1998 in Shooto

The year 1998 is the 10th year in the history of Shooto, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 1998 Shooto held 10 events beginning with Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 1.

1998 in Shooto
Information
First date	January 17, 1998
Last date	November 27, 1998
Events
Total events	10
Fights
Total fights	71
Title fights	1
Chronology
1997 in Shooto 1998 in Shooto 1999 in Shooto

Title fights

Title fights in 1998
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Event	Notes
Middleweight	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Jutaro Nakao	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 3	[a]

1. For The Middleweight Champion.

Events list

Main article: List of Shooto Events

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
57	Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 6	November 27, 1998	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
56	Shooto: Shooter's Dream	September 18, 1998	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
55	Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 5	August 29, 1998	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
54	Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 4	July 29, 1998	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
53	Shooto: Gig '98 2nd	July 18, 1998	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
52	Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 3	May 13, 1998	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
51	Shooto: Shoot the Shooto XX	April 26, 1998	Yokohama Arena	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
50	Shooto: Gig '98 1st	April 10, 1998	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
49	Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 2	March 1, 1998	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
48	Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 1	January 17, 1998	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 1

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 1^[1] was an event held on January 17, 1998, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Noboru Asahi	def.	Dennis Hall	Submission (Armbar)	2	4:18
	Ricardo Botelho	def.	Masato Fujiwara	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Jutaro Nakao	def.	Jay R. Palmer	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	3:51
	Masanori Suda	def.	Ray Cooper	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:55
	Hisao Ikeda	def.	Jin Akimoto	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Tetsuji Kato	def.	Koichi Tanaka	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	1:01
	Satoshi Fujisaki	vs.	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 2

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 2^[2] was an event held on March 1, 1998, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Joel Gerson	def.	Rumina Sato	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	3:53
	Carlos Newton	def.	Kazuhiro Kusayanagi	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:17
	Masanori Suda	def.	Kenji Kawaguchi	Submission (Armbar)	3	1:08
	Hisao Ikeda	def.	Omar Salvosa	Submission (Achilles Lock)	1	4:23
	Caol Uno	def.	Yuji Fujita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masahiro Oishi	def.	Yoshihiro Fujita	Technical Submission (Kimura)	1	2:40
	Takaharu Murahama	def.	Hiroyuki Kojima	KO (Punch)	1	2:31
	Takenori Ito	def.	Hiroki Kotani	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig '98 1st

Shooto: Gig '98 1st^[3] was an event held on April 10, 1998, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takuya Kuwabara	def.	Takenori Ito	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Yuki Sasaki	def.	Yasushi Warita	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	1:19
	Yoshiyuki Takayama	def.	Katsuhisa Akasaki	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	3:34
	Kazumichi Takada	def.	Satoshi Fujisaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masakazu Kuramochi	def.	Mitsuo Matsumoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Saburo Kawakatsu	def.	Isao Tanimura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Shoot the Shooto XX

Shooto: Shoot the Shooto XX^[4] was an event held on April 26, 1998, at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Rumina Sato	def.	Michael Buell	Submission (Armbar)	1	0:31
	Alexandre Franca Nogueira	def.	Noboru Asahi	Technical Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	1:06
	Akihiro Gono	def.	Matt Rocca	Submission (Armbar)	1	3:12
	Emmanuel Yarborough	def.	Tatsuo Nakano	Submission (Smother)	1	1:17

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 3

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 3^[5] was an event held on May 13, 1998, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Middleweight	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Jutaro Nakao	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[a]
	Larry Papadopoulos	vs.	Kazuhiro Kusayanagi	Draw	3	5:00
	Frank Trigg	def.	Marcelo Aguiar	TKO (Punches)	2	3:08
	Caol Uno	def.	Ian James Schaffa	Technical Submission (Armbar)	3	3:13
	Koichi Tanaka	vs.	Masato Fujiwara	Draw	2	5:00
	Masakazu Kuramochi	def.	Takaharu Murahama	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Kazumichi Takada	def.	Hiroki Kotani	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00

1. For The Middleweight Champion.

Shooto: Gig '98 2nd

Shooto: Gig '98 2nd^[6] was an event held on July 18, 1998, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hisao Ikeda	def.	Mamoru Okochi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Masahiro Oishi	def.	Kimihito Nonaka	Submission (Armbar)	2	1:18
	Yoshiyuki Takayama	def.	Yoshihiro Fujita	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Hiroyuki Kojima	def.	Isao Tanimura	Technical Submission (Kimura)	1	4:37
	Takaharu Murahama	vs.	Hiroshi Tsuruya	Draw	2	5:00
	Yuki Sasaki	def.	Izuru Takeuchi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 4

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 4^[7] was an event held on July 29, 1998, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Ronny Rivano	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	1:10
	Kenji Kawaguchi	def.	Ante Jurisic	Submission (Heel Hook)	2	0:35
	Caol Uno	def.	Zvonko Jakovcevic	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	3:15
	Takuya Kuwabara	def.	Damien Riccio	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Mitsuhiro Sakamoto	vs.	Takeyasu Hirono	Draw	2	5:00
	Anthony Netzler	def.	Jun Kitagawa	Submission (Toe Hold)	1	1:14

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 5

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 5^[8] was an event held on August 29, 1998, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Erik Paulson	def.	Masanori Suda	TKO (Punches)	3	4:48
	Noboru Asahi	def.	Trent Bekis	Submission (Kimura)	1	3:01
	Ricardo Botelho	def.	Joel Gerson	Decision (Split)	3	5:00
	Tetsuji Kato	def.	Alex Cook	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Takenori Ito	vs.	Kazumichi Takada	Draw	2	5:00
	Jin Akimoto	def.	Masaru Gokita	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Hiroyuki Kojima	def.	Saburo Kawakatsu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Shooter's Dream

Shooto: Shooter's Dream^[9] was an event held on September 18, 1998, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Jutaro Nakao	def.	Koichi Tanaka	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	3:56
	Mamoru Okochi	vs.	Yoshiyuki Takayama	Draw	2	5:00
	Satoshi Fujisaki	def.	Kyuhei Ueno	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:23
	Yuki Sasaki	def.	Nobuhiro Tsurumaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Naoya Uematsu	def.	Katsuya Toida	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:46
	Ryuta Sakurai	def.	Masashi Kita	TKO (Punches)	1	3:00
	Masaki Nishizawa	vs.	Hiroaki Yoshioka	Draw	2	5:00
	Takayuki Okochi	def.	Hiromichi Maruyama	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 6

Shooto: Las Grandes Viajes 6^[10] was an event held on November 27, 1998, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Uchu Tatsumi	def.	Eric Payne	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	2:42
	Akihiro Gono	def.	Adriano de Souza	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:46
	Hisao Ikeda	def.	Colin Mannsur	TKO (Punches)	2	1:49
	Paul Jones	def.	Sanae Kikuta	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Tetsuji Kato	def.	Hiroyuki Kojima	TKO (Punches)	2	4:28
	Takenori Ito	vs.	Masato Fujiwara	Draw	3	5:00
	Yuki Sasaki	def.	Kazuhiro Kusayanagi	TKO (Punches)	1	0:46
	Naoya Uematsu	vs.	Kimihito Nonaka	Draw	2	5:00
	Ryuta Sakurai	vs.	Izuru Takeuchi	Draw	2	5:00
	Takanori Gomi	def.	Hiroshi Tsuruya	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takaharu Murahama	vs.	Saburo Kawakatsu	Draw
	Masaru Gokita	def.	Masaki Nishizawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

See also

• Shooto
• List of Shooto champions
• List of Shooto Events