GLEAT’s year-end blowout event, GLEAT Ver. 7, went down yesterday. All Elite Wrestling was a notable participant for the first time.
Yesterday’s event was held at Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube in Japanese (your hosts are Haruo Murata & Masato Yoshino). Watch the full event replay below, video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube Channel:
The announced paid attendance was 1507.
Match 1: Ryuichi Kawakami, Quiet Storm & Galeno Del Mal beat Jun Tonsho, JD Lee & Atsuki Aoyagi (All-Japan Pro Wrestling), Takanori Ito, Yusuke Kodama & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan Pro Wrestling) and Kotaro Suzuki, Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato in a 4-way when Kawakami pinned Lee.
Match 2: Colt Cabana (All Elite Wrestling), Brandon Cutler (All Elite Wrestling) & Kurosio TOKYO Japan (Independent/Freelancer) beat Kaz Hayashi, El Lindaman & Issei Onitsuka. Kuroshio pinned Onitsuka after a moonsault press.
Match 3: MICHIKO & Yukari Hosokawa beat Sayaka Unagi & Aoi. MICHIKO pinned Unagi. After the match, once they were backstage, Hosokawa announced she was retiring effective immediately. It was later clarified the promotion was leaving the door open for a potential return (Hosokawa is only 19 although she debuted at 15).
Match 4: SBK & TAKUMA (Independent/Freelancers) beat KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Check Shimatani. TAKUMA pinned Shimatani after a 630 splash.
Match 5: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Riki Aitaka Debut Match: Riki Aitaka beat Tetsuya Izuchi by TKO. It appears Aitaka was trained at Kota Ibushi’s Japanese wrestling school.
Match 6: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Maya Fukuda & Hikaru Shida (All Elite Wrestling) beat Tomoka Inaba & Azusa Inaba by submission. Shida beat Inaba with Full Metal Muffler. (Shida is now headed back to the US & AEW)
Match 7: Lidet UWF Single Bout: Lidet UWF Champion Fujita “Jr.” Hayato beat Minoru Tanaka by TKO to retain the title. V1 for Hayato.
Intermission. Before this, Kaz Hayashi announced in a video message that he will retire on 7/1/24 at GLEAT Ver. 12 at TDC Hall.
Match 8: Kaito Ishida beat Takehiro Yamamura.
Match 9: G INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan Pro Wrestling) beat Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu to retain the titles. Rei Saito pinned Watanabe after a diving body press. V9 for the champs.
Main Event: Hayato Tamura beat G-REX Champion T-Hawk to win the title. Tamura becomes the 4th G-REX Champion.
The next event is GLEAT Ver. 8 on 1/21 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA. It’s Osaka so, considering it’s a big event, 50-50 on a live broadcast.
