Pancrase 'Shining 9' results and quick recap

by Stefan Manojlovic on Oct 26, 2008 11:07 PM EDT

More Japanese mixed martial arts took place this past Sunday when Pancrase held its 'Shining 9' event at the Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

The focal point of the event was the battle between Marlon Sandro and Masaya Takita for the vacant King Of Pancrase featherweight title.

The division was revised earlier this year to meet the standards of the unified rules of mixed martial arts, changing the weight class under 141lbs to a set range of 135lbs-145lbs.

The fight went the distance and Sandro was able to pull off a unanimous decision win, keeping his undefeated record intact and now standing at very impressive 12-0. He also gained the King Of Pancrase featherweight title for his efforts.

Will he ever be stopped?

In lightweight action, Yukio Sakaguchi destroyed Yuichi Ikari with some vicious shots just 21 seconds into the first round. If you blinked, you would have missed it.

Another fight ending in similar fashion was the flyweight bout between Takuya Eizumi and Takayuki Hirayasu. Eizumi was able to rain down some bombs to the face of Hirayasu, forcing the referee to intervene when Hirayasu could no longer intelligently defend himself.

The welterweight tournament semifinals also took place with Hiroyuki Nozawa and Tomoyoshi Iwamiya both earning decision wins. They will now face off against each other in the finals sometime this December.

The winner of that fight will than get the opportunity to face current interim King Of Pancrase welterweight champion Takuya Wada in Spring of 2009.

Here are the Pancrase 'Shining 9' complete results:

Main Card:
Kenji Arai (13-12-3) fought Tashiro Akai (9-5-8) to a draw
Takuya Wada (17-8-9) fought Masahiro Toryu (6-3-4) to a draw
Yukio Sakaguchi (3-3) defeated Yuichi Ikari (10-5-4) via KO (0:21-R1)
Takafumi Ito (34-26-11) defeated Takaichi Hirayama (7-11-6) by unanimous decision
Takuya Eizumi (3-1) defeated Takayuki Hirayasu (1-3) by TKO (1:55-R2)
Wataru Takahashi (6-10-4) fought Hiroshi Tomita (0-0-1) to a draw

Featherweight King of Pancrase:
Marlon Sandro (12-0) defeated Masaya Takita (9-10-2) by unanimous decision

Welterweight Tournament SemiFinals:
Hiroyuki Nozawa (6-3-2) defeated Asaki Honda (4-3-1) by unanimous decision
Tomoyoshi Iwamiya (5-7) defeated Kiichi Kunimoto (5-3-2) by unanimous decision

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Haha..3rd time is a charm..maybe cuz this site is so awesome..

by Anonymousf*ck on Oct 26, 2008 11:37 PM EDT reply actions

What’s up with all the draws? Even a lot of draws on a lot of the fighter’s records. Im not familiar with their scoring but must be like 4 rounds or something.

by c-war on Oct 27, 2008 7:59 AM EDT up reply actions

Yes stuff like that, some bouts are only 2 rounds. Also other orgs such as ZST don’t have judges, so if a fight goes the distance it’s automatically ruled a draw. So that is one of the reason why many Japanese fighters have a ton of draws on their fight records.

by Stefan Manojlovic on Oct 27, 2008 9:16 AM EDT up reply actions

Four other fights on there are decision wins, along with the three draws. Was this like a third grade soccer league where everyone gets a trophy for trying hard?

by PW on Oct 27, 2008 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions

I thought that there were no closed fist punches to the face in Pancrase? Any help here?

by naturalshadow on Oct 27, 2008 12:27 AM EDT reply actions

naturalshadow, those were the old days of Pancrase, they adopted the modern MMA rules in 1998, and by the year 2000 most of the fights were consistantly using it. Pancrase now is completely different from when Bas, Funaki, and Shamrock where fighting there. I like seeing a US site finally covering these Japanese MMA events…

by death byhighkick on Oct 27, 2008 12:38 AM EDT up reply actions