| Gleat | |
| Established: | August 20, 2020 |
| Style: | Puroresu Shoot style Mixed martial arts |
| Location: | Yūrakuchō, Tokyo, Japan |
| Founder: | Hiroyuki Suzuki Kiyoshi Tamura |
| Owner: | Hiroyuki Suzuki |
| Parent: | Lidet Entertainment[1] |
Gleat (stylized as GLEAT and pronounced as "great") is a Japanese professional wrestling and mixed martial arts promotion founded in 2020 by former Pro Wrestling Noah parent company Lidet Entertainment after the acquisition of Noah and DDT Pro-Wrestling by CyberAgent. The promotion is overseen by Hiroyuki Suzuki and former mixed martial artist and professional wrestler Kiyoshi Tamura. The promotion emphasizes the use of the UWFi combat sports-based wrestling style.[2] [3]
In November 2018, Japanese advertising company Lidet Entertainment began investing in various business ventures in the professional wrestling industry including Riki Choshu's Power Hall show in December 2018. On January 29, 2019, Lidet Entertainment bought 75% shares of Pro Wrestling Noah, with the goal of transforming the promotion into the second largest promotion in Japan after New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). A year later due to Noah's financial struggles, Lidet Entertainment sold all shares of Pro Wrestling Noah to internet advertising company CyberAgent. Lidet's President Hiroyuki Suzuki wanting to continue to be involved with professional wrestling met with Kiyoshi Tamura several days after the sale of Noah.[4] Suzuki later announced the formation of a new promotion, Gleat – it was additionally revealed that Kaz Hayashi and Nosawa Rongai would become the Gleat Chief Technical Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, respectively. Gleat promotes shows via its two sub-brands – G Prowrestling, a traditional puroresu brand, and Lidet UWF, a UWFi-inspired shoot style brand.
Gleat held its inaugural event, "Gleat Ver. 0", on October 15, 2020, which aired on Fighting TV Samurai on October 22, with the main event pitting Noah's Sugiura-gun (Takashi Sugiura, Kazuyuki Fujita and Kendo Kashin) against Jun Akiyama, Shuhei Taniguchi, and Daisuke Sekimoto.[5] The participation of Noah wrestlers on Gleat events would cease after Nosawa Rongai resigned from his positions at Gleat to focus on his role as Noah booker.[6] Following the end of the Noah partnership, Gleat would see the participation of wrestlers from other Japan-based wrestling promotions, such as Sho from NJPW and Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka from Pro Wrestling Zero1.
In February 2021, shoot style veterans Minoru Tanaka and Daijiro Matsui were signed by the company, shortly after Tanaka was given the UWF Rule Technical Officer executive role.[7] [8] In May, it was announced that Cima, El Lindaman, T-Hawk, and Issei Onitsuka would be leaving Oriental Wrestling Entertainment and Ryuichi Kawakami would be leaving Big Japan Pro Wrestling to join Gleat. Gleat also operates a developmental division, with Yu Iizuka, Soma Watanabe, and Takanori Ito being the promotion's inaugural trainees.[9]
In December 2021, Gleat announced a 12-man tournament would be held from January 26 to February 22, 2022 to crown the inaugural G-Rex Champion.[10] [11] The tournament and championship were won by El Lindaman.
In July 2022, Gleat announced the creation of the G-Infinity Championship for its G Prowrestling brand. A four-team tournament was held from August 20, 2022, to August 24 to crown the inaugural champions.[12] The tournament was won by Bulk Orchestra (Kazma Sakamoto and Ryuichi Kawakami).[13] On December 14, Gleat promoted its first mixed martial arts (MMA) event, Gleat MMA Ver. 0.[14]
Gleat divides their roster based on its two wrestling sub-brands, G Prowrestling and Lidet UWF. Gleat also recognizes a third roster division, Gleat MMA – wrestlers affiliated to Gleat MMA have legitimate martial arts experience and may wrestle on either G Prowrestling or Lidet UWF events.[15] [16]
| Ring name | Real name | G | U | M | Unit | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nobuhiro Shimatani | Bulk Orchestra | ||||||
| [17] [18] [19] |
| Chief Strategy Officer | |||||
| [20] |
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| Go Miyake | Gleat Main Unit | ||||||
| [21] | Bulk Orchestra | G-Rex Champion | |||||
| [22] | Yan's Family | ||||||
| Junjie | Zhao Junjie | Gleat Main Unit | |||||
| Jun Tonsho | Gleat Main Unit | ||||||
| [23] | Home Team | Chief Technical Officer[24] | |||||
| Michiko[25] | Gleat Main Unit | ||||||
| [26] [27] | Gleat Main Unit | UWF Rule Technical Officer | |||||
| [28] | Bulk Orchestra | ||||||
| [29] | Gleat Main Unit | ||||||
| [30] |
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| [31] | Yan's Family | ||||||
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| [32] | Black Generation International | G-Infinity Champion | |||||
| [33] | Gleat Main Unit |
| Ring name | Real name | G | U | M | Unit | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hayato Fujita | Freelancer | ||||||
| Hideki "Shrek" Sekine | Hideki Sekine | Hard Hit | Freelancer | ||||
| Hikaru Sato | Hikaru Sato | Hard Hit | Freelancer | ||||
| Kaito Ishida | Black Generation International | G-Infinity Champion Freelancer | |||||
| Katsuhiko Nakajima | Lidet UWF World Champion Freelancer | ||||||
| Kazma Sakamoto | Unknown | Bulk Orchestra | Freelancer | ||||
| Keiichi Sato | Keiichi Sato | Freelancer | |||||
| Kotaro Suzuki | Black Generation International | Freelancer | |||||
| Masato Kamino | Masato Kamino | Yan's Family | Freelancer | ||||
| Oji Shiiba | Oji Shiiba | Freelancer | |||||
| Shigehiro Irie | Shigehiro Irie |
| Freelancer | ||||
| Quiet Storm | Unknown | Bulk Orchestra | Freelancer | ||||
| Yusuke Kodama | Yan's Family | Freelancer | |||||
| Yutani | Unknown | Black Generation International | Freelancer |
| Ring name | Real name | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ring announcer (G Prowrestling) | |||
| Commentator Freelancer | |||
| Owner President of Lidet | |||
| Referee (G Prowrestling) | |||
| Executive Director Commentator | |||
| [34] | Gleat Championship Belts Manager G Prowrestling Commissioner | ||
| Observer | |||
| Referee (Lidet UWF) | |||
| Referee (G Prowrestling) | |||
| Ring announcer (Lidet UWF) Affiliated with Aoni Production | |||
| Ring announcer (G Prowrestling) | |||
| Referee (Lidet UWF) Affiliated with Pancrase | |||
| Ring announcer (G Prowrestling) |
| Championship | Current champion(s) | Reign | Date won | Days held | Location | Notes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | G-Rex Championship | align=center | align=center | Hayato Tamura | align=center | 1 | align=center | align=center | + | align=center | Tokyo, Japan | align=left | Defeated T-Hawk at Gleat Ver.7. | align=center | [35] | |||
| align=center | G-Infinity Championship | align=center | align=center | Black Generation International | align=center | 1 | align=center | align=center | + | align=center | Tokyo, Japan | align=left | Defeated Coelacanths (Cima and Kaz Hayashi) at Gleat Ver.12. | align=center | [36] | |||
| align=center | Lidet UWF World Championship | align=center | align=center | Katsuhiko Nakajima | align=center | 1 | align=center | align=center | + | align=center | Tokyo, Japan | align=left | Defeated Takanori Ito to win the vacant title at Gleat Ver.12. | align=center | [37] | |||
| Lidet UWF World Championship | |
| Currentholder: | Katsuhiko Nakajima |
| Won: | July 1, 2024 |
| Created: | April 2023 |
| Promotion: | Gleat |
| Firstchamp: | Takanori Ito |
| Longestreign: | Fujita "Jr." Hayato (356 days) |
| Shortestreign: | Takanori Ito (24 days) |
| Oldest: | Fujita "Jr." Hayato |
| Youngest: | Takanori Ito |
| Heaviest: | Takanori Ito (209lb) |
| Lightest: | Fujita "Jr." Hayato (172lb) |
The is a professional wrestling championship owned and created by the Japanese company Lidet Entertainment and is currently disputed in the Gleat promotion. The main characteristic of the championship is that it can be defended and won only under UWF rules matches and in combat sports-based wrestling style bouts.
As of,, there have been a total of three reigns shared between three different champions and one vacancy. The current champion is Katsuhiko Nakajima who is in his first reign.
See main article: List of Gleat events. Most Gleat events are separated into the three brands G Prowrestling, Lidet UWF and Gleat MMA. Numbered "Gleat Ver." events air bigger cards featuring a mix of the three brands. Specials events such as "Gleat Ver.EX", "Gleat Ver.Mega" and "Gleat Ver.&" are held in larger venues and usually feature wrestlers from other wrestling promotions such as All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) or Pro Wrestling Freedoms. All events air live on Gleat's YouTube channel.