Pancrase Rankings

April, 2007

The ranking are updated as of April 19, 2007 and are as follows (clubs are shown in parenthesis):

Open-weight

Champion: Josh Barnett (New Japan Pro-wrestling)

Super heavyweight - 221 lbs. & up 

Champion: vacant

Heavyweight - 199lbs.- 221lbs.

Champion - Kestutis "Tiger" Arbocius

# 1 Thiago Silva (Macaco Gold Team)

# 2 Tatsuya Mizuno (U-File Camp)

# 3 Poai Suganuma (TWIST)

Light heavyweight - 181lbs.- 199lbs.

Champion - Yuki Kondo (Pancrase Ism)

# 1 Kestutis "Tiger" Arbocius (Latvia Shidokan)

# 2 Ryo Kawamura (Pancrase Ism) - Up from # 3

# 3 Daijiro Matsui (Freelance)  - Down from # 2

Middleweight - 165.7lbs.- 181lbs.

Champion - Yuichi Nakanishi (Freelance)

# 1 Izuru Takeuchi (SK Absolute)

# 2 Hikaru Sato (Pancrase Ism)

# 3 vacant

Welterweight - 152.5lbs.- 165.7lbs.

Champion - Daizo Ishige (SK Absolute)

# 1 Satoru Kitaoka (Pancrase Ism)

# 2 Katsuya Inoue (RJW/Central)

# 3 Carlos Condit (Fighters in Training)

# 4 Koji Oishi (Pancrase Ism)

# 5 Robert Emerson (No Limits-Team Oyama)

Lightweight -141.4lbs.- 152.5lbs.

Champion - vacant

# 1 Artur Umahanov (SK Absolute Russia)

# 2 Takafumi Ito (Pancrase Ism) - Up from # 3

# 3 Eriya Matsuda (Team Dojo-Sakaguchi) - In

Featherweight - under 141.4lbs.

Champion - Yoshihro Maeda

# 1 DJ. Taiki (K.I.B.A.)

# 2 Miki Shida (P's Lab Tokyo)

# 3 Manabu Inoue (U.W.F.)

# 4 Mitsuhisa Sunabe (REAL)

# 5 Naoji Fujimoto (Pancrase Inagakigumi)

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(4/24/07)