Fight Preview ~ Pancrase Progress Tour 7

Fight Preview ~ Pancrase Progress Tour 7

Published on May 29, 2012 by The Editor in Pancrase

Here is Our Fight Preview of the Progress Tour 7 from Pancrase

June 2nd 2012 ~ Differ Ariake, Tokyo, Japan

So of course the first thing I want to say is I hate, hate, hate all the draws in Japanese MMA. Look people either make a decision or lets have an extra round. Two five minutes rounds is pathetic. Let’s get it sorted.

Fight 1: Suguru Hayaasaka (7-4-4) Vs Kengo Ito (1-0-0)

Hayaasaka has four draws and four loses to go with his seven wins. he has battled his way through ZST leaving that organisation on a four fight streak of two losses and two draws. At Deep he had one win and two draws and so far at  Pancrase he is on one win.

His opponent on this day will be the older but far less experienced Ito who has one fight and one win. Who knows who will win this?

For experience and youth it has to be Hayaasaka but lets be honest it’s Japan it will most likely will be a draw.

Fight 2: Junya Nishikawa (4-4-1) Vs Toru Kanamori (4-3-0) 

Nishikawa has spent all his average career fighting in Pancrase all his wins come from Decisions which probably says something for his lack of finishing skills. And most of his losses are KO or TKO so his chin is suspect.

Kanamori is another average fighter with a couple of fights at Deep and the rest in Pancrase. I guess it should be a close fight.

Fight 3: Kenji Nagaki (4-2-0) Vs Hirotaka Uehara (2-2-0) 

Nagaki seems to have one style of fighting stand-up and bash – and so far he has won four times by KO/TKO due to punches and lost two the same way.

Uehara has two wins from TKO punches as well and his two losses were both decisions so I would suggest that he probably has a better chin than Nagaki and although it’s going to be a real battle. I feel Uehara may have the advantage if he can avoid the power punches from Nagaki.

Fight 4: Masakazu Takafuji (10-7-0) Vs Guy Delumeau (15-6-3) 

Takafuji is a real Pancrase warrior and his record is still on the winning side of the fence, but how is he going to bounce back from his last loss when he faces up to the American Shooto veteren Delumeau. Personally it’s Delumeau all the way for me on this one.

Fight 5: Jon Shores (10-0-0) Vs Takumi Nakayama (16-13-5-1)

Shores is undefeated in Pancrase and seems capable of winning in whatever way necessary  but the veteran Nakayama is not  coming to lie down, his recent record is three wins and a draw but sorry, Shores is going to take this one.

Fight 6: Seiji Ozuka (12-9-7) Vs Yuki Uejima (5-4-5)

And here we go with my hatred of Japanese MMA’s love of the Draw Ozuka has 7 and Uejima has 5.

Ozuka is unbeaten in hi his last six fights and I don’t see Uejima troubling him in this fight. So it’s either a draw or Ozuka for my money.

Fight 7: Yuki Yasunaga (8-5-0) Vs Goro Kobayashi (5-5-6)

Yasunaga is on a six fight win streak although five of them were through Decisions. What this shows is how difficult he is to stop and how aggressive he is. Kobayashi I don’t see as a real threat to Yasunaga.

Fight 8:  Ikkei Nagamura (7-4-2) Vs Yuji Hisamatsu (15-20-6)

I don’t really like this fight it’s a guy with a very average record fighting a guy with frankly a very poor record, I guess by recent record it has to be Yasunaga but it does look like Pancrase are trying to build the record of a very average fighter here.

Main Event

Ryo Kawamura (14-6-4) Vs Shingo Oyama (13-13-0)

One fighter has an average record with two recent wins at the same event and the other on a five fight winning streak which has turned his record into 13 and 13. So let’s see if he can continue with his amazing winning streak.