Pan-American Fighting Championship

The Pan-American Fighting Championship is a martial arts tournament mentioned multiple times throughout the Street Fighter series.

Overview
Not much is known about the Pan-American tournament. All that is known is that fighters are gathered from the American continent to compete for the title of champion. It's not held at any specific time interval, but it often occurs close to when the World Fighting Championship happens.

History
The tournament is mostly mentioned in Ken's backstory, as he has was declared champion three times in a row. The first was during the original Street Fighter, where he had his victory by performing his first ever Shoryureppa. This victory made him famous, and he met Eliza soon after, as depicted in his Street Fighter Alpha ending.

He won the tournament again at an unknown point in time, and the third time was at the end of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, where he set a new record for the most amount of consecutive wins. Eliza also praises Ken for this accomplishment. Sean also participated in this tournament, but he could not make it past the preliminaries. Ken offers the trophy to Sean, but Sean declines it, saying he wants to win for himself.

Charlie Nash also had a history of being the "veteran" champion of the tournament.