Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 1

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Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 1
Information
Promotion
Urayasu, Chiba[1]
Attendance7,000
Event chronology
Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 1 Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 2

Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 1 was the first

card featured many future MMA
champions.

History

Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 1 was the inaugural event of the mixed martial arts promotion

Fujiwara Gumi. In 1992, a rare legitimate match was booked where Ken Shamrock (fighting as Wayne Shamrock) faced international kickboxing champion Don Nakaya Nielsen. Shamrock took Nielsen down immediately and submitted him with an arm lock in 45 seconds.[2] The success of this match made young pro wrestlers Shamrock, Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki question what they had been told since breaking into predetermined wrestling: that nobody would ever pay to see real matches.[2]

Shamrock, Funaki and Suzuki then spearheaded a group of pro wrestlers and decided to abandon everything people had told them about real matches not being marketable.[2]/ They formed a promotion called Pancrase, named by ’60s wrestling star Karl Gotch after the sport of Pankration in the ancient Olympics, which combined all different forms of fighting into one sport.[2] Using pro wrestling rules – no closed fist punching to the face (closed fisted punches were allowed to the body), breaks on the ropes, but fighting for real – Shamrock beat Funaki via choke in 6:15 in the main event of the first of what was billed as an all-shoot match pro wrestling show.[2] The show drew an enthusiastic sellout crowd of 7,000 fans, who did not know what they would be seeing, but when it was over, both the fans and media heavily praised this new form of fighting.[2]

The main event featured Pancrase founder and future

King of the Cage Light Heavyweight champion Vernon White

Results

Main card
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Ken Shamrock def. Masakatsu Funaki Submission (arm triangle choke) 1 6:15
Kazuo Takahashi def. George Weingeroff KO (head kick) 1 1:23
Takaku Fuke def. Vernon White Submission (armbar) 1 1:19
Bas Rutten def.
Ryushi Yanagisawa
 KO (palm strike and knee) 1 0:43
Minoru Suzuki def. Katsuomi Inagaki Submission (rear-naked choke) 1 3:25

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Pancrase - Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 1". Sherdog.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Meltzer, Dave (2008-09-29). "Ken Shamrock's greatest hits - Mixed Martial Arts - Yahoo Sports". Sports.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  3. ^ https://ufcfightpass.com/video/38566

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