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| Founded | August 20, 2020 |
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| Style | Puroresu Shoot style Mixed martial arts |
| Headquarters | Yūrakuchō, Tokyo, Japan |
| Founder(s) | Hiroyuki Suzuki Kiyoshi Tamura |
| Owner(s) | Hiroyuki Suzuki |
| Parent | Lidet Entertainment[1] |
| Website | ent |
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][4]
History
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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7][8] 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.[9][10] 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.[11][12] Gleat also operates a developmental division, with Yu Iizuka, Soma Watanabe, and Takanori Ito being the promotion's inaugural trainees.[13]
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.[14][15] 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.[16] The tournament was won by Bulk Orchestra (Kazma Sakamoto and Ryuichi Kawakami).[17] On December 14, Gleat promoted its first mixed martial arts (MMA) event, Gleat MMA Ver. 0.[18]
Personnel
Background
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.[19][20]
- G – Wrestlers affiliated to G Prowrestling, Gleat's sub-brand that promotes matches using traditional professional wrestling rules.
- U – Wrestlers affiliated to Lidet UWF, Gleat's sub-brand that promotes matches using UWFi-inspired shoot style rules.[21]
- M – Wrestlers that have legitimate mixed martial arts (MMA) experience or are affiliated to Gleat MMA, Gleat's sub-brand that promotes MMA fights.
Wrestlers
Contracted
| Ring name | Real name | G | U | M | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Check Shimatani | Nobuhiro Shimatani | 
|
Bulk Orchestra | |||
| Cima[22][23][24] | Nobuhiko Oshima |
|
#StrongHearts | Chief Strategy Officer | ||
| El Lindaman[23][22][25] | Yuga Hayashi |
|
#StrongHearts | |||
| Go Miyake | Go Miyake |
|
Gleat Main Unit | |||
| Hayato Tamura[26] | Hayato Tamura |
|
Bulk Orchestra | G-Rex Champion | ||
| Issei Onitsuka[23][22][27] | Issei Onitsuka |
|
Yan's Family | |||
| Jun Tonsho | Jun Tonsho |
|
Gleat Main Unit | |||
| Kaz Hayashi[23][22][28] | Kazuhiro Hayashi |
|
|
Home Team | Chief Technical Officer[3] | |
| Maya Fukuda | Maya Fukuda |
|
|
Gleat Main Unit | ||
| Michiko[29] | Michiko Miyagi |
|
Gleat Main Unit | |||
| Minoru Tanaka[23][30][31] | Minoru Tanaka |
|
|
|
Gleat Main Unit | UWF Rule Technical Officer |
| Ryuichi Kawakami[23][32] | Ryuichi Kawakami |
|
Bulk Orchestra | |||
| Soma Watanabe[23][33] | Soma Watanabe |
|
|
|
Gleat Main Unit | |
| T-Hawk[23][22][34] | Takuya Onodera |
|
#StrongHearts | |||
| Takanori Ito[23][35] | Takanori Ito |
|
|
Yan's Family | ||
| Takehiro Yamamura | Takehiro Yamamura |
|
#StrongHearts | |||
| Tetsuya Izuchi[23][36] | Tetsuya Izuchi |
|
|
|
Black Generation International | G-Infinity Champion |
| Yu Iizuka[23][37] | Yu Iizuka |
|
|
|
Gleat Main Unit |
Regular outsiders
| Ring name | Real name | G | U | M | Unit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fujita "Jr." Hayato | Hayato Fujita |
|
— | Freelancer | ||
| Hideki "Shrek" Sekine | Hideki Sekine |
|
|
Hard Hit | Freelancer | |
| Hikaru Sato | Hikaru Sato |
|
|
Hard Hit | Freelancer | |
| Kaito Ishida | Kaito Ishida |
|
Black Generation International | G-Infinity Champion Freelancer | ||
| Kazma Sakamoto | Unknown |
|
Bulk Orchestra | Freelancer | ||
| Keiichi Sato | Keiichi Sato |
|
— | Freelancer | ||
| Kotaro Suzuki | Kotaro Suzuki |
|
Black Generation International | Freelancer | ||
| Masato Kamino | Masato Kamino |
|
Yan's Family | Freelancer | ||
| Oji Shiiba | Oji Shiiba |
|
— | Freelancer | ||
| Shigehiro Irie | Shigehiro Irie |
|
#StrongHearts | Freelancer | ||
| Quiet Storm | Unknown |
|
Bulk Orchestra | Freelancer | ||
| Yusuke Kodama | Yusuke Kodama |
|
Yan's Family | Freelancer | ||
| Yutani | Unknown |
|
Black Generation International | Freelancer |
Other personnel
| Ring name | Real name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chiho Tomiyama | Chiho Tomiyama | Ring announcer (G Prowrestling) |
| Haruo Murata | Haruo Murata | Commentator Freelancer |
| Hiroyuki Suzuki | Hiroyuki Suzuki | Owner President of Lidet |
| Katsumi Tamagawa | Katsumi Tamagawa | Referee (G Prowrestling) |
| Kiyoshi Tamura[23] | Kiyoshi Tamura | Executive Director[3] Commentator |
| Masato Yoshino[38] | Masato Yoshino | Gleat Championship Belts Manager G Prowrestling Commissioner |
| Riki Choshu[23] | Mitsuo Yoshida | Observer[3] |
| Ryogaku Wada | Ryogaku Wada | Referee (Lidet UWF) |
| Soft Imai | Daisuke Imai | Referee (G Prowrestling) |
| Takahiro Yoshimizu | Takahiro Yoshimizu | Ring announcer (Lidet UWF) Affiliated with Aoni Production |
| Takehiro Yamamura | Takehiro Yamamura | Ring announcer (G Prowrestling) |
| Yoshinori Umeki | Yoshinori Umeki | Referee (Lidet UWF) Affiliated with Pancrase |
| Yoshiro Yabu | Yoshiro Yabu | Ring announcer (G Prowrestling) |
Notable alumni/guests
- Abdullah Kobayashi
- Akane Fujita
- Ami Miura
- Atsuki Aoyagi
- Bandido
- Chihiro Hashimoto
- Daijiro Matsui
- Daisuke Nakamura
- Daisuke Sekimoto
- Drew Parker
- Flamita
- Gringo Loco
- Hartley Jackson
- Jake Lee
- Janai Kai
- Josh Barnett
- Jun Akiyama
- Jun Masaoka
- Kazuyuki Fujita
- Kendo Kashin
- Koji Iwamoto
- Komander
- Kota Ibushi
- Kota Sekifuda
- Masakatsu Funaki
- Masato Kamino
- Masato Tanaka
- Mochi Miyagi
- Musashi
- Nosawa Rongai
- Seichi Ikemoto
- Shigehiro Irie
- Shinjiro Otani
- Sho
- Shuhei Taniguchi
- Syuri
- Takashi Sugiura
- Takuya Nomura
- Tomoaki Honma
- Thekla
- Yukari Hosokawa
- Yutaka Yoshie
