Gleat

Founded	August 20, 2020
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.lidet.co.jp/gleat

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	G-Infinity Champion
Cima[22][23][24]	Nobuhiko Oshima				#StrongHearts	Chief Strategy Officer
El Lindaman[23][22][25]	Yuga Hayashi				#StrongHearts
Hayato Tamura[26]	Hayato Tamura				Bulk Orchestra	G-Infinity Champion
Issei Onitsuka[23][22][27]	Issei Onitsuka				#StrongHearts
Jun Tonsho	Jun Tonsho				60 Seconds
Kaz Hayashi[23][22][28]	Kazuhiro Hayashi				Home Team	Chief Technical Officer[3]
Maya Fukuda	Maya Fukuda				GLEAT Main Unit
Michiko Miyagi[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	G-Rex Champion
Takanori Ito[23][35]	Takanori Ito				GLEAT Main Unit
Takehiro Yamamura	Takehiro Yamamura				#StrongHearts
Tetsuya Izuchi[23][36]	Tetsuya Izuchi				60 Seconds
Yu Iizuka[23][37]	Yu Iizuka				GLEAT Main Unit
Yukari Hosokawa[23][38]	Yukari Hosokawa				GLEAT Main Unit

Regular outsiders

Ring name	Real name	G	U	M	Unit	Notes
Hartley Jackson	Hartley Jackson				Black Generation International	Freelancer
Hideki "Shrek" Sekine	Hideki Sekine				Hard Hit	Freelancer
Hikaru Sato	Hikaru Sato				Hard Hit	Freelancer
Kaito Ishida	Kaito Ishida				Black Generation International	Freelancer
Kazma Sakamoto	Unknown				Bulk Orchestra	Freelancer
Keiichi Sato	Keiichi Sato				60 Seconds	Freelancer
Kotaro Suzuki	Kotaro Suzuki				Black Generation International	Freelancer
Oji Shiiba	Oji Shiiba				60 Seconds	Freelancer Independent World Junior Heavyweight Champion
Shigehiro Irie	Shigehiro Irie				#StrongHearts	Freelancer
Quiet Storm	Unknown				Bulk Orchestra	Freelancer
Yutani	Unknown				Black Generation International	Freelancer

Other personnel

Notable alumni/guests

Championships

Championship	Current champion(s)		Reign	Date won	Days held	Location	Notes	Ref.
G-Rex Championship		Hayato Tamura	1	December 30, 2023	55+	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated T-Hawk at Gleat Ver. 7.	[40]
G-Infinity Championship		Saito Brothers (Jun Saito and Rei Saito)	1 (1, 1)	June 7, 2023	261+	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Bulk Orchestra (Hayato Tamura and Check Shimatani) at GLEAT Ver. EX Face-Off ~ Access 2 TDCH 2023.	[41]
Lidet UWF Championship		Fujita "Jr." Hayato	1	July 1, 2023	237+	Tokyo, Japan	Defeated Takanori Ito at GLEAT Ver. 6 ~ 2nd Anniversary.

Lidet UWF Championship

As of February 23, 2024.

Lidet UWF Championship
Current design of the title (2023 – present)
Details
Promotion	Gleat
Date established	April 2023
Current champion(s)	Fujita "Jr." Hayato
Date won	July 1, 2023
Statistics First champion(s) Takanori Ito Longest reign Fujita "Jr." Hayato (237+ days) Shortest reign Takanori Ito (24 days) Oldest champion Fujita "Jr." Hayato (36 years, 284 days) Youngest champion Takanori Ito (29 years, 260 days) Heaviest champion Takanori Ito (209 lb (95 kg)) Lightest champion Fujita "Jr." Hayato (172 lb (78 kg))

The Lidet UWF Championship 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.

There have been a total of two reigns shared between two different champions. The current title holder is Fujita "Jr." Hayato.

Gleat events