GLEAT kicked off a tournament today called G-CLASS as part of their event in Tokyo, a single-elimination 8-man bracket format event.
Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and cam be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 264.
Match 1: Kotaro Suzuki, Kendo Ka Shin & Yuya Aoki beat Keiichi Sato, Rock Iwasaki & Kohei Kinoshita. Suzuki pinned Sato.
Match 2: Sayaka Unagi, Kakeru Sekiguchi & Honori Hana beat ZONES, Chanyota & Riara. Hana pinned Riara after a backdrop. Sunny, who is not the former WWE diva (who also happens to be in jail for some tome) but some other woman I know nothing about, was special referee.
Match 3: Junjie, Minoru Tanaka & Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Tetsuya Izuchi, Hajime (not Hajime Ohara) & Kapy. Junjie pinned Izuchi after a rolling lariat.
Match 4: Drago, Van Vert Jack & Andy Wu beat Soma Watanabe, Black Andromeda & ARASHI. Drago pinned Andromeda after a shooting star press.
G-CLASS Tournament:
Match 5: Kaito Ishida beat KAZMA SAKAMOTO by submission.
Match 6: T-Hawk beat Hayato Tamura.
Match 7: Takehiro Yamamura beat El Lindaman.
Main Event: Ryuichi Kawakami beat Brass Knuckles JUN.
As a result, the Semifinals will be Ishida vs. Yamamura & T-Hawk vs. Kawakami.
The Semifinals are 5/20. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s the same venue I anticipate a live YouTube broadcast-if live it will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.