Pancrase - December Rankings Update

After having 3 title fights in their last event of 2008, it is not unexpected that there are some changes to the Pancrase rankings.

Notable changes, DJ Taiki goes out of the rankings due to inactivity. Him and several others are suffering that after not fighting in Pancrase for over a year.

There are 3 new King of Pancrase champions! Takuya Wada moves from intering champion to become the 4th welterweight King of Pancrase, Manabu Inoue takes a strong win against Seiya Kawahara to claim the bantamweight title, also Katsuya Inoue claims his title after defeating Koji Oishi.

Openweight
10th Open-weight King of Pancrase： Josh Barnett


Heavyweight 93.0kg～120.2kg
4th Heavyweight King of Pancrase: Available


Light-Heavyweight83.9kg～93.0kg
4th Light-Heavyweight King of Pancrase：Ryo Kawamura
1 → Keiichiro Yamamiya

Tatsuya Mizuno is taken out, due to inactivity.


Middleweight 77.1kg～83.9kg
7th Middleweight King of Pancrase： Izuru Takeuchi
Interim Middlweight King of Pancrase：Yuki Kondo
1 ↑ Alavutdin Gadzhiyev
2 ↑ Ichiro Kanai

Yuichi Nakanishi is taken out, due to inactivity.


Welterweight 70.3kg～77.1kg
4th Welterweight King of Pancrase： Takuya Wada
1 ↑ Tomoyoshi Iwamiya
2 → Masahiro Toryu
3 ↓ Jason Palacios
4 → Hiroyuki Nozawa

Tomoyoshi Iwamiya moves up after taking the welterweight tournament. Jason Palacios moves down to make room.


Lightweight 65.8kg～70.3kg
2nd Lightweight King of Pancrase： Katsuya Inoue
1 ↑ Koji Oishi
2 ↑ Artur Oumakhanov
3 ↑ Yukio Sakaguchi
4 ↑ Yuichi Ikari
5 ↑ Daisuke Hanazawa

Katsuya Inoue is the new lightweight King of Pancrase. Also entering the ranking is Daisuke Hanazawa after a strong win against Maximo Blanco.

Yuji Hoshino is taken out, due to inactivity.


Featherweight 61.2kg～65.8kg
Featherweight King of Pancrase: Marlon Sandro
1 ↑ Masaya Takita "J-Taro"
2 ↑ Kenji Arai

DJ Taiki is taken out, due to inactivity.


Bantamweight 58.0kg～61.2kg
Bantamweight King of Pancrase: Manabu Inoue
1 → Seiya Kawahara
2 → Tatsuya So

Manabu Inoue takes the bantamweight King of Pancrase spot.

Flyweight -58.0kg
Flyweight King of Pancrase: Available
1 → Mitsuhisa Sunabe
2 → Takuya Eizumi
3 ↑ Isao Hirose

Isao Hirose, this year's Neo-Blood champion enters the ranking.