GLEAT returned to Osaka Sunday for their latest G PROWRESTLING event.
Sunday’s event was held at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka and can now be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube (premiered earlier today. There was no live broadcast).
The announced paid attendance was 227.
Match 1: Tetsuya Izuchi & So Daimonji beat Issei Onitsuka & Tsuyoshi Michibata. Daimonji pinned Michibata after Black Rain.
Match 2: MICHIKO beat Blanca Maho.
Match 3: Brass Knuckles JUN & Chris Weiss beat Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato. Weiss pinned Sato after a package piledriver.
Match 4: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Minoru Tanaka & Seiichi Ikemoto beat Yu Iizuka & Riki Aitaka by KO. Ikemoto beat Aitaka with a Brazilian high kick. Afterwards, Aitaka tried to join GLEAT but was denied by Tanaka due to not having the authority to, but Aitaka also hadn’t told the GLEAT President or his current “boss”, Kota Ibushi as he is a current member of Ibushi’s school.
Match 5: Ryuichi Kawakami, Daisuke Sasaki & KANON (DDT) beat Hayato Tamura, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Quiet Storm. Kawakami pinned SAKAMOTO affer Blue Thunder Bomb.
Match 6: Takanori Ito & Chris Ridgeway vs. Kaito Ishida & Kotaro Suzuki went to a 20 minute time limit draw. Before the match, it was announced that Suzuki had signed with GLEAT and was now a member of the promotion. He had most recently been with Pro Wrestling NOAH but also a regular in GLEAT. (He may also have been a freelancer in recent years)
Main Event: El Lindaman, T-Hawk & CIMA beat Takehiro Yamamura, Soma Watanabe & Junjie. T-Hawk beat Yamamura with a cobra twist. Afterwards, Yamamura announced he was leaving the STRONGHEARTS faction to align with Watanabe, Junjie & JD Lee. This set up a match against T-Hawk for 10/6 at Osaka Prefectural Gym.
The next event is tomorrow at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Live streaming on YouTube FOR FREE will begin at 2:30 AM PT/5:30 AM ET. It will also be available on demand a few minutes after the live broadcast ends.
