History Characters / UniversalWrestlingFederationPancrase

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/MuayThai: And barokai, a sort of mixed martial arts created in Holland by a Toon Stelling.

* TheApprentice: To Chris Dolman.

* IKnowKarate: A 6th dan black belt, 6 time Dutch champion and a 1 time world champion in Kyoshukin and also trained in Wado UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}. He is also a 1st dan black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, and also knows UsefulNotes/{{Sambo}} and UsefulNotes/KravMaga.
* StartMyOwn: Created Barokai, a Dutch mixed martial art full-contact mix between UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, boxing and UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}.

* DeathGlare

* TheApprentice: To Masashi Horibe.

!!!John Renken
-->''"Peaceful in a Violent Sort of Way."''

* TheApprentice: To Erik Paulson and Greg Nelson.
* BadassPreacher: He is an ordained minister and founder of Xtreme Ministries.
* CombatReferee: A licensed MMA referee.
* CoolTeacher: Owner of Clarksville Mixed Martial Arts Academy and also created Global Combative Operations for civilian, law enforcement, and military self defense.
* GeniusBruiser: Graduated from North Central University in 2000 with a degree in Bible and Theology.

* HeelFaithTurn: Was a former satanist, then he converted to Christianity.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/MuayThai: As well as boxing, UsefulNotes/{{Sambo}}, has a black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and a brown belt in UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu. He also trained in the Modern Army Combatives Program while he was in the army and Combat Submission Wrestling at the Minnesota Martial Arts Academy.
* {{Ranger}}: A former United States Army Ranger.
* RealMenLoveJesus: Was featured on the MMA documentary "Fight Church".
* RedBaron: "The Saint", "The Fighting Preacher".

!!!Tony Rojo
* GuestFighter

!!!Jeremy Horn
-->''"Guys like Dana came in and took it further, but without guys like Jeremy Horn, this sport would have died a long, long time ago."''
-->-- Monte Cox

-->''"Iowa sucks! That's why we keep training 10 hours a day - you can do nothing else!"''
-->-- Jeremy Horn

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He is this to Chael Sonnen, who he beat 3 times.
* TheApprentice: To Pat Miletich.
* BadassTeacher: Has his own MMA team, Elite Performance.
* BloodKnight: He has over 100 fights in MMA with 91 wins.
* BullyHunter: Fought bullies when he was in school.
* EarlyBirdCameo / GuestFighter: Had one match in Pancrase against KEI Yamamiya that ended in a draw before he went to RINGS.
* HeroKiller: The only guy who beat Chuck Lidell by submission. He also beat guys like Daiju Takase, Gilbert Yvel, Chris Haseman, Vernon White (in his King of the Cage period), Forrest Griffin, Chael Sonnen, etc.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know Ninjutsu]]: A black belt in Robert Bussey's Warrior's International system and trained in MMA under Miletich Fighting Systems.
* RedBaron: "Gumby", "Tetsujin" ("Iron Man").
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tried a real diving chop on Creator/RandyCouture in their match in RINGS.

!!!Travis Fulton
* TheApprentice: To Pat Miletich.
* BloodKnight: He has been in more sanctioned MMA fights than any other fighter ever by a large margin with a total of 316 fights with 253 wins, 52 losses, 10 draws, and 1 no contest. He also has a professional boxing record of 62 matches with 22 wins, 39 losses and 1 draw.
* CoolOldGuy: He is 40 years old now and still fighting.
* GuestFighter
* IKnowKarate: A 2nd dan black belt in American Kenpo UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}. He also competed in amateur wrestling and was a Golden Gloves and professional boxer.
* RedBaron: "The Ironman".

!!!Alex Stiebling
-->''"Stiebling was a student at Frank Benn's Integrated FIghting Academy, one of the first American establishments to openly bill itself as a full mixed martial arts school, and as a standout at the regional HOOKnSHOOT events he gathered the attention of major organizations, but his attempts at challenging them went poorly: He made one UFC appearance at UFC 28, where Matt Hughes' twin brother Mark wrestled him to a dominant decision loss, and followed it with a Pancrase appearance against top-ranked middleweight Sanae Kikuta, which ended in a no-contest after an accidental headbutt. By 2001 he was 6-1-1-1, had been bounced from two of the major MMA organizations on the planet, and was in need of something to put weight behind his name. And then he was invited to the International Vale Tudo Championship's one-night USA vs Brazil tournament. (Which, for some reason, was held in Venezuela.) It was a tough field, and oddly enough, Stievling was the only non-Brazilian fighter in the tournament itself--and he put on a clinic, stopping all four of his opponents in the first round. It was an incredible performance, and it won him international acclaim, an invitation to Pride--and his self-styled nickname, "The Brazilian Killa." It was one of MMA's first blatant marketing campaigns, and it worked like a charm. Pride's Brazilian contingent hated him, with fighters from feuding camps all able to unite in their joined desire to shut him up. He didn't make it easy on them: He knocked out Allan Goes and took a close decision from Wallid Ismail, becoming a bigger target with each victory, until at Pride 21 he met a young Chute Boxe prospect by the name of Anderson Silva. It's not much of a fight--Anderson hits him with a high kick, Stiebling takes him down, the ref stops the fight to check on a cut caused by the kick and doctors stop it within ninety seconds--but it ended Stiebling's stardom overnight. Brazil was avenged and Stiebling's mojo was gone, as he dropped his next three straight fights, ending in a return to Pride where he was blatantly screwed out of a decision against Akira Shoji. The message was clear: His time in the sun was over. And it was. He'd put together a few more wins in the regional circuit and became a standby of the early WEC, but the last half of his career was mostly a skid; before the Anderson fight he was 12-1-1-1, and he retired in 2009 at 19-11-1-1. Stiebling's real legacy in MMA isn't his fighting, it's his existence as one of the first successful examples of vaguely racist yet blatant self-marketing. Chael Sonnen and Conor Mcgregor owe him."''
-->-- A profile of Andrade from a VideoGame/FireProWrestling user [=CarlCX=] from https://steamcommunity.com

* TheApprentice: To Jason Godsey and Pat [=McPherson=].
* ArchEnemy / HeroKiller: To Brazilian fighters. It all started when he won the International Vale Tudo Championship's one-night USA vs Brazil tournament, which for some reason was held in Venezuela and he was the only non-Brazilian. Then he knocked out Allan Goes and took a close decision from Wallid Ismail in Pride which is how he got his nickname "The Brazilian Killa". Then he lose by doctor stoppage to a young Anderson Silva and lost his mojo.
* GuestFighter: Had only one fight in Pancrase.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/MuayThai: Trained at the Muay Thai Institute of Kunponli and also trained in UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu. He trained for MMA at Integrated Fighting Academy.
* RedBaron: "The Brazilian Killa".
* UseYourHead: Accidently headbutted Sanae Kikuta in their Pancrase fight, which ended in a no contest.

* StoneWall: Along with Oliver McCall, he is also the only world heavyweight champion to have never been knocked down in any fight.

-->-- A profile of Jong Wang Kim from a VideoGame/FireProWrestling user CarlCX from https://steamcommunity.com.

-->''"An early Ken Shamrock protege, Andrade was one of the first students to try out for the Lion's Dean and one of their early success stories, a mix of the forceful Shamrock grappling style and the kicking-focused striking game of recent team addition Maurice Smith, and in the world of mid-90s MMA that well-roundedness was a major benefit for a heavyweight fighter, leading to victories in both Pancrase and the World Pankration Championships and an invitation to UFC 26, where he would be betrayed...by his feet. Before the adoption of the unified rules of mixed martial arts in 2001 (or 2009, but that's a long story) the standards for what you could do and wear during a fight were only vaguely established. When Alex Andrade came to UFC 26 to fight Brazilian legend Amaury Bitetti, he wore wrestling shoes--legal at the time--and was warned by Big John McCarthy that he could wear the shoes, or he could throw kicks, but not both. Andrade dominated Bitetti, and was well on his way to victory, but he couldn't stop kicking him in the head--and after his third kick, McCarthy made good on his word and disqualified him. He would never be invited back to the UFC. He'd follow his mentor to Pride a year later, showing up at Pride 18 to challenge Murilo "Ninja" Rua, but lost a decision and not a particularly close one. That was the end of his prime--he retired from MMA, unable to justify the career. He'd be coaxed out of retirement in 2007 by the mainstream MMA boom, and actually put together a three-fight winning streak--and then, in the strangest rerun I've ever seen, got invited to a bigger show only to lose by DQ when he wouldn't stop kneeing Krzysztof Soszynski in the groin. Sometimes you can't stop. He'd show up for a couple fights in the just-started Bellator, back when it was a weekly show that only aired on ESPN's Spanish-language affiliate ESPN Deportes, but retired after one more regional fight--he was 35, his prime was over, and he was a realist about his prospects. He ended his career at a respectable 9-5, and even though he didn't notch any huge victories for himself, he helped train some of the future champions of the sport. There are far worse fates."''
-->-- A profile of Andrade from a VideoGame/FireProWrestling user CarlCX from https://steamcommunity.com

-->-- A profile of A'essio from a VideoGame/FireProWrestling user CarlCX from https://steamcommunity.com

-->-- A profile of Braga from a VideoGame/FireProWrestling user CarlCX from https://steamcommunity.com

* TheApprentice: To Jason Godsey, Pat McPherson and Keith Palmer.

* TheApprentice: To Alastair McNiven, Billy Hendricks, Sheldon Marr, Shane Pitts and Ricardo Murgel.

-->-- A profile of Bustamante from a VideoGame/FireProWrestling user CarlCX from https://steamcommunity.com

-->-- A profile of Hisamatsu from a VideoGame/FireProWrestling user CarlCX from https://steamcommunity.com

-->-- A profile of Misaki from a VideoGame/FireProWrestling user CarlCX from https://steamcommunity.com

-->-- A profile of Andrade from a VideoGame/FireProWrestling user CarlCX from https://steamcommunity.com

* TheApprentice: To Jason Godsey and Pat McPherson.

* CoolTeacher: Runs his own BJJ academy and has trained guys like Frankie Edgar, Kris McCray, Eddie Alvarez and Corey Anderson.

!!!Gary Myers
-->''"My family gave me the name Bear when I was 2 yrs old. I wrestled on the USA wrestling team. I wrestled in Russia and I beat both of my opponents in Russia and at the time they were both ranked very high in the world and they said in the Moscow newspaper that I was to be given the a new nickname of " THE IRON BEAR " that was a great honor for me."''

* BaldOfAwesome
* {{Bouncer}}: Was bouncing at a roadhouse on Stop Road in Indianapolis called Club Mark in 1997 as detailed in When We Were Bouncers.
* GuestFighter
* [[IKnowKarate I Know Amateur Wrestling]]: A 6 time Greco Roman wrestling world competition gold medalist, he also trained in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, Shorinji-Ryu UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}, boxing, UsefulNotes/{{Sambo}}, and UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu. He later trained at Integrated Fighting Academy for MMA.
* LastOfHisKind: Was the last GAME Heavyweight Champion (he didn't fight in GAME itself, he won it when it changed to [=HOOKnSHOOT=].
* RedBaron: "[[BearsAreBadNews Iron Bear]]".
* StartMyOwn: Founded Iron Bear Productions, which promotes amateur MMA events in Indiana.

* SpinOff: Pancrase Australia, Pancrase UK, Pancrase Korea, Pancrase USA, Pancrace (Pancrase France basically), Pancrase Fighting Championships (another one in France), The Creator/BasRutten Invitational, Strike & Grapple (also known as Light Pancrase), Colosseum 2000.

* ScreamingWarrior: Has a habit of shouting during his fights, even during the interval between rounds. He usually shouts out "Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}!", "[[{{Catchphrase}} Ore ga puroresurāda!]]" ("I'm a professional wrestler!"), or "Yōsorō!" (a ShoutOut to the song “Captain of the Ship” by Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi).

* RedBaron: "The Real Shooter".

* BlackBestFriend: Or rather "[[TheApprentice Black Apprentice]]" to Wrestling/KenShamrock, it was all the role he occupied at his time of Pancrase.

* OneHitKill: Until Funaki and Suzuki created Pancrase, worked shoot matches used to be long and slow in order to maintain the crowd entertained. However, when the two implanted their real matches concept, proved when the first Pancrase event lasted only 28 minutes, the Japanese crowds loved it and coined the word "byosatsu" (秒殺, "instantly finished") to refer this kind of exciting battle. Even so, the two used to carry weaker opponents to avoid a too short fight.

* TheApprentice: To Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki, Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki, Makoto Kato, Murilo Bustamante, and Wrestling/SatoruSayama.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: A 2nd dan black belt before his start in Pancrase. He later trained at Makoto Gym and the Pancrase Tokyo and Yokohama gyms during his time in Pancrase and later trained with Brazilian Top Team. He also trained in Seikendo and once did an exhibition bout with Sayama himself.

* TheApprentice: To Makoto Kato.

* TheApprentice: To Makoto Kato.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Shoot Wrestling]]

* TheApprentice: To Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki.

* CoolTeacher: Has his own gym, CMA Makoto Gym.

* TheApprentice: To Makoto Kato and Hidetaka Aso.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: Trained in this as well as Greco-Roman wrestling and sambo at the Sportcentrum Kops.

* IKnowKarate: Shito-Ryu, as well as UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, UsefulNotes/WingChun, UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, boxing, amateur and UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling, sambo, kempo, UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}, and UsefulNotes/MuayThai.

* IKnowKarate: A 6th dan black belt, 6 time Dutch champion and a 1 time world champion in Kyoshukin and also trained in Wado UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}. He is also a 1st dan black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, and also knows sambo and UsefulNotes/KravMaga.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Sambo]]: As well as UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu, full-contact UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}, and UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling. He is also a black belt in the Hayastan Fighting System at the Hayastan MMA academy.

* BadassTeacher: A master of sport in both sambo and UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and was a special defense instructor in his army service. He also has several sambo instructional videos.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Sambo]]: A master of sport in sambo, along with a two-time world champion (possibly - there is controversy about the latter claim). Also a 3rd dan and master of sport in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and a black belt in Japanese jiu-jitsu, and added boxing later in his career and even faced Creator/DolphLundgren in a celebrity boxing match and won via split decision.

* LightningBruiser: He was known for using a variety of rarely seen, acrobatic sambo takedowns.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu: And also trained in boxing, UsefulNotes/MuayThai, UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, UsefulNotes/WingChun, Greco-Roman wrestling, sambo, Filipino kali, shootfighting, and is a Stockholm UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} champion.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Amateur Wrestling]]: An accomplished wrestler, Golden Gloves champion boxer, learned hapkido, sambo, UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu, and a bit of UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Amateur Wrestling]]: A 6 time Greco Roman wrestling world competition gold medalist, he also trained in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, Shorinji-Ryu UsefulNotes/{{Karate}}, boxing, sambo, and UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu. He later trained at Integrated Fighting Academy for MMA.

* IKnowKarate: As well as UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}} and is a 1989 I.S.K.A. European champion, UsefulNotes/{{Aikido}}, sambo, and UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu at Le Cercle Tissier.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}: And boxing, UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}} sambo and UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/MuayThai: As well as boxing, sambo, has a black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and a brown belt in UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu. He also trained in the Modern Army Combatives Program while he was in the army and Combat Submission Wrestling at the Minnesota Martial Arts Academy.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/MuayThai: As well as boxing, wrestling, sambo, UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu, and was a 1997 North American Shootfighting Champion.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: A 3rd degree black belt. He also has black belts in Kempo UsefulNotes/{{Karate}} and UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu, and also trained UsefulNotes/MuayThai, freestyle wrestling and sambo.

* IKnowKarate: A Shidokan black belt and international champion. He trained in UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}} at the Aiki Training Hall and is a Illinois State and North Carolina State Kickboxing champion. He is a black belt and champion in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and Japanese jujitsu, he also trained in Chinese Sanshou, sambo, amateur (especially Greco-Roman) and UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling. He also trained for MMA at the Iron Academy.

* Sensual Spandex: Or at least he thought so. The other fighters on Season 4 of Series/TheUltimateFighter were a little put off by his banana hammock fight shorts.

* IKnowKarate: A black belt, as well as UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}} and was a 1999 W.K.O. heavyweight champion, he also trained in boxing, Jeet Kune Do, kali, sambo, UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, amateur and UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling, and UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}: Was an Indiana State and West Virginia kickboxing champion before he started MMA. He is also trained in boxing, amateur wrestling, UsefulNotes/{{Aikido}}, a 1st dan black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, a black belt in Moo Duk Kwan, a 4th dan in Shingitai Jujitsu and a black belt in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} under John Saylor who also trained him in sambo and UsefulNotes/CatchWrestling.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Sambo]]: Won 3rd place at the 1997 All Japan sambo championships at the 68kg class, he also trained in Command Sambo and UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}. He trained for MMA at Pancraseism Yokohama and was a 1999 amateur Pancrase 60kg tournament champion.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Sambo]]: Was an Aomori sambo junior champion in the under 70kg class. He also trained in amateur and combat wrestling and was an Aomori Greco-Roman wrestling champion in the under 68kg class. He also trained at P'Lab and Pancraseism Dojos.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}: A black belt, he also trained in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, UsefulNotes/MuayThai, boxing, jeet kune do, hapkido, sambo, Russian systema, savate, UsefulNotes/WingChun, a brown belt in UsefulNotes/{{Aikido}}, a 1st dan black belt in Daidojuku, a purple belt in UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu, and a brown belt in the Hayastan Grappling System.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Sambo]]: Which he mixed with, according to him, kung fu and breakdance. He trained at SK Absolute.

* TokenMinority: Was for a long time the only black fighter that represented the Lion’s Den and as a full time Pancrase fighter.

* NonActionGuy: Executive president of Pancrase at the beginning till 2008.

!!!Andre van den Oetelaar
* TheApprentice: To Cor Hemmers.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Boxing]]: A former pro boxing with a record of 15 wins and 10 losses. He also trained in UsefulNotes/MuayThai and UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} at the Maeng-Ho Gym.

!!!Joop van de Ven

* TheApprentice: To Chris Dolman and Bert Kops Sr.
* GuestFighter
* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}: Trained in this as well as Greco-Roman wrestling and sambo at the Sportcentrum Kops.

* StoutStrength

!!!George Weingeroff
* EightiesHair: A mullet.
* CoolOldGuy: Was 41 when he competed in Pancrase.
* HandicappedBadass: He is legally blind. Makes you wonder why he agreed to do a sport with strikes in it.
* [[IKnowKarate I Know Amateur Wrestling]]: A Tennessee high school and college wrestling champion. He even brief trained with Wrestling/KenShamrock and his Lion’s Den for his sole Pancrase fight.
* {{Jobber}}

!!!Yasushi Sakamoto
* NonActionGuy: CEO of Pancrase from 2008 to 2010.

* UnskilledButStrong: He actually had no martial arts experience when he first came to Pancrase, only his pro wrestling background. He started learning martial arts after his time in Pancrase.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Trained at the Hart Dungeon.

* RedBaron: "Grizzly", "De Beer" ("The Bear").

* LetsFightLikeGentlemen / LoopholeAbuse: In its early days, Pancrase rules were actually a lot looser than its peers in the U-System as their fighters had a gentleman’s agreement to not strike a grounded opponent, though it was not officially part of the rules unlike the other promotions. It took outsiders like Allan Goes to fully exploit this detail, much to the chagrin of the hybrid wrestlers.

* GondorCallsForAid: After leaving PWFG, the founders first gathered to practice at the Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling Dojo during connections Pancrase president Masami Ozaki had with their staff.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know]] UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu: A 2nd degree black belt, he is also a 2nd dan black belt Japanese jujutsu, and has trained in UsefulNotes/{{Kickboxing}}, kenpo and freestyle wrestling.