Pancrase Rankings

Pancrase has updated their rankings as of December 8th (2006) and issued the following statement:

PANCRASE Announces 2007 Tour Name: We, World Pancrase Create, Inc., decided to name our up

coming 2007 tour - PANCRASE 2007 RISING TOUR. This "RISING TOUR", named by a fan Mr. Seiji Hiraoka

(Nara prefecture) through our open-to-public application will be our new slogan: "Growing, Achieving and

Aiming High." We would be delighted to have you at our event starting from Sunday, 4th of February 2007 at

Umeda Stera Hall.

The ranking 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 Poai Suganuma (TWIST)

# 2 Lee Segaki (Wajutsu Keishukai RJW)

Light heavyweight - 181lbs.- 199lbs.

Champion - Yuki Kondo (Pancrase Ism)

# 1 Kestutis "Tiger" Arbocius (Lithuania/Latvia Shidokan)

# 2 Daijiro Matsui (Freelance)

# 3 Ryo Kawamura (Pancrase Ism)

Middleweight - 165.7lbs.- 181lbs.

Champion - Yuichi Nakanishi (Freelance) - Up from # 2

# 1 Izuru Takeuchi (SK Absolute)

# 2 Hikaru Sato (Pancrase Ism) - Up from # 3

Welterweight - 152.5lbs.- 165.7lbs.

Champion - Daizo Ishige (SK Absolute)

# 1 Katsuya Inoue (RJW/Central)

# 2 Satoru Kitaoka (Pancrase Ism)

# 3 Carlos Condit (Fighters in Training)

# 4  Koji Oishi (Pancrase Ism)

# 5 Robert Emerson (U.S.A. / No Limits-Team Oyama)

Lightweight -141.4lbs.- 152.5lbs.

Champion - vacant

# 1 Takumi Yano (Ugokai)

# 2 Takafumi Ito (Pancrase Ism)

# 3 Matafonov Svyatoslav (SK Absolute/Russia) - In

Featherweight - under 141.4lbs.

Champion - Yoshihro Maeda

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

# 2 Miki Shida (P's Lab Tokyo)

# 3 Atsushi Yamamoto (Killer Bee)

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

# 5 Mitsuhisa Sunabe (REAL)

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(12/28/06)