10/26 Pancrase Shining Tour - Welterweight Tournament Announced

Pancrase have added a welterweight tournament to their event on October 26 in Differ Ariake. The goal is to fill the vacant King of Pancrase welterweight spot. The final is scheduled for the December 7 event also held in Differ Ariake. Intrim champion, Takayuki Wada is not in the tournament, the winner of the tournament will face him in the spring for the King of Pancrase title. In other words, the winner will earn the right to face Wada for the title.

Welterweight Tournament Semi-Finals
Asaki Honda 4-2-1 vs. 5-3-2 Hiroyuki Nozawa
Tomoyoshi Iwamiya 4-7-0 vs. 5-2-2 "Strasser" Kiichi Kunimoto

Previously announced:

Takuya Wada 17-8-8 vs. 6-3-3 Masahiro Toryu
Takuya Eizumi 2-1-0 vs. 1-2-0 Takayuki Hirayasu
Yuichi Ikari 10-4-3 vs. 2-3-0 Yukio Sakaguchi
Kenji Arai 13-12-2 vs. 9-5-7 Tashiro Akai (Name changed from Nishiuchi)
Takafumi Ito 33-26-11 vs. 7-10-6 Takaichi Hirayama

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5/25 Pancrase Shining Tour 4 - RESULTS

Not surprising, lots of fights ending spectacular fashion. Pancrase has put on some very good shows this year.

Daisuke Hanasawa13 Def. Takefumi Hanai by decision 3-0
Soyu Tanabe Def. Kenji Takeshige by KO Round 1 3:44
Masahiro Toryu Def. Shuji Morikawa by Guillotine Choke Round 1 3:36
Kenji Shimada Def. Takashi Hasegawa by KO Round 1 1:58
Kiichi Kunimoto "Strasser" Def. Yushi Shiori by Decision 3-0
Isao Hirose Def. Nobuhiro "Punch" Yamauchi by decision 3-0

PancraseGate fights:
Keiichi Funako Def. Koji Toyota by TKO Round 1 0:29
Takamasa Miki Def. Ryunosuke Yamamoto by KO Round 1 1:08
Yuki Uejima Def. Akinobu Furumi by TKO Round 2 2:10
Shinichiro Ryuno Def. Kosuke Oku by TKO Round 1 0:44
Toshiaki Kobayashi Def. Wataru Nakahara by arm-bar Round 2 2:47

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5/25 Pancrase Shining Tour Osaka

The Shining Tour is visiting Osaka this weekend. No big names on this card, but the fight between "Strasser Kichi" and Yushi Shiori looks very interesting. There are also some amateur fights, and I dont expect many decisions on this card.

Main Event:
Daisuke Hanasawa13 8-9-5 vs. 2-4-2 Takefumi Hanai

Kenji Takeshige 4-6-1 vs. 3-3-1 Soyu Tanabe
Masahiro Toryu 4-3-3 vs. 0-1-1 Shuji Morikawa
Takashi Hasegawa 3-5-3 vs. 3-2-0 Kenji Shimada
Kiichi Kunimoto "Strasser" 4-2-0 vs. 5-0-0 Yushi Shiori
Nobuhiro "Punch" Yamauchi 4-2-0 vs. 1-0-0 Isao Hirose

PancraseGate fights:
Koji Toyota vs. Keiichi Funako
Ryunosuke Yamamoto vs. Takamasa Miki
Yuki Uejima vs. Akinobu Furumi
Shinichiro Ryuno vs. Kosuke Oku
Toshiaki Kobayashi vs. Wataru Nakahara

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