Inakagi vs. DeLucia, Funaki vs. Yanagisawa, Frank Shamrock vs. Suzuki-Shamrock wins King of Pancrase, more!
Jason Delucia vs. Kiuma Kunioku 15:00
Frank Shamrock vs. Osami Shibuya 15:00
Bas Rutten vs. Katsuomi Inagaki 14:07
Ranking Tournament 1st Round:
Guy Mezger vs. Takaku Fuke 10:00
Manabu Yamada vs. Leon Dijk 2:53
Vernon White vs. Yoshiki Takahashi 10:00
Ryushi Yanagisawa vs. Larry Papadopoulos 3:21
Ranking Tournament Semifinals:
Guy Mezger vs. Manabu Yamada 6:14
Ryushi Yanagisawa vs. Vernon White 12:47
Ranking Tournament Final: Guy Mezger vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa 12:21
Funaki vs. Smisl, Mezger vs. Suzuki, Rutten vs. Frank Shamrock, more!
Shows the following Title Changes: Shamrock vs. Yamada, Suzuki vs. Shamrock, Rutten vs. Suzuki, Frank Shamrock vs. Suzuki, plus feature on Funaki and matches leading up to title switches
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Jong Wang Kim 3:40
Takafumi Ito vs. Osami Shibuya 10:00
Katsuomi Inagaki vs. Keiichiro Yamamiya Decision 10:00
Manabu Yamada vs. Kiuma Kunioku 8:29
Yuki Kondo vs. Frank Shamrock 12:43
Vernon White vs. Kazuo Takahashi 19:43
Jason Delucia vs. Minoru Suzuki 4:58
Guy Mezger vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa 20:00
Bas Rutten vs. Masakatsu Funaki 17:05
Kondo vs. Frank Shamrock-Kondo scores major upset in one of the better Pancrase matches, Suzuki vs. Delucia, King of Pancrase: Rutten-champ vs. Funaki-Super bout that's the best in the history of the company. Funaki absorbs a tremendous amount of punishment but shows great heart and fighting spirit in taking it.
Suzuki vs. Ito
Kunioku vs. Mezger
Katsuomi Inagaki vs. Satoshi Hasegawa
Yanagisawa vs. Schilt
Shibuya vs. Vernon "Tiger" White
Kondo vs. Delucia
Rutten vs. Manabu Yamada
Kim Jong Wang vs. Takafumi Ito 2:11
Kiuma Kunioku vs. Satoshi Hasegawa 6:32
Yoshiki Takahashi vs. Keiichiro Yamamiya 7:12
New Champion Decision Tournament Semifinal: Jason Delucia vs. Osami Shibuya 11:45
New Champion Decision Tournament Semifinal: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Yuki Kondo Submission 1 1:43
Keiichiro Yamamiya vs. Wes Gassaway 10:00
Takaku Fuke vs. Jong Wang Kim 2:09
Semmy Schilt vs. Osami Shibuya Decision 10:00
Ryushi Yanagisawa vs. Jack McGlaughlin 0:51
Kiuma Kunioku vs. Frank Shamrock 20:00
Guy Mezger vs. Yuki Kondo Decision 20:00
KING OF PANCRASE Tournament Final: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Jason Delucia 7:49
Keiichiro Yamamiya vs. Takafumi Ito 15:00
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Serge Narsisyan 15:00
Takaku Fuke Haygar Chin 3:46
Ryushi Yanagisawa vs. Paul Lazenby 12:39
Osami Shibuya vs, Jong Wang Kim 0:58
Yuki Kondo vs. Guy Mezger 20:00
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Semmy Schilt 5:47
Ito vs. Hasegawa
Kiuma vs. Haygar Chen
Yamamiya vs. Yanagisawa
TAKA feature building up his Pancrase debut
Bas vs. Shibuya
Takahashi vs. Schilt
Funaki vs. Lezenbee
TAKA Michinoku vs. Yamamiya
Fuke vs. Paul Lezenbee
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Yoshiki Takahashi
Delucia vs. Ito
Shibuya vs. Leon Dijk
Yanagisawa vs. Paul Varelans
Rutten vs. Kunioku
King of Pancrase: Funaki vs. Kondo-Kondo wins King of Pancrase
Ito vs. Kim Jong Wan
Yamamiya vs. Kunioku
Schilt vs. Fuke
DeLucia vs. Takahashi
Kondo vs. Gary Myers
Suzuki vs. Sutton-Suzuki's return from injury
Hasegawa vs. Lazenbee
Shibuya vs. David Moore
Ito vs. Godsey
Yanagisawa vs. Les Johnston
Delucia vs. Kunioku
Suzuki vs. Singh
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Alex Andrade. Andrade's Pancrase debut. Mainly standup with the kickboxer Andrade controlling the match.
Osami Shibuya vs. Brian Gassaway. Gassaway's Pancrase debut.
Keiichiro Yamamiya vs. Guy Mezger. Very technical with lots of subtle movement and positioning.
Bas Rutten vs. Takaku Fuke. One sided
Funaki vs. Wesley Gassaway. Funaki walk over
Non Title: Kondo vs. Schilt. Basically a stalemate with Kondo unable to get leverage on the much larger opponent and Schilt lacking the mat game to put Kondo in real danger
7/20/97 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
NEO BLOOD Tournament Round 1:
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. David Moore R1 3:57
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Haygar Chin R1 2:24
Kosei Kubota vs. Jong Wang Kim R1 2:45
Keiichiro Yamamiya vs. Les Johnston R1 4:07
Kickboxing Exhibition Match: Bas Rutten vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa
Leon Dijk vs. Takafumi Ito R2 1:05
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Osami Shibuya R1 9:30
7/21/97 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
NEO BLOOD Tournament Semifinal: Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Ikuhisa Minowa Decision R2 3:00
NEO BLOOD Tournament Semifinal: Keiichiro Yamamiya vs. Kosei Kubota 10:00
Jason Godsey vs. Yuki Kondo R1 8:17
NEO BLOOD Tournament Final: Keiichiro Yamamiya Satoshi Hasegawa TKO (Knees) 1 5:50
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Yuki Kondo. Ok match. Minowa was really over matched, but he squirmed his way out of some compromising situations.
Kosei Kubota vs. Takaku Fuke. Uneventful
Kiuma Kunioku vs. Satoshi Hasegawa. Good technical bout.
Keiichiro Yamamiya vs. Osami Shibuya. Very even bout, but not particularly exciting. Ok.
Highlights of Ryushi Yanagisawa's kickboxing match from 7/25
Highlights of the Top 5 Pancrase Bouts Thus far in 1997
5. Bas vs. Kunioku 4/27/97 Tokyo Bay NK Hall
4. Delucia vs. Takahashi 5/24/97 Kobe Fashion Mart
3. Funaki vs. Semmy Schilt 2/22/97 Tokyo Bay NK Hall
2. Yamamoto vs. TAKA 4/27/97 Tokyo Bay NK Hall
1. Delucia vs. Kunioku 6/18/97 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Takafumi Ito vs. Takaku Fuke. All on the mat and mainly positioning.
Kosei Kubota vs. Ikuhisa Minowa. Clip.
Kim Jong Wang vs. Chris Chalmers. Clip. Kim actually wins.
Yoshiki Takahashi vs. Jason Godsey. This was edited down, but it looked pretty good because both men went at it hard and it was pretty even throughout.
Kiuma Kunioku vs. John Lober. Good fairly even bout. Lober got the best of it by a little, but he clearly wasn't familiar with the rules and it cost him.
Ranking Bout: Osami Shibuya (#7) vs. Bas Rutten. Very dull for a Bas match. Basically just posturing.
Ranking Bout: Minoru Suzuki vs. Keiichiro Yamamiya. Very good bout that was mostly contested on their feet. Yamamiya scores the "upset."
Ranking Bout: Masakatsu Funaki (#1) vs. Guy Mezger (#4). It was just a matter of who would make a mistake first.
KING OF PANCRASE TITLE MATCH: Yuki Kondo vs. Jason DeLucia. Good long match.
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Kosei Kubota. Highlights
Takafumi Ito vs. Ikuhisa Minowa
Yoshiki Takahashi vs. Kim Jong Wan. Kim was not surprisingly, really outclassed.
Keiichiro Yamamiya vs. Tra Telligman. Pretty even.
Osami Shibuya vs. John Lober. Highlights
Guy Mezger vs. Kiuma Kunioku. This seemed to be a theme match because it was almost all standup. Obviously, that gave Guy the advantage. Good bout.
Yuki Kondo vs. Leon Dijk. Kondo had no problem taking Dijk down and mounting him, but he couldn't really mount an offensive. Dijk was dominated, but at the same time he was never in any real trouble. Good long bout.
Kousei Kubota vs. Omar Bouiche. Kubota was superior technically, but he telegraphed his submissions and could never lock one in
Takaku Fuke vs. Satoshi Hasegawa. Good action. Interesting to watch. Fuke has fallen so far he's clearly worse than Hasegawa.
Ranking Bout: Osami Shibuya (#8) vs. Ikuhisa Minowa. Shibuya controlled this until the very end.
Keiichiro Yamamiya (#9) vs. Takafumi Ito. Almost all standing, but nothing happened when they were on their feet.
Masakatsu Funaki (#1) vs. Jason Godsey (#10). Vintage Funaki, looking for the opening, baiting the opponent to create it, then seizing the opening for the win.
Yuki Kondo (5th KOP) vs. Yoshiki Takahashi. Good bout with a lot of striking. Looked more like a "typical" shoot than a Pancrase bout.
Kosei Kubota vs. Takafumi Ito. Good Pancrase style bout with both men always working and trying submissions.
Kim Jong Wan vs. Kiuma Kunioku. Kiuma tried to shoot and he caught Kim's kick on the way in, but Kim then put him in a guillotine choke. Kiuma had too much pride to tap to a guy with Jong Wan's record, but he couldn't escape so he was choked unconscious and the ref had to stop the bout. BIG upset!
Osami Shibuya vs. Igor Zinoviev. Even match, but not interesting because neither were able to mount any kind of an offensive.
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Guy Mezger (#3). Guy was clearly superior and pretty much dominated. Hasegawa refused to submit and you could hear guy saying to him, "Come on man, I'm going to break your arm (if you don't tap)." In his post match interview, Guy said he was about to let go of the hold because he didn't want to have to break Hasegawa's arm.
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Jason Delucia (#2). Minowa broke the gentleman's agreement of not hitting on the ground so Delucia kind of lost control and threw several open hands from the mount before Minowa reversed him.
John Lober vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa (#6). Yanagisawa accidentally breaks Lober's leg with an ankle lock.
Keiichiro Yamamiya (#9) vs. Bas Rutten (#7).
King of Pancrase Title Match: Yuki Kondo vs. Masakatsu Funaki. Not much of a match. Kondo made a mistake, and Funaki, as usual, doesn't let you get away with that. Funaki wins KOP.
1997 Pancrase Best Bout as picked by the promotion
10. 4/27 Tokyo Bay NK Hall TAKA vs. Yamamiya
9. 4/27 Tokyo Bay NK Hall King of Pancrase: Funaki vs. Kondo
8. 11/16 Kobe Fashion Mart Funaki vs. Godsey
7. 8/9 Osaka Yamamiya vs. Shibuya
6. 11/16 Kobe Fashion Mart Takahashi vs. Kondo
5. 9/6 Tokyo Bay NK Hall King of Pancrase: Kondo vs. Delucia
4. 10/29 Tokyo Korakuen Hall Mezger vs. Kunioku
3. 9/6 Tokyo Bay NK Hall Funaki vs. Mezger
2. 9/6 Tokyo Bay NK Hall Suzuki vs. Yamamiya
1. 6/18 Tokyo Korakuen Hall Kunioku vs. Delucia
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Ikuhisa Minowa. Hasegawa was the better of the two, but certainly not dominant.
Katsuomi Inagaki vs. Kim Jong Wan. Inagaki wasn't really impressive, but you don't have to be against Jong Wan.
Kosei Kubota vs. Kiuma Kunioku (#4). Kunioku tried a lot of submissions from his back. Kiuma was far superior and was probably carrying Kubota because it looked like he could have choked him out a couple times if he wanted to.
Jason Delucia (#2) vs. Takafumi Ito. Delucia was always in control.
Ranking Match: Keiichiro Yamamiya (#9) vs. Osami Shibuya (#8). Good even match, although not incredibly exciting.
Ranking Match: Jason Godsey (#10) vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa (#6). Godsey tried to shoot in, but Yanagisawa KO'd him with a brutal knee lift.
Semmy Schilt vs. Minoru Suzuki (#5). Suzuki was too much for Schilt on the ground, but after Schilt escaped from a udehishigigyakujujigatame, Schilt came back and KO'd him.
Tony Rojo vs. Kim Jong Wan. Short nothing match.
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Semmy Schilt. Schilt should have won this match as he's better than Hasegawa by a pretty wide margin, but he made a one dumb mistake and that's one more than you are typically allowed in this league.
*Yokohama dojo (Minoru Suzuki's boys) vs. Tokyo dojo (Masakatsu Funaki's boys)
Ryushi Yanagisawa (Yokohama) vs. Keiichiro Yamamiya (Tokyo). Basically a stalemate.
Kiuma Kunioku (Yokohama) vs. Yuki Kondo (Tokyo). Good, highly competitive Pancrase style match. They worked hard, but neither came close to winning.
Osami Shibuya (Yokohama) vs. Yoshiki Takahashi (Tokyo). Good match. Takahashi was "in control" most of the time, but Shibuya was working from the bottom.
Takafumi Ito (Yokohama) vs. Takaku Fuke (Tokyo). Fuke has fallen so low that even Ito has his way with him. Fuke mainly fought defensively. He was able to stave off submissions, but he isn't able to get much offense in these days.
Katsuomi Inagaki (Yokohama) vs. Masakatsu Funaki (Tokyo). Yokohama dojo had already clinched the victory, so it didn't matter that the final match was a huge mismatch. Funaki toyed with Inagaki for a few minutes before putting him away.
Kosei Kubota vs. Haygar Chin
Takafumi Ito vs. Kim Jong Wan
Takaku Fuke vs. Katsuomi Inagaki
Jason Delucia vs. Satoshi Hasegawa
Ranking Sen: Kiuma Kunioku (#4) vs. Osami Shibuya (#8)
Ranking Sen: Minoru Suzuki (#5) vs. Keiichiro Yamamiya (#9)
3/18/98
Minoru Suzuki vs. Kosei Kubota
Daisuke Ishii vs. Justin McCully
Takafumi Ito vs. Katsuomi Inagaki
Yoshiki Takahashi vs. Leon Dijk
Ranking Sen: Guy Mezger (#3) vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa (#5)
Masakatsu Funaki (King of Pancrase) vs. Semmy Schilt
Kousei Kubota vs. Minoru Suzuki. Suzuki hasn't fallen so far that Kubota can give him a fight. Just wait until 1999 though(:.
Jason McCulley vs. Daisuke Ishii. Ishii's debut. Only thing notable was Ishii getting cut from a kick to the head.
Katsuomi Inagaki vs. Takafumi Ito. Interesting match. Inagaki was not surprisingly the better of the two on their feet, while Ito was not surprisingly the better of the two on the mat. They went back and forth on the mat a lot. Inagaki knocked Ito down with a nasty kick. Ito was close to getting a submission, but time ran out on him and he lost on points. Good technical match.
Leon Dijk vs. Yoshiki Takahashi. Not surprisingly there was a lot of striking here. These guys fought in Pancrase terms like they didn't like each other much, but striking is their forte so there was non of that gentleman's agreement stuff here. Takahashi actually suplexed Dijk at one point.
Ranking Bout: Ryushi Yanagisawa (#5) vs. Guy Mezger (#3). Dull match with Mezger dominating on the mat but never coming close to a submission.
Masakatsu Funaki (6th KOP) vs. Semmy Schilt. Funaki dominated on the mat. Most of the bout was standup though and it wasn't the most exciting standup because they were a little too far away from each other and neither guy would shoot in or move forward. Schilt was very tentative when it came to striking and Funaki was too quick for him, so when Schilt threw a strike Funaki would simply back out of the way. Schilt's open hand strikes did open up a cut above Funaki's right eye which was dripping blood.
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Adrian Serrano vs. Kiuma Kunioku. Good even bout.
Ranking Bout: Semmy Schilt vs. Jason Godsey (#10). Schilt kneed Godsey when he predictably shot in, which caused a disgusting cut. Godsey was bleeding like crazy, so the doctor stopped it.
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Ikuhisa Minowa. Clip
Osami Shibuya vs. Takaku Fuke. Clip
Tony Rojo vs. Minoru Suzuki. Mainly a bunch of dancing around. Neither deserved to win. Bad and boring.
Ranking Bout: Jason Delucia (#2) vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa (#5). Good technical bout, but not particularly exciting.
Ranking Bout: Keiichiro Yamamiya (#6) vs. Yuki Kondo (#1). Very hard fought. Good technical bout. Yamamiya showed continued improvement.
KING OF PANCRASE TITLE MATCH: Funaki (6th KOP) vs. Guy Mezger (#3). Funaki was supposed to be really sick. I don't know if that is true, but I do know he didn't seem to have anything tonight. He went a hard fought 30 minutes, but he lacked his usual power and speed. Funaki was cut above his eye early. Guy mainly used his power to dominate Funaki. Guy wins King of Pancrase.
Jason Godsey vs. Kim Jong Wan. As usual, Kim was easy prey.
Semmy Schilt (#7) vs. Guy Mezger (7th KOP). Controversial match. Schilt caught Guy with a big knee lift when he was shooting in and then hit him with 2 palm strikes. Guy was definitely knocked silly, but clearly he was fine to continue. Clearly to everyone but the ref that is, as he stopped the match claiming Guy didn't put his arms up in fighting pose. Guy was shocked and pissed. In the post match, Guy said he told the ref he wasn't hurt so he didn't even want a count, which is why he figured he didn't have to raise his hands.
Minoru Suzuki vs. Takaku Fuke. Fuke actually wins on points due to catching Suzuki with one lucky shot that put Suzuki down. I've been saying Fuke should retire for ages, so if there was any doubt about whether Suzuki should retire, this erases it.
Kosei Kubota vs. Ikuhisa Minowa. Typical even Pancrase match.
Daisuke Ishii vs. Takafumi Ito. Ishii had a big size advantage, but Ito has a lot of experience on him. Ito also had the better speed and technique. Thus, it made for a good match. Competitive and hard fought.
Yoshiki Takahashi vs. Katsuomi Inagaki. Mainly standup. Takahashi was really cocky, but he wasn't getting the job done. A lot of action, but hardly anything that was attempted worked/landed.
Keiichiro Yamamiya vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa. Intense bout. Started out hot, but died from there.
Manabu Yamada vs. Katsuomi Inagaki
Satoshi Hasegawa vs. Jason Delucia (#4)
Ranking Match: Evan Tanner vs. Kiuma Kunioku (#6)
Ranking Match: Yuki Kondo (#2) vs. Osami Shibuya (#7)
Bas Rutten vs. Kengo Watabe. Watabe's debut
Minoru Suzuki vs. Yoshiki Takahashi
Ranking Match: Masakatsu Funaki (#1) vs. Semmy Schilt (#5)
King of Pancrase Title Match: Guy Mezger vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa (#3)
10/4/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Yuki Kondo vs. Daisuke Ishii 2:38
Jason Godsey vs. Kengo Watanabe 1:28
10/26/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Omar Bouiche vs. Minoru Suzuki 0:45
Kiuma Kunioku vs. Masakatsu Funaki 15:00
12/19/98
Minoru Toyonaga vs. Daisuke Ishii
Jason Delucia vs. Manabu Yamada
Ranking Match: Minoru Suzuki (#10) vs. Osami Shibuya (#9)
Ranking Match: Ryushi Yanagisawa (#5) vs. Evan Tanner (#8)
No Rule Special Match: Kengo Watabe vs. John Lober
No Rule Special Match (Vale Tudo Rules): Keiichiro Yamamiya vs. Jeremy Horn
No Rule Special Match: Masakatsu Funaki vs. John Renken
King of Pancrase Title Match: Guy Mezger vs. Yuki Kondo (#1)
Jd' #36 4/14/99 taped 1/24/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Obatchi Iizuka vs. Hiroyo Muto
Cooga & Yuki Miyazaki vs. Crusher Maedomari & Ryuna
Shark Tsuchiya vs. Yuko Kosugi
Bukyogun vs. Oz Academy: The Bloody & Fang Suzuki vs. Sugar Sato & Chikayo Nagashima
Jd' Junior Title: Sumie Sakai vs. Megumi Yabushita
Lioness Asuka vs. Kyoko Inoue
Pancrase King of Pancrase Title Match 4/99
Highlights of probably all the previous King of Pancrase Title Matches 12/19/98 Tokyo Bay NK Hall King of Pancrase Title Match: Guy Mezger vs. Yuki Kondo
9/7/96 Tokyo Bay NK Hall, King of Pancrase Title Match: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Bas Rutten
12/16/96 Tokyo Nippon Budokan, King of Pancrase Tournament Final: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Jason Delucia
2/22/97 Tokyo Bay NK Hall: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Semmy Schilt
4/27/97 Tokyo Bay NK Hall, King of Pancrase Title Match: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Yuki Kondo
9/6/97 Tokyo Bay NK Hall: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Guy Mezger
12/20/97 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukakan: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Yuki Kondo
7/26/98 Aomori Kenei Taiikukan: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Osami Shibuya
10/26/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Kiuma Kunioku
12/19/98 Tokyo Bay NK Hall: Masakatsu Funaki vs. John Renken
9/18/99 Tokyo Bay NK Hall: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Tony Petarra
11/27/93 Tokyo Bay NK Hall: Masakatsu Funaki vs. Maurice Smith
*I have a limited number of additional 1st gen VHS available*
Kosei Kubota vs. Massive Ichi
Takaku Fuke vs. Daisuke Watanabe
Hikaru Sato vs. Michael Sa Jin Kwok
Minoru Suzuki vs. Sean Daugherty
Osami Shibuya vs. Hiroshi Ota
Jason Delucia vs. Bob Stines
Kiuma Kunioku vs. Shone Carter. This was the best fight on the show because it was pretty even, but wasn't at a loss for action.
KING OF PANCRASE Title Match: Semmy Schilt vs. Yoshiki Takahashi. Takahashi's strategy was to keep it in standup and try to knock Schilt out, but Schilt has a huge reach advantage and wouldn't let Takahashi get close enough. Takahashi always had to lunge in with his strikes, so he couldn't get much on them and was also more succeptible to counter punching. When Takahashi would "take Schilt down" (it was more like Schilt would just go down and use his size to try to take the dominant position), Schilt would always wind up in a controlling position either by reaching around Takahashi's body or getting a reversal. Schilt wouldn't be much if he was a foot smaller, but you have to give him credit for knowing how to use his size to win him the match.
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Hikaru Sato vs. Takaku Fuke. Sato controlled most of the fight, but neither came close to finishing. Fuke is too experienced to fall for anything, but the younger guys are physical superior not to mention healthier. Sato did a nice headlock takedown and somersault guard pass. 2R.
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Kenji Arai. Even to the point of stalemate. The last minute was good because they knew they needed something to pull out the win, but otherwise it was uneventful. 2R.
Yoshiro Maeda vs. Mikio Takeuchi. Maeda was an energetic risk taker. He ran the ropes and tried a high knee. Takeuchi seemed to control him most of the time though. 1:50 of 10:00.
Yoshitomi Mishima vs. Masao Ando. Mishima was able to get mount and try to finish, but Ando got on top when he tried for the arm bar. However, Maeda triangled him. 2:34 of 7:22
Kei Yamamiya vs. Ichiro Kanai. Whole match was standup with an efficient and effective Yamamiya picking the debuting Kanai apart. Yamamiya looked really good mixing up his punches and throwing them all in combination. Enjoyable match. 3:51
Kengo vs. Tomohiko Hashimoto. Kengo wanted to strike from a distance, while Hashimoto wanted to fight from the clinch. These conflicting styles made it an interesting fight since there was action and both had some success. Hashimoto caught Kengo's kick, tripped him up, and did a German suplex. He actually tried to make it a rolling German, but Kengo blocked the 2nd. Unfortunately, Hashimoto had no ground defense to the point he didn't seem to know the guard. Still, it was a good short match. 4:17
Eiji Ishikawa vs. Osami Shibuya. Pretty good match. As usual there wasn't much damage done, but it was more offensive minded than typical Pancrase with a few chances taken. Ishikawa is a good striker that controlled standup. Shibuya lost the first round and was losing the second, but he got a headlock takedown and was punching away. Ishikawa got a takedown later in the round though, and showed some good ground punching. 2R
Akihiro Gono vs. Kosei Kubota. Gono was the better striker and wouldn't let Kubota get him down. He would go to the ground when the opportunity presented itself though, at one point having Kubota's back and landing regularly. They opened up in the third round, with Kubota knowing it was now or never and Gono making sure rather than shutting it down. Kubota wound up taking a lot more punishment in this round, but his desperation made the fight. 3R
Jason Godsey vs. Hideki Tadao
Pancrase Shodai Welterkyu Oza Kettei Tournament Ikkaisen
Yohei Ota vs. Hiroki Nagaoka
Koji Oishi vs. Yoshimitsu Warita
Hideaki Iwasaki vs. Kiuma Kunioku
Kenichi Sato vs. Takumi Yano
Yuki Sasaki vs. John Glover
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Mitsuyoshi Sato
Yohei Tagami vs. Taku Aramaki
NEO BLOOD TOURNAMENT Ikkaisen
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Hiroyuki Nozawa
Kenji Arai vs. Minoru Ozawa
Hidetaka Monma vs. Kazuki Okubo
Masashi Suzuki vs. Sen Nakadai
Pancrase Shodai Welterkyu Oza Kettei Tournament Junkessho
Takafumi Ito vs. Hiroki Nagaoka
Kiuma Kunioku vs. Koji Oishi
Kengo vs. Cobra
Yuki Kondo vs. Yoshinori Momose
NEO BLOOD TOURNAMENT Junkessho
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Kenji Arai
Hidetaka Monma vs. Masashi Suzuki
Mitsuhisa Sanabe vs. Masahito Wachi
Daisuke Watanabe vs. Takao Yamamoto
Nathan Marquardt vs. Seiki Ryo
Kei Yamamiya vs. Mitsuyoshi Sato
NEO BLOOD TOURNAMENT Kesshosen: Hidetaka Monma vs. Satoru Kitaoka
Pancrase Shodai Welterkyu Oza Kettei Tournament Kesshosen: Kiuma Kunioku vs. Takafumi Ito
Yoshinobu vs. Miki Shida
Takaku Fuke vs. Kenichi Serizawa
Yuki Sasaki vs. Koji Oishi
Yuji Hoshino vs. Kosei Kubota
Yoshiki Takahashi vs. Hideki Tadao
Osami Shibuya vs. Akihiro Gono
Masakazu Imanari vs. Yuji Oba
Katsuhisa Fujii vs. Hiroya Takada
Kazuo Misaki vs. Kousei Kubota
Osami Shibuya vs. Mitsuyoshi Sato
KEI Yamamiya vs. Eiji Ishikawa
Ron Waterman vs. Kengo
Yuki Sasaki vs. Alex Stiebling
Kiuma Kunioku vs. Hiroki Nagaoka
Hiroyuki Nozawa vs. Minoru Ozawa 2R
Miki Shida vs. Takahiro Sanehara 2R
Kenji Arai vs. Takehiro Kato 2R
Hikaru Sato vs. Susumu Yamasaki 2R
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Taro Minato 2R
Koji Oishi vs. Juan Ayala 3R
Chris Lytle vs. Yuji Hoshino R1 2:09
Izuru Takeuchi vs. Nate Marquardt 3R
Yushin Okami vs. Sen Nakadai 2R
Mitsuhisa Sunabe vs. Masahiro Watanabe R2 1:17
Kazuo Misaki vs. Masaya Kojima R1 4:40
Takafumi Ito vs. Takuya Wada Decision 3R
Ricardo Almeida vs. Osami Shibuya R1 3:25
Sanae Kikuta vs. Eduardo Pamplona 3R
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Yuki Sasaki 3R
Minoru Suzuki vs. Jushin Thunder Liger R1 1:48
Shigeyuki Umeki vs. Yohei Tagami 2R
Yushin Okami vs. Hikaru Sato 2R
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Hiroki Nagaoka 2R
Koji Oishi vs. Takuya Wada 2R
Eiji Ishikawa vs. Ichiro Kanai 2R
Daisuke Watanabe vs. Hidetada Irie R1 4:18
Kazuo Misaki vs. Joe D'Arce R2 4:51
Yuki Kondo vs. Gabriel Vella 2R
Yoshiro Maeda vs. Shigeyuki Umeki R2 1:49
Yuji Hoshino vs. Takaku Fuke 2R
Kengo vs. Koji Okuyama 2R
Hidehiko Hasegawa vs. Kosei Kubota R2 3:05
Kenichi Serizawa vs. Roland Fabre R1 2:58
Akihiro Gono vs. Chael Sonnen 2R
Ricardo Almeida vs. Ikuhisa Minowa 3R
Naoki Seki vs. Kenji Arai R1 1:20
Jun Ishii vs. Jason Godsey R2 1:51
Kazuo Misaki vs. Yuji Hisamatsu 2R
Yuki Kondo vs. Sumio Koyano R1 3:58
Middleweight King of Pancrase Title Match: Nathan Marquardt vs. Izuru Takeuchi R1 1:29
Osami Shibuya vs. Toru Yano R2 2:35
Ricardo Almeida vs. Kazuo Misaki 3R
Yuki Sasaki vs. Heath Sims 3R
Akihiro Gono vs. Nilson de Castro R1 0:29
Catch Wrestling Rule: Minoru Suzuki vs. Takashi Iizuka
Crosley Gracie vs. Kiuma Kunioku 3R
Sanae Kikuta vs. Elvis Sinosic 3R
Openweight KING OF PANCRASE Title Match: Josh Barnett vs. Yuki Kondo Submission R3 3:26
Yohei Tagami vs. Naoji Fujimoto R1 3:03
Daisuke13 Hanazawa vs. Takuo Miyata 2R
Yuji Oba vs. Satoshi Watanabe 2R
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Tadahiro Hosaka 2R
Takafumi Ito vs. Yuji Hoshino 3R
Yoshiro Maeda vs. Alexandre Soca R2 0:25
Hiromitsu Miura vs. Yun Seob Kwak R1 0:54
Katsuya Inoue vs. Satoru Kitaoka 3R
Akihiro Gono vs. Tim McKenzie R2 2:53
Ryuta Noji vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa 3R
Sanae Kikuta vs. Ice Man R1 2:14
Middleweight King of Pancrase Decision Match: Nathan Marquardt vs. Kazuo Misaki 3R
1st Superheavyweight King of Pancrase Decision Match: Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Ron Waterman 3R
Yuki Kondo vs. Evangelista Cyborg 3R
Note: some bouts may be edited
Hiromitsu Miura vs. Yun Seob Kwak R1 0:54
Katsuya Inoue vs. Satoru Kitaoka 3R
Akihiro Gono vs. Tim McKenzie R2 2:53
Ryuta Noji vs. Ryushi Yanagisawa 3R
Sanae Kikuta vs. Ice Man R1 2:14
Middleweight King of Pancrase Decision Match: Nathan Marquardt vs. Kazuo Misaki 3R
1st Superheavyweight King of Pancrase Decision Match: Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Ron Waterman 3R
Yuki Kondo vs. Evangelista Cyborg 3R
Note: some bouts may be edited
Daizo Ishige vs. Hiroki Nagaoka 2R
Takumi Yano vs. Ippo Watanuki R2 3:48
Hidehiko Hasegawa vs. Naoki Seki R1 1:59
Daisuke Watanabe vs. Yuya Shirai 2R
Minoru Suzuki Exhibition Match
Ryuta Noji vs. Jin Chul Oh R1 1:44
Welterweight King of Pancrase Title Match: Katsuya Inoue vs. Kenji Arai R2 4:30
Middleweight King of Pancrase Title Match: Nathan Marquardt vs. Izuru Takeuchi R3 2:19
Note: some bouts may be edited
Yukito vs. Kenta Nakamura 2R
Koji Yoshimoto vs. Yuki Yamasawa 2R
Shoji vs. Taku Aramaki R1 3:36
Artur Oumakhanov vs. Yuji Miyazaki R1 1:03
Tatsuya Mizuno vs. Yasuaki Miura R1 1:47
Takuya Wada Yoshirock T R1 4:22
Manabu Inoue vs. Kenji Shimada 2R
Mu Bae Choi vs. Masayuki Kono R2 1:36
Yuichi Nakanishi vs. Izuru Takeuchi 3R
Note: some bouts may be edited
Miki Shida vs. Daichi Fujiwara R1 0:36
Masahiro Toryu vs. Nobuhiro Tsurumaki R1 1:16
Kanako Takeshita vs. WINDY Tomomi R3 2:08
Koji Oishi vs. Hiroyuki Nozawa R1 4:53
Hikaru Sato vs. Sviatoslav Matanov 2R
Takafumi Ito vs. Eriya Matsuda 2R
Ryo Kawamura vs. Nilson de Castro 3R
Daizo Ishige vs. Kenji Arai 3R
Yuki Kondo vs. Ian Nai R1 1:30
Note: some bouts may be edited
Punch Yamauchi vs. Takashi Hasegawa 2R
Yuichi Miyagi vs. Red Slayer Guy 2R
Akihiko Mori vs. Yuji Miyazaki R1 2:34
Kenji Takeshige vs. Jinzaburo Yonezawa R1 4:27
Daisuke Hanazawa vs. Animal R2 3:03
Masahiro Toryu vs. Kiichi Kunimoto 2R
Naoji Fujimoto vs. Mitsuhisa Sunabe 2R
Yoshiro Maeda vs. Manabu Inoue R1 4:36
Note: some bouts may be edited
Masaki Yanagisawa vs. Michihisa Asano 2R
Yoshirock T vs. Shinsuke Shoji R2 2:06
Daisuke Watanabe vs. Tomoyoshi Iwamiya R2 0:58
Hikaru Sato vs. Rikuhei Fujii 2R
Next Heavyweight Title Challenger Decision Match: Thiago Silva vs. Tatsuya Mizuno R1 4:29
Artur Oumakhanov vs. Takafumi Ito 3R
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Gustavo PC 3R
Note: some bouts may be edited
Asaki Honda vs. Seiki Ryo 2R
Yuji Hoshino vs. 2R
Eriya Matsuda vs. Takumi Yano R1 1:30
DJ.taiki vs. Kentaro Imaizumi 2R
Alavutdin Gadzhiyev vs. Ichiro Kanai R1 1:05
Ryo Kawamura vs. Hiromitsu Kanehara R3 1:36
Note: some bouts may be edited
Shoji Maruyama vs. Kenji Takeshige R1 2:28
Takuya Wada vs. Sotaro Yamada 2R
Miki Shida vs. Manabu Inoue 3R
Hyung Suk Choi vs. Yukio Sakaguchi R1 1:51
Izuru Takeuchi vs. Daisuke Watanabe 3R
Bryan Rafiq vs. Hikaru Sato R2 2:16
Yoshiro Maeda vs. Danny Batten 3R
Michihisa Asano vs. Yuki Yamasawa 2R
Daichi Fujiwara vs. Yuichiro Shirai 2R
Ichiro Kanai vs. Kozo Urita R1 3:50
DJ.taiki vs. Jameel “The Sergeant” Massouh R2 4:50
Eriya Matsuda vs. Kenji Arai R1 0:23
Katsuya Inoue vs. Koji Oishi R2 2:45
3rd Heavyweight King of Pancrase Decision Match: Assuerio Silva vs. Tatsuya Mizuno R2 2:08
Fabio Silva vs. Ryo Kawamura R2 3:44
Note: some bouts may be edited
Hayato Shimizu vs. Yuki Yamasawa 2R
Michihisa Asano vs. Tatsuya So R1 0:30
Asaki Honda vs. Yukio Sakaguchi R1 0:52
Kenji Arai vs. Takaichi Hirayama 2R
Kenji Takeshige vs. Kentarou Abe R2 2:27
Takuya Wada vs. Hyung Kwang Kim 2R
Manabu Inoue vs. Jin Suk Jung R2 1:47
Yuki Kondo vs. Yuji Sakuragi 3R
Note: some bouts may be edited
Shinsuke Shoji vs. Wataru Takahashi R1 0:52
Takuya Wada vs. Seiki Ryo Decision 2R
Michihisa Asano vs. Tomoki Murayama 2R
Tatsuya Mizuno vs. Masayuki Kono R1 3:28
Marlon Sandro vs DJ.taiki 3R
Middleweight King of Pancrase Title Match: Izuru Takeuchi vs. Yuichi Nakanishi 3R
Note: some bouts may be edited
Tatsuya So vs. Hayato Shimizu R2 3:30
Yuichi Ikari vs. Takumi Yano R1 1:51
Miki Shida vs. Jameel Massouh 2R
Alavutdin Gadzhiyev vs. Masahiro Toryu R1 0:57
Kenji Arai vs. Mike Kwok R1 1:17
Catch Wrestling Rule: Josh Barnett vs. Hikaru Sato R1 4:27
Shoji vs. Takafumi Ito 3R
Kei Yamamiya vs. Ryo Kawamura 3R