Kondo Keeps Shining

Pancrase opens act three of it’s Shining tour at Differ Ariake 27 April starring venerable middleweight vets Yuki Kondo (48-20-6) and Keiichiro Yamamiya (32-22-9) in a rematch a dozen years on.

Kondo KO’d Keiichiro while I was scheduling 100-level firsts for my freshman year at uni’ way back in ‘96.

That “L” was Yamamiya’s first; but, in ‘08 the two warriors come with victories over “Hightower” Semmy Schilt (25-14-1), “Lights Out” Chris Lytle (25-15-5),  Frank Shamrock (24-8-1), Denis Kang (29-9-1), and Masakatsu Funaki (38-12-1) between them.

The entire lineup is below:

Yuki Kondo v Keiichiro Yamamiya
Shoji Maruyama (6-2) v Koji Oishi (16-7-4)
Bryan Rafiq (5-2) v Takuya Wada (16-8-8)
“The Pink Typhoon” Yuji Hisamatsu (10-14-4) v Matti Makela (9-5)
Manabu Inoue (6-3-1) v “J-Taro” Masaya Takita (8-9-2)
Daisuke Watanabe(17-27-4) v Ryuji Ohori (2-2)
Yukio Sakaguchi (1-2) v Wataru Takahashi (5-10-3)