On April 5, 2015, PWG announced on its official PWG Twitter account that the 2015 edition of DDT4 would be held on May 22, 2015 at the American Legion Post #308 in Reseda, California.[3]
Storylines
Original line-up
It was announced that the PWG World Tag Team Championship would be defended in the tournament. The participants announced for the DDT4 were:
The semifinal round of DDT4 began with Monster Mafia defending the World Tag Team Championship against Beaver Boys. John Silver hit Ethan Page with the World Tag Team Championship title belt while the referee was distracted, allowing Silver to pin Page to win the titles.
In the next match, Inner City Machine Guns took on Andrew Everett and Trevor Lee. Lee and Everett first knocked out Swann when Lee delivered an Orange Crush to Swann and Everett followed it with a Frankendriver. Lee then knocked Ricochet out of the ring with a suicide dive and Everett capitalized on it by pinning Swann for the win.
Non-tournament matches
Two non-tournament matches took place after the conclusion of the semifinal round. In the first match, Johnny Gargano took on T.J. Perkins. Gargano countered a cross armbreaker by Perkins into a Garga-No-Escape to make him submit for the win.
In the final round of DDT4, Beaver Boys defended the World Tag Team Championship against Andrew Everett and Trevor Lee. Alex Reynolds tried to hit Lee with the title belt but Lee countered and pinned Reynolds with a small package to win the titles and the DDT4 tournament.
Reception
DDT4 received mixed reviews from critics upon release of the DVD.
Larry of Voices of Wrestling felt that the event "succeeds mildly" because "Nothing pops off the screen as a real must see match, nor is the story all that compelling despite three title changes in one night." He stated that it was "a decent show that would provide a nice alternative to your token three hours of RAW on one of these hot summer nights", with "The introduction of some new teams, too, was a step in the right direction for PWG. You have a large influx of tag team talent that can be used in upcoming events that were quickly established over the past few events. Considering the loss of a lot of the top talent that is now tied up in ROH or Global Force, this is going to help fill out those future cards nicely." According to him, most of the matches "fell flat", "even though some matches still were winners."[5]
Jake St-Pierre of 411Mania praised the event, rating it 8.5. He considered the 2015 edition of DDT4 to "the best since 2012's". He stated that "Trevor Lee and Andrew Everett were freaks of nature the entire way through this show", with "three four-star matches in one night". According to him, "The only letdown was Gulak & Busick vs. The Machine Guns, and that was more inoffensive than actively bad", and "Everything else ranged from good to off-the-charts."[6]
TJ Hawke of 411Mania rated the event, a score of 2.5, considering DDT4 to be "an exceptionally bad professional wrestling show from the supposed number one independent wrestling company in the world" and felt that it was "possibly the worst indie show of the year". He further stated that "The quality control here was just awful, as it came across like the inmates were running the asylum. All four first found matches taking up twenty minutes of screentime (between introductions and matches)."[7]
Aftermath
World's Cutest Tag Team and Monster Mafia competed in a DDT4 rematch at Mystery Vortex III, which World's Cutest Tag Team won.[8] It was Josh Alexander's last match in PWG as he temporarily retired from wrestling due to a neck surgery.[9]