PANCRASE is the name of the organization founded by Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki in May, 1993 which produces the new professional martial arts sport.
The ultimate goal and spirit of PANCRASE is the completion of "total-fight"-a collection of the best of all the styles of martial arts in the world. Martial arts techniques used in the PANCRASE matches include wrestling, judo, boxing, sambo, karate, kempo, jiu-jitsu, and Thai boxing.
In the PANCRASE logo, red indicates blood, and black indicates the complete collection of all martial arts, as the mixing of colors ends up creating black.
The PANCRASE cross indicates all the best techniques from all the martial arts.
One of the unique aspects of a PANCRASE fight is the need of the combatants to adapt their existing techniques to this unique competition. The fighter needs to think about what he will do if he throws a kick but his leg is grabbed by his opponent.In order to win, PANCRASE fighters need to train mixing various techniques from every martial arts disciplines.
PANCRASE fighters are from a total of over 40 locations in 25 countries; Japan, U.S.A., Canada, Holland, Sweden, Austria, U.K., France, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Lithuania, Korea, India, and Indonesia. The territory of PANCRASE events continues to expand.
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