2004 in Pancrase

The year 2004 was the 12th year in the history of Pancrase, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2004 Pancrase held 16 events beginning with Pancrase: Brave 1.

2004 in Pancrase
Information
First date	February 6, 2004
Last date	December 21, 2004
Events
Total events	16
Fights
Total fights	143
Chronology
2003 in Pancrase 2004 in Pancrase 2005 in Pancrase

Title fights

Title fights in 2004
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Event	Notes
Super Heavyweight	Tsuyoshi Kosaka	def.	Ron Waterman	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Pancrase: Brave 10	[a]
Middleweight	Nate Marquardt	def.	Kazuo Misaki	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Pancrase: Brave 10	[b]

1. For the Pancrase Super Heavyweight Championship.
2. For the Pancrase Middleweight Championship.

Events list

Main article: List of Pancrase events

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
148	Pancrase: Brave 12	December 21, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
147	Pancrase: Brave 11	November 26, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
146	Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2004	November 7, 2004	Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym	Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan
145	Pancrase: Brave 10	November 7, 2004	Tokyo Bay NK Hall	Urayasu, Chiba, Japan
144	Pancrase: Brave 9	October 12, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
143	Pancrase: Brave 8	September 24, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
142	Pancrase: Brave 7	August 22, 2004	Umeda Stella Hall	Osaka, Osaka, Japan
141	Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Final	July 25, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
140	Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Semifinals	July 25, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
139	Pancrase: Brave 6	June 22, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
138	Pancrase: Brave 5	May 28, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
137	Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations	May 2, 2004	Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex	Tokyo, Japan
136	Pancrase: Brave 4	April 23, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
135	Pancrase: Brave 3	March 29, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
134	Pancrase: Brave 2	February 15, 2004	Umeda Stella Hall	Osaka, Osaka, Japan
133	Pancrase: Brave 1	February 6, 2004	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 1

Pancrase: Brave 1
Date	February 6, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 1^[1] was an event held on February 6, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kazuo Misaki	def.	Kiuma Kunioku	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	2	1:31
	Osami Shibuya	def.	Art Santore	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Koji Oishi	vs.	Heath Sims	Draw (Majority)	3	5:00
	Eiji Ishikawa	def.	Katsuya Inoue	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Keigo Takamori	def.	Hideki Tadao	KO (Punch)	1	1:25
	Hur Sung Jin	def.	Alex Roberts	TKO (Punches)	1	1:22
	Miki Shida	def.	Mitsuhisa Sunabe	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Atsushi Yamamoto	def.	Reiji Shimabukuro	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kenji Shimada	vs.	Manabu Inoue	Draw (Time Limit)	2	5:00

Pancrase: Brave 2

Pancrase: Brave 2
Date	February 15, 2004
Venue	Umeda Stella Hall
City	Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 2^[2] was an event held on February 15, 2004, at Umeda Stella Hall in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yoshiro Maeda	def.	Alexandre De Freitas	TKO (Flying Knee and Punches)	2	0:25
	Takafumi Ito	vs.	Yuji Hoshino	Draw (Majority)	3	5:00
	Satoru Kitaoka	vs.	Tadahiro Hosaka	Draw (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yuji Oba	def.	Satoshi Watanabe	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Daisuke Hanazawa	vs.	Takuo Miyata	Draw (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yohei Tagami	def.	Naoji Fujimoto	Technical Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	3:03
	Noriyuki Kitaura	vs.	Masahito Kawamoto	Draw (Time Limit)	2	5:00
	Yuichi Ikari	def.	Toru Iizuka	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:44
	Takafumi Shiroma	def.	Joji Kawamata	Submission (Armbar)	2	2:18

Pancrase: Brave 3

Pancrase: Brave 3
Date	March 29, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 3^[3] was an event held on March 29, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yuki Kondo	def.	Steve Heath	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	4:01
	Keigo Takamori	def.	Jun Ishii	KO (Punch)	1	0:40
	David Terrell	def.	Osami Shibuya	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	3:04
	Eiji Ishikawa	def.	Satoru Kitaoka	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Hikaru Sato	def.	Yuichi Nakanishi	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Hidehiko Hasegawa	vs.	Seiki Ryo	Draw (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yukiya Naito	def.	Mitsuyoshi Sato	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	3:30
	Taku Aramaki	vs.	Naoki Yoshimura	Draw (Time Limit)	2	5:00
	Ippo Watanuki	def.	Mitsuo Matsumoto	Submission (Armbar)	1	3:23

Pancrase: Brave 4

Pancrase: Brave 4
Date	April 23, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 4^[4] was an event held on April 23, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Sanae Kikuta	def.	Keith Rockel	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Kiuma Kunioku	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Kengo Watanabe	vs.	Tadahiro Hosaka	Draw (Split)	2	5:00
	Yuji Hoshino	vs.	Koji Oishi	Draw (Majority)	3	5:00
	Daisuke Watanabe	def.	Yoshinori Momose	TKO (Head Kick and Punches)	1	4:53
	Takafumi Ito	def.	Minoru Ozawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kenji Arai	def.	Naoki Seki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Katsuya Inoue	def.	Ichiro Kanai	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Hidenobu Koike	def.	Ryota Nishimura	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:23

Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations

Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations
Date	May 2, 2004
Venue	Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations^[5] was an event held on May 2, 2004, at Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yuji Oba	def.	Naoki Yoshimura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takuo Miyata	def.	Satoshi Nishino	TKO (Punches)	1	4:05
	Ippo Watanuki	def.	Chikara Sato	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masayuki Demise	def.	Naoji Fujimoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Atsushi Yamamoto	def.	Minoru Tsuiki	TKO (Punches)	2	1:57
	Daichi Fujiwara	def.	Takumi Murata	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yohei Tagami	def.	Tetsu Sasaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Sotaro Yamada	def.	Akito Teraoka	Decision (Split)	1	5:00
	Tomoya Miyashita	def.	Masaki Sakurazawa	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Naoji Fujimoto	def.	Masahiro Watanabe	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Masayuki Demise	def.	Takashi Hasegawa	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00

Pancrase: Brave 5

Pancrase: Brave 5
Date	May 28, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 5^[6] was an event held on May 28, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Ron Waterman	def.	Keigo Takamori	Submission (Keylock)	1	1:36
	Yuki Sasaki	def.	Yukiya Naito	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Keiichiro Yamamiya	def.	Kozo Urita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yoshiro Maeda	def.	Isamu Sugiuchi	KO (Punch)	1	1:32
	Takuya Wada	def.	Hidetaka Monma	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Yuichi Nakanishi	def.	Hidehiko Hasegawa	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Hiroyuki Nozawa	def.	Takahito Iida	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Satoru Kitaoka	def.	Takaichi Hirayama	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	2	4:05
	Motokazu Kobayashi	def.	Masato Onodera	KO (Punch)	2	0:08

Pancrase: Brave 6

Pancrase: Brave 6
Date	June 22, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 6^[7] was an event held on June 22, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yuki Kondo	def.	Shannon Ritch	Submission (Kneebar)	1	1:01
	Nate Marquardt	vs.	Eiji Ishikawa	Draw (Majority)	3	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	vs.	Osami Shibuya	Draw (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Akihiro Gono	def.	Tsuyoshi Kurihara	KO (Punch)	1	2:15
	Katsuya Inoue	def.	Hikaru Sato	TKO (Punches)	1	3:53
	Koji Oishi	def.	Masakazu Kuramochi	TKO (Punches)	2	4:13
	Masashi Kameda	def.	Mitsuhisa Sunabe	DQ (Head-butt)	1	3:52
	Ken Orihashi	def.	Kosaku Shikimasu	No Contest	1	4:18
	Kazuya Hirose	vs.	Motokazu Kobayashi	Draw (Time Limit)	2	5:00

Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Semifinals

Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Semifinals
Date	July 25, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Semifinals^[8] was an event held on July 25, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Fabio Leopoldo	def.	Yuki Sasaki	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Satoru Kitaoka	def.	Kurt Pellegrino	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	2	0:34
	Joe D'Arce	def.	Hiromitsu Miura	Submission (Punches)	3	4:56
	Kobus Huisamen	def.	Ryuta Noji	KO (Punch)	1	0:12
	Yuji Oba	def.	Sotaro Yamada	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Ippo Watanuki	def.	Takuo Miyata	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Atsushi Yamamoto	def.	Yohei Tagami	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Naoji Fujimoto	def.	Masayuki Demise	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00

Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Final

Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Final
Date	July 25, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: 2004 Neo-Blood Tournament Final^[9] was an event held on July 25, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kazuo Misaki	def.	Ed Herman	Technical Submission (Arm-Triangle Choke)	2	3:31
	Keiichiro Yamamiya	def.	Chael Sonnen	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Heath Sims	def.	Takafumi Ito	TKO (Punches)	1	3:35
	Yuji Oba	def.	Ippo Watanuki	KO (Knee)	1	2:35
	Atsushi Yamamoto	def.	Naoji Fujimoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hidetaka Monma	vs.	Hiroyuki Nozawa	Draw (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Noriki Miyashita	def.	Toshinobu Komeya	TKO (Punches)	1	0:15
	Daiki Hata	vs.	Ryusuke Uemura	Draw (Time Limit)	2	5:00

Pancrase: Brave 7

Pancrase: Brave 7
Date	August 22, 2004
Venue	Umeda Stella Hall
City	Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 7^[10] was an event held on August 22, 2004, at Umeda Stella Hall in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yoshiro Maeda	def.	Fredson Paixao	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Nilson de Castro	def.	Daisuke Watanabe	KO (Knee)	2	1:14
	Kenji Arai	def.	Yasuyuki Tokuoka	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	5:00
	Hideki Tadao	def.	Tsuyoshi Ozawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masashi Kameda	vs.	Mitsuhisa Sunabe	Draw	2	5:00
	Daisuke Hanazawa	def.	Masato Nishiguchi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yuji Miyazaki	def.	Manao Kumagai	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	3:29
	Rikiya Kawakami	vs.	Kenta Nakamura	Draw	2	5:00
	Yutaka Nishikawa	def.	Yosuke Kobayashi	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:14
	Tetsuo Uehata	def.	Koichi Kitagawa	Submission (Achilles Lock)	1	3:36

Pancrase: Brave 8

Pancrase: Brave 8
Date	September 24, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 8^[11] was an event held on September 24, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Keigo Takamori	def.	Anthony Netzler	KO (Punch)	1	0:49
	Heath Sims	vs.	Satoru Kitaoka	Draw	3	5:00
	Yuki Sasaki	def.	Buck Meredith	Submission (Triangle Choke)	2	3:13
	Alex Roberts	def.	Kengo Watanabe	Decision (Split)	3	5:00
	Katsuya Inoue	def.	Takuya Wada	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Hiromitsu Miura	def.	Yuichi Nakanishi	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Yuya Shirai	def.	Mitsuyoshi Sato	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Naoki Seki	vs.	Daizo Ishige	Draw	2	5:00
	Mitsuo Matsumoto	def.	Motokazu Kobayashi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Tomoya Miyashita	def.	Tomoya Sasahara	Submission (Kimura)	2	1:04

Pancrase: Brave 9

Pancrase: Brave 9
Date	October 12, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 9^[12] was an event held on October 12, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yushin Okami	def.	Eiji Ishikawa	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Hidehiko Hasegawa	def.	Koji Oishi	Technical Submission (Toe Hold)	2	5:00
	Hidetaka Monma	def.	Takafumi Ito	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	1:34
	Osami Shibuya	def.	Seong Hee Kim	TKO (Punches)	1	0:31
	Hikaru Sato	vs.	Kyosuke Sasaki	Draw	2	5:00
	Ippo Watanuki	def.	Kazuhiro Inoue	Submission (Kneebar)	2	2:51
	Miki Shida	def.	Masayuki Demise	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	2	0:43
	Hiroyuki Ota	def.	Taku Aramaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kazuya Hirose	def.	Masato Onodera	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Pancrase: Brave 10

Pancrase: Brave 10
Date	November 7, 2004
Venue	Tokyo Bay NK Hall
City	Urayasu, Chiba, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 10^[13] was an event held on November 7, 2004, at Tokyo Bay NK Hall in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yuki Kondo	def.	Evangelista Santos	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
Super Heavyweight	Tsuyoshi Kosaka	def.	Ron Waterman	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[a]
Middleweight	Nate Marquardt	def.	Kazuo Misaki	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[b]
	Sanae Kikuta	def.	Webster Dauphiney	Submission (Achilles Lock)	1	2:14
	Ryuta Noji	def.	Ryushi Yanagisawa	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Akihiro Gono	def.	Tim McKenzie	TKO (Punches)	2	2:53
	Katsuya Inoue	def.	Satoru Kitaoka	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Hiromitsu Miura	def.	Yoon Seob Kwak	TKO (Punches)	1	0:54

1. For the Pancrase Super Heavyweight Championship.
2. For the Pancrase Middleweight Championship.

Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2004

Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2004
Date	November 7, 2004
Venue	Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym
City	Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan

Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2004^[14] was an event held on November 7, 2004, at the Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym in Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kenji Honda	def.	Takayuki Nakasato	Submission (Armbar)	2	3:58
	Shinji Fujimoto	def.	Hayato Minami	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:36
	Hirotaka Uehara	vs.	Takahide Naito	Draw	2	5:00
	Taishi Ikeda	def.	Kazuyuki Arimura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Ryuji Oshiro	def.	Go Matsuo	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	3:53
	Kenji Horikiri	def.	Shinichiro Hattori	Submission (Triangle Choke)	2	0:46

Pancrase: Brave 11

Pancrase: Brave 11
Date	November 26, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 11^[15] was an event held on November 26, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Gustavo Machado	def.	Keiichiro Yamamiya	Submission (Heel Hook)	3	1:20
	Yuki Sasaki	def.	Yuya Shirai	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Seiki Ryo	TKO (Shoulder Injury)	1	5:00
	Daisuke Hanazawa	def.	Osami Shibuya	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yuji Hisamatsu	def.	Hikaru Sato	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kenji Arai	def.	Hiroyuki Nozawa	KO (Head Kick)	2	3:33
	Ken Orihashi	def.	Noriki Miyashita	TKO (Retirement)	2	4:02
	Daizo Ishige	def.	Hidenobu Koike	TKO (Punches)	1	4:22
	Mitsuo Matsumoto	def.	Hiroyuki Ota	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Tomoya Miyashita	def.	Kazuya Hirose	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	4:30

Pancrase: Brave 12

Pancrase: Brave 12
Date	December 21, 2004
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Brave 12^[16] was an event held on December 21, 2004, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kestutis Arbocius	def.	Daisuke Watanabe	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Hidehiko Hasegawa	def.	Hidetaka Monma	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	James Lee	def.	Kengo Watanabe	Technical Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	0:55
	Hisae Watanabe	def.	Hisako Watanabe	KO (Punch)	2	1:07
	Yoshiro Maeda	def.	Minoru Tsuiki	KO (Punch and Kick)	1	4:02
	Eiji Ishikawa	def.	Yuichi Nakanishi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Miki Shida	def.	Atsushi Yamamoto	KO (Knee)	2	4:36
	Mitsuo Matsumoto	def.	Tomoya Miyashita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Asaki Honda	vs.	Shinsuke Shoji	Draw (Time Limit)	2	5:00

See also

• Pancrase
• List of Pancrase champions
• List of Pancrase events