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- Pancrase abstract "Pancrase is a mixed martial arts promotion company founded in Japan in 1993 by professional wrestlers Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki. Pancrase is taken from Pankration, a sport in the ancient Olympic games. Suzuki and Funaki are particularly skilled in the art of catch wrestling and based the promotion on professional wrestling consisting of shoots rather than works. Per its custom, its champions are named King of Pancrase rather than the title of Champion.The promotion had a rule-set more similar to that of professional wrestling than those used in contemporary fighting organizations such as Shooto. Just as in Japanese professional wrestling, closed-fisted punches to the head were illegal (however, close fisted punches to the body were allowed). Instead, a fighter had to strike to the head with a palm strike, and submission holds had to be broken when a competitor made it to the ropes. Rope breaks resulted in a lost point and a fighter would only be granted between 3 and 5 rope breaks before being disqualified. However, beginning in 1998, it began adopting a rule set more in line with other mixed martial arts organizations, with most fights transitioning to the new ruleset by 2000.There have been repeated accusations that many Pancrase matches were "works", or predetermined. Prominent fighters within the organization such as Bas Rutten and Guy Mezger have adamantly denied these accusations. Mezger is quoted as saying: "There were not very many works (in Pancrase); maybe 4 or 5 total and most of them were before I was fighting for them. I hate when people say that there was so many works in Pancrase, they truly do not know what they are talking about."On November 7, 2007, a weekly television series entitled "Pancrase: Legends of Mixed Martial Arts" premiered on pan Asian cable network ImaginAsian TV. Hosted by King of Pancrase Open Weight Champion Josh Barnett and Rob Wu, the show looks at legendary fights going back to the beginning of the organization.In 2008, The Fight Network began airing classic Pancrase events in Canada and the U.K.".
- Pancrase foundingYear "1993".
- Pancrase keyPerson Masakatsu_Funaki.
- Pancrase keyPerson Minoru_Suzuki.
- Pancrase keyPerson Yuji_Shimada.
- Pancrase locationCity Koto,_Tokyo.
- Pancrase locationCountry Japan.
- Pancrase regionServed Japan.
- Pancrase wikiPageExternalLink www.pancrase.co.jp.
- Pancrase wikiPageExternalLink www.pancrase.us.
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- Pancrase areaServed Japan.
- Pancrase caption "Logotype of Pancrase".
- Pancrase foundation "1993".
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- Pancrase industry "Management of martial arts gyms".
- Pancrase industry "Sports promotion".
- Pancrase keyPeople Masakatsu_Funaki.
- Pancrase keyPeople Minoru_Suzuki.
- Pancrase keyPeople Yuji_Shimada.
- Pancrase keyPeople "Masakazu Sakai".
- Pancrase locationCity Koto,_Tokyo.
- Pancrase locationCountry Japan.
- Pancrase logo "220".
- Pancrase name "Pancrase Inc.".
- Pancrase predecessor "World Pancrase Create Inc.".
- Pancrase type "Private".
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- Pancrase subject Category:Athletic_culture_based_on_Greek_antiquity.
- Pancrase subject Category:Hybrid_martial_arts.
- Pancrase subject Category:Japanese_professional_wrestling_promotions.
- Pancrase subject Category:Mixed_martial_arts_organizations.
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- Pancrase comment "Pancrase is a mixed martial arts promotion company founded in Japan in 1993 by professional wrestlers Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki. Pancrase is taken from Pankration, a sport in the ancient Olympic games. Suzuki and Funaki are particularly skilled in the art of catch wrestling and based the promotion on professional wrestling consisting of shoots rather than works.".
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- Pancrase wasDerivedFrom Pancrase?oldid=599705345.
- Pancrase isPrimaryTopicOf Pancrase.
- Pancrase name "Pancrase Inc.".