GLEAT VER. MEGA in Yokohama, billed as the promotion’s biggest event of the year, took place yeaterday.
Yesterday’s event was held at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama and can be watched on demand on YouTube. A paid channel membership is required (999 yen/month in Japan, $8.99/month outside Japan).
The announced paid attendance was 703.
Pre-show match: Parker Boudreaux won a 11 man battle royal, last eliminating Soma Watanabe.
Match 1: GLEAT MMA, 3 5-minute round fight: Tomohito Mizuguchi beat Tetsuya Izuchi by submission (rear naked choke) in 67 seconds.
Match 2: GLEAT MMA, No Gi Grappling Match, 5 1-minute rounds, no points: Yu Iizuka vs. Yoshinari Fukushima went to a time limit draw.
Match 3: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Ryo Aitaka beat Hideki Sekine by TKO.
The rest of the card was G PROWRESTLING matches.
Match 4: Kaito Ishida, Soma Watanabe & KAZMA SAKAMOTO beat Joe Landau, Danny Black & Maverick Mayhew. Watanabe pinned Maybew after a firebird splash.
Match 5: MICHIKO beat Evolution Strong Women’s Champion ZONES to win the title. MICHIKO becomes the second Evolution strong Women’s Champion. (Evolution is a small women’s promotion tun by All-Japan wrestlers Suwama & Shuji Ishikawa)
Match 6: T-Hawk & Naoki Tanisaki (Independent/Freelancer) beat Takehiro Yamamura & Shigehiro Irie. T-Hawk pinned Yamamura.
Match 7: TJP, Ryuichi Kawakami & Brass Knuckles JUN beat Junjie, Minoru Tanaka & Kotaro Suzuki. TJP beat Tanaka with a kneebar.
Match 8: Hayato Tamura beat Check Shimatani. I think. The results list Shimatani as beating Shimatani.
Match 9: Suwama beat Katsuhiko Nakajima.
Main Event: G-REX Champion El Lindaman beat CIMA to retain the title. V1 for Lindaman. Next up: JUN…or TJP, who turned on JUN & Kawakami, laid them out and declared he’s next.
The next event is tomorrow at Sayama City Citizen Exchange Center in Saitama. It’s billed as a house show which probably means no live or on demand broadcast.
Injury Report: Izuchi apparently took enough physical punishment on the MMA fight to send him to the sidelined to recover. Out at least 2 weeks. Further decisions on his status will be made after the 11/16 event.