2001 in Shooto

The year 2001 is the 13th year in the history of Shooto, a mixed martial arts promotion based in the Japan. In 2001 Shooto held 21 events beginning with, Shooto: To The Top 1.

2001 in Shooto
Information
First date	January 19, 2001
Last date	December 16, 2001
Events
Total events	21
Fights
Total fights	137
Title fights	5
Chronology
2000 in Shooto 2001 in Shooto 2002 in Shooto

Title fights

Title fights in 2001
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Event	Notes
Middleweight	Anderson Silva	def.	Hayato Sakurai	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Shooto: To The Top 7	[a]
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira (c)	def.	Tetsuo Katsuta	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	2	2:45	Shooto: To The Top 8	[b]
Bantamweight	Masahiro Oishi	def.	Mamoru Yamaguchi	Submission (Triangle Armbar)	1	1:44	Shooto: To The Top 10	[c]
Lightweight	Takanori Gomi	def.	Rumina Sato	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Shooto: To The Top Final Act	[d]
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira (c)	def.	Katsuya Toida	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Shooto: To The Top Final Act	[e]

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

Events list

Main article: List of Shooto Events

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
103	Shooto: To The Top Final Act	December 16, 2001	Tokyo Bay NK Hall	Urayasu, Chiba, Japan
102	Shooto: Gig East 7	November 26, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
101	Shooto: To The Top 10	November 25, 2001	Differ Ariake Arena	Tokyo, Japan
100	Shooto: Gig East 6	October 23, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
99	Shooto: To The Top 9	September 27, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
98	Shooto: Gig West 2	September 23, 2001	Namba Grand Kagetsu Studio	Osaka, Kansai, Japan
97	Shooto: To The Top 8	September 2, 2001	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
96	Shooto: To The Top 7	August 26, 2001	Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium	Osaka, Kansai, Japan
95	Shooto: Gig East 5	August 15, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
94	Shooto: Gig East 4	July 27, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
93	Shooto: To The Top 6	July 6, 2001	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
92	Shooto: To The Top 5	June 30, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
91	Shooto: Gig East 3	June 14, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
90	Shooto: Gig East 2	May 22, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
89	Shooto: To The Top 4	May 1, 2001	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
88	Shooto: Gig East 1	April 28, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
87	Shooto: Wanna Shooto 2001	April 8, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
86	Shooto: To The Top 3	March 21, 2001	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
85	Shooto: To The Top 2	March 2, 2001	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
84	Shooto: Gig West 1	February 18, 2001	Namba Grand Kagetsu Studio	Osaka, Kansai, Japan
83	Shooto: To The Top 1	January 19, 2001	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan

Shooto: To The Top 1

Shooto: To The Top 1^[1] was an event held on January 19, 2001, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Naoya Uematsu	def.	Mike Cardoso	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Akihiro Gono	def.	Ivan Salaverry	KO (Spinning Back Kick)	1	3:06
	Tetsuo Katsuta	def.	Baret Yoshida	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Hiroaki Yoshioka	def.	Takeyasu Hirono	Draw	3	5:00
	Ryan Bow	def.	Tony DeDolph	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:21
	Katsuya Toida	def.	Hisao Ikeda	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Masahiro Oishi	def.	Masaki Nishizawa	TKO (Punches)	1	4:12
	Takaharu Murahama	def.	Yohei Nanbu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Daiji Takahashi	def.	Yasuhiro Urushitani	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hideki Kadowaki	def.	Takuhito Hida	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Ryota Matsune	def.	Nobuyuki Kato	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Toshiteru Ishii	def.	Tomohiro Hashi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig West 1

Shooto: Gig West 1^[2] was an event held on February 18, 2001, at the Namba Grand Kagetsu Studio in Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Seichi Ikemoto	def.	Takayuki Okochi	KO (Knees)	1	4:01
	Isao Tanimura	def.	Yuji Kusu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takumi Nakayama	def.	Chikara Miyake	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroshi Umemura	vs.	Masashi Kameda	Draw	2	5:00
	Jun Kitagawa	def.	Masashi Kita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yoshihiro Fujita	def.	Koichi Tanaka	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	3:58
	Daisuke Sugie	def.	Tsutomu Shiiki	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00

Shooto: To The Top 2

Shooto: To The Top 2^[3] was an event held on March 2, 2001, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Mamoru Yamaguchi	def.	Gildo Lima	Submission (Armbar)	1	3:57
	Anderson Silva	def.	Tetsuji Kato	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Ryan Bow	def.	Kohei Yasumi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Masahiro Oishi	def.	Yoshinobu Ota	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	2	2:48
	Jutaro Nakao	def.	Thomas Denny	Submission (Strangle Choke)	3	3:09
	Koji Takeuchi	vs.	Hideki Kadowaki	Draw	2	5:00
	Norifumi Yamamoto	def.	Masato Shiozawa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: To The Top 3

Shooto: To The Top 3^[4] was an event held on March 21, 2001, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Jin Akimoto	def.	Hiroaki Yoshioka	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Takumi Nakayama	def.	Ian James Schaffa	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Mitsuo Matsumoto	def.	Takashi Ochi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Ryota Matsune	def.	Tomoharu Umezawa	Submission (Toe Hold)	2	2:41
	Toshiteru Ishii	def.	Katsuhisa Akasaki	DQ (Kneeing to the Head on the Ground)	2	2:46
	Yasuhiro Urushitani	def.	Homare Kuboyama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Wanna Shooto 2001

Shooto: Wanna Shooto 2001^[5] was an event held on April 8, 2001, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hiroshi Tsuruya	vs.	Kim Mason	Draw	2	5:00
	Shiko Yamashita	def.	Jeremy Bennett	Submission (Punches)	2	2:36
	Kentaro Imaizumi	def.	Daiji Takahashi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Makoto Ishikawa	def.	Eugene Hynson	Submission (Armbar)	2	4:42
	Takuhito Hida	def.	Roemer Trumpert	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Eiji Murayama	def.	Akitoshi Tamura	Technical Decision (Unanimous)	2	0:00
	Shuichiro Katsumura	def.	Ryan Diaz	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Isao Tanimura	def.	Rodney Ellis	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Tatsuya Kawajiri	vs.	Yohei Suzuki	Draw	2	5:00
	Kazumichi Takada	def.	Masa Marcome	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	4:35
	Shinobu Ito	def.	Martijn Meenhuis	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	4:16
	Hiroki Kotani	vs.	Takeshi Yamazaki	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig East 1

Shooto: Gig East 1^[6] was an event held on April 28, 2001, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kazuya Abe	vs.	Kazuhiro Inoue	Draw	2	5:00
	Masato Fujiwara	def.	Masakazu Kuramochi	TKO (Cut)	1	1:01
	Ryota Matsune	def.	Hiroyasu Kodera	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yoshihiro Fujita	def.	Katsuhisa Akasaki	Submission (Kimura)	1	5:00
	Shigetoshi Iwase	def.	Yoshifumi Dogaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yasuyuki Tokuoka	def.	Toru Nakayama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: To The Top 4

Shooto: To The Top 4^[7] was an event held on May 1, 2001, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Tetsuo Katsuta	def.	Alexandre Franca Nogueira	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Akihiro Gono	vs.	Murilo Rua	Draw (Majority)	3	5:00
	Katsuya Toida	def.	Osmar Diaz Fernandez	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	0:37
	Toniko Junior	vs.	Takaharu Murahama	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig East 2

Shooto: Gig East 2^[8] was an event held on May 22, 2001, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takayuki Okochi	def.	Tomonori Ohara	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Daiji Takahashi	def.	Hiroshi Umemura	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	3:51
	Masato Fujiwara	vs.	Daisuke Sugie	Draw	2	5:00
	Tatsuya Kawajiri	def.	Yohei Suzuki	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	2:42
	Seiji Ozuka	def.	Yoshihiro Fujita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig East 3

Shooto: Gig East 3^[9] was an event held on December 17, 2001, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Shiko Yamashita	def.	Ryuta Sakurai	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroshi Tsuruya	def.	Shigetoshi Iwase	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Makoto Ishikawa	def.	Koichi Tanaka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kentaro Imaizumi	def.	Ryota Matsune	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Naoki Matsushita	def.	Takuhito Hida	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: To The Top 5

Shooto: To The Top 5^[10] was an event held on June 30, 2001, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takumi Nakayama	def.	Charlie Pearson	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Takuya Wada	def.	Isao Tanimura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroki Kotani	def.	Takashi Ochi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takeshi Yamazaki	def.	Koji Takeuchi	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Seiji Ozuka	def.	Katsuhisa Akasaki	Decision (Split)	2	5:00
	Homare Kuboyama	def.	Junji Ikoma	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: To The Top 6

Shooto: To The Top 6^[11] was an event held on July 6, 2001, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Katsuya Toida	def.	Baret Yoshida	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Tetsuji Kato	def.	Ray Cooper	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Martijn de Jong	Decision (Split)	3	5:00
	Stephen Palling	def.	Kimihito Nonaka	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Daisuke Sugie	def.	Mitsuhiro Ishida	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Norifumi Yamamoto	def.	Masashi Kameda	KO (Punch)	1	4:17

Shooto: Gig East 4

Shooto: Gig East 4^[12] was an event held on July 27, 2001, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takumi Nakayama	def.	Takaharu Murahama	Technical Decision (Unanimous)	2	0:00
	Takeshi Yamazaki	def.	Masato Fujiwara	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Jun Kitagawa	def.	Tomoki Kanuka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kenichiro Togashi	def.	Tsutomu Shiiki	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Akihiko Adachi	def.	Jun Ishii	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig East 5

Shooto: Gig East 5^[13] was an event held on August 15, 2001, at The Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hiroaki Yoshioka	def.	Kentaro Imaizumi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Ryota Matsune	def.	Hiroshi Umemura	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yohei Suzuki	def.	Masakazu Kuramochi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Akitoshi Tamura	def.	Koichi Tanaka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Naoto Kojima	def.	Naoki Matsushita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: To The Top 7

Shooto: To The Top 7^[14] was an event held on August 26, 2001, at The Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Middleweight	Anderson Silva	def.	Hayato Sakurai	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[a]
	Rumina Sato	def.	Marcio Ramos Barbosa	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Masanori Suda	vs.	Larry Papadopoulos	Draw	3	5:00
	Steve Berger	def.	Seichi Ikemoto	Submission (Triangle Armbar)	3	2:09
	Ichaku Murata	def.	Yoshihiro Fujita	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	1:08
	Yasuyuki Tokuoka	def.	Tomonori Ohara	Technical Submission (Armbar)	1	2:37

1. For The Middleweight Champion.

Shooto: To The Top 8

Shooto: To The Top 8^[15] was an event held on September 2, 2001, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira (c)	def.	Tetsuo Katsuta	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	2	2:45	[a]
	Jin Akimoto	def.	Takeyasu Hirono	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Shiko Yamashita	def.	Leopoldo Serao	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Takumi Nakayama	def.	Bruno Queroy	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kazuhiro Inoue	def.	Flavio Santiago	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kazuya Abe	def.	Makoto Ishikawa	KO (Punch)	1	0:29
	Norifumi Yamamoto	def.	Hideki Kadowaki	TKO (Punches)	1	4:02

1. For The Featherweight Champion.

Shooto: Gig West 2

Shooto: Gig West 2^[16] was an event held on September 23, 2001, at The Namba Grand Kagetsu Studio in Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Daisuke Sugie	def.	Takaharu Murahama	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:32
	Kaichi Tsuji	def.	Katsuhiko Ochiai	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Tsutomu Shiiki	def.	Ken Omatsu	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Hiroshi Komatsu	def.	Koichi Tanaka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Tomohiro Hashi	def.	Junji Ikoma	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yoshifumi Dogaki	vs.	Hirofumi Hara	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: To The Top 9

Shooto: To The Top 9^[17] was an event held on September 27, 2001, at The Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takuya Wada	def.	Jason Buck	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Isao Tanimura	def.	Shigetoshi Iwase	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Hiroshi Tsuruya	def.	Koji Takeuchi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Tatsuya Kawajiri	def.	Kazumichi Takada	Technical Submission (Triangle Armbar)	1	3:03
	Yasuhiro Urushitani	def.	Katsuhisa Akasaki	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Homare Kuboyama	def.	Toshiteru Ishii	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Mitsuhiro Ishida	def.	Hiroki Kotani	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig East 6

Shooto: Gig East 6^[18] was an event held on October 23, 2001, at The Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Ryota Matsune	def.	Daiji Takahashi	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Takeshi Yamazaki	def.	Daisuke Sugie	Submission (Armbar)	2	3:44
	Kuniyoshi Hironaka	def.	Takayuki Okochi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Akira Komatsu	vs.	Noriyuki Yokoyama	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: To The Top 10

Shooto: To The Top 10^[19] was an event held on November 25, 2001, at The Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Bantamweight	Masahiro Oishi	def.	Mamoru Yamaguchi	Submission (Triangle Armbar)	1	1:44	[a]
	Izuru Takeuchi	vs.	Martijn de Jong	Draw	3	5:00
	Kentaro Imaizumi	def.	Takeyasu Hirono	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Hiroyuki Abe	def.	Kazuhiro Inoue	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	4:00
	Masato Fujiwara	def.	Koji Takeuchi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Homare Kuboyama	def.	Tomohiro Hashi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masakazu Kuramochi	def.	Takuhito Hida	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Naoki Matsushita	vs.	Kenichiro Togashi	Draw	2	5:00

1. For The Bantamweight Champion.

Shooto: Gig East 7

Shooto: Gig East 7^[20] was an event held on November 26, 2001, at The Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hisao Ikeda	def.	Ichaku Murata	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Hiroshi Umemura	vs.	Seiji Ozuka	Draw	2	5:00
	Mitsuhiro Ishida	def.	Naoto Kojima	TKO (Punches)	2	1:58
	Hiroki Kita	def.	Akira Kibe	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Akihiko Adachi	def.	Kassim Annan	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	3:46
	Kotetsu Boku	def.	Marc Duncan	Submission (Armbar)	2	3:15

Shooto: To The Top Final Act

Shooto: To The Top Final Act^[21] was an event held on December 16, 2001, at The Tokyo Bay NK Hall in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Takanori Gomi	def.	Rumina Sato	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[a]
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira (c)	def.	Katsuya Toida	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[b]
	Hayato Sakurai	def.	Dan Gilbert	Submission (Heel Hook)	1	1:52
	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	def.	Ryan Bow	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Jutaro Nakao	def.	Takuya Wada	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	4:07
	Tetsuji Kato	def.	Seichi Ikemoto	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Marcio Ramos Barbosa	def.	Takumi Nakayama	TKO (Guillotine Choke)	1	0:32

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

See also

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