List of Pancrase champions
Openweight Championship

List of Pancrase champions

Section Title: Openweight Championship
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No.	Name	Event	Date	Defenses

1	United States Ken Shamrock def. Manabu Yamada	Pancrase: King of Pancrase Tournament Second Round Tokyo, Japan	Dec 17, 1994	1. def. Bas Rutten at Pancrase - Eyes Of Beast 2 on Mar 10, 1995 in Kanagawa, Japan

2	Japan Minoru Suzuki	Pancrase - Eyes Of Beast 4 Tokyo, Japan	May 13, 1995

3	Netherlands Bas Rutten	Pancrase - 1995 Anniversary Show Tokyo, Japan	Sep 1, 1995	1. def.

United States Frank Shamrock def. Minoru Suzuki for interim title	Pancrase - Turth 1 Kanagawa, Japan	Jan 28, 1996

Rutten vacated the title in October 1996 for family matters.

4	Japan Masakatsu Funaki def. Jason DeLucia	Pancrase - Truth 10 Tokyo, Japan	Dec 15, 1996

5	Japan Yuki Kondo	Pancrase - Alive 4 Tokyo, Japan	Apr 27, 1997	1. def. Jason DeLucia at Pancrase - 1997 Anniversary Show on Sep 6, 1997 in Tokyo, Japan

6	Japan Masakatsu Funaki (2)	Pancrase - Alive 11 Kanagawa, Japan	Dec 20, 1997

7	United States Guy Mezger	Pancrase - Advance 5 Kanagawa, Japan	Apr 26, 1998	1. def.

Mezger vacated the title in February 1999 when he left Pancrase for the UFC.

8	Japan Yuki Kondo (2) def. Semmy Schilt	Pancrase - Breakthrough 4 Kanagawa, Japan	Apr 18, 1999	1. def. Kiuma Kunioku at Pancrase - 1999 Anniversary Show on Sep 18, 1999 in Tokyo, Japan

9	Netherlands Semmy Schilt	Pancrase - Breakthrough 10 Osaka, Japan	Nov 28, 1999	1. def.

Schilt vacated the title in 2001 when he signed with the UFC.

10	United States Josh Barnett def. Yuki Kondo	Pancrase - 10th Anniversary Show Tokyo, Japan	Aug 31, 2003	1. def.

Sentence(s)

Ken Shamrock was the first foreign champion in Japan, winning the title of King of Pancrase.
Ken Shamrock was the first champion in Japan, winning the title of King of Pancrase.
Ken Shamrock was the first champion in Japan, winning the title of King of Pancrase.

final_sentence: Ken Shamrock was the first foreign champion in Japan, winning the title of King of Pancrase.
final_sentence: Ken Shamrock was the first champion in Japan, winning the title of King of Pancrase.
final_sentence: Ken Shamrock was the first champion in Japan, winning the title of King of Pancrase.