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DEVELOPING: GLEAT Announces UWF Championship Tournament

In a series of posts on Twitter, GLEAT has announced a tournament to crown an inaugural Lidet UWF Champion. Based on Akira Maeda’s 1980s-1990s promotion of hybrid wrestling & shootfighting, UWF matches are featured on GLEAT and sometimes G PROWRESTLING events and combine wrestling with MMA, with differences being there are no pinfalls and no closed fist strikes and matches end by KO with a 10 count down like in boxing or by TKO-fighters start with 5 points and lose a point for each down and rope break. Lose 5 points and that ends it. There are also tag team fights called Double Bouts, but only one fighter on each team is ever in at one time.

The tournament will have 8 participants and begin on 3/7 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo with the Quarterfinals and some non-tournament fights, and the rest plus championship belt reveal on 4/12 at Korakuen Hall. The participants and first fights are are Soma Watanabe vs. Hikaru Sato, Takanori Ito vs. Dan Tamura, Tetsuya Izuchi vs. Shinya Aoki and Yu Iizuka vs. Minoru Tanaka.

More as it becomes available.

GLEAT “GLEAT Ver. 5” 1/8/23 Results

GLEAT ran the 5th installment of their signature GLEAT event series today, a combination of Lidet Entertainment’s two brands under the label-Lidet UWF hybrid wrestling/shootfights and G PROWRESTLING.

Today’s event was held at Osaka Prefectural Gym 2 in Osaka and will be available on demand on YouTube FOR FREE at a later date (TBA but based on past GLEAT events it probably would be in 1 week at the earliest).

The announced paid attendance was 502, a full house/near sellout. Vocal cheering was allowed, which is the first time GLEAT had such an event.

Match 1: Kaito Ishida won an 18 man G-Rumble battle royal, last eliminating Hayato Tamura. As a result, Ishida would face G-REX Champion El Lindaman for the title in the main event.

Lidet UWF Bouts (combination of wrestling & MMA-no pinfalls, no closed-fist punches or strikes to the back of the head, win by submission, KO or TKO [lose 5 points via rope escape, beating 10 count down, or penalties for rule violation; Tag Team matches only have one person in the ring at all times):
Match 2: Takanori Ito & Yu Iizuka beat Ryuya Takakura & Nasayoshi Miyabi (Just Tap Out) by submission. Iizuka beat Miyabi with an armbar.
Match 3: Yura Suzuki beat Maya Fukuda by submission.
Match 4: Seichi Ikemoto & Oji Shiba beat Hideki Sekine & Ryo Inoue by KO. Ikemoto beat Inoue with a high kick.

G PROWRESTLING matches:
Match 5: CIMA, T-Hawk, Jack Cartwheel & ? beat Soma Watanabe, Keiichi Sato, Septimo Dragon & Michiko Miyagi. Cartwheel pinned Sato after Jack Arrow.
Match 6: Kaz Hayashi beat Luigi Primo.
Match 7: BUSHI (New Japan Pro Wrestling) beat Jun Tonsho.
Match 8: Tomoaki Honma (New Japan Pro Wrestling) & Tetsuya Izuchi beat Minoru Tanaka & Issei Onitsuka. Izuchi pinned Onitsuka after Spin Break.
Match 9: Yutani, Gringo Loco & Hartley Jackson beat Hayato Tamura, Check Shimatani & Quiet Storm. Yutani pinned Shimatani after a vertical drop Death Valley Bomb.
Main Event: Kaito Ishida beat G-REX Champion El Lindaman to win the title. Ishida becomes the second G-REX Champion. Considering he was the first champion and had quite the record in defenses as this was the 8th for Lindaman, this qualifies as a definite upset. Afterwards, Ishida unveiled his new faction in GLEAT, BLACK GENERATION INTERNATIONAL, consisting of himself, Yutani, Jackson, Gringo Loco, Flamita and Pro Wrestling NOAH’s Kotaro Suzuki.

The next event is G PROWRESTLING Ver 42 -Origin- on 1/18 at Shinjuku Face in Tokyo. Broadcast plans TBA but if it is not streamed live then it should be available on demand on YouTube roughly 3 days after the event.