CyberFight Festival 2021

CyberFight Festival 2021 is an upcoming professional wrestling event promoted by CyberFight for its four brands, DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW), and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro). It will take place on June 6, 2021, in Saitama, Japan, at the Saitama Super Arena. The event will air live on CyberFight's streaming service Wrestle Universe. It will be the first CyberFight promoted event to feature all four of its brands.
Production.
Background.
On September 1, 2017, the Japanese digital advertising company CyberAgent acquired 100% of DDT Pro-Wrestling's (DDT) shares, including its sub-brands Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW) and Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro). On January 28, 2020, following months of negotiation, LIDET Entertainment sold its shares of Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) to CyberAgent. On July 27, it was announced that Noah and DDT, along with TJPW and GanPro, would merge in a new promotion called CyberFight, which would oversee and promote the four individual promotions. The decision came after financial troubles faced by Noah and DDT due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On February 25, 2021, CyberFight president Sanshiro Takagi, CyberFight's executive vice-presidents Akito and Naomichi Marufuji, GanPro representative Ken Ohka, and TJPW representative Tetsuya Koda held a press conference, announcing that the four brands would be working together to promote an event on June 6 at the Saitama Super Arena, with the three main championships of CyberFight, DDT's KO-D Openweight Championship, Noah's GHC Heavyweight Championship, and TJPW's Princess of Princess Championship being defended at the event.
Storylines.
CyberFight Festival 2021 will feature professional wrestling matches that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
On April 11, at April Fool 2021, after Jun Akiyama achieved his second KO-D Openweight Championship title defense against Danshoku Dino, he nominated Harashima as his next challenger.
On February 24, CyberFight announced a partial match card for the event, which included Kaito Kiyomiya and facing Konosuke Takeshita and Yuki Ueno. Kiyomiya and Inamura made an appearance on DDT's April 15 event, where they sat at ringside to watch Ueno's match. Ueno called them out and confronted them.
On April 26, CyberFight announced that a preliminary card titled "Starting Battle" would take place before the actual event. This undercard would see the return of Yoshiaki Yatsu (who had made his DDT debut in April 2019, one month before having his right leg amputated below the knee due to a bacterial infection) in a Rumble rules match.