Pancrase Rankings

The rankings are updated as of January 2, 2008 and reflect the new weight classes:

- Open-weight

  Champion: Josh Barnett (Freelance)

- Heavyweight (93 - 120.2 kg \ 205 - 265 lbs)

  Champion - Vacant

- Light heavyweight (83.9 - 93 kg \ 185 - 205 lbs)

  Champion - Vacant due to weight class changes

  # 1 Keiichiro Yamamiya (Grabaka)

  # 2 Ryo Kawamura (Pancrase ism)

  # 3 Tatsuya Mizuno (U-File Camp)

- Middleweight (77.1 - 83.9 kg \ 170 - 185 lbs)

  Champion - Izuru Takeuchi (SK Absolute)

  Interim Champion - Yuki Kondo (Pancrase ism)

  # 1 Yuichi Nakanishi (Freelance)

  # 2 Riki Fukuda (Killer Bee)

  # 3 Fabio Silva (Chute Boxe)

- Welterweight (70.3 - 77.1 kg \ 155 - 170 lbs)

  Champion - Vacant

  Interim Champion - Katsuya Inoue (RJW/Central)

  # 1 Satoru Kitaoka (Pancrase ism)

  # 2 Bryan Rafiq (Jucao/Achille Team/Bodog)

  # 3 Takuya Wada (SK Absolute)

- Lightweight (65.8 - 70.3 kg \ 145 - 155 lbs)

  Champion - vacant

  # 1 Yuji Hoshino (WK Gods)

  # 2 Artur Umahanov (SK Absolute Russia)

  # 3 Shoji (K.I.B.A.)

  # 4 Takafumi Ito (Pancrase ism)

  # 5 Koji Oishi (Pancrase ism)

  # 6 Eriya Matsuda (Team Sakaguchi Dojo)

  # 7 Kenji Arai (Pancrase ism)

  # 8 Jason Palacios (Team Yasuda)

- Featherweight (61.2 - 65.8 kg \ 135 - 145 lbs)

  Champion - Yoshihro Maeda (Pancrase Inagakigumi)

  # 1 DJ. Taiki (Freelance)

  # 2 Miki Shida (P's Lab Tokyo)

  # 3 Manabu Inoue (U.W.F.)

  # 4 Marlon Sandro (Nova Uniao)

  # 5 Koji Yoshimoto (AJ Gym)

- Bantamweight (58 - 61.2 kg \ 127.9 - 135 lbs)

  Champion - vacant

  # 1 Daichi Fujiwara (Pancrase Inagakigumi)

  # 2 Michihisa Asano (Krazy Bee)

  # 3 Tatsuya So (Toushin MMA)

- Flyweight (less than 58 kg / 127.9 lbs)

  Champion - vacant

  # 1 Mitsuhisa Sunabe (P's REAL)

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(1/2/08)