Completed MMA & Kickboxing Event
Pancrase 257: Last Fight In The Ring
- Sunday 03.30.2014 at 02:00 AM ET
- Promotion: Pancrase
- Ownership: Masakazu Sakai
- Venue: Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
- Location: Yokohama, Japan
- Enclosure: Ring
- MMA Bouts: 13
- Kickboxing Bouts: 1
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Fight Card
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Pancrase Flyweight Championship
KO/TKO, Soccer Kicks
4:54 Round 1 of 314
Co-Main Event
125
3 x 5 | Pro
Cancelled & Fizzled Bouts
Referees
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Masato Fukuda
Kobayashi vs. Hironaka (15), Nakajima vs. Cesar (9), DeLumeau vs. Baba (7) -
Hirokazu Takamoto
Shimizu vs. Yamamoto (14), Yamaguchi vs. Ogawa (1) -
Yoshinori Umeki
Kondo vs. Naruse (12), Ishikawa vs. Sato (10) -
Ryogaku Wada
Gonçalves vs. Murayama (11), Oyama vs. Kong (4) -
Kenichi Serizawa
Takahashi vs. Silva (8), Chikano vs. Kanomata (6) -
Yuichi Taniuchi
Ushiku vs. Shimamura (3) -
Junichi Ota
Ono vs. Masumizu (2)
Fight Predictions
Tapology members can make predictions for upcoming MMA & Boxing fights. Pancrase 257 is closed for new predictions. 109 total members made predictions on this event, breaking down as follows below.
Leaderboard of the best predictions by member: Pancrase 257 Leaderboard
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67%33%
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10%90%
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3%97%
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76%24%
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67%33%
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95%5%
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5%95%
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7%93%
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82%18%
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53%47%
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12%88%
Wiki
Pancrase 257 Wiki
This event marked the last time that Pancrase's iconic ring will be used as they are switching to a cage and Unified Rules.
The event featured the finals of their ill fated Bantamweight tourney which crowned Taichi Nakajima the champ when he KO'd Marcio Cesar with a spinning back kick.
Also featured was a bout billed as the original RINGS vs original Pancrase in Naruse vs Kondo. Kondo won by majority decision.
The co-main event saw Kiyotaka Shimizu defend his Super Flyweight (126 lbs) King of Pancrase title by defeating Atsushi Yamamoto via soccerkick KO.
The main event featured a cross promotion super fight between Lightweight King of Pancrase Isao Kobayashi and Shooto World Lightweight champion Kuniyoshi Hironaka. Isao would give the ring a fitting farewell by winning via soccerkick.
