Pancrase Changing Results: Kitaoka Dominates, Sunabe Becomes First Flyweight King

The main event of Sunday's loaded "Pancrase Changing" card saw Sengoku lightweight champ Satoru Kitaoka dominate the outmatched Yukio Sakaguchi in the way most thought he would, or perhaps even moreso. The P's Lab product put Sakaguchi on the ground within seconds, and nearly snared him with a front choke before resorting to one of his Nippon Top Team-trademarked leglocks.

In the co-main, Mitsuhisa Sunabe was crowned the inaugural Flyweight King of Pancrase after upsetting Takuya Eizumi with a lights-out left hook late in the opening frame.

During the show, Pancrase legend Yuki Kondo announced that he will return to the ring in August.

Full results and pictures via Sportsnavi below.

Pancrase Changing Tour #3
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Differ Ariake
Tokyo, Japan

Main Card

LW: Satoru Kitaoka def. Yukio Sakaguchi via submission (Achilles lock) at 1:26 of round 1

Fly: Mitsuhisa Sunabe def. Takuya Eizumi via KO (left hook) at 4:35 of round 1
Sunabe becomes the first ever Flyweight King of Pancrase.

LW: Koji Oishi def. Kim Hyung Kwang via majority decision (20-19, 20-20, 20-19)
MW: Takenori Sato def. Kim Hoon via submission (armbar) at 4:26 of round 1
HW: Choi Mu Bae def. Katsuhisa Fujii via unanimous decision (20-18, 20-19, 20-19)
BW: Seiya Kawahara def. Tatsuya So via unanimous decision (20-19, 20-19, 20-19)
MW: Keiichiro Yamamiya def. Ryuji Ohori via KO (right hook) at 1:01 of round 1
Fly: Isao Hirose def. Takashi Nakamura via unanimous decision (20-18, 20-19, 20-19)
Feather: Tashiro "Akai" Nishiuchi def. Takumi Murata via majority decision 2-0 (20-19, 20-20, 20-19)
WW: Kosei Kubota vs. Shingo Suzuki ended in a draw (20-20, 19-19, 20-20)
LHW: Ryo Kawamura def. Yukiya Naito via unanimous decision 3-0 (30-29, 30-29, 29-28)
Kawamura is the Light Heavyweight King of Pancrase; however this was a non-title fight.

Neo-Blood Tournament Semi-Finals

Fly: Yuki Yashima def. Daisuke Tsujita via submission (arm lock) at 2:24 of round 1
Fly: Kiyotaka Shimizu def. Takuma Ishii via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:00 of round 1
BW: Ryota Sasaki def. Taro Shimazaki via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:23 of round 1
BW: Nobuhiro Yoshitake def. Ranki Kawana via "dominance decision" (all three judges scored 20-20)
Feather: Shigeyuki Uchiyama def. Hiroshi Tomita via TKO (corner stoppage) at 1:27 of round 1
Feather: Akira Saito def. Yasutomo Tanaka via submission (front choke) at 1:29 of round 1
LW: Hiro Tomiyama def. Keigo Hirayama via unanimous decision (20-20, 20-20, 20-20)
LW: Isao Kobayashi def. Koji Nakamura via KO (punch) at 1:03 of round 2