GLEAT held their traditional anniversary event yesterday, also normally their biggest annual event, dubbed GLEAT Ver. 12. The event also was the retirement event for Kaz Hayashi.
Yesterday’s event was held at Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.
The announced paid attendance was 1511.
Match 1: Jun Tonsho, MICHIKO, Junjie, Joe Lando & Shuji Ishikawa beat Riki Aitaka, Yukimitsu Takahashi, Yumehito Imanari, Kaji Tomato & Tyson Maeguchi. Lando pinned Takahashi after Steez Bomb.
Match 2: Minoru Tanaka & Kazuki Hirata beat Issei Onitsuka & Yusuke Kodama. Tanaka pinned Onitsuka after BDF.
Match 3: Octagon Jr. & Soma Watanabe beat SBK & TAKUMA. Octagon pinned TAKUMA after La Mahia de Dragon.
Match 4: Kotaro Suzuki, Hartley Jackson & So Daimonji beat T-Hawk, Takehiro Yamamura & Seiki Yoshioka. Suzuki pinned Yamamura after a tiger driver.
Match 5: Ryuichi Kawakami Final GLEAT Match: Kazuyuku Fujita, Kendo Ka Shin & Gameras beat Ryuichi Kawakami, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Quiet Storm. Fujita pinned SAKAMOTO after a face kick. (Kawakami had his contract terminated effective after this event following an incident at an event last month where he attacked President Hiroyuki Suzuki)
Match 6: Kaz Hayashi Retirement Match: Kaito Ishida & Tetsuya Izuchi beat G INFINITY Champions Kaz Hayashi & CIMA to win the titles. Ishida & Izuchi become the 5th G INFINITY Champions. Ishida pinned Hayashi with a half tiger suplex hold.
Match 7: G-REX Champion Hayato Tamura beat Yuki Iino to retain the title. V6 for Tamura.
Match 8: Kota Ibushi 20th Anniversary Match: In an Exhibition Match, Kota Ibushi faced Daisuke Sekimoto in a 5 minute match. Ibushi, for those wondering, reportedly is still recovering from major injuries and is not 100%.
Match 9: Lidet URF Single Bout: Shinya Aoki beat El Lindaman by submission.
Main Event: Lidet UWF Championship Single Bout: Katsuhiko Nakajima beat Takanori Ito by ref stoppage (submission) to win the vacant title. Nakajima becomes the 3rd Lidet UWF Champion.
After the matches, Hayashi came out again to greet the fans as his retirement became official. He announced he would remain with Lidet Entertainment as an employee of GLEAT.
The next event is G PROWRESTLING Ver. 74 on 7/15 at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka. There will be no live broadcast. The promotion has also announced another house show for the following event on 8/21 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, which will not be available live or on demand onYouTube.
