New Flyweight Champion Kiyotaka Shimizu and interim Middleweight King of Pancrase Yuki Kondo.

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Pancrase ran their first event of the year Sunday February 7th from the Differ Ariake in Tokyo.

In the headliner, veteran Yuki Kondo defeated Takenori Sato via decision (30-28 by all 3 judges) to win the interim Middleweight King of Pancrase. With that victory, Kondo will meet Ichiro Kanai to unify the interim and regular middleweight King of Pancrase titles on April 29, back at Differ Ariake. Also featured on that card will be the welterweight King of Pancrase bout between champion Takuya Wada, and Kengo Ura, who won a title eliminator over Shingo Suzuki earlier in the evening. 

Kiyotaka Shimizu avenges his loss from his pro debut, back in June 2008, when he lost to Mitsuhisa Sunabe down in Okinawa and with that becomes the new Flyweight champion. It was a close fight and Sunabe was stunned when the judges gave the 2-0 decsion to Shimizu (29-29, 29-28, 29-28). 

"The Former Super High-school Student" Tetsuya Yamada landed a big up-kick to the chin of Takafumi Ito midway through the 2nd round giving him the victory and the previously undefeated Grabaka fighter Shigeyuki Uchiyama lost his first fight to Tomonari Kanomata.

Pancrase Passion Tour 2010 Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo Japan February 7th, 2010
Interim Middleweight King of Pancrase - 83.9kg - 3R x 5min
Yuki Kondo (50-23-7) WIN 3-0 Decision	vs.	Takenori Sato (9-6-5)
Flyweight King of Pancrase - 57 kg - 3R x 5min
Mitsuhisa Sunabe (11-5-3) (c)	vs.	Kiyotaka Shimizu (4-3-1) WIN 2-0 Decision
Bantamweight - 3R x 5min
Seiya Kawahara (8-2-0) WIN 2-0 Decision	vs.	Tashiro Nishiuchi (12-5-10)
Middleweight  - 3R x 5min
Keiichiro Yamamiya (36-24-9)	vs.	Yuji Hisamatsu (14-17-5) WIN 2-0 Decision
Lightweight - 2R x 5min
Takafumi Ito (35-29-10)	vs.	Tetsuya Yamada (3-2-0) WIN via KO (R2 2:23)
Featherweight - 2R x 5min
Tomonari Kanomata (14-4-5) WIN 2-0 Decision	vs.	Shigeyuki Uchiyama (8-0-0)
Lightweight - 2R x 5min
Isao Kobayashi (5-0-0) WIN via TKO (R1 1:00)	vs.	Hiroki Aoki (4-3-0)
Flyweight - 3R x 5min
Isao Hirose (6-1-0) WIN via RNC (R2 1:34)	vs.	Takuma Ishii (3-4-1)
Middleweight - 2R x 5min
Ryuji Ohori (3-5-0)	vs.	Hoon Kim WIN via Armbar (R1 3:36)
Welterweight - 2R x 5min
Daisuke Watanabe (17-28-4) WIN via 2-0 Decision	vs.	Kosei Kubota (24-32-11)
Welterweight  - #1 Contender Match - 3R x 5min
Shingo Suzuki (3-2-1)	vs.	Kengo Ura (7-5-1) WIN via TKO (R1 1:43)