List of Shooto Pacific Rim champions

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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[]

Featherweight Championship[]

126 to 135 lbs

Name	Date	Defenses
Koetsu Okazaki (def. Hiromasa Ogikubo)	October 17, 2009	def. Tetsu Suzuki on July 19, 2010
Title vacated
Yuta Sasaki (def. Tetsu Suzuki)	January 20, 2013	def. Kenji Yamamoto on July 27, 2013
Title vacated	2014	Sasaki vacated the title.
Yuta Nezu (def. Kota Onojima)	March 16, 2014	def. Keita Ishibashi on September 27, 2014
Title vacated	2015	Nezu vacated the title.
Daichi Takenaka (def. Takuya Ogura)	March 21, 2016
Title vacated	2016	Takenaka vacated the title on 2016 when he signed with ONE Championship.
Keita Ishibashi (def. Ryo Okada)	November 12, 2016
Title vacated	March 2017	Ishibashi vacated the title to challenge Shoko Sato for the Shooto 132lb title
Kazuma Sone (def. Mamoru Uoi)	January 28, 2018
Ryo Okada	January 27, 2019	draw. Tatsuya Ando on September 22, 2019
Title vacated	May 2020	Okada vacated the title to challenge Kazuma Kuramoto for the interim Shooto 132lb title
Tatsuya Ando (def. Takumi Tamaru)	August 1, 2020	def. Hayato Ishii on September 20, 2021

Lightweight Championship[]

136 to 145 lbs

Name	Date	Defenses
Rumina Sato (def. Makoto Ishikawa)	March 11, 2005
Title vacated	December 17, 2005	Sato suffered an injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.
Akitoshi Tamura (def. Tenkei Fujimiya)	February 17, 2007
Title vacated	November 7, 2007	Due to Tamura winning the Shooto World Lightweight belt he was asked to relinquish the Pacific Rim Title.
Taiki Tsuchiya (def. Hideki Kadowaki)	January 23, 2010	def. Issei Tamura on July 19, 2010 def. Gustavo Falciroli on November 19, 2010
Title vacated	May 31, 2011	Tsuchiya vacates the title due to losing a non-title match to Takeshi Inoue on April 30, 2011.
Yusuke Yachi (def. Wataru Miki)	November 11, 2012	def. Yuji Hoshino on March 17, 2013
Title vacated	April 9, 2013	Yachi vacated the title signing with Pacific Xtreme Combat.
Yoshifumi Nakamura (def. Caol Uno)	January 25, 2015
Yutaka Saito	May 3, 2015
Title vacated	2016	Saito vacated the title to challenge Yoshifumi Nakamura for the Shooto 143lb title
Ryogo Takahashi (def. Tomoya Hirakawa)	November 12, 2016	def. Jin Aoi on October 15, 2017
Title vacated	2018	Takahashi vacated the title on 2018 when he signed with ONE Championship.
Mitsuhiro Toma (def. Derricott Yamamoto)	June 17, 2018	def. Akira Takano on June 30, 2019
Takashi Nakayama	January 26, 2020
Keisuke Sasu	September 19, 2020	def. Taison Naito on January 30, 2021

Welterweight Championship[]

146 to 155 lbs

Name	Date	Defenses
Koutetsu Boku (def. Ryan Bow)	January 29, 2005
Title vacated	December 17, 2005	Boku suffered a knee injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.
Mitsuhiro Ishida (def. Kenichiro Togashi)	February 17, 2006
Title vacated	December 2006	Ishida suffered an injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.
Takashi Nakakura (def. Mizuto Hirota)	February 17, 2007
Title vacated	May 2008	Nakakura vacated the title when he won the Welterweight Shooto title.
Yusuke Endo (def. Kenichiro Togashi)	July 18, 2008	def. Koutetsu Boku on September 22, 2009
Title vacated	June 2010	Endo vacated the title to challenge Willamy Freire for the Shooto 154lb title
Yoshihiro Koyama (def. Shinji Sasaki)	January 10, 2011	def. Kenichiro Togashi on September 23, 2011
Title vacated	2012	Koyama vacated the title to challenge Kuniyoshi Hironaka for the Shooto 154lb title
Shinji Sasaki (def. Shin Kochiwa)	January 20, 2013
Nobumitsu Osawa	March 16, 2014
Koshi Matsumoto	April 18, 2015	draw with Yuki Kawana on July 26, 2015 def. Hiroki Aoki on November 11, 2016
Title vacated	2016	Matsumoto vacated the title to challenge Yuki Kawana for the Shooto 154lb title
Yuki Kawana (def. Hiroki Aoki)	July 23, 2017

Middleweight Championship[]

156 to 170lbs

Name	Date	Defenses
Keita Nakamura (def. Ronald Jhun)	July 21, 2006
Title vacated	June 2008	Nakamura vacated the title when he announced his retirement from MMA.
Xavier Lucas[1] (def. Yoshitaro Niimi )	October 26, 2008	def. Akihiro Yamazaki on September 22, 2009
Title vacated	January 2010	Lucas vacated the title when he announced his retirement from MMA.
Yoichiro Sato (def. Jung Min Kang)	March 22, 2010	def. Takasuke Kume on August 7, 2010 drew with Akihiro Murayama on February 26, 2011
Akihiro Murayama	June 11, 2011

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