Shooto Rankings

October, 2007

The Shooto World Rankings are updated as of October 11, 2007 and are as follows (club or country are

shown in parentheses):

- Bantamweight (-56.0 kg \ - 123.4 lbs.)

  Champion: BJ (Katsumura Dojo)

   # 1 Yasuhiro Urushitani (RJW)

   # 2 Mamoru (Shooto Gym Yokohama)

   # 3 Yuki Shoujou (X-One Gym)

   # 4 Masatoshi Abe (AACC)

   # 5 Junji Ikoma (Chokushinkai Dojo)

   # 6 Yusei Shimokawa (K'z Factory)

   # 7 Yasuhiro Akagi (Alive)

   # 8 Setsu Iguchi (Team Badass 13)

   # 9 Masaaki Sugawara (WK Duro)

   # 10 Homare Kuboyama (K'z Factory)

- Featherweight (-60.0 kg \ - 132.2 lbs.)

  Champion: Akitoshi Hokazono

   # 1 Ryota Matsume (Paraestra Matsudo)

   # 2 Marco Louro (Nova Uniao)

   # 3 Koetsu Okazaki (MMA Dojo Cobra Kai)

   # 4 Daniel Lima (Five Rings Dojo)

   # 5 Atsushi Yamamoto (Killer Bee)

   # 6 Kenji Osawa (A-3)

   # 7 Miguel Torres (Torres Martial Arts)

   # 8 Takeya Mizugaki (Shooto Gym Hakkei)

   # 9 Masakatsu Ueda (Paraestra Tokyo)

   # 10 Naoya Uematsu (Cross Point)

- Lightweight (-65.0 kg \ - 143.3 lbs.)

  Champion: Akitoshi Tamura (Tsudanuma Dojo)

  # 1 Antonio Carvalho (Canada)

  # 2 Lion Takeshi (Shooto Gym Yokohama)

  # 3 Hideki Kadowaki (Wajutsu Keishukai Tokyo Hombu)

  # 4 Rumina Sato (Roots)

  # 5 Katsuya Toida (WK Toikatsu Dojo)

  # 6 Bao Quach (Team Oyama)

  # 7 Tenkei Fujimiya (Shooto Gym Yokohama)

  # 8 Marlon Sandro (Nova Uniao)

  # 9 Hioki Hatsu (Alive)

  # 10 Hiroyuki Abe (AACC)

- Welterweight (-70.0 kg \ - 154.3 lbs.)

  Champion: Vacant

  # 1 Takashi Nakakura (STG Osaka)

  # 2 Ganjo Tentsuku (Purebred Omiya)

  # 3 Tatsuya Kawajiri (T-Blood)

  # 4 Yusuke Endo (Gokita Gym)

  # 5 Jani Lax (Team Scandinavia)

  # 6 Brian Cobb (U.S.A.)

  # 7 Mizuto Hirota (Gutsman)

  # 8 Akiyo Wicky (Shooto Gym Yokohama)

  # 9 Joe Camacho (Team Camacho)

  # 10 Joachim Hansen (Team Scandinavia)

- Middleweight (-76.0 kg \ - 167.5 lbs.)

  Champion - Shinya Aoki (Paraestra Tokyo)

   # 1 K-Taro Nakamura (Wajutsu Keishukai)

   # 2 Ronald Jhun (808 Fight Factory)

   # 3 Scott Henze (U.S.A.)

   # 4 Akira Kikuchi (Killer Bee)

   # 5 Brent Weedman (U.S.A.)

   # 6 Grzegorz Trendowski (Poland)

   # 7 Niek Tromp (Holland)

   # 8 Marius Liaukevicius (Lithuania)

   # 9 Kuniyoshi Hironaka (Academia Az)

   # 10 Shigetoshi Iwase (T-Blood)

- Light heavyweight (-83.0 kg \ - 182.9 lbs.)

  Champion - Siyar Bahadurzada (Golden Glory)

  # 1 Joseph Bayes (U.S.A.)

  # 2 Edward O'Daniel (U.S.A.)

  # 3 Shikou Yamashita (Paraestra Sapporo)

  # 4 Dustin Denes (ATT)

  # 5 Akihiro Murayama (Gutsman)

  # 6 Grazvydas Smailys (Lithuania)

  # 7 Masashi Yozen (STG Osaka)

  # 8 Leandro Silva (Nova Uniao)

  # 9 Nathan Schouteren (Holland)

  # 10 Petras Markevicius (Lithuania)

(10/15/07)