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While it took maybe a fay longer than usual, as is always the case GLEAT has uploaded their latest full non-livestreamed event to YouTube FOR FREE! Check out last Saturday’s G PROWRESTLING Ver. 65 event below;
Video courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube channel.
GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event today, returning to Osaka for today’s event headlined by a G-REX Championship match.
Today’s event was held at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka and will be available on demand on YouTube at a later date (probably Tuesday or Wednesday). There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 241.
Match 1: Soma Watanabe & Yuys Susumu beat Takanori Ito & Fire Katsumi. Watanabe pinned Katsumi after Firebird Splash.
Match 2: Ryuichi Kawakami beat Keiichi Sato.
Match 3: El Lindaman beat JD Lee.
Match 4: Kaito Ishida, Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson beat KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Check Shimatani & Quiet Storm. Jackson pinned Shimatani after a piledriver.
Match 5: Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka, CIMA, Seiichi Ikemoto & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan) beat Tetsuya Izuchi, Yu Iizuka, Jun Tonsho, Junjae & Issei Onitsuka. Hayashi pinned Tonsho.
Main Event: G-REX Champion T-Hawk beat Masato Kamino by ref stoppage (corner stoppage-towel) to retain the title. V5 for T-Hawk.
The next event is Saturday at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka with G INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito (All-Japan) vs. KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Quiet Storm for the titles. Broadcast plans TBA.
GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event today, returning to Tokyo to further set up some upcoming major title matches.
Today’s event was held at Tokyo FM Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on YouTube (this was a live stream earlier today).
The announced paid attendance was 230, a legit sellout.
Match 1: Takanori Ito, Yusuke Kodama, Masato Kamino & Yumehito Imanari beat Minoru Tanaka, Kaz Hayashi, Jun Tonsho & Tomoaki Honma (New Japn). Kamino pinned Tonsho after a lariat. After the match, 2AW Openweight Champion Takuro Niki came out and nominated Hayashi as his next challenger. That match will be held in 2AW on 12/3 at Korakuen Hall.
Match 2: G INFINITY Challenger Tournament: KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Quiet Storm beat Yu Iizuka & Tetsuya Izuchi. Storm pinned Izuchi after 53cm Arm Lariat.
Match 3: G INFINITY Challenger Tournament: Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato beat Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu by ref stoppage. Jackson beat Watanabe with a muffler hold.
Match 4: Kotaro Suzuki beat JD Lee.
Match 5: T-Hawk, El Lindaman & Junjae beat Ryuichi Kawakami, Hayato Tamura & Check Shimatani. Junjae pinned Shimatani after a rolling lariat.
Intermission. Afterwards, Minoru Tanaka came out to announce a 4-man tournament with Takanori Ito, Soma Watanabe, Yu Iizuka & Tetsuya Izuchi with the winner getting to face Lidet UWF Champion Fujita “Jr.” Hayato for the title. The tournament will begin on 11/23 at Yokohama Radiant Hall in Yokohama with the winners facing off on 12/10 at Shinjuku Face. The title match will be on 12/30 at TDC Hall.
Match 6: Sayaka Unagi vs. MICHIKO went to a 15 minute time limit draw.
Match 7: G INFINITY Challenger Tournament Finals: KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Quiet Storm beat Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato to win the tournament. SAKAMOTO pinned Sato after New Tiger King Subtype. As a result, KAZMA & Storm will face G INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito for the titles on 11/18 at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka.
Main Event: Kaito Ishida beat Issei Onitsuka. As a result, Ishida will face Takehiro Yamanura on 12/30.
The next event is 11/12 at Umeda Sky Building Stellar Hall in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s Osaka, there probably will be no live broadcast and it will be on YouTube a few days later.
GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event Saturday, returning to regular host city Osaka for another house show.
Saturday’s event was held at Umeda Stellar Hall in Osaka and will be available on demand on YouTube Tuesday at 4 AM PT/7 AM ET. There was no live broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 203.
Match 1: Issei Onitsuka & Fire Katsumi beat Andy Wu & JD Lee. Onitsuka pinned Lee after a spear.
Match 2: Aoi beat Azusa Inaba.
Match 3: Kotaro Suzuki beat Jun Tonsho by submission.
Match 4: Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato beat Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu. Jackson pinned Watanabe with Hartley No. 1 Leg Roll Clutch. Afterwards, Jackson issued a G INFINITY Championship challenge. Not a given as they could get the next shot at champions Jun & Rei Saito, but they’ve first got to win a 1-day tournament at the enxt event.
CIMA announced he will return on 11/12.
Match 5: Yusuke Kodama & Masato Kamino beat T-Hawk & El Lindaman. Kamino pinned T-Hawk after a lariat. Afterwards, Kamino issued a G REX Championship challenge to T-Hawk. Accepted. That match will happen on 11/12.
Match 6: Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka, Yu Iizuka & Tomoaki Honma (New Japan) beat Ryuichi Kawakami, KAZMA SAKAMOTO, Check Shimatani & Magnitude Kishiwada. Iizuka beat Shimatani with an armbar.
Main Event: Hayato Tamura beat Takanori Ito, Tetsuya Izuchi & Kaito Ishida in a 4-way by pinning Ito.
The next event is 11/3 at Tokyo FM Hall in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA.
While this one is not injury-related, GLEAT has bene forced to report on yet another in a long list of countless wrestler absences from recent events, this time announcing that Junjae is off this Saturday’s G PROWRESTLING event. Family emergency. He was to have teamed with JD Lee to face Issei Onitsuka & Fire Katsumi. No replacement named yet.
More as it becomes available.
GLEAT ran their latest major event today, dubbed GLEAT Ver. EX.
Today’s event was held at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo and can be watched on demand on YouTube (it was a free live broadcast).
The announced paid attendance was 729.
Match 1: Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka, Yu Iizuka, Jun Tonsho & Junjie beat Hagane Shinno, Yumehito Inanari, Shota, Mizuki Watase & Kaji Tomato. Hayashi pinned Imanari.
Match 2: Tomoaki Honma (New Japan) & Ryota Hama beat Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson. Honma pinned Jackson after Kokeshi. Wow, haven’t seen or heard from Hama in a long time, not since the former sumo wrestler left All-Japan after former yokozuna (Grand Champion) Akebono did (their SMOP tag team was something else).
Match 3: MICHIKO, Aoi, Risa Sera & Arisa Nakajima beat Yukari Hosokawa, Sayaka Unagi, Itsuki Aoki & Yurika Oka. MICHIKO pinned Hosokawa.
Match 4: Lidet UWF Double Bout: Masakatsu Funaki & Tyson Maeguchi beat Soma Watanabe & Tetsuya Izuchi by KO. Maeguchi beat Izuchi.
Match 5: In a No DQ match, Isami Kodaka & Yuko Miyamoto beat Takanori Ito & Issei Onitsuka. Miyamoto pinned Onistuka after Fire Thunder into lighttubes.
Match 6: Ryuichi Kawakami, KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Check Shimatani beat The Great Sasuke (Michinoku Pro), GAINA & Ultraman Robin. SAKAMOTO pinned Sasuke.
Match 7: Kaito Ishida Return Match: Kaito Ishida beat CIMA by submission. Afterwards, Ishida requested to face Takehiro Yamamura at his return match on 12/30 at TDC Hall in Tokyo. But so did Issei Onitsuka. Therefore, a match between Ishida & Onitsuka to determine the 12/30 opponent will happen on 11/3 at Tokyo FM Hall.
Match 8: El Lindaman & Hayato Tamura beat SBK & TAKUMA. Lindaman pinned TAKUMA with a tiger suplex hold.
Main Event: G-REX Champion T-Hawk beat Shuji Ishikawa (All-Japan) to retain the title. V4 for T-Hawk.
The next event is G PROWRESTLING Ver. 62 on 10/21 at Umeda Stella Hall in Osaka. Broadcast plans TBA but since it’s Osaka there likely will be no live broadcast. It should be available on YouTube no later than 3 days after the event.
GLEAT is among the several Japanese promotions affected by injuries lately, and another one gets added to the count-Flamita was injured at their 9/30 event past weekend. Broken nose. Out indefinitely and will miss their next event on 10/9. No replacement named yet.
More as it becomes available.
GEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event today, their first event in Tokyo in about a month
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 359.
Match 1: Issei Onitsuka & Masato Kamino beat Yu Iizuka & Jun Tonsho. Kamino pinned Tonsho after a lariat.
Match 2: Takanori Ito & Yusuke Kodama beat Check Shimatano & KAZMA SAKAMOTO. Kodama pinned Shimatani after a frog splash.
Match 3: Tetsuya Izuchi beat Jack Cartwheel by submission.
Match 4: Soma Watanabe & Yuya Susumu beat Minoru Tanaka & Kaz Hayashi. Watanabe pinned Hayashi after Firebird Splash.
Match 5: Ryuichi Kawakami, Quiet Storm & Daisuke Sekimoto beat Kotaro Suzuki, Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato. Storm pinned Sato after 50cm Arm Lariat.
Match 6: KAIRI, Nanae Takahashi & Yukari Hosokawa beat Kurumi Hiragi, MICHIKO (Michiko Miyagi) & Janai Kai. KAIRI pinned MICHIKO after Insane Elbow.
Main Event: Shuji Ishikawa, Yuma Aoyagi & Atsuki Aoyagi (All-Japan) beat T-Hawk, El Lindaman & Junjie. Ishikawa pinned Junjie after Splash Mountain.
The next event is Sunday at Nagoya Diamond Hall in Nagoya. Broadcast plans TBA.
In another last-minute change to an upcoming event, GLEAT has announced Hayato Tamura is now off tomorrow’s event. Acute bronchitis. Is considered questionable for the following event on 9/24. Updates to follow.
More as it becomes available.
There have been A LOT of injuries recently across the major Japanese promotions. Here are some of the latest updates:
New Japan-Yoshinobu Kanemaru is now off the rest of the Road to DESTRUCTION Tour. Knee injury suffered earlier this week. Boltin Oleg, was was out since last weekend due to a fever and arm infection (they were related), is cleared to return.
All-Japan/GLEAT-Sayaka Unagi is out indefinitely. Left shoulder injury suffered yesterday. For All-Japan, she was to have faced Sunny tomorrow. SAKI (not Saki Akai) is the replacement. For GLEAT, she is off the 9/17 event.
Stardom-Momo Kohga, Lady C, Miyu Amasaki and Mai Sakurai all will miss some of all of the rest of the 5 STAR GP, which runs through 9/30.
UPDATE: Tokyo Joshi Pro announced Neko Haruna has multiple knee and ACL injuries and will have surgery in October. Out several months if not longer. She will appear on 10/9 but not compete.
UPDATE 2: 9/14-what is going on in TJPW? For their event Saturday they have had to blow the card up. Not one, not two, not three…but SIX wrestlers are now off-Mizuki, Yuki Kamifuku, Nao Kakuta, Mahiro Kiryu, Raku and HIMAWARI. The very vague poor physica condition for all beyond illnesses. Add Neko Haruna (knees) and that’s 7 in the last few days. They somehow still are managing 7 matches scheduled with Ryo Mizunami being a late add. As compensation, any fan in attendance can request and will be given a colored piece of paper autographed by a random wrestler.
UPDATE 3: 9/15-Something is going around TJPW as now they have announced Wakana Uehara is now off tomorrow. Fever. So that’s now 7 off tomorrow, 8 if you count Neko Haruna. That’s about 1/3 of the roster.
