2005 in Pancrase
Information
First date	February 4, 2005
Last date	December 4, 2005
Events
Total events	17
Fights
Total fights	158
Title fights	2
Chronology
2004 in Pancrase 2005 in Pancrase 2006 in Pancrase

The year 2005 was the 13th year in the history of Pancrase, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2005 Pancrase held 17 events beginning with Pancrase: Spiral 1.

Title fights in 2005
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Event	Notes
Middleweight	Nate Marquardt (c)	def.	Izuru Takeuchi	Technical Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	3	2:19	Pancrase: Spiral 4	[a]
Welterweight	Katsuya Inoue (ic)	def.	Kenji Arai	KO (Punch)	2	4:30	Pancrase: Spiral 4	[b]

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
165	Pancrase: Spiral 10	December 4, 2005	Differ Ariake Arena	Tokyo, Japan
164	Pancrase: Spiral 9	November 4, 2005	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
163	Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2005	October 23, 2005	Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym	Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan
162	Pancrase: Spiral 8	October 2, 2005	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
161	Pancrase: Spiral 7	September 4, 2005	Umeda Stella Hall	Osaka, Osaka, Japan
160	Pancrase: Z	September 3, 2005	Grand Messe Kumamoto	Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan
159	Pancrase: 2005 Neo-Blood Tournament Finals	August 27, 2005	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
158	Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2005	August 7, 2005	Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym	Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan
157	Pancrase: Spiral 6	July 31, 2005	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
156	Pancrase: Spiral 5	July 10, 2005	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium	Yokohama, Japan
155	Pancrase: 2005 Neo-Blood Tournament Semifinals	June 5, 2005	Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex	Tokyo, Japan
154	Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2005	May 22, 2005	Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym	Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan
153	Pancrase: Spiral 4	May 1, 2005	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
152	Pancrase: Spiral 3	April 10, 2005	Umeda Stella Hall	Osaka, Osaka, Japan
151	Pancrase: Spiral 2	March 6, 2005	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
150	Pancrase: 2005 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations	February 27, 2005	Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex	Tokyo, Japan
149	Pancrase: Spiral 1	February 4, 2005	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 1
Date	February 4, 2005
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 1^[1] was an event held on February 4, 2005, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Katsuya Inoue	def.	Heath Sims	TKO (Punches)	1	4:40
	Yuji Sakuragi	def.	Kengo Watanabe	KO (Head Kick)	3	0:06
	Kestutis Arbocius	def.	Mitsuyoshi Sato	KO (Punches)	3	4:59
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Yuji Hisamatsu	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Takafumi Ito	def.	Masakazu Kuramochi	KO (Punch)	1	3:30
	Hikaru Sato	def.	Sumio Koyano	TKO (Corner Stoppage)	1	2:57
	Takumi Yano	def.	Masaya Takita	Submission (Ankle Lock)	1	2:15
	Daizo Ishige	def.	Shinpei Sotoyama	KO (Punches)	1	0:35
	Moriyuki Yamada	def.	Tetsuo Seto	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	4:41

Pancrase: 2005 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations
Date	February 27, 2005
Venue	Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: 2005 Neo-Blood Tournament Eliminations^[2] was an event held on February 27, 2005, at Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex in Tokyo, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Naoki Yoshimura	def.	Kenji Takeshige	Submission (Triangle Choke)	2	4:29
	Sotaro Yamada	def.	Mitsuo Matsumoto	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	2:10
	Takafumi Shiroma	def.	Takumi Murata	Submission (Kimura)	2	4:11
	Naoji Fujimoto	def.	Daiki Hata	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Toshiaki Kitada	def.	Akito Teraoka	Decision (Majority)	1	5:00
	Minoru Chujo	def.	Junichi Ota	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	4:58
	Masaki Yanagisawa	def.	Kenji Shimada	Decision (Majority)	1	5:00
	Toshiaki Kitada	def.	Hiroyuki Ota	Decision (Majority)	1	3:00
	Akito Teraoka	def.	Tetsuya Fukunaga	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:35
	Junichi Ota	def.	Hiroyuki Nohara	Decision (Majority)	1	3:00
	Minoru Chujo	def.	Taku Aramaki	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	3:02
	Manabu Inoue	def.	Yuichi Miyagi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Takashi Hasegawa	def.	Hirokazu Nishimura	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Masaki Yanagisawa	def.	Masaki Yokoyama	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Kenji Shimada	def.	Ranki Kawana	Decision (Majority)	1	5:00

Pancrase: Spiral 2
Date	March 6, 2005
Venue	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
City	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 2^[3] was an event held on March 6, 2005, at Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kazuo Misaki	def.	Flavio Luiz Moura	Submission (North-South Choke)	2	2:13
	Gustavo Machado	def.	Yuki Sasaki	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Nilson de Castro	def.	Keiichiro Yamamiya	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Satoru Kitaoka	def.	Hidehiko Hasegawa	Decision (Split)	3	5:00
	Ryuta Noji	def.	Hideki Tadao	KO (Knee to the Body)	1	4:25
	Takuya Wada	vs.	Hiroki Nagaoka	Draw	2	5:00
	Masahiro Yamagishi	def.	Ken Orihashi	TKO (Punches)	1	0:17
	Hisae Watanabe	def.	Naoko Omuro	Decision (Unanimous)	5	3:00
	Hidenobu Koike	vs.	Hirokazu Takamoto	Draw	2	5:00
	Asaki Honda	vs.	Yuki Takaya	Draw	2	5:00

Pancrase: Spiral 3
Date	April 10, 2005
Venue	Umeda Stella Hall
City	Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 3^[4] was an event held on April 10, 2005, at Umeda Stella Hall in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yoshiro Maeda	def.	Takumi Murata	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:16
	Koji Oishi	def.	Daisuke Hanazawa	KO (Soccer Kick)	3	0:31
	Kenji Takeshige	def.	Yuji Miyazaki	KO (Soccer Kick)	1	1:53
	Naoji Fujimoto	def.	Kenji Shimada	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masato Nishiguchi	def.	Moriyuki Yamada	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	1:38
	Kenta Nakamura	def.	Tetsuo Uehata	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Manabu Inoue	def.	Takashi Hasegawa	Decision (Split)	2	3:00
	Masahiro Toryu	def.	Norihiko Hamaguchi	KO (Punch)	1	0:10
	Yukiharu Maejima	def.	Yukinari Tamura	DQ (Knee to the Groin)	1	0:40
	Tatsunori Tanaka	def.	Satoru Takadaya	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	1:01
	Tetsuya Fukunaga	vs.	Daiki Ozaki	Draw	2	5:00
	Masahiko Uechi	vs.	Nobuhiro Yamauchi	Draw	2	5:00
	Asuka Ito	def.	Yoko Oyama	Submission (Armbar)	2	2:40
	Kenta Nakamura	def.	Yutaka Nishikawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Tetsuo Uehata	def.	Rikiya Kawakami	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	1:08

Pancrase: Spiral 4
Date	May 1, 2005
Venue	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
City	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 4^[5] was an event held on May 1, 2005, at Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Middleweight	Nate Marquardt (c)	def.	Izuru Takeuchi	Technical Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	3	2:19	[a]
Welterweight	Katsuya Inoue (ic)	def.	Kenji Arai	KO (Punch)	2	4:30	[b]
	Ryuta Noji	def.	Jin Chul Oh	TKO (Punches)	1	1:44
	Daisuke Watanabe	def.	Yuya Shirai	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Hidehiko Hasegawa	def.	Naoki Seki	Submission (Achilles Lock)	1	1:59
	Takumi Yano	def.	Ippo Watanuki	Technical Submission (Kimura)	2	3:48
	Daizo Ishige	def.	Hiroki Nagaoka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takehiro Iseya	vs.	Shinsuke Shoji	Draw	2	5:00

Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2005
Date	May 22, 2005
Venue	Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym
City	Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan

Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2005^[6] was an event held on May 22, 2005, at Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym in Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Katsunori Kikuno	vs.	Hirotaka Uehara	Draw	2	5:00
	Takuya Oniki	def.	Taishi Ikeda	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	2:08
	Toshiki Tanayama	def.	Nobuyuki Arimura	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Shinichiro Hattori	def.	Taketo Tomita	Technical Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	1:20
	Kazuyuki Arimura	def.	Kensuke Higa	Technical Submission (Smother Choke)	2	3:00
	Kosei Fukushima	def.	Tatsuji Sakamoto	TKO (Head Kick)	1	0:22

Pancrase: 2005 Neo-Blood Tournament Semifinals
Date	June 5, 2005
Venue	Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: 2005 Neo-Blood Tournament Semifinals^[7] was an event held on June 5, 2005, at Gold's Gym South Tokyo Annex in Tokyo, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Asaki Honda	def.	Hirokazu Takamoto	TKO (Punches)	2	2:36
	Shinsuke Shoji	def.	Yohei Ota	KO (Punch)	1	0:09
	Minoru Chujo	def.	Toshiaki Kitada	Decision (Split)	2	5:00
	Sotaro Yamada	def.	Naoki Yoshimura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masaki Yanagisawa	def.	Takafumi Shiroma	Submission (Triangle Choke)	2	0:35
	Manabu Inoue	def.	Naoji Fujimoto	Decision (Split)	2	5:00
	Takumi Murata	def.	Minoru Tsuiki	Decision (Split)	2	5:00
	Daiki Hata	vs.	Katsuhiro Hirata	Draw	2	5:00
	Tomomi Sunaba	def.	Yoko Hattori	TKO (Corner Stoppage)	2	1:08
	Asuka Ito	def.	Seri Saito	Decision (Majority)	3	3:00
	Shin Katayama	vs.	Ichiro Kudo	Draw	2	5:00

Pancrase: Spiral 5
Date	July 10, 2005
Venue	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
City	Yokohama, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 5^[8] was an event held on July 10, 2005, at Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kazuo Takahashi	def.	Yuji Sakuragi	Submission (Armbar)	2	3:01
	Satoru Kitaoka	def.	Thomas Schulte	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	1:11
	Daijiro Matsui	vs.	Elvis Sinosic	Draw	2	5:00
	Hikaru Sato	def.	Seiji Ogura	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	4:16
	Masayuki Kono	def.	Yukio Kawabe	Technical Submission (Kimura)	1	1:10
	Daiki Hata	def.	Kentaro Imaizumi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Alex Roberts	def.	Masahiro Yamagishi	KO (Punch)	1	0:27
	Atsushi Yamamoto	def.	Nobuyuki Kato	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	3:14
	Tomomi Sunaba	def.	Misaki Takimoto	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
	Kazunori Yokota	def.	Daigo Ishijima	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	4:41

Pancrase: Spiral 6
Date	July 31, 2005
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 6^[9] was an event held on July 31, 2005, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yoshiro Maeda	def.	Colin Mannsur	TKO (Punches)	1	2:43
	Ivan Menjivar	def.	Miki Shida	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Takumi Yano	def.	Kuntap Weerasakreck	Technical Submission (Kimura)	1	4:38
	Yuji Sakuragi	def.	Aslan Dzeboev	KO (Kick to the Body)	2	1:31
	Takumi Murata	def.	Daiki Hata	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masaya Takita	def.	Ippo Watanuki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2005
Date	August 7, 2005
Venue	Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym
City	Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan

Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2005^[10] was an event held on August 7, 2005, at Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym in Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kosei Fukushima	def.	Sei Ikeda	KO (Head Kick)	1	4:22
	Akihiro Tateyama	def.	Shinichiro Hattori	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	3:15
	Katsuhiko Matsutomi	def.	Hirofumi Sakashita	Technical Submission (Armbar)	2	2:18
	Takuya Oniki	def.	Kazuyuki Arimura	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	4:02
	Go Matsuo	def.	Takahiro Sano	Technical Submission (Armbar)	2	3:41
	Ryo Taguchi	def.	Taketo Tomita	Submission (Triangle Choke)	2	3:36

Pancrase: 2005 Neo-Blood Tournament Finals
Date	August 27, 2005
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: 2005 Neo-Blood Tournament Finals^[11] was an event held on August 27, 2005, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Koji Oishi	def.	Nate Diaz	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Daijiro Matsui	def.	Daisuke Watanabe	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	2	5:00
	Shinsuke Shoji	def.	Asaki Honda	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Sotaro Yamada	def.	Minoru Chujo	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Manabu Inoue	def.	Masaki Yanagisawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yuichi Nakanishi	vs.	Yuji Hisamatsu	Draw	2	5:00
	Takuya Wada	def.	Masakazu Kuramochi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kozo Urita	def.	Moriyuki Yamada	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	2	3:37
	Naoki Miyamoto	vs.	Naoki Tajima	Draw	2	5:00

Pancrase: Z
Date	September 3, 2005
Venue	Grand Messe Kumamoto
City	Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan

Pancrase: Z^[12] was an event held on September 3, 2005, at Grand Messe Kumamoto in Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hikaru Sato	def.	Tenshin Matsumoto	Technical Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	2:43
	Yuji Sakuragi	def.	Yuta Nakamura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Mitsuhisa Sunabe	def.	Minoru Tsuiki	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	4:21
	Sayaka Shioda	def.	Emi Kuroda	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	0:41
	Hidenobu Koike	def.	Motohiro Takenawa	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	0:55
	Yuichi Miyagi	def.	Taishi Ikeda	TKO (Punches)	1	1:47
	Tatsuya Kawano	def.	Takayuki Nakasato	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:50

Pancrase: Spiral 7
Date	September 4, 2005
Venue	Umeda Stella Hall
City	Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 7^[13] was an event held on September 4, 2005, at Umeda Stella Hall in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yoshiro Maeda	def.	Miki Shida	KO (Punches)	3	2:17
	Anthony Netzler	def.	Alex Roberts	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	1:53
	Yuichi Ikari	vs.	Kenji Takeshige	Draw	2	5:00
	Naoji Fujimoto	def.	Kenta Nakamura	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	3:10
	Tatsunori Tanaka	def.	Daizo Ishige	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	2:07
	Yuji Miyazaki	def.	Toshiaki Kitada	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Asuka Ito	def.	Eri Takahashi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	3:00
	Hidemi Mihara	def.	Motoki Ejima	Decision (Unanimous)	1	5:00
	Takashi Hasegawa	vs.	Nobuhiro Yamauchi	Draw	2	5:00
	Tomoyuki Kodama	def.	Shunsuke Kimura	Submission (Neck Crank)	2	4:12
	Hidemi Mihara	def.	Masahiro Toryu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Motoki Ejima	def.	Arito Kishimoto	TKO (Punches)	1	3:42

Pancrase: Spiral 8
Date	October 2, 2005
Venue	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
City	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 8^[14] was an event held on October 2, 2005, at Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yuki Kondo	def.	Hiromitsu Kanehara	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Mike Kyle	def.	Tsuyoshi Kosaka	Technical Decision (Unanimous)	3	1:17
	Satoru Kitaoka	def.	Carlos Condit	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	3:57
	Hideki Tadao	def.	Yuji Sakuragi	Submission (Arm-Triangle Choke)	2	3:33
	Poai Suganuma	def.	Hikaru Sato	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Aslan Dzeboev	def.	Masayuki Kono	KO (Punch)	1	4:12
	Kazuo Takahashi	def.	Kestutis Arbocius	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Yuki Takaya	def.	Hitoki Tsuti	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	4:43
	Taku Aramaki	vs.	Kenichi Ito	Draw	2	5:00
	Yuichiro Shirai	def.	Yo Saito	TKO (Head Kick)	2	3:33

Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2005
Date	October 23, 2005
Venue	Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym
City	Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan

Pancrase: Hybrid Fight 2005^[15] was an event held on October 23, 2005, at Hybrid Wrestling Kagoshima Gym in Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yusuke Kitagawa	def.	Go Matsuo	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:59
	Kenji Horikiri	vs.	Shinichiro Hattori	Draw	2	5:00
	Kazuyuki Arimura	def.	Posed Man	Technical Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	2:45
	Akihiro Tateyama	def.	Takuro Takuro	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	4:41
	Eiji Saito	def.	Sei Ikeda	Submission (Keylock)	1	1:20
	Nobyuki Ono	def.	Masahiro Matsuoka	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Nobumasa Koga	def.	Kotaro Kotaro	Technical Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	1:53

Pancrase: Spiral 9
Date	November 4, 2005
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 9^[16] was an event held on November 4, 2005, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Poai Suganuma	def.	Ryuta Noji	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	3:12
	Paul Rodriguez	vs.	Koji Oishi	Draw	3	5:00
	Kenji Arai	def.	Furdjel de Windt	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Kozo Urita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Riki Fukuda	def.	Yuta Nakamura	TKO (Punches)	1	0:57
	Kentaro Imaizumi	vs.	Takumi Murata	Draw	2	5:00
	Daizo Ishige	def.	Shinsuke Shoji	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Sotaro Yamada	def.	Kazuhiro Inoue	Technical Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	2:51
	Manabu Inoue	def.	Nobuyuki Kato	TKO (Punches)	2	2:59
	Aslan Dzeboev	def.	Jimmy Akishige	KO (Punch)	1	0:20

Pancrase: Spiral 10
Date	December 4, 2005
Venue	Differ Ariake Arena
City	Tokyo, Japan

Pancrase: Spiral 10^[17] was an event held on December 4, 2005, at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takafumi Ito	def.	Andy Wang	Decision (Split)	3	5:00
	Hikaru Sato	vs.	Kyosuke Sasaki	Draw	1	10:00
	Ichiro Kanai	def.	Shunichi Akimoto	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	2	4:32
	Tomomi Sunaba	def.	Sayaka Shioda	TKO (Punches)	1	2:14
	Ryo Kawamura	def.	Sumio Koyano	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yuichiro Shirai	def.	Minoru Tsuiki	Submission (Armbar)	1	0:15
	Kenji Shimada	def.	Masaki Yanagisawa	KO (Punch)	2	2:42

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