1999 in Shooto

The year 1999 is the 11th year in the history of Shooto, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the Japan. In 1999 Shooto held 12 events beginning with, Shooto: Devilock Fighters.

1999 in Shooto
Information
First date	January 15, 1999
Last date	November 4, 1999
Events
Total events	12
Fights
Total fights	86
Title fights	3
Chronology
1998 in Shooto 1999 in Shooto 2000 in Shooto

Title fights

Title fights in 1999
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Event	Notes
Featherweight	Noboru Asahi (c)	vs.	Uchu Tatsumi	Draw	3	5:00	Shooto: Renaxis 1	[a]
Lightweight	Caol Uno	def.	Rumina Sato	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	3	4:02	Shooto: 10th Anniversary Event	[b]
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira	def.	Noboru Asahi (c)	Technical Submission (Guillotine Choke)	2	3:29	Shooto: Renaxis 4	[c]

1. For The Featherweight Champion.
2. For The Lightweight Champion.
3. For The Featherweight Champion.

Events list

Main article: List of Shooto Events

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
69	Shooto: Gateway to the Extremes	November 4, 1999	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
68	Shooto: Renaxis 5	October 29, 1999	Namihaya Dome	Kadoma, Osaka, Japan
67	Shooto: Shooter's Ambition	October 6, 1999	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
66	Shooto: Renaxis 4	September 5, 1999	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
65	Shooto: Renaxis 3	August 4, 1999	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
64	Shooto: Renaxis 2	July 16, 1999	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
63	Shooto: 10th Anniversary Event	May 29, 1999	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
62	Shooto: Shooter's Passion	May 27, 1999	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
61	Shooto: Gig '99	April 9, 1999	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
60	Shooto: Renaxis 1	March 28, 1999	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
59	Shooto: Shooter's Soul	January 27, 1999	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
58	Shooto: Devilock Fighters	January 15, 1999	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan

Shooto: Devilock Fighters

Shooto: Devilock Fighters^[1] was an event held on January 15, 1999, at The Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Rumina Sato	def.	Charles Diaz	Submission (Flying Armbar)	1	0:06
	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Ademir Oliveira	KO (Flying Knee)	1	0:34
	Akihiro Gono	vs.	Marcos da Silva	Draw	3	5:00
	Takanori Gomi	def.	Kazumichi Takada	TKO (Punches)	2	3:42
	Makoto Ishikawa	def.	Mitsuo Matsumoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Shooter's Soul

Shooto: Shooter's Soul^[2] was an event held on January 27, 1999, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Naoya Uematsu	def.	Mamoru Okochi	TKO (Punches)	2	1:22
	Ryuta Sakurai	def.	Nobuhiro Tsurumaki	TKO (Cut)	1	0:54
	Takayuki Okochi	vs.	Norio Fujita	Draw	2	5:00
	Yoshinobu Ota	def.	Hiroaki Yoshioka	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Kohei Yasumi	def.	Koji Takeuchi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Chikara Miyake	def.	Jinzaburo Yonezawa	Draw	2	5:00
	Fumio Usami	def.	Teruyuki Hashimoto	TKO (Punches)	2	0:46
	Kazuya Abe	def.	Yohei Nanbu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Renaxis 1

Shooto: Renaxis 1^[3] was an event held on March 28, 1999, at The Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Featherweight	Noboru Asahi (c)	vs.	Uchu Tatsumi	Draw	3	5:00	[a]
	Alexandre Franca Nogueira	def.	Masahiro Oishi	Submission (Armbar)	1	3:11
	Takanori Gomi	def.	Takuya Kuwabara	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Kohei Sato	def.	Anthony Netzler	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kohei Yasumi	vs.	Satoshi Fujisaki	Draw	2	5:00
	Kazuya Abe	def.	Koji Takeuchi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

1. For The Featherweight Champion.

Shooto: Gig '99

Shooto: Gig '99^[4] was an event held on April 9, 1999, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Naoya Uematsu	def.	Eric Payne	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	0:16
	Takeyasu Hirono	vs.	Jin Akimoto	Draw	2	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Nobuhiro Tsurumaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Shuichiro Katsumura	def.	Masaki Nishizawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Katsuya Toida	def.	Tetsuo Katsuta	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Shooter's Passion

Shooto: Shooter's Passion^[5] was an event held on May 27, 1999, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Yuki Sasaki	def.	Ryuta Sakurai	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	2:00
	Satoshi Fujisaki	def.	Makoto Ishikawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Saburo Kawakatsu	def.	Takayuki Okochi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Isao Tanimura	def.	Koichi Tanaka	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Mitsuhiro Sakamoto	vs.	Norio Nishiyama	Draw	2	5:00
	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	def.	Hiroki Kotani	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	4:00
	Koji Takeuchi	def.	Mitsuo Matsumoto	Submission (Triangle Choke)	2	1:30
	Hiromichi Maruyama	vs.	Yohei Nanbu	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: 10th Anniversary Event

Shooto: 10th Anniversary Event^[6] was an event held on May 29, 1999, at The Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Caol Uno	def.	Rumina Sato	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	3	4:02	[a]
	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Marcelo Aguiar	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Carlos Newton	def.	Kenji Kawaguchi	Submission (Armbar)	1	5:00
	Tetsuji Kato	def.	Jutaro Nakao	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Matt Hughes	def.	Akihiro Gono	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Dave Menne	def.	Dennis Hallman	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Ahmed Lazizi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroyuki Abe	def.	Yoshiyuki Takayama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

1. For The Lightweight Champion.

Shooto: Renaxis 2

Shooto: Renaxis 2^[7] was an event held on July 16, 1999, at The Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Brad Aird	Submission (Armbar)	1	0:37
	Larry Papadopoulos	def.	Yuki Sasaki	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Takuya Kuwabara	def.	John Paun	TKO (Punches)	2	2:09
	Kohei Sato	def.	Katsuhisa Fujii	TKO (Punches)	1	4:05
	Isao Tanimura	def.	Tomoaki Hayama	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Takuya Wada	def.	Saburo Kawakatsu	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Mamoru Yamaguchi	def.	Shuichiro Katsumura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Renaxis 3

Shooto: Renaxis 3^[8] was an event held on August 4, 1999, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takenori Ito	def.	Kazuya Abe	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	def.	Makoto Ishikawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Jun Kitagawa	def.	Ryuta Sakurai	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takaharu Murahama	def.	Yohei Suzuki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yoshinobu Ota	def.	Norio Nishiyama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yohei Nanbu	def.	Koichi Tanaka	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Mitsuo Matsumoto	def.	Shinsuke Ueno	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Tetsuharu Ikei	def.	Hiroki Kotani	KO (Punch)	1	0:35

Shooto: Renaxis 4

Shooto: Renaxis 4^[9] was an event held on September 5, 1999, at The Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takanori Gomi	def.	Takuya Kuwabara	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira	def.	Noboru Asahi (c)	Technical Submission (Guillotine Choke)	2	3:29	[a]
	Caol Uno	def.	Din Thomas	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	3	3:16
	Uchu Tatsumi	def.	Hisao Ikeda	Decision (Split)	3	5:00
	Naoya Uematsu	def.	Kimihito Nonaka	Technical Submission (Armbar)	3	3:11
	Masahiro Oishi	vs.	Hiroyuki Abe	Draw	2	5:00
	Mamoru Yamaguchi	def.	Jin Akimoto	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Takeyasu Hirono	def.	Masaru Gokita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kohei Yasumi	vs.	Masakazu Kuramochi	Draw	2	5:00

1. For The Featherweight Champion.

Shooto: Shooter's Ambition

Shooto: Shooter's Ambition^[10] was an event held on October 6, 1999, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hiroyuki Kojima	vs.	Takaharu Murahama	Draw	2	5:00
	Tetsuharu Ikei	vs.	Koji Takeuchi	Draw	2	5:00
	Yohei Nanbu	def.	Yohei Suzuki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Fumio Usami	def.	Masashi Kameda	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Norio Nishiyama	def.	Hiroki Kita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Shiko Yamashita	def.	Ryota Ibaraki	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:15
	Hiroshi Umemura	def.	Takeru Ueno	Decision (Split)	2	5:00

Shooto: Renaxis 5

Shooto: Renaxis 5^[11] was an event held on October 29, 1999, at The Namihaya Dome in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Rumina Sato	def.	Phil Johns	Submission (Toe Hold)	1	0:54
	Masanori Suda	def.	Martijn de Jong	Submission (Punches)	2	4:44
	Jutaro Nakao	def.	Rafles la Rose	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	2:17
	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	def.	Kazuya Abe	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Seichi Ikemoto	def.	Isao Tanimura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masaya Inoue	def.	Jun Kitagawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Chikara Miyake	def.	Koichi Tanaka	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	2:16

Shooto: Gateway to the Extremes

Shooto: Gateway to the Extremes^[12] was an event held on November 4, 1999, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Mamoru Yamaguchi	def.	Ryan Diaz	Submission (Armbar)	2	3:35
	Izuru Takeuchi	vs.	Ryuta Sakurai	Draw	2	5:00
	Mamoru Okochi	vs.	Yoshiyuki Takayama	Draw	2	5:00
	Jin Akimoto	def.	Yoshinobu Ota	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kazuhiro Inoue	def.	Teruyuki Hashimoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Mitsuo Matsumoto	def.	Kieran Hewett	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masaki Nishizawa	vs.	Daiji Takahashi	Draw	2	5:00
	Tetsuo Katsuta	def.	Tatsuya Sakurai	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	2	3:33

See also

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