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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.

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 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.

GLEAT ran their latest G PROWRESTLING event yesterday, the first event since their anniversary event at the start of the month.

Yesterday’s event was held at Uneda Sky Building StellarHall in Osaka and will be available on demand on YouTube tomorrow morning. There was no live broadcast.

The announced paid attendance was 244.

Match 1: Minoru Tanaka, Keiichi Sato & Yuya Susumu beat Kaz Hayashi, Yu Iizuka & Jun Tonsho. Sato pinned Tonsho with a leg lock clutch hold.

Match 2: Issei Onitsuka & Yusuke Kodama beat Seiichi Ikemoto & Fire Katsumi. Kodama pinned Katsumi after Mad Splash.

Match 3: Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson beat Magnitude Kishiwada & Junjae. Suzuki pinned Junjae with La Magistral. Afterwatds, Keiicho Sato joined Black Generation International after Kaito Ishida extended an invite. Yuya Susumu also was asked to join but didn’t answer.

Match 4: Quiet Storm beat Ryuichi Kawakami. Afterwards, Storm apparently tried to leave Bulk Orchestra but was talked out of it. Then Kawakami announced he & Galeno Dep Mar will challenge G INFINITY Champions Jun & Rei Saito for the titles on 8/4.

During intermission here CIMA held a special 5 minute training session with Commissioner Masato Yoshino, a former wrestler who spent most of his career in Dragon Gate with CIMA. Yoshino was one of the fastest wrestlers ever during a career cut short by injury, able to run the ring ropes with blinding speed. Seiki Yoshioka may be the closest thing I’ve seen to Yoshino in terms of speed.

Match 5: T-Hawk & Shigehiro Irie beat Hayato Tamura & KAZMA SAKAMOTO. T-Hawk pinned SAKAMOTO after Cerberus.

Main Event: El Lindaman, Soma Watanabe & Check Shimatani beat Takanori Ito, Tetsuya Izuchi & Galeno Del Mar. Lindaman pinned Ito with a German suplex hold. Afterwards, Ishida announced he would return from injury on 8/4 and Lindaman recruited several participants in the match for a 10-man tag against a Kota Ibushi-led team on 8/4.

The next event is GLEAT Ver. MEGA on 8/4 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, their debut at the famed sumo venue. Broadcast plans TBA. The venue will probably be at 70-75% capacity as the mass/box seats that hold up to 4 people for sumo will only be used at half capacity (2 per box).

On their official YouTube channel today, GLEAT announced tomorrow’s G PROWRESTLING Ver. 55 event at Nishitetsu Hall in Fukuoka will be broadcast LIVE FOR FREE! Bookmark this page or set a reminder in the video and come back to watch live tomorrow at 1 AM PT/4 AM ET. It also will be available on demand a few minutes after the event concludes.

The below video is courtesy of the GLEAT Official YouTube channel:

As is the case when they tun in Osaka and some other areas outside Tokyo, GLEAT was unable to stream Saturday’s G PROWRESTLING Ver. 54 event live (it seems to be outside their control). So as usual, they will be uploading it to YouTube soon for on demand viewing. Bookmark or set a notification for the below video and come back tomorrow (6/20) to watch the replay-it will be available beginning at 4:30 AM PT/7:30 AM ET:

(Video courtesy of the GLEAT official YouTube channel)