List of Shooto Pacific Rim champions

In 2005 the Shooto Organization decided to create splinter Shooto organizations around the world, with their own rankings and champions. Along with a European and American Shooto organization, a Pacific Rim organization was created focusing on Asia (but mostly Japan). This is the title history for the Pacific Rim titles.

Title histories

Middleweight Championship

Weight limit: 77 kg (169.8 lb)

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Keita Nakamura def. Ronald Jhun	July 21, 2006
Nakamura vacated the title on June 6, 2007, as he was unable to defend the title in the mandated time[1]
2	Xavier Lucas def. Yoshitaro Niimi	October 26, 2008	1. def. Akihiro Yamazaki on September 22, 2009
Lucas vacated the title on January 28, 2010, for undisclosed reasons[2]
3	Yoichiro Sato def. Jung Min Kang	March 22, 2010	1. def. Takasuke Kume on August 7, 2010 2. drew with Akihiro Murayama on February 26, 2011
4	Akihiro Murayama	June 11, 2011
Murayama vacated the title on March 1, 2019, for undisclosed reasons[3]
5	Soki def. Yukinari Tamura	June 16, 2019
6	Yukinari Tamura	May 15, 2022

Welterweight Championship

Weight limit: 70 kg (154.3 lb)

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Kotetsu Boku def. Ryan Bow	January 29, 2005
Boku vacated the title on December 17, 2005 as he suffered a knee injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time.
2	Mitsuhiro Ishida def. Kenichiro Togashi	February 17, 2006
Ishida vacated the title on January 12, 2007 as he was unable to defend the title in the mandated time[4]
3	Takashi Nakakura def. Mizuto Hirota	February 17, 2007
Nakakura vacated the title on May 3, 2008 after winning the world title.[5]
4	Yusuke Endo def. Kenichiro Togashi	February 17, 2007	1. def. Kotetsu Boku on September 22, 2009
Endo vacated the title on September 26, 2010 to challenge Willamy Freire for the Shooto 154lb title.[6]
5	Yoshihiro Koyama def. Shinji Sasaki	January 10, 2011	1. def. Kenichiro Togashi on September 23, 2011
Koyama vacated the title to challenge Kuniyoshi Hironaka for the Shooto 154lb title.[7]
6	Shinji Sasaki def. Shin Kochiwa	January 20, 2013
7	Nobumitsu Osawa def. Shinji Sasaki	March 16, 2014
8	Koshi Matsumoto def. Nobumitsu Osawa	April 18, 2015	1. draw. Yuki Kawana on July 26, 2015 2. def. Hiroki Aoki on January 11, 2016
Matsumoto vacated the title to challenge Yuki Kawana for the Shooto 154lb title[8]
9	Yuki Kawana def. Hiroki Aoki	July 23, 2017
Matsumoto vacated the title on July 12, 2020, after winning the world title[9]
10	Shutaro Debana def. Yu Tanaka	December 20, 2020	1. def. Max Sugimoto on December 18, 2021

Lightweight Championship

Weight limit: 65 kg (143.3 lb)

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Rumina Sato def. Makoto Ishikawa	March 11, 2005
Sato suffered an injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.[10]
2	Akitoshi Tamura def. Tenkei Fujimiya	February 17, 2007
Due to Tamura winning the Shooto World Lightweight belt he was asked to relinquish the Pacific Rim Title.
3	Taiki Tsuchiya def. Hideki Kadowaki	January 23, 2010	1. def. Issei Tamura on July 19, 2010 2. def. Gustavo Falciroli on November 19, 2010
Tsuchiya vacates the title due to losing a non-title match to Takeshi Inoue on April 30, 2011.[11]
4	Yusuke Yachi def. Wataru Miki	November 11, 2012	1. def. Yuji Hoshino on March 17, 2013
Yachi vacated the title signing with Pacific Xtreme Combat
5	Yoshifumi Nakamura	January 25, 2015
6	Yutaka Saito def. Yoshifumi Nakamura	May 3, 2015
Saito vacated the title to challenge Yoshifumi Nakamura for the Shooto 143lb title
7	Ryogo Takahashi def. Tomoya Hirakawa	November 12, 2016	1. def. Jin Aoi on October 15, 2017
Takahashi vacated the title following an injury which rendered him incapable of defending the title.[12]
8	Mitsuhiro Toma def. Derricott Yamamoto	June 17, 2018	1. def. Akira Takano on June 30, 2019
9	Takashi Nakayama def. Mitsuhiro Toma	January 26, 2020
10	Keisuke Sasu def. Takashi Nakayama	September 19, 2020	1. def. Taison Naito on January 30, 2021
Sasu vacated the title to challenge Ryoji Kudo for the Shooto 143lb title

Featherweight Championship

Weight limit: 60 kg (132.3 lb)

No.	Name	Date	Defenses
1	Koetsu Okazaki def. Hiromasa Ogikubo	October 17, 2009	1. def. Tetsu Suzuki on July 19, 2010
Okazaki vacated
2	Yuta Sasaki def. Tetsu Suzuki	January 20, 2013	1. def. Kenji Yamamoto on July 27, 2013
Sasaki vacated
3	Yuta Nezu def. Kota Onojima	March 16, 2014	1. def. Keita Ishibashi on September 27, 2014
Nezu vacated
4	Daichi Takenaka def. Takuya Ogura	March 21, 2016
Takenaka vacated the title on 2016 when he signed with ONE Championship.
5	Keita Ishibashi def. Ryo Okada	November 12, 2016
Ishibashi vacated the title to challenge Shoko Sato for the Shooto 132lb title
6	Kazuma Sone def. Mamoru Uoi	January 28, 2018
7	Ryo Okada	January 27, 2019	1. drew with Tatsuya Ando on September 22, 2019
Okada vacated the title to challenge Kazuma Kuramoto for the interim Shooto 132lb title
8	Tatsuya Ando def. Takumi Tamaru	August 1, 2020	1. def. Hayato Ishii on September 20, 2021
Ando vacated the title to challenge Ryo Okada for the Shooto 132lb title
9	Kota Onojima def. Nobuki Fuji	January 16, 2022
10	Hayato Ishii	May 22, 2022
11	Nobuki Fuji	November 27, 2022	1. def. Takuma Sudo on January 28, 2024

See also

• Shooto
• List of Shooto champions