10 Ways DDT Did WWE Better Than WWE At WrestleMania 35 Weekend
6. Brand Synergy
Like WWE, DDT is a multi-brand affair with several different entities operating under the main promotional banner, though they weren't all represented at Coming To America.
Consider the mainline DDT product the Raw or SmackDown. It is where all the biggest and most important stuff goes down, and features all of the company's key stars. Beneath it is Tokyo Joshi Pro - a women's wrestling brand that primarily uses talented trained in-house. Then we have BASARA (an indie group), Ganbare (DDT's attempt at recapturing the vibe of cult '90s Japanese promotions), and BOYZ (which emphasizes their male roster members' handsomeness).
TJP was featured in the form of a Princess Of Princess Championship match between Miyu Yamashita vs. Maki Itoh. It was a great, heated battle that highlighted Itoh's palpable charisma, and rather than feeling like an out-of-place shoehorn job, its inclusion was seamless. It felt like it belonged in the mainline DDT product, which is testament to the job they've done in building this rich, cohesive universe.
BASARA or Ganbare representation would have been nice, but we can't blame DDT for not flying another dozen or so wrestlers to the United States for a sub-three-hour show