Pancrase Rankings

From PANCRASE Japan -  As of December 31, 2003, the rankings are as follows (clubs are shown in parenthesis) - Most of  the movement is in the middleweight & light heavyweight divisions:

Open-weight

The 10th Open-weight King of Pancrase Champion: Josh Barnett (U.S.A./New Japan Pro-wrestling)

# 1 Yuki Kondo (Pancrase'ism)

# 2 Semmy Schilt (Holland/Golden Glory) - The 9th Open Weight King Of Pancrase Champion

# 3 Yoshiki Takahashi (Pancrase'ism) - The Ist Heavyweight King of Pancrase Champion

# 4 Sanae Kikuta (Pancrase Grabaka) - The 2nd Heavyweight King of Pancrase Champion

# 5 Kiuma Kunioku (Pancrase'ism) - The 1st Welterweight King of Pancrase Champion

# 6 Nathan Marquardt (U.S.A./Colorado Stars) - The 3rd Middleweight King of Pancrase Champion

# 7 Vacant 

Super heavyweight - 221 lbs. & up 

The 1st Super heavyweight King of Pancrase Champion: Vacant

# 1 Semmy Schilt (Holland/Golden Glory)

# 2 Ron Waterman (U.S.A./Colorado Stars)

# 3 Tim Lajcik (U.S.A./Gladiators Training Academy)

# 4 Hideki Tadao (RJW/CENTRAL)

# 5 Jun Ishii (Chojin Club)

# 6 Jimmy Ambriz (U.S.A./NJPW) - New entry

# 7 Kengo (Pancrase'ism)

Heavyweight - 199lbs.- 221lbs.

The 1st Heavyweight King of Pancrase Champion - Yoshiki Takahashi (Pancrase'ism)

# 1 Tsuyoshi Ozawa (Zendokai)

# 2 Katsuhisa Fujii (UFO)

# 3 Jason Godsey (U.S.A./I.F.  Academy)

Light heavyweight - 181lbs.- 199lbs.

The 3rd Light heavyweight King of Pancrase Champion - Yuki Kondo (Pancrase'ism)

# 1 Sanae Kikuta (Pancrase Grabaka) 

# 2 Ricardo Almeida (U.S.A./ Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy)

# 3 Akihiro Gono (Pancrase Grabaka)

# 4 Nilson de Castro (Brazil/Chute Boxe Academy)

# 5 Daisuke Watanabe (Pancrase'ism)

# 6 David Terrell (Cesar Gracie) - New entry

# 7 Yuki Sasaki (Pancrase Grabaka)

# 8 Keiichiro Yamamiya (Pancrase'ism)

# 9 Osami Shibuya (Pancrase'ism) - formerly ranked # 10

# 10 Ikuhisa Minowa (freelance) - formerly ranked # 5

Middleweight - 165.7lbs.- 181lbs.

The 4th Middleweight King of Pancrase Champion - Ricardo Almeida (Renzo Gracie) 

# 1 Nathan Marquardt (U.S.A./Colorado Stars)

# 2 Izuru Takeuchi (SK Absolute)

# 3 Crosley Gracie (Ralph Gracie)  

# 4 Kiuma Kunioku (Pancrase'ism) 

# 5 Kazuo Misaki (Pancrase Grabaka) 

# 6 Eiji Ishikawa (Pancrase Grabaka)  formerly ranked  # 9

# 7 Hidehiko Hasegawa (SK Absolute) formerly ranked  # 6

# 8 Shonie Carter (U.S.A./AIKI Training Hall) formerly ranked  # 7

# 9 Yuichi Nakanishi formerly ranked  # 8

# 10 Jake Shileds (U.S.A./Cesar Gracie) 

Welterweight - 152.5lbs.- 165.7lbs.

The 1st Welterweight King of Pancrase Champion - Kiuma Kunioku (Pancrase'ism)

# 1 Koji Oishi (Pancrase'ism)

# 2 Takafumi Ito (Pancrase'ism)

# 3 Kenichi Serizawa (RJW/Central)

# 4 Satoru Kitaoka (Pancrase'ism)

# 5 Hiroki Nagaoka (Rodeo Style)  

# 6 Yuji Hoshino (Wajutsu Keishukai Gods)

# 7 Takuya Wada (SK Absolute)

Lightweight -141.4lbs.- 152.5lbs.

Vacant

Featherweight - under 141.4lbs.

Vacant

(1/21/04)