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Sweet Dreams! 2023

2023 DDT Pro-Wrestling event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ116769366 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sweet Dreams! 2023 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on January 29, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan, at the Korakuen Hall. The event aired on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.

Nine matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show, and three of DDT's nine championships were on the line. The main event saw Yuji Hino defeat Kazusada Higuchi to win the KO-D Openweight Championship for the second time. In other prominent matches, ShunMao (Mao and Shunma Katsumata) successfully defended the KO-D Tag Team Championship against Omega (Makoto Oishi and Shiori Asahi), and Burning (Tetsuya Endo, Kotaro Suzuki and Yusuke Okada) defeated Pheromones (Yuki "Sexy" Iino, Danshoku "Dandy" Dino and Koju "Shiningball" Takeda) to retain the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

Production

Background

The event featured nine professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where 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.

Event

The preshow portraited a comedic No fee rumble match featuring cosplayers of various popular wrestlers from other consecrated promotions such as Drew McIntyre, Luke Gallows, Great-O-Khan, Asuka or Tiger Mask. It was won by Fuminori Abe who last eliminated Sanshiro Takagi.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sweet Dreams! 2023” as 2023 DDT Pro-Wrestling event. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sweet, Dreams and Pro-Wrestling can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as 2023 DDT Pro-Wrestling event. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116769366. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sweet Dreams! 2023” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.