| Sayaka Shioda | |
| Native Name: | Japanese: さやか 塩だ |
| Birth Place: | Itakura, Japan |
| Weight Class: | Lightweight (BJJ/Sambo) Flyweight (MMA) |
| Height: | 5 ft 1 in |
| Weight Lb: | 119 |
| Rank: | |
| Trainer: | Hiroyuki Abe Sensei[2] |
| Team: | Abe Ani Combat Club AACC[3] |
| Sherdog: | 12421 |
| Years Active: | 2005–2013 (MMA)[4] |
| Mma Subwin: | 3 |
| Mma Decwin: | 1 |
| Mma Koloss: | 1 |
is a Japanese former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, Sambo, submission grappling and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt practitioner.
In MMA, Shioda is a Shooto Grappling Flyweight Champion. A two-time Pan IBJJF Champion in the lower belt jiu-jitsu divisions, Shioda is an ADCC Submission Fighting World Champion, a Sambo World Champion and a three-time IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu Championship medallist.
Sayaka Shioda was born in Itakurai Ora, Gunma, Japan, she is a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), Judo and Sambo.[5] She started MMA in 2005 fighting as a Flyweight with three pro fights that year in Pancrase and Shooto,[6] that same year she won silver at the 2005 Pan Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship competing as a lightweight, in a combined purple/brown/black category.[7] In 2007 she won the ADCC Asian Championships in Tokyo, Japan in the 55 kg category thus qualifying for the World Championship.[8]
Shioda won the 2007 ADCC World Championship after defeating Cynthia Hales in the quarter-final,[9] Bianca Baretto in the semi[10] and Felicia Oh in the final.[11] That same year she won silver at the 2007 IBJJF World Jiu-Jitsu Championship losing to Laurence Cousin in the final.[12] The following year she won bronze in the 2008 IBJJF World openweight after losing to Kyra Gracie; she won silver in her weight class at the 2009 IBJJF World after being submitted by Bianca Andrade in the final with just a few second left.[13]
At the 2009 ADCC World Championship Shioda came second in the -60 kg division, after defeating Bianca Andrade and Hillary Williams[14] but losing to Luanna Alzuguir in the final.[15] In 2010 Shioda faced Rikako Yuasa during DEEP X 05, submitting her in 22 seconds.[16]
In 2012, Shioda qualified for the Abu Dhabi World Brazilian jiu-jitsu Pro during the trials organised in Tokyo, competing in the light division.[17] Fighting under team Abe Ani Combat Club (AACC) at the 2012 World IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship she won bronze after losing to Ana Carolina Vidal of Gracie Humaita in the semi-final.[18]
In March 2013, she participated to the 2nd ADCC Asia trials taking place in Tokyo,[19] finishing second in the -60 kg category after Seiko Yamamoto.[20] In October 2013 she returned to MMA for the third edition of Real Fight Championship in the under 56 kg category, defeating the Chinese Jin Tang in the first round.[21]
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|-| Win| align=center| 4–1| Jin Tang| Submission (kneebar)| Real Fight MMA Championship 3| | align=center| 1| align=center| 0:57| Beijing, China|[25] |-| Win| align=center| 3–1| Asuka Ito| Decision (unanimous)| Pancrase – Blow 5| | align=center| 3| align=center| 3:00| Tokyo, Japan||-| Loss| align=center| 2–1| Tomomi Sunaba| TKO (head kick and punches)| Pancrase – Spiral 10| | align=center| 1| align=center| 2:14| Tokyo, Japan||-| Win| align=center| 2–0| Emi Kuroda| Submission (heel hook)| Pancrase – Z| | align=center| 1| align=center| 0:44| Kumamoto, Japan||-| Win| align=center| 1–0| Seri Saito| Submission (reverse triangle choke)| G-Shooto – G-Shooto 02| | align=center| 1| align=center| 3:59| Tokyo, Japan|