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46-475: Gleat was founded in 2020, after Lidet Entertainment sold all its shares of Pro Wrestling Noah to CyberAgent . Lidet's President Hiroyuki Suzuki, wanting to continue his involvement with professional wrestling, announced the formation of Gleat in August 2020, alongside Kiyoshi Tamura , Kaz Hayashi and Nosawa Rongai . The promotion features two brands: G Prowrestling, a traditional puroresu brand, and Lidet UWF,

92-525: A Tables, ladders, and chairs match to win the DDT Extreme Championship . Through a working relationship between DDT and American professional wrestling company All Elite Wrestling , Akiyama made his AEW debut, on the November 18, 2022 episode of Rampage , teaming with fellow DDT wrestler Konosuke Takeshita , to defeat the team of Ortiz and Eddie Kingston . After the match, Kingston demanded

138-495: A shoot style brand inspired by UWF International . 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. The tournament was won by Bulk Orchestra ( Kazma Sakamoto and Ryuichi Kawakami ). After the match, Nobuhiro Shimatani and Hayato Tamura , who are also members of

184-529: A Wild Child reunion to unsuccessfully challenge both men's regular partners on March 25. Despite saying in 2017 he wanted to take a step back from tournaments and main event titles, Akiyama participated in the 2018 Champion Carnival, presumably because of the large amount of injuries the rest of the roster was facing. In the B Block, Akiyama went 4–3 in the Champion Carnival, with a loss on the final block night to NOAH representative Naomichi Marufuji costing him

230-514: A heated and highly acclaimed contest. His last match happened on July 20, where he and Jun Izumida lost to Takao Omori and Yoshihiro Takayama, and after that, he and other 25 wrestlers left to follow up Misawa to form Pro Wrestling Noah . After a controversy in AJPW over the direction and management, he left the company with Mitsuharu Misawa , and half the roster, for Misawa's newly created Pro Wrestling Noah in mid-2000. Like many other members who made

276-554: A mass exodus led by Keiji Mutoh, it was announced that Akiyama, along with the rest of Burning, had signed an exclusive contract with All Japan. On October 22, Akiyama and Shiozaki lost the World Tag Team Championship to Evolution ( Joe Doering and Suwama). During the next week, Burning was hit hard with Shiozaki, Aoki and Suzuki all announcing that they were quitting the stable. On January 26, 2014, Akiyama and Kanemaru defeated former stablemates Aoki and Suzuki to win

322-630: A one-night return to Noah to take part in Kenta Kobashi's retirement match at Final Burning in Budokan , where he, Kobashi, Keiji Mutoh and Kensuke Sasaki defeated Go Shiozaki, Kenta , Maybach Taniguchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru. On June 30, Akiyama received his shot at the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, which he had earned by winning the Champion Carnival, but was defeated by the defending champion, Suwama. On July 5, following

368-524: A one-year contract with DDT. On December 7, DDT announced that, at the request of Akiyama and Tetsuya Endo, Kenta Kobashi had endorsed the reformation of Burning for its fourth incarnation. Akiyama and Endo were immediately joined by Yusuke Okada and Yuya Koroku. On December 26, at Never Mind 2021 in Yoyogi, this new stable debuted by defeating The37Kamiina ( Shunma Katsumata , Yuki Ueno , Mao and Toui Kojima ). On December 4, Akiyama defeated Joey Janela in

414-541: A singles match between himself and Akiyama, which AEW President Tony Khan scheduled for the Zero Hour of Full Gear . On November 19 at the event, Kingston defeated Akiyama, as the two bowed and embraced, showing their respect for one another after the match. Akiyama made his return to AEW on the February 24, 2024 episode of Collision , where he was defeated by Bryan Danielson . After the match, Danielson attacked Akiyama but

460-524: A total of eight points with four wins and just one loss. As the Block B winner, he faced Block A winner Yoshihiro Takayama in the final match on May 2. Takayama won the tournament by pinning Akiyama with an Everest German suplex. In April 2011, Akiyama and Akitoshi Saito won the 2011 Global Tag League . On October 23, 2011, Akiyama defeated Suwama to finally win All Japan's Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship,

506-545: A trial series in January 1993. Afterward, he started working tag teams. The tag team division soon became his speciality, teaming with Takao Omori against Kenta Kobashi and Mitsuharu Misawa. In January 1995, he split with Taue, and alongside Omori, won the All Asia Tag Team Championship , holding the belts for 1,076 days, until dropping them to Johnny Smith and Wolf Hawkfield on January 9, 1998, and also having

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552-660: Is Katsuhiko Nakajima who is in his first reign. 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. Jun Akiyama Jun Akiyama ( 秋山 潤 , Akiyama Jun , ring name: 秋山 準 ) (born October 9, 1969)

598-609: 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 . In November 2018, Japanese advertising company Lidet Entertainment began investing in various business ventures in

644-563: 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 November 30, 2024, there have been a total of three reigns shared between three different champions and one vacancy . The current champion

690-452: Is a Japanese professional wrestler signed to DDT Pro-Wrestling , where he is a former KO-D Openweight Champion . He is best known for his time working for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he was the president , representative director , co-head booker , and an in-ring performer. In AJPW, he is a former two-time Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion , while also being a six-time overall professional wrestling world champion . Akiyama

736-543: Is close friends with fellow AJPW and NOAH alumni Kenta Kobashi , with whom he has a sarcastic backstage relationship. Akiyama had great success as an amateur wrestler and was eventually scouted by All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). He made his professional wrestling debut in September 1992 in a match against Kenta Kobashi , which he lost. He gradually rose in rank, starting to team up with Akira Taue as part of what remained of Jumbo Tsuruta 's team called "Tsuruta-Gun", earning

782-882: Is noted for his serious in-ring style and demeanor, innovating the Blue Thunder Driver and the wrist–clutch exploder suplex maneuvers. Considered an outstanding tag team wrestler, Akiyama is a three-time winner of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Tag Team of the Year award . In junior high school, Akiyama participated in swimming and in senior high school he competed in freestyle amateur wrestling and judo . After high school, he attended Senshu University in Tokyo , where he joined an amateur wrestling team that produced other professional wrestlers like Riki Choshu , Hiroshi Hase , and Manabu Nakanishi . Akiyama

828-549: The All Asia Tag Team Championship . Following the win, Akiyama, attempting to become the first wrestler in 15 years to hold the All Asia and the World Tag Team Championships simultaneously, formed another tag team named " Wild Burning " with Takao Omori. Akiyama and Omori received their title shot on February 8, but were defeated by the defending champions, Joe Doering and Suwama. On April 29, Akiyama and Kanemaru lost

874-622: The GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship to get back into singles competitions, and adapting an attitude manifested by wearing trunks that were odd colors for him. These motives helped put him back into contention for the GHC title against Kenta Kobashi, which was voted as Match of the Year. Late 2004 and much of 2005 were highlighted by his feud with protégé Makoto Hashi where Akiyama used "tough love" to toughen up young Hashi. On January 22, 2006, Akiyama defeated Akira Taue to become

920-587: The All Asia Tag Team Championship to Keisuke Ishii and Shigehiro Irie at a Dramatic Dream Team event. Later that same event, Akiyama "accidentally" won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship , after laying his arm on it during a backstage interview. On June 4, it was reported that Akiyama was taking over as the new president of All Japan, effective July 1. All Japan confirmed the report with an official announcement

966-400: The All Asia Tag Team Championship, held by NEXTREAM's Naoya Nomura and Yuma Aoyagi. The match, scheduled for February 3, was changed due to Yuma suffering a broken ankle and vacating the title. Ryoji Sai filled in as Naoya Nomura's partner in a losing effort to Nagata and Akiyama. When Takao Omori returned from injury he too chose to revisit an old partnership – teaming with Manabu Nakanishi in

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1012-531: The Bulk Orchestra stable , announced their challenge to the title. When Hayato Tamura suffered from an injury incurred on October 9, 2022, #StrongHearts ( Shigehiro Irie and T-Hawk ) became interim champions . There have been a total of six reigns shared between six different teams consisting of twelve distinctive champions, one interim reign and one vacancy . As of December 1, 2024. Gleat Gleat (stylized as GLEAT and pronounced as "great")

1058-566: The GHC Heavyweight Champion for the second time, defending the title against Minoru Suzuki on March 5 and Masao Inoue on April 24. Akiyama was defeated by Naomichi Marufuji on Noah's September 9 Nippon Budokan show in his third defense of the GHC Heavyweight Title. Following his title loss to Naomichi Marufuji, Akiyama made good his promise to Tsuyoshi Kikuchi , going back to wearing blue trunks, and wrestling mainly in

1104-505: The GHC Heavyweight Championship. On June 14, 2009, he was forced to vacate the title due to injury, in which left him out of action for the rest of the tour. After making his return later that year, Akiyama continued to wrestle sporadically whilst struggling with back injuries and the burden of post traumatic stress syndrome , following the death of Mitsuharu Misawa. Akiyama participated in the first Global League , achieving

1150-703: The Triple Crown to Masakatsu Funaki on August 26, 2012, in a match that lasted less than five minutes. On December 3, 2012, it was reported that Akiyama had threatened to not re-sign with Noah after his contract expires in January 2013, when the promotion released Kenta Kobashi from his contract. On December 19, Noah confirmed that Akiyama would leave the promotion on December 24. On December 24, Akiyama, working as "Mr. Christmas", defeated his trainee Atsushi Aoki in both men's final Noah match. On January 26, 2013, Akiyama, Atsushi Aoki , Go Shiozaki , Kotaro Suzuki and Yoshinobu Kanemaru , all of whom had quit Noah at

1196-483: The World Tag Team Championship against Akebono and Yutaka Yoshie on October 22, Akiyama and Omori vacated the title the following day in time for the 2014 World's Strongest Tag Determination League . They regained the title by winning the tournament on December 6, defeating Go Shiozaki and Kento Miyahara in the finals. Wild Burning's second reign ended on March 22, 2015, when they were defeated by Akebono and Yutaka Yoshie. On September 26, Akiyama defeated Akebono in

1242-765: The Wrestle-1 trio of Keiji Mutoh, Koji Doi and Kumagoro in an interpromotional six-man tag team match. On March 12, 2017, Akiyama defeated Kenso to win the Gaora TV Championship for the first time. His Gaora TV Title reign was mostly be the midcard in comedy or gimmick-heavy matches as he wanted to settle down into a midcard role. During this run, he teamed with Takao Omori to again win the AJPW World Tag Team Championship in October 2017, celebrating both men's 25th anniversaries in wrestling. The match, which

1288-529: The belt he could not win during his eight-year run with the promotion before leaving for Pro-Wrestling NOAH. Shortly after winning the Triple Crown, Akiyama adopted a new look as he shaved his head bald. On January 22, Akiyama and Saito defeated Bad Intentions ( Giant Bernard and Karl Anderson ) to win the GHC Tag Team Championship. He has successfully defended the Triple Crown against Taiyō Kea (twice), Takao Omori and Keiji Mutoh . Akiyama lost

1334-417: The chance to advance to the finals. On July 15, Akiyama's 490-day reign as Gaora TV Champion came to an end in a technical bout against Tajiri who cheated to win. On July 29, he and Nagata lost the All Asia Tag Team Championship to Nomura and a healed Aoyagi. In February 2021, he let his contract with All Japan expire. In June 2020, it was announced that Akiyama would transfer to DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT) for

1380-480: The company, shortly after Tanaka was given the UWF Rule Technical Officer executive role. 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

1426-425: The finals to win the 2015 Ōdō Tournament . On November 1, Akyama defeated Akebono to win the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship for the second time. He lost the title to Suwama on January 2, 2016. On August 11, Akiyama made a rare appearance outside of AJPW, when he took part in an event held by its splinter promotion Wrestle-1 . Akiyama teamed with fellow AJPW wrestlers Naoya Nomura and Yuma Aoyagi to defeat

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1472-455: The following day. Akiyama runs the new All Japan Pro Wrestling through a company named Zen Nihon Puroresu Innovation, while also serving as the promotion's representative director. On June 15, Akiyama was placed in a decision match to determine a new Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, but was defeated by Takao Omori. On June 28, Akiyama and Omori defeated Joe Doering and Suwama to win the World Tag Team Championship. After successfully defending

1518-585: The inaugural champions. The tournament was won by Bulk Orchestra ( Kazma Sakamoto and Ryuichi Kawakami ). On December 14, Gleat promoted its first mixed martial arts (MMA) event, Gleat MMA Ver. 0 . 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. The Lidet UWF World Championship ( LIDET UWF世界王座 , Ridetto UWF Sekai Ōza )

1564-409: The jump, Akiyama gave himself a makeover, dropping his trademark blue and white trimmed boots and blue trunks for white boots and trunks and dyed his hair brown. He was quickly established as a top star of the company, winning both falls in the main event of Noah's first show, choking out Kenta Kobashi in the second Noah show the night after he turned heel for this first time in his career, and becoming

1610-658: The longest single reign in the history of those belts, even though sometimes he and Omori parted ways to team up with other wrestlers during that time. In early 1996, he was selected to be Misawa's partner after he split with Kobashi back in December. The two teamed together successfully and won the World Tag Team Championship during 1996. Akiyama and Misawa also competed in the World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournaments in 1996 and 1997, but lost in successive years to

1656-697: The main event pitting Noah's Sugiura-gun ( Takashi Sugiura , Kazuyuki Fujita and Kendo Kashin ) against Jun Akiyama , Shuhei Taniguchi , and Daisuke Sekimoto . 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. 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

1702-648: 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

1748-427: The promotion's inaugural trainees. 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 . 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

1794-603: The remainder of the year. On December 27, he won the D-Oh Grand Prix 2021 , thus earning a title match for the KO-D Openweight Championship . In February 2021 it was announced that Akiyama had let his contract with AJPW expire and was a free agent. He then won the KO-D Openweight Championship at Kawasaki Strong 2021 from Tetsuya Endo . On February 15, 2021, it was announced that he had signed

1840-590: The sale of Noah. 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

1886-407: The same time, announced that they had joined All Japan Pro Wrestling, reforming the "Burning" stable, which he previously formed with Kenta Kobashi in the late 1990s. On March 17, Akiyama and Shiozaki defeated Get Wild ( Manabu Soya and Takao Omori ) to win the World Tag Team Championship. On April 29, Akiyama defeated Kai in the finals to win the 2013 Champion Carnival . On May 11, Akiyama made

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1932-610: The second GHC Heavyweight Champion , He had stellar title defenses in New Japan Pro-Wrestling against Yuji Nagata and Hiroshi Tanahashi . But a lack of worthy contenders eventually forced Noah to abandon his push, using Yoshinari Ogawa and Yoshihiro Takayama to transition the title back to Misawa. He continued work in Noah as a tag team competitor again to critical acclaim, winning the GHC Tag Team Championship with Akitoshi Saito . In April 2004, he created

1978-552: The team of Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue . Akiyama then began closing in on the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship , first challenging Misawa in September 1997 and January 1998, Kobashi in July 1998, and Vader in January 2000. He was unsuccessful on all four occasions. After teaming with Misawa, Akiyama began teaming with Kenta Kobashi to form ' Burning '. The team won numerous tag team titles and competed against

2024-591: The teams of Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa, Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue, Yoshihiro Takayama and Takao Omori and others. Burning also won the World's Strongest Tag Determination League tournament in 1998 by defeating the team of Stan Hansen and Vader, and again in 1999 by defeating Akira Taue and Stan Hansen. Akiyama's last major victory in All Japan Pro Wrestling was on February 27, 2000, when he defeated former tag team partner Mitsuharu Misawa by pinfall in

2070-540: The undercard. He successfully redeemed himself by defeating Kikuchi and once again wore white trunks following that match. This put him back in line for success, which had him winning the tag titles a second time with Takeshi Rikio . Due to an injury to Rikio, they were forced to vacate the title. Akiyama competed at New Japan Pro-Wrestling 's third Annual "Wrestle Kingdom in Tokyo Dome" show, defeating Manabu Nakanishi . On March 1, 2009, Akiyama defeated Kensuke Sasaki for

2116-562: Was originally supposed to be against reigning champions Strong BJ ( Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi ) of Big Japan Pro Wrestling , was changed before the show due to Okabayashi suffering a major shoulder injury and being forced to vacate. Big Japan's Ryuji Ito filled-in for Okabayashi. Wild Burning lost the tag title on January 3, 2018, to 2017 World's Strongest Tag Determination League winners, Suwama and Shuji Ishikawa . With Takao Omori going down injured around this time, Akiyama revived his old partnership with Yuji Nagata to challenge for

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