2008 in Pancrase

The year 2008 was the 16th year in the history of Pancrase, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 Pancrase held 12 events beginning with Pancrase: Shining 1.

2008 in Pancrase
Information
First date	January 30, 2008
Last date	December 7, 2008
Events
Total events	12
Fights
Total fights	151
Title fights	7
Chronology
2007 in Pancrase 2008 in Pancrase 2009 in Pancrase

Title fights

Title fights in 2008
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Event	Notes
Welterweight	Katsuya Inoue	def.	Satoru Kitaoka	Decision (Split)	3	5:00	Pancrase: Shining 1	[a]
Lightweight	Shoji Maruyama	def.	Artur Oumakhanov	KO (Head Kick and Punches)	2	0:21	Pancrase: Shining 1	[b]
Welterweight	Takuya Wada	def.	Jason Palacios	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Pancrase: Shining 3	[c]
Light Heavyweight	Ryo Kawamura	def.	Keiichiro Yamamiya	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Pancrase: Shining 8	[d]
Featherweight	Marlon Sandro	def.	Masaya Takita	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Pancrase: Shining 9	[e]
Lightweight	Katsuya Inoue	def.	Koji Oishi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Pancrase: Shining 10	[f]
Bantamweight	Manabu Inoue	def.	Seiya Kawahara	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	4:44	Pancrase: Shining 10	[g]

1. For the Pancrase Welterweight Championship.
2. For the Pancrase Lightweight Championship.
3. For the Pancrase Welterweight Championship.
4. For the Pancrase Light Heavyweight Championship.
5. For the Pancrase Featherweight Championship.
6. For the Pancrase Lightweight Championship.
7. For the Pancrase Bantamweight Championship.

Events list

Main article: List of Pancrase events

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
208	Pancrase: Shining 10	December 7, 2008	Differ Ariake Arena	Tokyo, Japan
207	Pancrase: Shining 9	October 26, 2008	Differ Ariake Arena	Tokyo, Japan
206	Pancrase: Shining 8	October 1, 2008	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
205	Pancrase: Shining 7	September 7, 2008		Osaka, Osaka, Japan
204	Pancrase: Shining 6	August 27, 2008	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
203	Pancrase: Real 2008	June 29, 2008	Tenkaichi Stadium	Okinawa, Japan
202	Pancrase: Shining 5	June 1, 2008	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
201	Pancrase: Shining 4	May 25, 2008	Azelea Taisho Hall	Osaka, Osaka, Japan
200	Pancrase: Shining 3	April 27, 2008	Differ Ariake Arena	Tokyo, Japan
199	Pancrase: Shining 2	March 26, 2008	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
198	Pancrase: 2008 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations	March 23, 2008	Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex	Tokyo, Japan
197	Pancrase: Shining 1	January 30, 2008	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Shining 1

Pancrase: Shining 1^[1] was an event held on January 30, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Welterweight	Katsuya Inoue	def.	Satoru Kitaoka	Decision (Split)	3	5:00	[a]
Lightweight	Shoji Maruyama	def.	Artur Oumakhanov	KO (Head Kick and Punches)	2	0:21	[b]
	Alavutdin Gadjiev	def.	Yuji Hisamatsu	TKO (Punches)	1	0:41
	Shinsuke Shoji	vs.	Yuichi Ikari	Draw	3	5:00
	Wataru Takahashi	vs.	Daisuke Hanazawa	Draw	2	5:00
	Tomomi Sunaba	def.	Emi Tomimatsu	TKO (Retirement)	2	3:00
	Sotaro Yamada	def.	Kiichi Kunimoto	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	1:42
	Seiya Kawahara	def.	Yuki Yamasawa	KO (Head Kick)	1	0:28
	Taketoshi Suzuki	def.	Akihiro Ono	KO (Punch)	1	4:06
	Takuya Eizumi	def.	Isao Hirose	KO (Punch)	1	3:47

1. For the Pancrase Welterweight Championship.
2. For the Pancrase Lightweight Championship.

Pancrase: 2008 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations

Pancrase: 2008 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations^[2] was an event held on March 23, 2008 at Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Toshihiro Taguchi	def.	Yuki Yashima	Submission (Ankle Lock)	1	1:15
	Steve Magdaleno	def.	Kiyonobu Nishikata	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Il Gyu Park	def.	Yuma Ishizuka	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	4:34
	Motonobu Tezuka	def.	Taku Aramaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yasutomo Tanaka	def.	Yo Saito	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hayato Shimizu	def.	Kenwa Kanna	Decision (Split)	2	5:00
	Takuya Eizumi	def.	Takayuki Hirayasu	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	5:00
	Nobuhiro Yamauchi	def.	Daisuke Endo	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Isao Hirose	def.	Ranki Kawana	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	4:09
	Hiroki Aoki	def.	Wataru Yoshikawa	Decision (Split)	2	3:00
	Hirotoshi Saito	def.	Takumi Shimazaki	Decision (Majority)	1	5:00
	Ryota Sasaki	def.	Tomohiro Adaniya	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	3:21
	Hiroki Aoki	def.	Kenichi Ogura	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	1:43
	Wataru Yoshikawa	def.	Koji Obata	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Takumi Shimazaki	def.	Takahiro Goda	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	1:31
	Hirotoshi Saito	def.	Junro Kubota	TKO (Punches)	1	2:34
	Tomohiro Adaniya	def.	Shoko Sato	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Ryota Sasaki	def.	Kiyotaka Shimizu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Kenichi Ogura	def.	Yohei Sakamoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Hiroki Aoki	def.	Akihito Hara	TKO (Punches)	1	4:07
	Koji Obata	def.	Arata Fujimoto	Submission (Ankle Lock)	1	0:33
	Wataru Yoshikawa	def.	Masashi Inoue	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Takumi Shimazaki	def.	Yasushi Mikami	TKO (Punches)	1	1:51
	Takahiro Goda	def.	Ryo Saito	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Junro Kubota	def.	Nobuhiro Yoshitake	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Shoko Sato	def.	Go Matsuo	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:15
	Tomohiro Adaniya	def.	Manabu Watanabe	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Ryota Sasaki	def.	Toshihiro Shimizu	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Kiyotaka Shimizu	def.	Takuma Ishii	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	1:30

Pancrase: Shining 2

Pancrase: Shining 2^[3] was an event held on March 26, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Marlon Sandro	def.	Miki Shida	KO (Flying Knee and Punches)	2	4:19
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Hiromitsu Kanehara	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Alavutdin Gadjiev	def.	Hikaru Sato	KO (Punch from Underneath Mount)	1	1:20
	Takafumi Ito	vs.	Hacran Dias	Draw	3	5:00
	Shinsuke Shoji	def.	Kenji Arai	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Michihisa Asano	def.	Yuichiro Shirai	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Takenori Sato	vs.	Masahiro Toryu	Draw	2	5:00
	Tomoyoshi Iwamiya	def.	Asaki Honda	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Pancrase: Shining 3

Pancrase: Shining 3^[4] was an event held on April 27, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Keiichiro Yamamiya	def.	Yuki Kondo	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Shoji Maruyama	vs.	Koji Oishi	Draw	3	5:00
Welterweight	Takuya Wada	def.	Jason Palacios	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[a]
	Katsuya Inoue	vs.	Djamal Kurbanov	Draw	3	5:00
	Yuji Hisamatsu	def.	Matti Makela	TKO (Soccer Kick and Punches)	1	4:52
	Masaya Takita	def.	Manabu Inoue	KO (Knee)	2	1:16
	Ryuji Ohori	def.	Daisuke Watanabe	Submission (Armbar)	2	4:46
	Wataru Takahashi	def.	Yukio Sakaguchi	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:23
	Steve Magdaleno	def.	Il Gyu Park	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hirotoshi Saito	def.	Hayato Shimizu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yasutomo Tanaka	def.	Motonobu Tezuka	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	2:30
	Takuya Eizumi	def.	Ryota Sasaki	TKO (Punches)	2	0:43
	Toshihiro Shimizu	def.	Kiyotaka Shimizu	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:32

1. For the Pancrase Welterweight Championship.

Pancrase: Shining 4

Pancrase: Shining 4^[5] was an event held on May 25, 2008 at Azelea Taisho Hall in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Daisuke Hanazawa	def.	Takafumi Hanai	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Soyu Tanabe	def.	Kenji Takeshige	KO (Punch)	1	3:44
	Masahiro Toryu	def.	Shuji Morikawa	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	3:36
	Kenji Shimada	def.	Takashi Hasegawa	KO (Punch)	1	1:58
	Kiichi Kunimoto	def.	Yu Shiori	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Isao Hirose	def.	Nobuhiro Yamauchi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Keiichi Funaku	def.	Hiroshi Tomita	TKO (Punches)	1	0:29
	Takamasa Miki	def.	Ryunosuke Yamamoto	KO (Punch)	1	1:08
	Yuki Uejima	def.	Akinobu Furumi	TKO (Punches)	2	2:10
	Shinichiro Ryuno	def.	Takuya Kibashi	TKO (Punches)	1	0:44
	Toshimasa Kobayashi	def.	Wataru Nakahara	Submission (Armbar)	2	2:47

Pancrase: Shining 5

Pancrase: Shining 5^[6] was an event held on June 1, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Keiichiro Yamamiya	def.	Hiromitsu Kanehara	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Junior Santos	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	4:49
	Shinsuke Shoji	def.	Takafumi Ito	TKO (Punches)	2	4:01
	Rafael dos Anjos	def.	Takaichi Hirayama	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:25
	Seiya Kawahara	def.	Masaki Yanagisawa	TKO (Punches)	1	0:41
	Yukio Sakaguchi	def.	Masakazu Kuramochi	KO (Soccer Kick)	1	2:01
	Ranki Kawana	def.	Tomoki Murayama	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:17
	Yuichiro Shirai	def.	Toshihiro Shimizu	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	0:31
	Yuki Yashima	vs.	Wataru Yoshikawa	Draw	2	5:00

Pancrase: Real 2008

Pancrase: Real 2008^[7] was an event held on June 29, 2008 at Tenkaichi Stadium in Okinawa, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Mitsuhisa Sunabe	def.	Kiyotaka Shimizu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hikaru Sato	def.	Jerry Nelson	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	2:37
	Hiroki Aoki	def.	Toshihiro Taguchi	TKO (Punches)	2	1:17
	Kiyonobu Nishikata	def.	Matt Matt	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takahiro Goda	def.	Yuji Higa	TKO (Punches)	1	0:16
	Takuya Iwai	def.	Mitsuru Toma	KO (Flying Knee)	1	0:10
	Kazuki Uechi	def.	Go Matsuo	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroshi Mochizuki	def.	Minoru Tsuiki	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00

Pancrase: Shining 6

Pancrase: Shining 6^[8] was an event held on August 27, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yuki Kondo	def.	Ryuji Ohori	KO (Soccer Kick)	2	2:41
	Kenji Arai	def.	Manabu Inoue	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Seiya Kawahara	def.	Kentaro Imaizumi	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	2:09
	Yuichi Ikari	def.	Eriya Matsuda	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	2	4:09
	Masahiro Toryu	def.	Tomoyoshi Iwamiya	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Maximo Blanco	vs.	Yuki Yashima	NC (Accidental Headbutt)	1	0:56
	Steve Magdaleno	def.	Hiroki Aoki	TKO (Punches)	1	4:47
	Hirotoshi Saito	def.	Yasutomo Tanaka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Isao Hirose	def.	Takuya Eizumi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Shingo Suzuki	def.	Kenji Narita	Submission (Armbar)	2	3:56
	Shigetomo Takahashi	def.	Yuichi Inafuku	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:33
	Shunichi Shimizu	def.	Junro Kubota	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	2:37
	Takuma Ishii	def.	Tomohiro Adaniya	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	2:37

Pancrase: Shining 7

Pancrase: Shining 7^[9] was an event held on September 7, 2008 in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Daichi Fujiwara	def.	Nobuhiro Yamauchi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Daisuke Hanazawa	def.	Leandro Kusano	Submission (Arm-Triangle Choke)	1	3:52
	Kiichi Kunimoto	vs.	Hirotaka Yoshioka	NC (Yoshioka Cut by Accidental Headbutt)	1	2:10
	Kenji Takeshige	vs.	Motonobu Tezuka	Draw	2	5:00
	Yu Shiori	def.	Hiroto Horai	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Takahiro Goda	def.	Takashi Hasegawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takayuki Hirayasu	def.	Shinichiro Ryuno	Submission (Punches)	1	3:44
	Toru Harai	def.	Hideo Matsui	TKO (Punches)	2	2:21
	Koji Nakamura	def.	Yoichi Kosumi	TKO (Punches)	1	2:54
	Hiroshi Tomita	def.	Keiichi Kosen	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	2:48
	Takamasa Miki	def.	Kansei Nishida	TKO (Punches)	1	3:26
	Masao Fujii	def.	Kojima Man	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:55
	Daiki Nakahara	def.	Yuya Ono	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	3:10

Pancrase: Shining 8

Pancrase: Shining 8^[10] was an event held on October 1, 2008 at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Light Heavyweight	Ryo Kawamura	def.	Keiichiro Yamamiya	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[a]
	Koji Oishi	def.	Naoyuki Kotani	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Ichiro Kanai	def.	Hiromitsu Kanehara	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takenori Sato	def.	Yuji Hisamatsu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yuichiro Shirai	vs.	Ranki Kawana	Draw	2	5:00
	Maximo Blanco	def.	Hiroki Aoki	TKO (Slam and Punches)	1	0:22
	Yasutomo Tanaka	vs.	Hayato Shimizu	Draw	2	5:00
	Kiyotaka Shimizu	vs.	Takuma Ishii	Draw	2	5:00
	Isao Kobayashi	vs.	Shigeaki Kusayanagi	Draw	2	5:00
	Masaru Ueda	def.	Shoko Sato	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	2:30

1. For the Pancrase Light Heavyweight Championship.

Pancrase: Shining 9

Pancrase: Shining 9^[11] was an event held on October 26, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Featherweight	Marlon Sandro	def.	Masaya Takita	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[a]
	Kenji Arai	vs.	Tashiro Nishiuchi	Draw	3	5:00
	Takuya Wada	vs.	Masahiro Toryu	Draw	2	5:00
	Yukio Sakaguchi	def.	Yuichi Ikari	KO (Punch)	1	0:21
	Takafumi Ito	def.	Takaichi Hirayama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroyuki Nozawa	def.	Asaki Honda	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Tomoyoshi Iwamiya	def.	Kiichi Kunimoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takuya Eizumi	def.	Takayuki Hirayasu	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	2	1:55
	Hiroshi Tomita	vs.	Wataru Takahashi	Draw	2	5:00
	Shigenobu Takahashi	vs.	Wataru Yoshikawa	Draw	2	5:00

1. For the Pancrase Featherweight Championship.

Pancrase: Shining 10

Pancrase: Shining 10^[12] was an event held on December 7, 2008 at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Katsuya Inoue	def.	Koji Oishi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[a]
Bantamweight	Manabu Inoue	def.	Seiya Kawahara	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	4:44	[b]
	Takuya Wada	def.	Masahiro Toryu	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Ichiro Kanai	def.	Daijiro Matsui	Technical Submission (Arm-Triangle Choke)	1	2:25
	Rin Nakai	def.	Tomomi Sunaba	TKO (Punches)	1	1:33
	Tomoyoshi Iwamiya	def.	Hiroyuki Nozawa	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Stanislav Nedkov	def.	Masayuki Kono	TKO (Punches)	1	1:35
	Hirotoshi Saito	vs.	Tashiro Nishiuchi	Draw	2	5:00
	Daisuke Hanazawa	def.	Maximo Blanco	Submission (Arm-Triangle Choke)	2	2:19
	Isao Hirose	def.	Tokuaki Ninomiya	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Shingo Suzuki	def.	Makoto Kawawa	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:13
	Isao Kobayashi	vs.	Yuki Tokushige	Draw	2	5:00
	Tatsuro Ikehata	def.	Takanori Iwamoto	Submission (Armbar)	2	2:00
	Masaru Ueda	def.	Takumi Shimazaki	TKO (Punches)	1	0:28
	Masakazu Takafuji	def.	Takeshi Egami	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:12
	Hiroyuki Nakajima	def.	Takanori Saito	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	3:47
	Takashi Nakamura	def.	Go Yamanaka	KO (Punch)	2	3:53

1. For the Pancrase Lightweight Championship.
2. For the Pancrase Bantamweight Championship.

See also

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