List of Shooto Pacific Rim champions explained

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

Middleweight Championship

Weight limit: 771NaN1

width=1%No.width=24%Namewidth=15%Datewidth=45%Defenses
1 Keita Nakamura
align=center July 21, 2006
Nakamura vacated the title on June 6, 2007, as he was unable to defend the title in the mandated time[1]
2 Xavier Lucas
align=center October 26, 2008
Lucas vacated the title on January 28, 2010, for undisclosed reasons[2]
3 Yoichiro Sato
align=center March 22, 2010
4 Akihiro Murayamaalign=center June 11, 2011
Murayama vacated the title on March 1, 2019, for undisclosed reasons[3]
5 Soki
align=center June 16, 2019
6align=center May 15, 2022

Welterweight Championship

Weight limit: 701NaN1

width=1%No.width=24%Namewidth=15%Datewidth=45%Defenses
1 Kotetsu Boku
align=center January 29, 2005
Boku vacated the title on December 17, 2005 as he suffered a knee injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time.
2 Mitsuhiro Ishida
align=center February 17, 2006
Ishida vacated the title on January 12, 2007 as he was unable to defend the title in the mandated time[4]
3 Takashi Nakakura
align=center February 17, 2007
Nakakura vacated the title on May 3, 2008 after winning the world title
4 Yusuke Endo
align=center February 17, 2007
Endo vacated the title on September 26, 2010 to challenge Willamy Freire for the Shooto 154lb title.
5 Yoshihiro Koyama
align=center February 17, 2007
Koyama vacated the title to challenge Kuniyoshi Hironaka for the Shooto 154lb title.[5]
6 Shinji Sasaki
align=center January 20, 2013
7 Nobumitsu Osawaalign=center March 16, 2014
8 Koshi Matsumotoalign=center April 18, 2015
Matsumoto vacated the title to challenge Yuki Kawana for the Shooto 154lb title[6]
9 Yuki Kawana
align=center July 23, 2017
Matsumoto vacated the title on July 12, 2020, after winning the world title[7]
10 Shutaro Debana
align=center December 20, 2020

Weight limit: 651NaN1

width=1%No.width=24%Namewidth=15%Datewidth=45%Defenses
1 Rumina Sato
align=center March 11, 2005
Sato suffered an injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations
2 Akitoshi Tamura
align=center February 17, 2007
Due to Tamura winning the Shooto World Lightweight belt he was asked to relinquish the Pacific Rim Title
3 Taiki Tsuchiya
align=center January 23, 2010
Tsuchiya vacates the title due to losing a non-title match to Takeshi Inoue on April 30, 2011
4 Yusuke Yachi
align=center November 11, 2012
Yachi vacated the title signing with Pacific Xtreme Combat
5 Yoshifumi Nakamuraalign=center January 25, 2015
6 Yutaka Saitoalign=center May 3, 2015
Saito vacated the title to challenge Yoshifumi Nakamura for the Shooto 143lb title
7 Ryogo Takahashi
align=center November 12, 2016
Takahashi vacated the title on 2018 when he signed with ONE Championship.
8 Mitsuhiro Toma
align=center June 17, 2018
9 Takashi Nakayama align=center January 26, 2020
10 Keisuke Sasu align=center September 19, 2020
Sasu vacated the title to challenge Ryoji Kudo for the Shooto 143lb title

Weight limit: 601NaN1

width=1%No.width=24%Namewidth=15%Datewidth=45%Defenses
1 Koetsu Okazaki
align=center October 17, 2009
Okazaki vacated
2 Yuta Sasaki
align=center January 20, 2013
Sasaki vacated
3 Yuta Nezu
align=center March 16, 2014
Nezu vacated
4 Daichi Takenaka
align=center March 21, 2016
Takenaka vacated the title on 2016 when he signed with ONE Championship.
5 Keita Ishibashi
align=center November 12, 2016
Ishibashi vacated the title to challenge Shoko Sato for the Shooto 132lb title
6 Kazuma Sone
align=center January 28, 2018
7 Ryo Okada align=center January 27, 2019
Okada vacated the title to challenge Kazuma Kuramoto for the interim Shooto 132lb title
8 Tatsuya Ando
align=center August 1, 2020
Ando vacated the title to challenge Ryo Okada for the Shooto 132lb title
9 Kota Onojima
align=center January 16, 2022
10 Hayato Ishii align=center May 22, 2022
11 Nobuki Fuji align=center November 27, 2022

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 中村K太郎、環太平洋ミドル級王座返上 . livedoor.jp . 7 March 2022.
  2. Web site: ザビアー・ルーカスが引退を表明。環太平洋ミドル級王座返上へ。 . blog.livedoor.jp . 7 March 2022.
  3. Web site: 村山暁洋のタイトル返上により、田村vsソーキの新王者決定戦を実施。 . j-shooto.com . 7 March 2022.
  4. Web site: 【修斗】五味にKO負けした石田光洋、環太平洋王座を返上 . gbring.com . 7 March 2022.
  5. Web site: 修斗 新人王トーナメント 歴代王者一覧 【まもなく第11回トーナメント決勝戦!】 . theanswer.hatenablog.com . 8 December 2012 . 7 March 2022.
  6. Web site: 【修斗】扇久保博正が菅原を圧倒、修斗史上2人目の2階級制覇を達成 . efight.jp . 23 April 2016 . 7 March 2022.
  7. Web site: 【修斗】川名雄生がキャプテン☆アフリカをKOしライト級王者に。前田吉朗は3団体制覇ならず、暫定王者・福田龍彌は正規王者・扇久保博正との統一戦アピール . gonkaku.jp . 7 March 2022.