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Five Man Band is undergoing a wick-cleaning project, so examples featuring groups of more than five will be deleted.
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* FiveManBand: The founders of Pancrase.
** TheLeader: Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki, since he was the best fighter of the group and the face of the promotion.
** TheLancer: Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki, since he was the second best of the group and Funaki’s foil.
** TheSmartGuy: Takaku Fuke, since he became more involved as an executive later on.
** TheBigGuy: Kazuo Takahashi and Ryūshi Yanagisawa, since Takahashi was the physically strongest of the group and Yanagisawa was the tallest.
** TheChick: Katsuomi Inagaki, since he was the least experienced and had the worst record out of the original group.
** SixthRanger: Manabu Yamada, since he debuted later than the others and was a former Shooto fighter.
** TagalongKid: Kiuma Kunioku was still a trainee at the time.
** TokenWhite: Wrestling/KenShamrock, if only because he wasn’t Japanese, he could have also been TheBigGuy.
** ManBehindTheMan: Masami Ozaki and Takeya Oitate, since Ozaki was the Executive president of the promotion and Oitate was the world operations manager.
** TheLeader: Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki, since he was the best fighter of the group and the face of the promotion.
** TheLancer: Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki, since he was the second best of the group and Funaki’s foil.
** TheSmartGuy: Takaku Fuke, since he became more involved as an executive later on.
** TheBigGuy: Kazuo Takahashi and Ryūshi Yanagisawa, since Takahashi was the physically strongest of the group and Yanagisawa was the tallest.
** TheChick: Katsuomi Inagaki, since he was the least experienced and had the worst record out of the original group.
** SixthRanger: Manabu Yamada, since he debuted later than the others and was a former Shooto fighter.
** TagalongKid: Kiuma Kunioku was still a trainee at the time.
** TokenWhite: Wrestling/KenShamrock, if only because he wasn’t Japanese, he could have also been TheBigGuy.
** ManBehindTheMan: Masami Ozaki and Takeya Oitate, since Ozaki was the Executive president of the promotion and Oitate was the world operations manager.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: And still growing.
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* FingerlessGloves: Started using them after their 6th Anniversary Show in 1999.
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: Pancrase is mostly remembered for begin one of the earliest MMA promotion, having a rule-set resembling professional wrestling, fighting bareknuckle but allowing only palm-strikes, with fighters wearing boots with shin guards and speedos, fighting in a three-rope ring and an insitence to call itself "Hydrid Wrestling" and its fighters "wrestlers". However, by the 2000s they started to change the rules to approach closer to other MMA promotions, by the 2010s they adopted the Unified Rules and in 2014 they exchanged their iconic ring for a 10-sided cage.
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* UnfortunateName: The promotion’s name is very similar to pancreas.
