Into The Fight 2018

Into The Fight 2018
Into The Fight 2018
	File:Into The Fight 2018 poster.jpg Promotional poster for the event, featuring various DDT wrestlers
Promotion	DDT Pro-Wrestling
Date	February 25, 2018
City	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	Korakuen Hall
Attendance	1,220
Into The Fight chronology
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Into The Fight 2018 was a professional wrestling event promoted by DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on February 25, 2018, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall.^[2]^[1] The event aired domestically on Fighting TV Samurai and AbemaTV, and globally on DDT Universe, DDT's video-on-demand service.

Storylines

Into The Fight 2018 featured eight professional wrestling matches involving wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.^[3]

During the event, Shuten-dōji (Kudo, Yukio Sakaguchi and Masahiro Takanashi) retained the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship by defeating the team of Ryuichi Sekine, Ryota Nakatsu and Fuminori Abe from Pro-Wrestling Basara, a sub-brand of DDT.

In the next match, Yuko Miyamoto defended the DDT Extreme Division Championship against Shunma Katsumata in a hardcore match dubbed "Hardcore ＋ α". In this match, various weapons were placed around the ring and each competitor could choose an extra weapon to bring. Miyamoto chose a baseball bat coated in barbed wire, while Katsumata chose a box of thumbtacks.

The next match saw the participation of Naomichi Marufuji from Pro Wrestling Noah.


No.	Results^[2]^[1]	Stipulations	Times
1^P	Mad Paulie defeated Tomomitsu Matsunaga	Singles match	06:32
2	Soma Takao and Mao won by last eliminating Sanshiro Takagi and Super Sasadango Machine	Tag team rumble rules match	06:14
3	Danshoku Dino defeated Akito, Antonio Honda, Kouki Iwasaki, Mizuki Watase and Saki Akai	Six-way match	06:58
4	Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki and Tetsuya Endo) defeated Keisuke Ishii and Ken Ohka	Tag team match	08:01
5	Shuten-dōji (Kudo, Yukio Sakaguchi and Masahiro Takanashi) (c) defeated Ryuichi Sekine, Ryota Nakatsu and Fuminori Abe by submission	Six-man tag team match for the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship	08:50
6	Yuko Miyamoto (c) defeated Shunma Katsumata	Hardcore ＋ α match for the DDT Extreme Division Championship	11:45
7	Naomichi Marufuji defeated Kazusada Higuchi	Singles match	13:02
8	Shuji Ishikawa and Daisuke Sekimoto defeated Konosuke Takeshita and Harashima	Tag team match	18:34
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match P – indicates the match took place on the pre-show

Order	Team	Order eliminated	By	Time^[4]
1	Yuki Ueno and Koju Takeda	1	Makoto Oishi	02:06
2	Makoto Oishi and Kota Umeda	3	Super Sasadango Machine	05:32
3	Soma Takao and Mao	—	—	Winners
4	T2Hii (Toru Owashi and Kazuki Hirata)	2	Super Sasadango Machine	05:00
5	Sanshiro Takagi and Super Sasadango Machine	4	Mao	06:14

^ ^a ^b ^c "DDT Into The Fight 2018". Cagematch.net. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Into The Fight 2018". DDT Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved March 5, 2020.
^ Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
^ "DDT "INTO THE FIGHT 2018" Results". Dramatic DDT. Retrieved March 5, 2020.