Kawasaki Strong 2021

In another prominent match, Yuki Ueno successfully retained the DDT Universal Championship against Yukio Sakaguchi.

Usually, DDT holds two major events each year, often in venues such as the Ryōgoku Kokugikan, the Nippon Budokan or the Ota City General Gymnasium.

[3] On December 27, 2020, Jun Akiyama defeated Konosuke Takeshita in the final of the D-Oh Grand Prix 2021 tournament, earning himself first contendership to the KO-D Openweight Championship held by Tetsuya Endo.

After successfully defending it for the second time on January 9, 2021, he asked for his next challenger to be Yukio Sakaguchi, from whom he said he learned a lot in the past year.

Sakaguchi accepted the match, then, in the backstage interview that followed, snuck up behind Ueno and applied a sleeper hold to choke him out.

[7] The event opened with the two youngest members of the Junretsu stable Mizuki Watase and Hideki Okatani facing Yusuke Okada and Toui Kojima.

Finally, Aoki offered to use his own "anal electricity" power, Hirata was able to finish his dance and then pinned Sanshiro Takagi for the victory.

In the main event of the evening, Tetsuya Endo defended the KO-D Openweight Championship against D-Oh Grand Prix 2021 winner Jun Akiyama.