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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10/26 Pancrase Shining Tour - 2 Fights Announced

Pancrase have announced an additional 2 fights for their October 26 event.

A lot of experience added to this card today, it will be a good event.

Added:
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

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

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10/26 Pancrase Shining Tour - Fights added

The Pancrase event for October 26 is taking shape. Added to the card is welterweight interim champion Takuya Wada, in a non-title fight against Masahiro Toryu.

In the other fight added today, another Neo-Blood finalist is added in Takuya Eizumi in a rematch of the neo-blood 1st round against Takaya Hirayasu. Eizumi won the previous fight by TKO (doctor stoppage) and ended up losing only the final.

Added:
Takuya Wada 17-8-8 vs. 6-3-3 Masahiro Toryu
Takuya Eizumi 2-1-0 vs. 1-2-0 Takayuki Hirayasu

Previously Announced:
Yuichi Ikari 10-4-3 vs. 2-3-0 Yukio Sakaguchi

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9/7 Pancrase Shining Tour - Osaka

The Pancrase card for September 7 in Osaka looks just about complete. There are 4 Pancrase Gate fights added, and we just have to wait and see if that completes the card.

Main-card
Bantamweight: Daichi Fujiwara 7-3-1 vs. 4-3-0 Nobuhiro “Punch” Yamauchi
Featherweight: Kenji Takeshige 6-7-1 vs. 6-3-1 Motonobu Tezuka
Bantamweight: Takashi Hasegawa 4-6-3 vs. 1-1-0 Takahiro Goda
Flyweight: Takayuki Hirayasu 0-2-0 vs. Shinichiro Ryuno
Featherweight: Soyu Tanabe 4-3-1 vs. 0-4-2 Hideo Matsui

Pancrase Gate: 2x5 min
Bantamweight: Masao Fujii vs. Kojima-man
Bantamweight: Takamasa Miki vs. Kensei Nishida
Featherweight: Koji Tomita vs. Keiichi Funako
Lightweight: Koji Namamura vs. Yoichi Kosumi

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9/7 Pancrase Shining Tour - Osaka

Lots of things happening in Osaka lately, and Pancrase is putting on an event there in September. Looks like it will be interesting too. 5 fights are announced, for me I look forward to seeing Daichi Fujiwara back in the ring. The cage was not kind to him and he will be looking to turn his 2 fight losing streak.


Daichi Fujiwara 7-3-1 vs. 4-3-0 Nobuhiro “Punch” Yamauchi
Kenji Takeshige 6-7-1 vs. 6-3-1 Motonobu Tezuka
Takashi Hasegawa 4-6-3 vs. 1-1-0 Takahiro Goda
Takayuki Hirayasu 0-2-0 vs. Shinichiro Ryuno
Soyu Tanabe 4-3-1 vs. 0-4-2 Hideo Matsui

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