2002 in Shooto

The year 2002 is the 14th year in the history of Shooto, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2002 Shooto held 21 events beginning with, Shooto: Treasure Hunt 1.

2002 in Shooto
Information
First date	January 12, 2002
Last date	December 14, 2002
Events
Total events	21
Fights
Total fights	146
Title fights	4
Chronology
2001 in Shooto 2002 in Shooto 2003 in Shooto

Title fights

Title fights in 2002
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Event	Notes
Middleweight	Masanori Suda	def.	Lance Gibson	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 1	[a]
Bantamweight	Masahiro Oishi (c)	vs.	Hisao Ikeda	Draw	3	5:00	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 10	[b]
Lightweight	Takanori Gomi	def.	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	TKO (Punches)	2	0:52	Shooto: Year End Show 2002	[c]
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira (c)	def.	Hiroyuki Abe	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	3:53	Shooto: Year End Show 2002	[d]

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

Events list

Main article: List of Shooto Events

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
124	Shooto: Year End Show 2002	December 14, 2002	Tokyo Bay NK Hall	Urayasu, Chiba, Japan
123	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 11	November 15, 2002	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
122	Shooto: Gig West 3	October 27, 2002	Namba Grand Kagetsu Studio	Osaka, Kansai, Japan
121	Shooto: Gig Central 2	October 6, 2002	Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
120	Shooto: Gig East 11	September 25, 2002	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
119	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 10	September 16, 2002	Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium	Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
118	Shooto: Gig East 10	August 27, 2002	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
117	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 9	July 27, 2002	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
116	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 8	July 19, 2002	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
115	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 7	June 29, 2002	Kanaoka Park Gymnasium	Sakai, Osaka, Japan
114	Shooto: Gig East 9	May 28, 2002	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
113	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 6	May 5, 2002	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
112	Shooto: Wanna Shooto Japan	April 21, 2002	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
111	Shooto: Wanna Shooto 2002	April 14, 2002	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
110	Shooto: Gig Central 1	March 31, 2002	Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
109	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 5	March 15, 2002	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan
108	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 4	March 13, 2002	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
107	Shooto: Gig East 8	February 28, 2002	Kitazawa Town Hall	Tokyo, Japan
106	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 3	February 11, 2002	Kobe Fashion Mart	Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
105	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 2	January 25, 2002	Kitazawa Town Hall	Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
104	Shooto: Treasure Hunt 1	January 12, 2002	Korakuen Hall	Tokyo, Japan

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 1

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 1^[1] was an event held on January 12, 2002, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Middleweight	Masanori Suda	def.	Lance Gibson	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00	[a]
	Hisao Ikeda	def.	Hiroaki Yoshioka	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Izuru Takeuchi	def.	Ronald Jhun	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Ryota Matsune	def.	Daiji Takahashi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takeyasu Hirono	def.	Tomohiro Hashi	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Mitsuhiro Ishida	def.	Masakazu Kuramochi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

1. For The Middleweight Champion.

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 2

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 2^[2] was an event held on January 25, 2002, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kohei Yasumi	def.	Henry Matamoros	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Takayuki Okochi	def.	Mitsuo Matsumoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Junji Ikoma	def.	Toshiteru Ishii	Technical Submission (Kimura)	1	2:35
	Kotetsu Boku	def.	Takuhito Hida	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Akitoshi Tamura	vs.	Jin Kazeta	Draw	2	5:00
	Masatoshi Abe	def.	Katsuhisa Akasaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Akira Kikuchi	def.	Yoichi Fukumoto	Submission (Armbar)	1	3:18

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 3

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 3^[3] was an event held on February 11, 2002, at Kobe Fashion Mart in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	def.	Ben Thomas	TKO (Punches)	1	3:07
	Takuya Wada	def.	Seichi Ikemoto	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Masaya Inoue	def.	Kaichi Tsuji	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Tsutomu Shiiki	vs.	Naoki Matsushita	Draw	2	5:00
	Yasuyuki Tokuoka	def.	Hirofumi Hara	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masashi Kameda	def.	Masanori Sugatani	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:34
	Akira Kibe	vs.	Akitoshi Hokazono	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig East 8

Shooto: Gig East 8^[4] was an event held on February 28, 2002, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takaharu Murahama	def.	Yohei Suzuki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Ken Omatsu	def.	Takashi Ochi	TKO (Punches)	1	3:02
	Hiroshi Komatsu	def.	Eiji Murayama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroki Kotani	vs.	Seiki Uchimura	Draw	2	5:00
	Ikuma Hoshino	def.	Yoshiko Onoue	TKO (Corner Stoppage)	2	4:38

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 4

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 4^[5] was an event held on March 13, 2002, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Ryuta Sakurai	vs.	Marcelo Machado	Draw	2	5:00
	Homare Kuboyama	def.	Takeyasu Hirono	Decision (Split)	2	5:00
	Yasuhiro Urushitani	def.	Masaru Gokita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kotetsu Boku	def.	Mitsuo Matsumoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Tatsuya Kawajiri	def.	Masaya Takita	TKO (Swollen Eye)	2	1:22
	Kuniyoshi Hironaka	def.	Toru Nakayama	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	3:10

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 5

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 5^[6] was an event held on March 15, 2002, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Ryan Bow	def.	Marcio Ramos Barbosa	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Hiroyuki Abe	vs.	Baret Yoshida	Draw	3	5:00
	Shiko Yamashita	def.	Jun Kitagawa	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Makoto Ishikawa	def.	Yohei Nanbu	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Tomohiro Hashi	def.	Shinichi Hanawa	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Noriyuki Yokoyama	def.	Seiji Ozuka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig Central 1

Shooto: Gig Central 1^[7] was an event held on March 31, 2002, at Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Naoya Uematsu	vs.	Kazuhiro Inoue	Draw	3	5:00
	Kohei Yasumi	def.	Daisuke Sugie	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	3:31
	Naoki Matsushita	def.	Takayuki Okochi	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Yasuhiro Akagi	def.	Takahisa Toyoshima	Submission (Armbar)	1	2:00
	Masatoshi Abe	def.	Keisuke Kurata	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	4:39

Shooto: Wanna Shooto 2002

Shooto: Wanna Shooto 2002^[8] was an event held on April 14, 2002, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Mamoru Yamaguchi	def.	Hiroaki Yoshioka	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Yohei Suzuki	def.	Patrick Rahael	TKO (Punches)	1	3:20
	Isao Tanimura	def.	Mario Stapel	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Toru Nakayama	def.	Yoshifumi Dogaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kentaro Imaizumi	vs.	Shuichiro Katsumura	Draw	2	5:00
	Marloes Coenen	def.	Miwako Ishihara	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Masato Fujiwara	def.	Vincent Latoel	Submission (Triangle/Armbar)	1	3:53
	Akira Kikuchi	def.	Jani Lax	Submission (Kimura)	1	2:51
	Kenichiro Togashi	vs.	Seiki Uchimura	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: Wanna Shooto Japan

Shooto: Wanna Shooto Japan^[9] was an event held on April 21, 2002, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Tatsuya Kawajiri	def.	Takeshi Yamazaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masato Shiozawa	def.	Akira Kibe	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hideki Kadowaki	def.	Naoya Miyamoto	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	2:12
	Tsutomu Shiiki	def.	Naosuke Mizoguchi	KO (Punch)	2	0:53
	Jin Kazeta	def.	Masanori Sugatani	KO (Knee to the Body)	1	1:11
	Shinichi Hanawa	def.	Katsuhisa Akasaki	DQ (Knee to the Head on the Ground)	1	4:00
	Hiroki Kita	def.	Manabu Kano	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 6

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 6^[10] was an event held on May 5, 2002, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Stephen Palling	def.	Norifumi Yamamoto	TKO (Cut)	1	0:30
	Jin Akimoto	def.	Alfonso Alcarez	Submission (Kneebar)	1	0:22
	Dave Strasser	def.	Takuya Wada	Decision (Split)	3	5:00
	Takaharu Murahama	def.	Kotetsu Boku	Submission (Kneebar)	2	3:17
	Kenichiro Togashi	def.	Masakazu Kuramochi	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:31
	Yoichi Fukumoto	def.	Shinobu Ito	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yasuhiro Urushitani	def.	Yasuhiro Akagi	Technical Submission (Triangle/Kimura)	2	1:57

Shooto: Gig East 9

Shooto: Gig East 9^[11] was an event held on May 28, 2002, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kazuya Abe	def.	Matt Hamilton	Submission (Armbar)	1	3:56
	Tatsuya Kawajiri	def.	Daisuke Sugie	TKO (Punches)	2	4:19
	Hirofumi Hara	def.	Kuniyoshi Hironaka	TKO (Punches)	1	4:34
	Jin Kazeta	def.	Hiroshi Komatsu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Akira Kibe	def.	Noriyuki Yokoyama	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Ken Omatsu	def.	Takuhito Hida	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Masaya Inoue	def.	Akihiko Adachi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yuichi Nakanishi	def.	Tomoki Kanuka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 7

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 7^[12] was an event held on June 29, 2002, at The Kanaoka Park Gymnasium in Sakai, Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takanori Gomi	def.	Leonardo Santos	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Masanori Suda	def.	Ronald Jhun	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	def.	Iran Mascarenhas	Submission (Achilles Lock)	2	4:53
	Javier Vazquez	def.	Rumina Sato	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Dave Strasser	def.	Seichi Ikemoto	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	1	3:10
	Yasuyuki Tokuoka	def.	Yoichi Fukumoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kaichi Tsuji	def.	Masato Nishiguchi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 8

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 8^[13] was an event held on July 19, 2002, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hiroyuki Abe	def.	Alexandre Franca Nogueira	KO (Punch)	1	4:37
	Kazuhiro Inoue	vs.	Tetsuo Katsuta	Draw	3	5:00
	Homare Kuboyama	def.	Takeyasu Hirono	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Kotetsu Boku	def.	Toniko Junior	TKO (Punches)	1	4:50
	Tatsuya Kawajiri	def.	Tsutomu Shiiki	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	4:42
	Masatoshi Abe	def.	Junji Ikoma	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Masato Shiozawa	def.	Daiji Takahashi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Kenichiro Togashi	vs.	Eduardo Guimaraes	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 9

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 9^[14] was an event held on July 27, 2002, at The Kitazawa Town Hall in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Hiroaki Yoshioka	def.	Ichaku Murata	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Akira Kikuchi	def.	Shigetoshi Iwase	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yohei Suzuki	def.	Ken Omatsu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hideki Kadowaki	def.	Masashi Kameda	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	2:23
	Akira Komatsu	def.	Hiroki Kita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Takayuki Okochi	def.	Hiroki Kotani	KO (Knee)	1	2:06
	Toshiteru Ishii	def.	Takahisa Toyoshima	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Eiji Murayama	def.	Masatoshi Kobayashi	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Gig East 10

Shooto: Gig East 10^[15] was an event held on August 27, 2002, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Takumi Nakayama	def.	Takeshi Yamazaki	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Masato Fujiwara	vs.	Naoki Matsushita	Draw	2	5:00
	Yasuhiro Urushitani	def.	Tomohiro Hashi	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Masato Nishiguchi	vs.	Ryuta Sakurai	Draw	2	5:00
	Kuniyoshi Hironaka	def.	Yuji Kusu	TKO (Swollen Eye)	2	3:47
	Hiroshi Komatsu	def.	Akitoshi Tamura	Technical Decision (Unanimous)	2	0:33
	Komei Okada	def.	Shinobu Ito	Decision (Split)	2	5:00
	Seiji Nakasugi	def.	Tomonori Tachiyama	Decision	2	5:00
	Hiromi Oka	vs.	Aya Sakurai	Draw	2	3:00

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 10

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 10^[16] was an event held on September 16, 2002, at The Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Bantamweight	Masahiro Oishi (c)	vs.	Hisao Ikeda	Draw	3	5:00	[a]
	Takanori Gomi	def.	Chris Brennan	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Norifumi Yamamoto	def.	Tetsuo Katsuta	TKO (Punches)	1	2:45
	Vítor Ribeiro	def.	Hiroshi Tsuruya	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Robson Moura	def.	Mamoru Yamaguchi	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Kentaro Imaizumi	def.	Kazuya Abe	TKO (Corner Stoppage)	1	2:06
	Bao Quach	def.	Naoya Uematsu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Makoto Ishikawa	def.	Eiji Murayama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

1. For The Bantamweight Champion.

Shooto: Gig East 11

Shooto: Gig East 11^[17] was an event held on September 25, 2002, at Kitazawa Town Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Ryota Matsune	def.	Ichaku Murata	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Takayuki Okochi	def.	Masato Fujiwara	TKO (Punches)	2	4:24
	Jin Kazeta	vs.	Naosuke Mizoguchi	Draw	2	5:00
	Fumio Usami	vs.	Naoto Kojima	Draw	2	5:00
	Yohei Mikami	def.	Noriyuki Yokoyama	KO (Punch)	1	0:26
	Takashi Nakakura	def.	Heima Hashimoto	Submission (Rear Naked Choke)	2	3:17

Shooto: Gig Central 2

Shooto: Gig Central 2^[18] was an event held on October 6, 2002, at The Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Kimihito Nonaka	def.	Hiroaki Yoshioka	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Naoki Matsushita	def.	Yohei Suzuki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Akira Komatsu	def.	Akira Kibe	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Junji Ikoma	def.	Yasuhiro Akagi	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	4:41
	Keisuke Kurata	def.	Kenichi Sawada	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hatsu Hioki	def.	Masanori Sugatani	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	2:29

Shooto: Gig West 3

Shooto: Gig West 3^[19] was an event held on October 27, 2002, at The Namba Grand Kagetsu Studio in Osaka, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Tatsuya Kawajiri	def.	Ken Omatsu	Submission (Armbar)	1	4:40
	Seichi Ikemoto	def.	Shigetoshi Iwase	Decision (Majority)	2	5:00
	Ryuta Sakurai	def.	Jun Kitagawa	TKO (Cut)	1	3:23
	Takashi Nakakura	def.	Masaya Takita	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hiroyuki Tanaka	def.	Manabu Kano	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 11

Shooto: Treasure Hunt 11^[20] was an event held on November 15, 2002, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Rumina Sato	vs.	Takumi Nakayama	Draw	3	5:00
	Shuichiro Katsumura	def.	Alfonso Alcarez	Technical Submission (Triangle Choke)	2	3:04
	Kuniyoshi Hironaka	def.	Yasuyuki Tokuoka	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Hideki Kadowaki	def.	Hiroshi Komatsu	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yasuhiro Urushitani	def.	Masatoshi Abe	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
	Yoichi Fukumoto	def.	Rhett Anthony	Submission (Kimura)	2	2:11
	Hatsu Hioki	def.	Edward Button	TKO (Punches)	1	4:11
	Komei Okada	def.	Kentaro Maeda	TKO (Knee Injury)	2	0:15
	Tomonari Kanomata	vs.	Nobuhiro Obiya	Draw	2	5:00

Shooto: Year End Show 2002

Shooto: Year End Show 2002^[21] was an event held on December 14, 2002, at The Tokyo Bay NK Hall in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Takanori Gomi	def.	Dokonjonosuke Mishima	TKO (Punches)	2	0:52	[a]
Featherweight	Alexandre Franca Nogueira (c)	def.	Hiroyuki Abe	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	3:53	[b]
	Jake Shields	def.	Hayato Sakurai	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Vítor Ribeiro	def.	Tatsuya Kawajiri	Decision (Unanimous)	3	5:00
	Masato Shiozawa	def.	Hisao Ikeda	TKO (Punches)	3	4:14
	Joachim Hansen	def.	Takumi Nakayama	Decision (Majority)	3	5:00
	Kuniyoshi Hironaka	def.	Nick Diaz	Decision (Split)	3	5:00

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

See also

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