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| No. | Results[12] | Stipulations | Times[31] | ||||
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| 1D | Suguru Miyatake defeated Gota Ihashi (c) | Singles match for the King of Dark Championship As a result, Ihashi retained the title. | 2:39 | ||||
| 2D | Kazusada Higuchi and Shunma Katsumata defeated Kota Umeda and Kouki Iwasaki | Tag team match | 6:10 | ||||
| 3 | Team Dream Futures (Keisuke Ishii, Shigehiro Irie and Soma Takao) and Mikami defeated Shuten Doji (Kudo, Yukio Sakaguchi and Masa Takanashi) and Tomomitsu Matsunaga | Eight-man tag team match | 10:35 | ||||
| 4 | Danshoku Dino and Super Sasadango Machine defeated Toru Owashi and DJ Nira | No disqualification match | 9:26 | ||||
| 5 | Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi vs. Smile Squash (Yasu Urano and Akito) ended in a draw | Tag team match | 12:50 | ||||
| 6 | Harashima defeated Kazuki Hirata | Singles match | 9:55 | ||||
| 7 | Tetsuya Endo defeated Yuji Okabayashi | Singles match | 17:36 | ||||
| 8 | Golden☆Storm Riders (Kota Ibushi and Daisuke Sasaki) defeated Happy Motel (Antonio Honda and Konosuke Takeshita) | Tag team match | 18:36 | ||||
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2016
The 2016 edition of Into The Fight was held on February 28 at the Korakuen Hall. In the main event, Harashima defeated Shigehiro Irie to become the No. 1 contender for the KO-D Openweight Championship.[13]
2017
The 2017 edition of Into The Fight was held on February 19 at the Korakuen Hall. In the main event, Harashima and Kudo defeated Konosuke Takeshita and Dick Togo in a tag team match.[14]
2018
The 2018 edition of Into The Fight was held on February 25 at the Korakuen Hall. In the main event, Shuji Ishikawa and Daisuke Sekimoto defeated Konosuke Takeshita and Harashima in a tag team match.[15]
2019
The 2019 edition of Into The Fight was held on March 21 at the Korakuen Hall. In the main event, Harashima defeated Muscle Sakai in a two-out-of-three falls hardcore match to retain the DDT Extreme Division Championship.[16]
2020
The 2020 edition of Into The Fight was held on February 23 at the Korakuen Hall. In the main event, Masato Tanaka defeated Mao to retain the KO-D Openweight Championship.[17]
2021
The 2021 edition of Into The Fight was held on February 28 at the Korakuen Hall. In the main event, Shunma Katsumata defeated Mao in a Kids Room Deathmatch 37 (Sauna) Count Edition to retain the DDT Extreme Division Championship.[18]
2023
The 2023 edition of Into The Fight was held on February 26 at the Korakuen Hall. In the main event, Yukio Naya defeated Harashima to become the No. 1 contender for the KO-D Openweight Championship.[19]
2024
The 2024 edition of Into The Fight was held on February 25 at the Korakuen Hall. In the main event, The37Kamiina (Shunma Katsumata and Yuki Ueno) and Kaisei Takechi defeated Hideki Okatani, Takeshi Masada and Tetsuya Endo in a six-man tag team match.[20]
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