Shooto Rankings

 

 

From Shooto.net -  These are the latest World rankings for Shooto from March, 2004 (compared to their

previous ratings from January, 2004). Shooto also has Pacific Rim and Amercia's rankings which you can

view at Shooto.net as well: http://www2k.biglobe.ne.jp/~shimauo/rankinge/index.htm


Light heavyweight - 182.6 lbs.

Champion - Masanori Suda (Japan) 

 # 1 Dustin Denes (USA)

 # 2 Egan Inoue (USA) 

 # 3 Shikou Yamashita (Japan) 

 # 4 Martijn De Jong (Holland)

 # 5 Scott Henze (USA)

 # 6 Curtis Stout (USA)

 # 7 Jon Fitch (USA)

 # 8 Shonie Carter (USA)

 # 9 Ryuta Sakurai (Japan)

# 10 Lance Gibson

 

 

Middleweight - 167.2 lbs.

Champion - Vacant

 # 1 Jake Shields (USA) 

 # 2 Juntaro Nakao (Japan)

 # 3 Ray Cooper (USA)

 # 4 Akira Kikuchi (Japan) - Up from # 5

 # 5 Ronald Jhun (USA) - Down from # 4

 # 6 Chris Lytle (USA)

 # 7 Manvel Gamburyian (USA)

 # 8 Seichi Ikemoto (Japan) - Up from # 9

 # 9 Sauli Heilimo (Finland) - Up from # 10

#10 Shigetoshi Iwase (Japan) - Previously unranked

 

 

Welterweight - 154 lbs.

Champion - Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro (Brazil)

 # 1 Joachim Hansen (Norway) - former Champion

 # 2 Tatsuya Kawajiri (Japan)

 # 3 Ryan Bow (USA) - Up from # 4

 # 4 Caol Uno (Japan) - Previously unranked

 # 5 Takanori Gomi (Japan) - Down from # 3

 # 6 Luiz "Buscape" Junior (Brazil)

 # 7 Marcio Cromado (Brazil) - Down from # 5

 # 8 Daisuke "Amazon" Sugie (Japan) - Down from # 7

 # 9 Tetsuji Kato (Japan)  - Down from # 8

# 10 Mitsuhiro Ishida (Japan) - Previously unranked

 

 

Lightweight - 143 lbs.

Champion: Alexandre Franca Nogueira (Brazil) 

 # 1 Stephan Paling (USA)

 # 2 Joao Roque (Brazil)

 # 3 Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto (Japan)

 # 4 Hiroyuki Abe (Japan)

 # 5 Hiroyuki Abe (Japan)

 # 6 Jens Pulver (USA) - Previously unranked

 # 7 Makoto Ishikawa (Japan)

 # 8 Naoya Uematsu (Japan) - Down from # 6

 # 9 Tetsuo Katsuta (Japan) - Down from # 8

# 10 Hideki Kadowaki (Japan)- Down from # 9

 

 

Featherweight - 132 lbs. 

Champion: Ryota Matsume (Japan)

 # 1 Kentaro Imaizumi (Japan)

 # 2 Masato Shiozawa (Japan)

 # 3 Marco Louro (Brazil)

 # 4 Masahiro Oishi (Japan)

 # 5 Jin Akimoto (Japan)

 # 6 Kimihito Nonaka (Japan)

 # 7 Shuichiro Katsumura (Japan)

 # 8 Akitoshi Hokazono (Japan)

 # 9 Ryan Ackerman (USA)

# 10 Hudson Rocha (Brazil)

 

 

Bantamweight - 123.2 lbs.

Champion: Mamoru (Japan)

 # 1 Robson Moura (Brazil)

 # 2 Yasuhiro Urushitani (Japan)

 # 3 Juni Ikoma (Japan)

 # 4 Homare Kuboyama (Japan)

 # 5 Hiroaki Yoshioka (Japan)

 # 6 Masatoshi Abe (Japan)

 # 7 Takeyasu Hirono (Japan)

 # 8 Itchaku Murata (Japan)

 # 9 Vacant

# 10 Vacant

 

 

 

 

 

(5/27/03)