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Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 4

Pancrase MMA event in 1993

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ7130392 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 4 was a mixed martial arts event held by Pancrase Hybrid Wrestling. It took place at Hakata Star Lanes in Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan on December 8, 1993. The main event featured Prancrase co-founder Masakatsu Funaki fighting against Yoshiki Takahashi. Also appearing on the card were Pancrase veterans Ken Shamrock, and co-founder Minoru Suzuki.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 4” as pancrase MMA event in 1993. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pancrase, Hybrid and Wrestlers can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as pancrase MMA event in 1993. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7130392. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pancrase: Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 4” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.