2000 in Shooto

The year 2000 is the 12th year in the history of Shooto, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the Japan. In 2000 Shooto held 13 events beginning with, Shooto: R.E.A.D. 1.

2000 in Shooto
Information
First date	January 14, 2000
Last date	December 17, 2000
Events
Total events	13
Fights
Total fights	101
Title fights	4
Chronology
1999 in Shooto 2000 in Shooto 2001 in Shooto

Title fights

Title fights in 2000
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Event	Notes
Middleweight	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Tetsuji Kato	Decision (Split)	3	5:00	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 2	[a]
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira (c)	def.	Uchu Tatsumi	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	1:57	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 9	[b]
Lightweight	Caol Uno	def.	Rumina Sato	KO (Punch)	1	2:21	Shooto: R.E.A.D. Final	[c]
Bantamweight	Mamoru Yamaguchi	def.	Jin Akimoto	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Shooto: R.E.A.D. Final	[d]

1. For The Middleweight Champion.
2. For The Featherweight Champion.
3. For The Lightweight Champion.
4. For The Bantamweight Champion.

Events list

Main article: List of Shooto Events

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
82	Shooto: R.E.A.D. Final	December 17, 2000	Tokyo Bay NK Hall	Urayasu, Chiba, Japan
81	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 12	November 12, 2000	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
80	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 11	October 9, 2000	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
79	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 10	September 15, 2000	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
78	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 9	August 27, 2000	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
77	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 8	August 4, 2000	Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium	Osaka, Kansai, Japan
76	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 7	July 22, 2000	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
75	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 6	July 16, 2000	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
74	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 5	May 22, 2000	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
73	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 4	April 12, 2000	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
72	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 3	April 2, 2000	Namihaya Dome	Kadoma, Osaka, Japan
71	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 2	March 17, 2000	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
70	Shooto: R.E.A.D. 1	January 14, 2000	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 1

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 1^[1] was an event held on January 14, 2000, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Ray Cooper	def.	Jutaro Nakao	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Larry Papadopoulos	vs.	Akihiro Gono	Draw	3	5:00
	Yuki Sasaki	def.	Ronald Jhun	Submission (Triangle Armbar)	3	2:20
	Norio Nishiyama	def.	Takeyasu Hirono	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	John Calvo	def.	Jun Kitagawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Shiko Yamashita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroshi Tsuruya	def.	Masakazu Kuramochi	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:51
	Kohei Yasumi	def.	Yohei Nanbu	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Yohei Suzuki	def.	Mitsuo Matsumoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Makoto Ishikawa	def.	Jinzaburo Yonezawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 2

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 2^[2] was an event held on March 17, 2000, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Middleweight	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Tetsuji Kato	Decision (Split)	3	5:00	[a]
	Takuya Kuwabara	def.	Johnny Eduardo	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Din Thomas	def.	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	2	3:37
	Mamoru Yamaguchi	vs.	Masaru Gokita	Draw	2	5:00
	Yoshinobu Ota	def.	Norio Nishiyama	Technical Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	0:28
	Isao Tanimura	def.	Takaharu Murahama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

1. For The Middleweight Champion.

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 3

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 3^[3] was an event held on April 2, 2000, at The Namihaya Dome in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Caol Uno	def.	Dennis Hallman	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Alexandre Franca Nogueira	def.	Mamoru Okochi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Masanori Suda	def.	Yuki Sasaki	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Takanori Gomi	def.	Anderson Pavao	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Saburo Kawakatsu	def.	Tomonori Ohara	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:26
	Hiroshi Umemura	def.	Fumio Usami	TKO (Punches)	1	2:03
	Yuji Kusu	vs.	Seichi Ikemoto	Draw	2	5:00
	Masashi Kita	def.	Ryota Ibaraki	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:03

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 4

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 4^[4] was an event held on April 12, 2000, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Jin Akimoto	def.	Greg Piper	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:29
	Shuichiro Katsumura	def.	Takeyasu Hirono	TKO (Cut)	1	4:17
	Ryan Bow	def.	Masato Fujiwara	KO (Knees)	1	2:19
	Tetsuo Katsuta	def.	Teruyuki Hashimoto	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	4:29
	Makoto Ishikawa	def.	Kazumichi Takada	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Shigetoshi Iwase	def.	Takayuki Okochi	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Takumi Nakayama	def.	Tatsuya Kawajiri	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	2:44
	Hiroaki Yoshioka	def.	Daiji Takahashi	Decision (Split)	2	5:00

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 5

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 5^[5] was an event held on May 22, 2000, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takuya Kuwabara	vs.	Ian James Schaffa	Draw	3	5:00
	Akihiro Gono	def.	Andy Wang	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Baret Yoshida	def.	Masahiro Oishi	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	2	1:48
	Alex Cook	def.	Isao Tanimura	KO (Punches)	1	1:27
	Hiroyuki Abe	def.	Kimihito Nonaka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Ryan Bow	def.	Takaharu Murahama	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Takuya Wada	vs.	Seichi Ikemoto	Draw	2	5:00
	Koji Takeuchi	def.	Makoto Ishikawa	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Kazuhiro Inoue	def.	Katsuya Toida	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 6

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 6^[6] was an event held on July 16, 2000, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Naoya Uematsu	def.	Joey Gilbert	Submission (Achilles Lock)	2	3:22
	Takanori Gomi	def.	Paul Rodriguez	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Lance Gibson	def.	Masanori Suda	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Kohei Yasumi	def.	Chikara Miyake	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroshi Tsuruya	def.	Tomonori Ohara	Submission (Kimura)	1	0:50
	Takumi Nakayama	vs.	Koji Takeuchi	Draw	2	5:00
	Yohei Suzuki	def.	Kazumichi Takada	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 7

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 7^[7] was an event held on July 22, 2000, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Uchu Tatsumi	def.	Anthony Hamlett	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	2:49
	Tetsuo Katsuta	def.	Kazuhiro Inoue	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Daiji Takahashi	def.	Takeyasu Hirono	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Hiroaki Yoshioka	def.	Shuichiro Katsumura	Submission (Armbar)	2	3:43
	Masaki Nishizawa	def.	Norio Nishiyama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Katsuya Toida	def.	Takeru Ueno	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Mitsuo Matsumoto	vs.	Hiroki Kotani	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 8

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 8^[8] was an event held on August 4, 2000, at The Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Luiz Azeredo	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Dan Gilbert	def.	Jutaro Nakao	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	3	4:02
	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	def.	Justin Wisniewski	Submission (Cobra Hold)	1	1:30
	Saburo Kawakatsu	def.	Seichi Ikemoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yoshihiro Fujita	vs.	Masashi Kameda	Draw	2	5:00
	Hirotaka Yokoi	def.	Masaya Inoue	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 9

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 9^[9] was an event held on August 27, 2000, at The Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira (c)	def.	Uchu Tatsumi	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	1:57	[a]
	Marcio Ramos Barbosa	def.	Caol Uno	Technical Submission (Guillotine Choke)	3	1:49
	Rumina Sato	def.	Takuya Kuwabara	Technical Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Mamoru Yamaguchi	def.	Yoshinobu Ota	KO (Knee)	3	2:21
	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	vs.	Marcio Feitosa	Draw	3	5:00
	Takaharu Murahama	def.	Sergei Bytchkov	KO (Flying Knee)	1	0:11
	Yuji Kusu	vs.	Takuya Wada	Draw	2	5:00
	Hiroshi Tsuruya	vs.	Seichi Ikemoto	Draw	2	5:00

1. For The Featherweight Champion.

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 10

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 10^[10] was an event held on September 15, 2000, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Naoya Uematsu	def.	Noboru Asahi	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Tetsuji Kato	def.	Thomas Denny	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Baret Yoshida	def.	Mamoru Okochi	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Stephen Palling	def.	Hiroyuki Abe	KO (Punches)	2	2:23
	Tetsuo Katsuta	def.	Hiroshi Umemura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroaki Yoshioka	def.	Masaru Gokita	KO (Head Kick)	1	0:17
	Takumi Nakayama	def.	Takuhito Hida	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 11

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 11^[11] was an event held on October 9, 2000, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Seichi Ikemoto	def.	Damien Riccio	TKO (Punches)	1	2:09
	Kazuhiro Inoue	def.	Takeru Ueno	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroki Kita	vs.	Daiji Takahashi	Draw	2	5:00
	Shiko Yamashita	def.	Matthias Riccio	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:18
	Takashi Ochi	def.	Jinzaburo Yonezawa	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Kentaro Imaizumi	def.	Homare Kuboyama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Ryota Matsune	def.	Katsuhisa Akasaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 12

Shooto: R.E.A.D. 12^[12] was an event held on November 12, 2000, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Akihiro Gono	def.	Masanori Suda	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Takanori Gomi	def.	Ryan Bow	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Kimihito Nonaka	def.	Mamoru Okochi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Martijn de Jong	def.	Yuki Sasaki	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	0:40
	Saburo Kawakatsu	def.	Chad W. Saunders	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takaharu Murahama	vs.	Koji Takeuchi	Draw	2	5:00
	Takuya Wada	def.	Rafles la Rose	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yohei Nanbu	vs.	Takumi Nakayama	Draw	2	5:00
	Katsuya Toida	def.	Hiroshi Umemura	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:07
	Takayuki Okochi	def.	Matthias Riccio	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Hideki Kadowaki	def.	Takashi Ochi	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	4:10

Shooto: R.E.A.D. Final

Shooto: R.E.A.D. Final^[13] was an event held on December 17, 2000, at The Tokyo Bay NK Hall in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Caol Uno	def.	Rumina Sato	KO (Punch)	1	2:21	[a]
Bantamweight	Mamoru Yamaguchi	def.	Jin Akimoto	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[b]
	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Frank Trigg	TKO (Knees)	2	2:25
	Alexandre Franca Nogueira	def.	Stephen Palling	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	2	1:19
	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	def.	Marcio Ramos Barbosa	Submission (Kneebar)	2	4:51
	Tetsuji Kato	def.	Dan Gilbert	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	4:28
	Alex Cook	def.	Ray Cooper	Submission (Neck Crank)	1	1:44

1. For The Lightweight Champion.
2. For The Bantamweight Champion.

See also

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