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Wrestle Peter Pan 2021

Wrestle Peter Pan 2021 was a professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight's sub-brand DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT). It took place on August 21, 2021, in Kawasaki, Japan, at the Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki. The event aired live on CyberAgent's AbemaTV online linear television service and CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. This was the thirteenth event in the Peter Pan series and the third promoted under the "Wrestle Peter Pan" name. This edition was also the first to take place outside of Tokyo.

The event featured twelve matches. In the main event, Konosuke Takeshita defeated Jun Akiyama to win the KO-D Openweight Championship. Other prominent matches saw Daisuke Sasaki defeat Yuki Ueno to win the DDT Universal Championship, Chris Brookes and Jun Kasai defeat Shunma Katsumata and Mao in a hardcore match and the debuts of 18-year old Ilusion and 13-year old El Unicorn.

Since 2009, DDT began annually producing shows in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan held in the summer, following the promotions financial success of the first event. This led to the event becoming DDT's premier annual event and one of the biggest event on the independent circuit of Japanese wrestling. Since 2019, the event was renamed "Wrestle Peter Pan".

Wrestle Peter Pan 2021 was officially announced on March 28, 2021 with the event taking place at the Fujitsu Stadium Kawasaki on August 21, 2021. The venue is a 6,000-seat high school football stadium built on the site of the Kawasaki Stadium used by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) for its annual Anniversary Show from 1991 to 2001. The event aired live worldwide on CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, other wrestling promotions began to cancel or postpone their shows in an attempt to prevent further spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. At the end of February 2020, DDT began holding shows with no audience and only essential staff present. DDT's sister promotion Pro Wrestling Noah began holding shows behind closed doors in an empty TV studio under the "NOAH TV" name, with the shows being streamed on Wrestle Universe. The 2020 Wrestle Peter Pan event was originally to take place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama solely on June 7, 2020, but in May, DDT began relocating their production to the Shinjuku Face. On April 23, DDT announced that the 2020 Wrestle Peter Pan would be postponed, due to the pandemic, following Japan's State of Emergency declaration, then, on May 16, the event was rescheduled to take place on June 6 and June 7, with the event being moved to the DDT TV Show Studio in Tokyo, without an audience.

The event featured 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.

In December 2020, comedian Kuro-chan [ja] pinned FMW founder Atsushi Onita in an Electric Current Explosion Deathmatch. As a throwback to the days when FMW held its anniversary shows at the Kawasaki Stadium, Sanshiro Takagi booked a similar bout to serve as a rematch between the two. On June 7, 2021, DDT announced that the event would include two rings; one for an Explosion Deathmatch that would feature Onita, and one for the remaining matches. It was also announced that Tamura and Raimu Imai from Pro Wrestling Heat-Up [ja] would be taking part in the show.

On July 15, DDT unveiled the DDT Teenage Project, a talent scouting program designed to lay the foundation of an upcoming new DDT sub-brand. The first two trainees from the project, 13-year-old El Unicorn (who had already wrestled for DDT under the name Yuni) and 18-year-old Ilusion, were set to make their debut in a ten-man tag team match.

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