GLEAT has announced a special Masato Yoshino Produced event, SPEED STAR Masato Yoshino “Unity” “The First”, to be held on 2/15 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Yoshino, a former wrestler in Dragon Gate who may very well have been the fastest wrestler ever (only Seiki Yoshioka cam run the ropes anywhere close to as fast as Yoshino could in his prime, at least among those I’ve seen), has been working in an executive role with GLEAT since its creation alongside former Dragon Gate mainstay CIMA.
GLEAT has announced the full card for the event: T-Hawk & El Lindaman vs. Kaito Ishida & Takehiro Yamamura Ryuichi Kawakami & Dongry Fujie (?) vs. Tetsuya Izuchi & Issei Onitsuka Masato Yoshino & CIMA in a 5-minute public recording segment for Yoshino’s YouTube channel Sareee & Kizuna Tanaka vs. Nanae Takahashi & Yuu Hayato Tamura & Yuma Anzai vs. Minoru Suzuki & KAZMA SAKAMOTO
Tickets are on sale now. No word yet on if video will be available live or on demand on YouTube. Check out the event poster below:
GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event today, returning to Tokyo for an event with a couple of surprises.
Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube (see yesterday’s posts for video).
The announced paid attendance was 257.
Before the event began, it was announced that So Daimonji was joining Bulk Orchestra and that TBA in the main event, as part of the STRONGHEARTS team, would be Seiki Yoshioka (Independent/Freelancer, who just left Pro Wrestling NOAH).
Match 1: Kaz Hayashi, MICHIKO & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan) beat Soma Watanabe, Yuya Susumu & JD Lee. Hayashi pinned Lee after Final Cut.
Match 2: Seigo Tachibana (Independent/Freelancer) beat Jun Tonsho. Afterwards, they kept fighting until Soma Watanabe came out. He requested a match of himself & Tonsho vs. Tachibana & Kuroshio TOKYO Japan.
Match 3: Minoru Tanaka, Tetsuya Izuchi & Shuji Ishikawa (Independent/Freelancer) beat Hartley Jackson, Keiichi Sato & Riki Aitaka. Ishikawa pinned Sato after Fire Thunder.
Match 4: Kumaarashi (Independent/Freelancer) beat Junjie.
Match 5: Kaito Ishida, Kotaro Suzuki & Ayato Yoshida beat CIMA, Issei Onitsuka & Takehiro Yamamura. Ishida pinned Yamamura with a half suplex hold.
Match 6: Ryuichi Kawakami & So Daimonji beat Takanori Ito & Yusuke Kodama. Daimonji pinned Kodama after Black Rain.
Main Event: T-Hawk, El Lindaman & Seiki Yoshioka beat Hayato Tamura, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Quiet Storm. Yoshioka pinned Tamura after a screw kick.
The next event is GLEAT Ver. 9 on 2/23 at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA, but because it’s Osaka there probably will be no live broadcast. If that is the case, it should be available on demand on YouTube 2-3 days after the event.
UPDATE: After the event, GLEAT announced 2 title matches for 3/13 at Korakuen Hall: A G REX Championship match, which is TBA pending 2/23 results, and a G-INFINITY Championship match which will be Jun & Rei Saito defending against Kaz Hayashi & CIMA. Also announced for 3/13 was MICHIKO vs. Chihiro Hashimoto.
While I haven’t seen an official announcement yet, my YouTube subscriptions today reveal that GLEAT will stream tomorrow’s (2/2/24) G PROWRESTLING Ver. 69 event LIVE FOR FREE on YouTube. Bookmark and set a reminder for the video below and come back tomorrow at 1:30 AM PT/4:30 AM ET to watch live. It also will be available on demand after the live broadcast concludes.
Video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube Channel.
And after a short break the body count across Japan further rises as injuries continue to pile up. GLEAT does sometimes make the bad puns easy for me, as in this case as they announced the latest casualty is Check Shimatani. Left arm and left side. Out indefinitely but translation noted “severe pain” so it probably will be a while, however this is pending further examination by doctors. He is off the 2/2 event and, while they were not mentioned specifically, it appears corresponding card changes have already been made.
GLEAT held a “GLEAT Ver. 8” event Sunday, the latest in their signature series of major events encompassing all their sub-labels.
Sunday’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and will be available on demand on YouTube tomorrow beginning at 3 AM PT/6 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 553.
All matches were G PROWRESTLING matches.
Match 1: Galeno Del Mal won a G RUMBLE 23 person battle royal, last eliminating Takanori Ito. As a result, Del Mal gets to face G REX Champion Hayato Tamura for the title in the main event.
Match 2: Emperador Azteca, El Bendito, Action Jackson & Black Andromeda beat Kaz Hayashi, JD Lee, Jun Tonsho & MICHIKO. Azteca pinned MICHIKO after Sacrificio Azteca.
Match 3: CIMA beat Tetsuya Goto.
Match 4: Minoru Tanaka 30th Anniversary Match: Minoru Tanaka & Koji Kanemoto beat Kendo Ka Shin & Tatsuhito Takaiwa. Tanaka beat Takaiwa with Tanaka Legbar.
Match 5: T-Hawk, El Lindaman & Takehiro Yamamura beat Takanori Ito, Issei Onitsuka & Yusuke Kodama. Lindaman pinned Kodama with a German suplex hold. Afterwards, Lindaman requested a match against Kuroshio TOKYO Japan for 2/23.
Match 6: SBK & TAKUMA beat Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu. TAKUMA pinned Watanabe after a 630 splash. As a result, TAKUMA will face Watanabe on 2/23.
Match 8: G INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan) beat Ryuichi Kawakami & So Daimonji to retain the titles. Jun Saito pinned Kawakami after Doomsday. V10(!) for the champs. Afterwards, Daimonji vs. Issei Onitsuka was made for 2/23.
Main Event: G-REX Champion Hayato Tamura beat Galeno Del Mal to retain the title. V1 for Tamura. Next up: SBK. That match will happen on 2/23.
The next event is BLACK GENERATION INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS PURO NEGRO 2024 Thursday at Tokyo FM Hall in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA. (UPDATE: There will be no live broadcast)
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.
While they haven’t posted today’s results yet, GLEAT has announced breaking news: Yukari Hosokawa, one of the female wresters on their roster, has retired effective immediately. However, the door was potentially open for a return as Hosokawa is only 19. She began training in 2017 in HEAT UP under the tutelage of current GLEAT wrestler Yu Iizuka before officially debuting in 2019. She had never won a singles match but had some success in tag team matches.
UPDATE: Now it’s GLEAT Wrestlers Retiring. Also announced during the event was that Kaz Hayashi will retire on 7/1/24 at GLEAT’s annual biggest event of the year when they run GLEAT Ver. 12 at TDC Hall.
GLEAT held their last G PROWRESTLING event of the year this past Sunday, which also was a KAZMA SAKAMOTO 20th Anniversary event. The big man began his career as KAZMA in TAKA Michonoku’s old K-DOJO (Kaientai Dojo) promotion/wrestling school in Chiba Prefecture, then jumped to WWE where he had a stint as KAZMA SAKAMOTO, then kept that name when he returned to Japan following his WWE release.
Sunday’s event was held at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka and can now be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube. There was no live broadcast, but the full event was uploaded earlier today. You can also watch the full video below, video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube Channel:
The announced paid attendance was 260.
Match 1: Issei Onitsuka, Masato Kamino & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan Pro Wrestling) beat Kotaro Suzuki, Keiichi Sato & Hartley Jackson. Onitsuka pinned Sato after a Frankensteiner.
Match 2: Fire Katsumi (Just Tap Out) beat Jun Tonsho.
Match 3: Minoru Tanaka & JD Lee beat Galeno Del Mal & Tommy Knight. Tanaka beat Knight with Minoru Leg Bar.
Match 4: Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu beat Takanori Ito & Tetsuya Izuchi. Watanabe pinned Ito after Firebird Splash.
Match 5: Kaito Ishida beat Seiichi Ikemoto.
Match 6: KAZMA SAKAMOTO 20th Anniversary Match: Tatsumi Fujinami (Dradition) & Kaz Hayashi beat KAZMA SAKAMOTO & TAKA Michinoku. Fujinami beat SAKAMOTO with a dragon sleeper.
Main Event: T-Hawk, El Lindaman & CIMA beat Ryuichi Kawakami, Hayato Tamura & Check Shimatani. CIMA pinned Shimatani.
The next event is GLEAT Ver. 7 Saturday at Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo. Live streaming FOR FREE on YouTube in Japanese will begin at 12:50 AM PT/3:50 AM ET. Bookmark/set a reminder for the live stream below:
GLEAT ran a GLEAT Ver. EX event today as they wind down the build to their next blowout event coming up in a few weeks at the start of the new year.
Today’s event was held at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo and can be watched on demand FOR FREE on YouTube.
Click below to watch (video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube Channel):
The announced paid attendance was 226.
Match 1: Takanori Ito & Yusuke Kodama beat Soma Watanabe & Jun Tonsho. Ito pinned Tonsho with a German suplex hold.
Match 2: Galeno Del Mal won a 5 person battle royal, last eliminating Hartley Jackson. The other participants were Masato Kamino, Aja Kong & Daisuke Sekimoto.
Match 3: Kaz Hayashi, El Lindaman & Issei Onitsuka beat Kotaro Suzuki, Keiichi Sato & HANAOKA. Lindaman pinned Sato with a German suplex hold. Afterwards, Kuroshio TOKYO Japan appeared and was announced for 12/30, possibly in a 6-man tag match with Colt Cabana & Brandon Cutler from All Elite Wrestling.
Match 4: Aoi beat MICHIKO. Afterwards, Aoi announced she was leaving DIAMOND EGOIST, MICHIKO’s current faction, and asked to re-form a team with Sayaka Unagi. But Yukari Hosokawa then appeared and declared her loyalty to MICHIKO.
Match 5; Kaito Ishida beat Ryuichi Kawakami.
Match 6: T-hawk, Jun & Rei Saito beat Hayato Tamura, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Check Shimatani. T-Hak pinned Shimatani after Night Ride.
Main Event: Lidet UWF Championship Next Challenger Tournament Finals: Minoru Tanaka beat Tetsuya Izuchi by submission to win the tournament. As a result, Tanaka will fight Lidet UWF Champion Fujita “Jr.” Hayato for the title on 12/30 at Tokyo Dome City Hall.
The next event is 12/24 at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka for the final G PROWRESTLING event of the year and the last event before TDC Hall. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s in Osaka there almost certainly will be no live broadcast. If that’s the case, it will be available on demand on YouTube a few days after the event.
Constant bad puns aside, GLEAT continues to get hit hard by constant injuries the last few months, today they reported Yu Iizuka is the latest casualty. Zygomatic fracture or, in simpler medical terms, face/facial trauma/fracture. Out a long time per their release, so likely several months or more. Upcoming card changes pending.
