List of Shooto Pacific Rim champions

In 2005 the Shooto Organization decided to create splinter Shooto organizations around the world, with their own rankings and champions. Along with a European and American Shooto organization, a Pacific Rim organization was created focusing on Asia (but mostly Japan). This is the title history for the Pacific Rim titles.

Title histories

Featherweight Championship
126 to 135 lbs
Name: Date: Defenses:
Koetsu Okazaki
(def. Hiromasa Ogikubo)		 October 17, 2009
  • def. Tetsu Suzuki on July 19, 2010
Title vacated
Yuta Sasaki
(def. Tetsu Suzuki)		 January 20, 2013
  • def. Kenji Yamamoto on July 27, 2013
Title vacated 2014 Sasaki vacated the title.
Yuta Nezu
(def. Kota Onojima)		 March 16, 2014
  • def. Keita Ishibashi on September 27, 2014
Title vacated 2015 Nezu vacated the title.
Daichi Takenaka
(def. Takuya Ogura)		 March 21, 2016
Title vacated 2016 Takenaka vacated the title on 2016 when he signed with ONE Championship.
Keita Ishibashi
(def. Ryo Okada)		 November 12, 2016
Title vacated March 2017 Ishibashi vacated the title to challenge Shoko Sato for the Shooto 132lb title
Kazuma Sone
(def. Mamoru Uoi)		 January 28, 2018
Ryo Okada January 27, 2019
  • draw. Tatsuya Ando on September 22, 2019
Title vacated May 2020 Okada vacated the title to challenge Kazuma Kuramoto for the interim Shooto 132lb title
Tatsuya Ando
(def. Takumi Tamaru)		 August 1, 2020

Lightweight Championship
136 to 145 lbs
Name: Date: Defenses:
Rumina Sato
(def. Makoto Ishikawa)		 March 11, 2005
Title vacated December 17, 2005 Sato suffered an injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.
Akitoshi Tamura
(def. Tenkei Fujimiya)		 February 17, 2007
Title vacated November 7, 2007 Due to Tamura winning the Shooto World Lightweight belt he was asked to relinquish the Pacific Rim Title.
Taiki Tsuchiya
(def. Hideki Kadowaki)		 January 23, 2010
Title vacated May 31, 2011 Tsuchiya vacates the title due to losing a non-title match to Takeshi Inoue on April 30, 2011.
Yusuke Yachi
(def. Wataru Miki)		 November 11, 2012
  • def. Yuji Hoshino on March 17, 2013
Title vacated April 9, 2013 Yachi vacated the title signing with Pacific Xtreme Combat.
Yoshifumi Nakamura
(def. Caol Uno)		 January 25, 2015
Yutaka Saito May 3, 2015
Title vacated 2016 Saito vacated the title to challenge Yoshifumi Nakamura for the Shooto 143lb title
Ryogo Takahashi
(def. Tomoya Hirakawa)		 November 12, 2016
  • def. Jin Aoi on October 15, 2017
Title vacated 2018 Takahashi vacated the title on 2018 when he signed with ONE Championship.
Mitsuhiro Toma
(def. Derricott Yamamoto)		 June 17, 2018
  • def. Akira Takano on June 30, 2019
Takashi Nakayama January 26, 2020
Keisuke Sasu September 19, 2020
  • def. Taison Naito on January 30, 2021

Welterweight Championship
146 to 155 lbs
Name: Date: Defenses:
Koutetsu Boku
(def. Ryan Bow)		 January 29, 2005
Title vacated December 17, 2005 Boku suffered a knee injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.
Mitsuhiro Ishida
(def. Kenichiro Togashi)		 February 17, 2006
Title vacated December 2006 Ishida suffered an injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.
Takashi Nakakura
(def. Mizuto Hirota)		 February 17, 2007
Title vacated May 2008 Nakakura vacated the title when he won the Welterweight Shooto title.
Yusuke Endo
(def. Kenichiro Togashi)		 July 18, 2008
Title vacated June 2010 Endo vacated the title to challenge Willamy Freire for the Shooto 154lb title
Yoshihiro Koyama
(def. Shinji Sasaki)		 January 10, 2011
  • def. Kenichiro Togashi on September 23, 2011
Title vacated 2012 Koyama vacated the title to challenge Kuniyoshi Hironaka for the Shooto 154lb title
Shinji Sasaki
(def. Shin Kochiwa)		 January 20, 2013
Nobumitsu Osawa March 16, 2014
Koshi Matsumoto April 18, 2015
  • draw with Yuki Kawana on July 26, 2015
  • def. Hiroki Aoki on November 11, 2016
Title vacated 2016 Matsumoto vacated the title to challenge Yuki Kawana for the Shooto 154lb title
Yuki Kawana
(def. Hiroki Aoki)		 July 23, 2017

Middleweight Championship
156 to 170lbs
Name: Date: Defenses:
Keita Nakamura
(def. Ronald Jhun)		 July 21, 2006
Title vacated June 2008 Nakamura vacated the title when he announced his retirement from MMA.
Xavier Lucas[1]
(def. Yoshitaro Niimi )		 October 26, 2008
  • def. Akihiro Yamazaki on September 22, 2009
Title vacated January 2010 Lucas vacated the title when he announced his retirement from MMA.
Yoichiro Sato
(def. Jung Min Kang)		 March 22, 2010
Akihiro Murayama June 11, 2011

References
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