Pancrase Rankings
Pancrase has updated their rankings as of
December 8th (2006) and issued the following statement:
PANCRASE Announces 2007 Tour
Name: We, World Pancrase Create, Inc., decided to name our up
coming 2007 tour - PANCRASE
2007 RISING TOUR. This "RISING TOUR", named by a fan Mr. Seiji Hiraoka
(Nara prefecture) through our
open-to-public application will be our new slogan: "Growing, Achieving and
Aiming High." We would be
delighted to have you at our event starting from Sunday, 4th of February
2007 at
Umeda Stera Hall.
The ranking are as
follows (clubs are shown in parenthesis):
Open-weight
Champion:
Josh Barnett (New Japan Pro-wrestling)
Super heavyweight -
221 lbs. & up
Champion:
vacant
Heavyweight -
199lbs.- 221lbs.
Champion
-
Kestutis "Tiger"
Arbocius
# 1
Poai Suganuma (TWIST)
# 2 Lee Segaki (Wajutsu Keishukai RJW)
Light heavyweight -
181lbs.- 199lbs.
Champion - Yuki Kondo (Pancrase Ism)
# 1 Kestutis "Tiger" Arbocius (Lithuania/Latvia Shidokan)
# 2 Daijiro Matsui (Freelance)
# 3
Ryo Kawamura (Pancrase Ism)
Middleweight -
165.7lbs.- 181lbs.
Champion - Yuichi Nakanishi (Freelance)
- Up from # 2
# 1 Izuru Takeuchi (SK Absolute)
# 2 Hikaru Sato (Pancrase Ism) -
Up from # 3
Welterweight -
152.5lbs.- 165.7lbs.
Champion
- Daizo Ishige (SK Absolute)
# 1 Katsuya Inoue (RJW/Central)
# 2 Satoru Kitaoka
(Pancrase Ism)
# 3 Carlos Condit (Fighters in
Training)
# 4 Koji Oishi
(Pancrase Ism)
# 5 Robert Emerson (U.S.A. /
No Limits-Team Oyama)
Lightweight
-141.4lbs.- 152.5lbs.
Champion - vacant
# 1 Takumi Yano (Ugokai)
# 2 Takafumi Ito (Pancrase
Ism)
# 3 Matafonov Svyatoslav (SK
Absolute/Russia) - In
Featherweight -
under 141.4lbs.
Champion
- Yoshihro Maeda
# 1 DJ. Taiki (K.I.B.A.)
# 2 Miki Shida (P's Lab Tokyo)
# 3 Atsushi Yamamoto (Killer
Bee)
# 4 Manabu Inoue (U.W.F.)
# 5 Mitsuhisa Sunabe (REAL)
To The Top
(12/28/06)
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