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Pancrase Inc.
Company type
Private
Industry
Mixed martial arts
promotion
Predecessor
Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi World Pancrase Create Inc.
Founded
1993; 31 years ago (1993)
Founders
Masakatsu Funaki
Minoru Suzuki
Ken Shamrock
Headquarters
Tokyo
,
Japan
Key people
Hidetaka Fukui (chief chairman)
Owner
Pancrase Executive Committee
Website
https://pancrase.co.jp
Pancrase is a Japanese mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Tokyo. It was founded in 1993 by professional wrestlers Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki.
The name was based on pankration, a fighting sport in the Ancient Olympic Games. Suzuki and Funaki practiced catch wrestling. They based the promotion and its rules on professional wrestling. The promotion's champions were called "King of Pancrase".
The rules allowed closed-fisted punches, except to the head, and palm strikes to the head. A wrestler must break a submission hold when the opponent reaches the ropes, but a wrestler who claims a rope break loses a point. A wrestler who claims a specified number of rope breaks (between 3 and 5) was disqualified. From 1998 to 2000, the promotion changed its rules to resemble other mixed martial arts promotions.
Beginning in 2007, Pancrase: Legends of Mixed Martial Arts aired weekly on ImaginAsian TV. The network folded in 2011.
In 2008, the Fight Network began airing Pancrase events in Canada and the United Kingdom.
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