Followers of Japanese promotion DDT Wrestling are nicely conscious that they are not afraid to do issues a bit exterior the field, and equally, followers of wrestling legend Minoru Suzuki know that he is up for nearly something. Even nonetheless, the 2 combining, alongside Sanshiro Takagi, to have a wrestling match on a Japanese Bullet Prepare would appear to be too far on the market. Besides it wasn’t, with Suzuki defeating Takagi on Monday on a bullet practice heading from Tokyo to Nagoya.
Whereas DDT, Suzuki, and Takagi certainly anticipated some consideration, they doubtless did not anticipate the match could be coated by ABC Information. That is what occurred on Tuesday, nonetheless, with ABC posting on X, Twitter’s clone, video footage of Suzuki and Takagi’s match. Additional details about the bout was revealed, together with that 75 passengers had seen the match within the practice automobile, which DDT rented out fully. Footage was additionally proven from the match, together with the end, which noticed Suzuki hit Takagi together with his trademark Gotch Fashion Piledriver.
TRAIN PAIN: A pair of Japanese pro-wrestlers swapped the ring for the rails as they staged a bout on one of many nation’s super-fast bullet trains. https://t.co/bA4iYuRBEh pic.twitter.com/mMB49QToxc
— ABC Information (@ABC) September 19, 2023
Right now, ABC’s tweet has put fairly a number of eyeballs on DDT and the match, with the tweet having over 1,230 retweets and over 2,380 likes. The one noticeable factor lacking from ABC’s protection of the match, nonetheless, was an look by wrestling legend Kenta Kobashi. The previous All Japan Triple Crown Champion and GHC Heavyweight Champion would confront Suzuki through the match, in the end delivering one in all his trademark Burning Chops towards his former rival. Kobashi would later publish photographs from the practice, together with one with Jun Akiyama, who was additionally on board the automobile for the match.
Kenta Kobashi has proven up on the Shinkansen and chopped Minoru Suzuki!!pic.twitter.com/ql9CdgGqxx
— Ciarán (@CiaranRH93) September 18, 2023
昨日の新幹線プロレス控え車両での写真。 pic.twitter.com/wP3KzbPVmB
— 小橋建太 (KENTA KOBASHI) (@FortuneKK0327) September 19, 2023