Yasuto Sekishima Explained

Yasuto Sekishima
Birth Place:Iida, Nagano, Japan
Weight:167lb
Weight Class:Welterweight
Style:Shoot wrestling, Shoot Boxing, Catch Wrestling, Shooto, Combat Wrestling,
Team:Shooting Gym Narita
Years Active:1989–1993
Mma Kowin:1
Mma Subwin:4
Mma Decwin:2
Mma Decloss:2
Mma Draw:4
Sherdog:1177

Yasuto Sekishima is a Japanese[1] mixed martial artist.[2] He competed in the Welterweight division. He was the inaugural Shooto Middleweight Champion.

Sekishima trained under Satoru Sayama at the Super Tiger Gym. He was originally a judoka and also trained in shootboxing under Caesar Takeshi and combat wrestling under Noriaki Kiguchi and debuted as an amateur before Shooto's professional years. He would debut as a professional in 1989 to a draw to Mitsuo Fujikura.

Championships and Accomplishments

Mixed martial arts record

|-| Draw| align=center| 7–2–4| Yuji Ito| Draw| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 5| align=center| 3:00| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Win| align=center| 7–2–3| Kazuhiro Kusayanagi| Decision (unanimous)| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 5| align=center| 3:00| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Loss| align=center| 6–2–3| Naoki Sakurada| Decision (majority)| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 5| align=center| 3:00| Osaka, Japan| |-| Loss| align=center| 6–1–3| Yoshimasa Ishikawa| Decision (unanimous)| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 5| align=center| 3:00| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Win| align=center| 6–0–3| Takashi Tojo| Submission (armbar)| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 2| align=center| 0:00| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Win| align=center| 5–0–3| Manabu Yamada| KO (punch)| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 2| align=center| 0:00| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Draw| align=center| 4–0–3| Naoki Sakurada| Draw| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 5| align=center| 3:00| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Win| align=center| 4–0–2| Naoki Sakurada| Decision| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 5| align=center| 3:00| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Win| align=center| 3–0–2| Yoshimasa Ishikawa| Submission (rear-naked choke)| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 1| align=center| 1:49| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Draw| align=center| 2–0–2| Kenji Kawaguchi| Draw| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 5| align=center| 3:00| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Win| align=center| 2–0–1| Yoshimasa Ishikawa| Submission (kimura)| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 1| align=center| 2:18| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Win| align=center| 1–0–1| Yuji Ito| Submission (armbar)| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 4| align=center| 2:01| Tokyo, Japan| |-| Draw| align=center| 0–0–1| Mitsuo Fujikura| Draw| Shooto - Shooto| | align=center| 5| align=center| 3:00| Tokyo, Japan|

Kickboxing record

|- style="background:#FFBBBB;"| 2001-6-3|| Loss ||align=left| Kunihide Onose || NKB || Tokyo, Japan || TKO (3 knockdown rule) || 3 || 1:52|- style="background:#FFBBBB;"| 2001-3-25|| Loss ||align=left| Takahiro Seo || APKF || Yokohama, Japan || TKO (Low kick) || 4 || 0:36|- style="| 1994-5-17|| - ||align=left| Yudai Watanabe || MAJKF || Tokyo, Japan || - || - || -|- style="background:#FFBBBB;"| 1994-1-22|| Loss ||align=left| Adam Watt || MAJKF || Tokyo, Japan || KO || - || -|-|-| colspan=9 | Legend:

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yasuto Sekishima . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923041017/http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Yasuto-Sekishima-1177 . September 23, 2015 . live .
  2. Web site: Yasuto Sekishima . mixedmartialarts.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20141008001243/http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/f/BF6573059AEB68B4/Yasuto-Sekishima/ . October 8, 2014 . live .