12/22 Pancrase Rising Tour - Barnett returns

December 22 Barnett will return to the ring against Hikaru Sato, the fight will be a catch wrestling fight, but for many fans that will not matter. Barnett is back!

Also, keep your eyes on Hayato Shimizu, he will be trying to improve his record to 4-0 all of these fights in 2007. The main event is between Ryo Kawamura and the very experienced Keiichiro Yamamiya. Kawamura`s only loss came against Fabio Silva in May, and I have a feeling this will be a pretty easy fight for him.

Ryo Kawamura 7-1-2 vs. 31-22-9 Keiichiro Yamamiya

Takafumi Ito 32-25-9 vs. 4-2-0 Shoji

Hikaru Sato 17-17-4 vs. 20-5-0 Josh Barnett

Kenji Arai 11-11-2 vs. 3-2-2 Sa Jin Kwok

Toryu Masahiro 4-2-2 vs. 4-1-0 Gadzhiev Alavutdin

Miki Shida 12-4-2 vs. 14-2-0 Jameel“The Sergeant”Massouh

Yuichi Ikari 6-3-2 vs. 9-7-3 Takumi Yano

Tatsuya So 1-2-1 vs. 3-0-0 Shimizu Hayato

Also there, the Super Terrific Cuties, Rika and Yumi Irie. This is also the last installment of the Rising Tour, time to look forward to 2008.