GLEAT held their latest signature event, GLEAT Ver. 9, this past Friday in Osaka.
Friday’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and should be available on demand on YouTube at a later date. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 456..
Match 1: Kotaro Suzuki & Keiichi Sato beat Takanori Ito & Fire Katsumi. Suzuki pinned Katsumi after Blue Destiny.
Match 2: Yuya Susumu & Yusuke Kodama beat MICHIKO & JD Lee. Kodama pinned Lee.
Match 3: In a Fight Without Justice aka Deathmatch/No DQ match, So Daimonji beat Issei Onitsuka. Afterwards, Takanori Ito asked for a match against Daimonji. Accepted, but only on the condition of there being matches in both Tokyo and Osaka. That match will happen on both 3/13 and 3/16.
Match 4: Lidet UWF Bout-Minoru Tanaka beat Takafuni Ito by TKO.
Match 5: Tetsuya Izuchi & Seiichi Ikemoto beat Kaito Ishida & Hartley Jackson. Izuchi beat Jackson with an arm triangle.
Match 6: Soma Watanabe beat TAKUMA.
Match 7: Jun Saito, Yuma Aoyagi & Seigo Tachibana (All-Japan) beat Kaz Hayashi, CIMA & Jun Tonsho. Saito pinned Tonsho. After the match, Saito announced that, due to the current Rei Saito injury, the G INFINITY Championship they held is now VACANT. That means the scheduled 3/13 defense against Kaz Hayashi & CIMA is now off. A tournament will be announced soon to crown new champions.
Match 8: El Lindaman beat Kuroshio TOKYO Japan.
Match 9: T-Hawk, Takehiro Yamamura Seiki Yoshioka & Junjie beat Ryuichi Kawakami, KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Check Shimatani & Quiet Storm. Yoshioka pinned Shimatani after Crash Driver.
Main Event: G-REX Champion Hayato Tamura beat SBK to retain the title. V3 for Tamura. Next up: Minoru Tanaka. That match will happen on 3/13.
The next event is GLEAT Ver. 10 on 3/13 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s at Korakuen it probably will be live on YouTube, if so the live broadcast would begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET.
