GLEAT ran what they dubbed a “PREMIUM HOUSE SHOW” yesterday, a major event that would only be seen by fans in attendance.
Yesterday’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. There was no live broadcast and no on demand replay will be available on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 702.
Match 1: Yuna Manase (Ganbare Pro), KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Quiet Storm beat MICHIKO, Yusuke Kodama & Issei Onitsuka. Storm pinned Kodama after 53cm Arm Lariat.
Match 2: Minoru Tanaka & Chris Ridgeway beat Seiki Yoshioka & Yuya Susumu. Ridgeway beat Susumu with an ankle hold. As a result, Tanaka & Ridgeway earned a G INFINITY Championship match later in the event.
Match 3: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Chihiro Hashimoto & Azusa Inaba beat Tomoka Inaba & Blanca Maho by submission. Hashimoto beat Maho with a body sleeper.
Match 4: Kotaro Suzuki, Hartley Jackson, So Daimonji & Keiichi Sato beat Takehiro Yamamura, JD Lee, Junjie & Ender Kara. Suzuki pinned Yamamura after Mass Driver.
Match 5: Brass Knuckles JUN beat Soma Watanabe.
Match 6: Bendido & Emperador Azteca beat T-Hawk & Shigehiro Irie. Azteca pinned T-Hawk after Sacrificio Azteca.
Match 7: Shuji Ishikawa beat Riki Aitaka.
Match 8: Lidet UWF 1 vs. 3 Bout: In what essentially was a handicap match, Takanori Ito, El Lindaman & Yu Iizuka beat Katsuhiko Nakajima by ref stoppage.
Match 9: G INFINITY Champions Kaito Ishida & Tetsuya Izuchi beat Minoru Tanaka & Chris Ridgeway to retain the titles. Ishida beat Tanaka with an ankle hold. V2 for the champs. Afterwards, Ishida announced he was officially joining GLEAT after previously being a freelancer.
Main Event: G-REX Champion Hayato Tamura beat Ryuichi Kawakami to retain the title. V7 for Tamura. That ties the record for moat successful defenses in a reign (previously held by El Lindaman as the inaugural champion)
The next event is Sunday at Umeda Stellar Hall Sky Hall in Osaka. There likely will be no live broadcast with on demand to follow on YouTube at a later date.
