Pancrase Rankings

Pancrase has updated their rankings as of November 2nd (2006) and issued the following statement:

To improve in contestants' standard and ability, in all respect, The King of Pancrase Committee reconsidered

the system of the Official ranking and changed as follows;

- For permission to become a challenger to the King of Pancrase; the entire number of the matches, winning

  average and fighting achievement will be selected and approved in advance.

- Ranked holders who have not fought in 365 days or ranked athletes who do not indicate their intention to

  participate to Pancrase may automatically lose their title or be demoted.
 

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)

# 3 vacant

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 - vacant

# 1 Izuru Takeuchi (SK Absolute)

# 2 Yuichi Nakanishi (Freelance)

# 3 Hikaru Sato (Pancrase Ism)

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 Naoki Seki (RISE Fight Club)

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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(11/2/06)