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GLEAT

CIMA, El Lindaman, Issei Onizuka and T-Hawk, better known as #STRONGHEARTS, have joined GLEAT.

GLEAT will hold a press conference at 12pm JST tomorrow, seemingly to announce the signing of #STRONGHEARTS, on its YouTube channel.

It remains to be seen how joining GLEAT will affect the group’s outside bookings. For instance, CIMA currently holds All Japan Pro Wrestling’s Junior Heavyweight Championship and is scheduled to challenge Masato Tanaka for Pro Wrestling ZERO1’s World Heavyweight Championship on May 30.

If GLEAT has signed the group exclusively, it would be a massive coup for the young company and its biggest signing to date. The group will join Daijiro Matsui, Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka, Souma Watanabe, Takanori Ito and Yu Iizuka on GLEAT’s roster.

#STRONGHEARTS were originally formed in 2018 after CIMA, El Lindaman, T-Hawk and Takehiro Yamamura left Dragon Gate. Yamamura has not wretled in nearly a year due to a neck injury while Onizuka debuted and joined the group last February.

The group has travelled across the globe wrestling for a variety of promotions but the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic has obviously put a stop to that.

Perhaps rather than an exclusive deal, it might make more sense if GLEAT is just #STRONGHEARTS’ home promotion should the company begin to hold shows more regularly later this year. As it stands, GLEAT is scheduled to hold its second show – GLEAT.1 – on July 1 in Tokyo Dome City Hall.

Big Japan Pro Wrestling

Satsuki Nagao will miss Big Japan Pro Wrestling’s show on March 16 in Shin-Kiba 1st Ring due to his right shoulder injury.

Nagao was scheduled to team with Shoki Kitamura against Kazuki Hashimoto and Takuya Nomura. Takumi Baba will take his place.

The updated card for the show is:

• Hayato Tamura and Takafumi vs. Hideyoshi Kamitani and Kosuke Sato
• Kazuki Hashimoto and Takuya Nomura vs. Shoki Kitamura and Takumi Baba
• Abdullah Kobayashi, Jaki Numazawa and Kazumi Kikuta vs. Hartley Jackson, Ryuji Ito and Yuki Ishikawa
• Akira Hyodo and Yuji Okabayashi vs. Chris Vice and Yoshikazu Yokoyama
• Drew Parker and Masato Tanaka vs. Kota Sekifuda and Ryuichi Kawakami
• Daichi Hashimoto and Shinjiro Otani vs. Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuya Aoki

Elsewhere, Kosuke Sato will appear on Colega Pro Wrestling’s Stars Night show on March 25.

Big Japan will hold a show in Niigata tomorrow. The full card is:

• Great Kojika and Yuichi Taniguchi vs. Jaki Numazawa and Masaki Morihiro
• Kosuke Sato and Takuya Nomura vs. Takuho Kato and Yasufumi Naknaoue
• Drew Parker and Yuki Ishikawa vs. Keiki Suzuki and Kota Sekifuda
• Daichi Hashimoto and Yuya Aoki vs. Kazumi Kikuta and Ryuichi Kawakami
• Akira Hyodo, Kankuro Hoshino and Kazuki Hashimoto vs. Big THE Ryokan, Hideyoshi Kamitani and Ryuji Ito
• Niigata Openweight Championship: Shigeno Shima (c) vs. Abdullah Kobayashi

DDT Pro-Wrestling

DDT Pro-Wrestling has announced the full cards for its shows on March 19 in Nagoya and March 20 in Osaka. The full cards are:

March 19 in Nagoya
• Akito, Saki Akai and Yukio Naya vs. Danshoku Dieno, Kazuki Hirata and Toru Owashi
• Antonio Honda and Yuki Iino vs. Daisuke Sasaki and Tetsuya Endo
• Toi Kojima vs. Yusuke Okada
• Hideki Okatani vs. Konosuke Takeshita
• Mad Paulie, Soma Takao and Yuji Hino vs. MAO, Shunma Katsumata and Yuki Ueno
• Chris Brookes, Kazusada Higuchi and Keigo Nakamura vs. HARASHIMA, Jun Akiyama and Makoto Oishi

March 20 in Osaka
• Akito and Yukio Naya vs. Hideki Okatani and Yuki Iino
• Antonio Honda, Chris Brookes and Saki Akai vs. Danshoku Dieno, MAO and Shunma Katsumata
• Keigo Nakamura vs. Maku Donaruto
• Daisuke Sasaki, Soma Takao and Tetsuya Endo vs. HARASHIMA, Kazuki Hirata and Toru Owashi
• Konosuke Takeshita and Yuki Ueno vs. Mad Paulie and Yuji Hino
• Jun Akiyama, Makoto Oishi and Yusuke Okada vs. Kazusada Higuchi, Toi Kojima and Yukio Sakaguchi

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling will hold its seventh New Japan Cup tour show tomorrow in Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.

The full card is:

• David Finlay, Gabriel Kidd and Yota Tsuji vs. Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano and YOSHI-HASHI
• DOUKI, Taichi and Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Great-O-Khan, Jeff Cobb and Will Ospreay
• BUSHI, SANADA and Tetsuya Naito vs. Kazuchika Okada, SHO and Yuji Nagata
• Bad Luck Fale, EVIL and Jay White vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Juice Robinson and Toa Henare
• Second round match (bottom left bracket): KENTA vs. Minoru Suzuki
• Second round match (bottom left bracket): Hirooki Goto vs. Shingo Takagi

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate will continue its Glorious Gate 2021 tour tomorrow in KBS Hall.

The full card is:

• Ben-K and Kagetora vs. Kzy and Susumu Yokosuka
• U-T vs. Yosuke Santa Maria
• Bokutimo Dragon, Punch Tominaga and Ryo Saito vs. Dia Inferno, Diamante and Eita
• Don Fujii and Takashi Yoshida vs. Kenichiro Arai and Yasushi Kanda
• Draon Kid, Keisuke Okuda and YAMATO vs. KAI, Kaito Ishida and SB KENTo
• BxB Hulk, H.Y.O, HipHop Kikuta and KAZMA SAKAMOTO vs. Jason Lee, Kota Minoura, La Estrella and Shun Skywalker

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