The Ganbare Climax ( Japanese : ガンバレ☆クライマックス , Hepburn : Ganbare Kuraimakkusu , stylized as Ganbare☆Climax ) is a single elimination professional wrestling tournament held by CyberFight in their Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) brand.
6-432: The first two editions in 2017 and 2018 had no stakes other than bragging rights. In 2021, the tournament made a comeback with LEC, Inc. as a sponsor. This edition crowned the inaugural Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Champion . The 2017 Ganbare☆Climax was held from August 11 to August 13. The first two rounds were held on individual nights, with round one taking up the entire card on August 11. The 2018 Ganbare☆Climax
12-416: A bye to the second round) and was won by Tatsuhito Takaiwa who was then crowned the inaugural Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Champion . Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship The Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship ( Japanese : スピリット・オブ・ガンバレ世界無差別級王座 , Hepburn : Supiritto obu Ganbare Sekai Musabetsu-kyū Ōza ) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by
18-504: The Ganbare☆Climax tournament and created the Spirit of Ganbare World Openweight Championship as a prize for the winner of the tournament. On November 23, Tatsuhito Takaiwa went on to defeat Yumehito Imanari in the final and won the inaugural title. On April 1, 2024, GanPro officially split from CyberFight and became an independent promotion. As of November 29, 2024, there have been
24-530: The Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling (GanPro) promotion . The title is the first to be created specifically for GanPro. The current champion is Keisuke Ishii , who is in his first reign. Ganbare☆Pro-Wrestling was created in 2013 by Ken Ohka as a brand of DDT Pro-Wrestling . The brand was created to capture the spirit of small independent promotions in Japan and, to do so, regularly brought in wrestlers from outside
30-634: The promotion. On March 18, 2017, Ohka beat Shiori Asahi at a Kaientai Dojo event to win the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship . The title stayed with the promotion where it served as its main singles title until January 2021 when it moved to Professional Wrestling Just Tap Out (JTO). Now without a singles title to promote, in September 2021, GanPro – now part of the CyberFight umbrella promotion – revived
36-501: Was held from August 11 to August 12, and featured only eight participants. Two of the first round matches were held under No DQ & No Ropes rules. † This was a No DQ & No Ropes match. On September 25, 2021, GanPro announced that the Ganbare☆Climax was returning for a third edition sponsored by LEC Cleanpa! that would run from October 24 to November 23. The tournament featured fourteen participants (two of which would receive
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