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

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

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	def. Yoshifumi Nakamura on January 11, 2016

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

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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