Pancrase December 4th Nippon Budokan Event Complete Results

[Tim Mousel]

"PANCRASE 2000 TRANS TOUR"
-King of Pancrase Title Match & Masakatsu Funaki Retirement Ceremony-
Monday, December 4, 2000
Nippon Budokan(Tokyo, Japan)
doors open: 5:30PM; fights start: 7:00PM
live gate: 9,500

Fight#1(15 min)-middleweight ranking match-
Shonie Carter(middleweight 1st ranked/U.S.A./AIKI Training Hall)
defeated Yuji Hoshino(RJW/CENTRAL) by
majority judges decision(2-0-1) at 15:00 regulation time.
Fight#2(15 min)-open-weight ranking match-
Jason DeLucia(open-weight 7th ranked/U.S.A./Pancrase Hybrid Budokan)
drew Katsuhisa Fujii(Japan) by
judges decision(0-0-0) at 15:00 regulation time.
Fight#3(10 min)-Pancrase vs Seikendo team fight 1st fight-
KENGO(Pancrase Tokyo) defeated Kikalishvili Ramaz(Georgia/Seikendo) by
mount punch KO at 8:58.
Fight#4(10 min)-Pancrase vs Seikendo team fight 2nd fight-
Daisuke Ishii(light heavyweight 5th ranked/Pancrase Tokyo) defeated
Grilauskas Darius(Lithuania/
Seikendo) by mount punch KO at 4:17.
Fight#5(10 min)-Pancrase vs Seikendo team fight 3rd fight-
Ikuhisa Minowa(light heavyweight 1st ranked/Pancrase Yokohama) defeated
Ismailov Magomed(Russia/
Seikendo) by arm bar tap at 1:31.
Fight#6(3 min)-exhibition sparring-
Yuki Kondo(open-weight 1st ranked/Pancrase Tokyo) vs Minoru
Suzuki(Pancrase Yokohama)
Fight#7(10 min)-non title fight-
KEI Yamamiya(1st light heavyweight K.O.P./Pancrase Tokyo) drew Denis
Kang(Canada/Marcus Soares
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) by majority judges decision at 10:00 regulation
time(0-1-0)+3:00 overtime(2-0-1).
Semifinal(15 min)-Special Rules Match-*Only headbutt, eye gouge, and groin
strike are illegal.
Sanae Kikuta(open-weight 5th ranked/Pancrase GRABAKA) defeated Yoshiki
Takahashi(open-weight 4th
ranked/Pancrase Tokyo) by side choke tap at 7:22.
Main event(20 min)-middleweight K.O.P. title match-
Nathan Marquardt(1st middleweight K.O.P./U.S.A./Colorado Stars) drew
Kiuma Kunioku(middleweight 2nd
ranked/Pancrase Yokohama) by judges decision(0-1-2).
*Marquardt defended the title by draw win.

[EJ]

Some thoughts....

I like the fact that Pancrase has adopted close hand striking.

It's great to see that DeLucia has recovered from that knee injury.

Shonie Carter needs to get a shot at Millitich's UFC title.

Kengo Watanabe gets his first win... He is a favorite of fans due to his rugby career. He got killed when he fought Jason Godsey in his Pancrase debut.

Kikuta can be a force in MMA. He has very good sub skills.