Pancrase Results

Pancrase held its fourth iteration of its 2008 Shining tour in Azelea Taisho Hall in Osaka Sunday.

In the main,  event, “13″ Daisuke Hanazawa (9-9-5) scored his first “w” of 2008 with a two-round UD over Takefumi Hanai (2-4-2), Hanai’s third consecutive loss.

Featherweight Soyu Tanabe (4-3-1) knocked out Pancrase regular Kenji Takeshige (4-7-1) at 3:44 of the first round.

Middleweight Masahiro Toryu (5-3-3) denied Shuji Morikawa (0-2-1) his first “W” by submitting him in a guillotine choke at 3:36 of round one.

In other fights, Kenji Shimada (4-2) knocked out Takashi Hasegawa (3-6-3) at 1:58 of round one.

“Strasser” Kiichi Kunimoto (5-2) won a two-round UD over “Yuushi Edaori” Yu Shiori (5-1).

Isao Hirose (2-0) also scored a decision unanimously over “Punch” Nobuhiro Yamauchi (4-3).

DEEP Results

Three-hundred-and-fifty miles away in Tokyo Saturday night, DEEP continued its clubDEEP series at Shinjuku FACE.

In the main event, Toshiaki Kitada (7-3-2) and “Nukinpo!” Ippo Watanuki (7-6-2) fought to a two-round draw in a featherweight match-up.

Welterweight Yasushi Kitazaki (8-4-1) won a two-round split decision over Sotaro Yamada (5-4).

Lightweight Takafumi Otsuka (6-2-1) slammed Isamu Sugiuchi (7-7-2) at 3:51 of round one and pounded out a TKO.

Middleweights Yoshitomo Watanabe (6-7-2) and Ryoji Suzuki (3-2-1) fought to a draw.

“IMN Grappling” Kazuya Hirose (1-0) spun a back fist into American Guy Delameau‘s head, knocking him cold at 1:40 of round one.

Shooto Results

Sunday in Sapporo, on the northern island of Hokkaido, Shooto put on its second GIG NORTH show.

“Mach” Hayato Sakurai‘s (32-8-2) student Tomonori Taniguchi (3-5-2) won a two-round unanimous decision over Sapporo boy Daisuke Ishizawa (3-5).

Another of Sakurai’s students, Kunio Nakajima (1-2-1) scored his first “W” with a majority decision over local “Aniki” Hidekazu Asakura (1-4).

Light heavyweight Akihiko Adachi (4-4-2) TKO’d winless Nobuyasu Fujikawa (0-2-2) one minute into the second round.

Undefeated Sapporo product Fumihiro Kitahara (2-0) tapped “Cat” Hayato Sato (1-5-1) in an armbar at 2:46 of round two.

In his pr debut, Yusuke Sato (1-0) knocked out Tatsuya Yamamoto (1-1) with a flying knee in just 56 seconds.

Mach Dojo’s “KG Shinto” Hiroki Kuga (1-1) won a unanimous decision over Sapporo’s winless Yoshiki Noguchi (0-3).

Finally, hometown featherweight “Mitsuru” Atsushi Kobayashi (1-0) debuted victoriously with a first-round TKO of “Yokosai” Toshihiko Yokoyama (1-3) at 3:48.