Shooto Rankings

I have been asked if there are any rankings in Japan. The answer is that there is none that I know of, exept for he ones the different organizations maintain. This is the latest Shooto ranking, and it is NOT new. This is more a post signaling that I will try to keep you up to date with the latest Shooto and Pancrase (coming soon) rankings.

The June rankings look like this (appologies, I had to guess on 2 names):

Bantamweight:
Champ: Shinichi “BJ” Kojima (8-3-4)
(From October 14 2006, Defended 1 times)1. Mamoru Yamaguchi (20-4-3)
2. Yasuhiro Urushitani (14-3-6)
3.Yuki Shoujou (7-4-2)
4. Masatoshi Abe (8-2-1)
5. Ryuichi Miki (6-2-3)
6. Junji Ikoma (10-9-3)
7. Shimokawa Yusei (5-3-0)
8. Yasuhiro Akagi (6-4-0)
9. Setsu Iguchi (8-2-1)
10. Jin Akimoto (10-11-4)

Featherweight:
Champ: Masakatsu Ueda (8-0-1) (From March 28 2008, Defended 0 Times)
1. Marcos “Louro” Galvao (6-2-0)
2. Daniel Lima (8-3-2)
3. Koetsu Okazaki (5-1-1)
4. Eduardo Dantas (5-1-0)
5.Atsushi Yamamoto (11-5-1)
6. Kenji Osawa (13-7-2)
7. So Tazawa (8-3-2)
8. Tetsu Suzuki (8-5-3)
9. Takeya Mizugaki (9-2-2)
10. Ryota Matsune (15-1-1)

Lightweight:
Champ: Hideki Kadowaki (13-7-2) (From March 28 2008, Defended 0 times)
1. Akitoshi Tamura (12-6-2)
2. Antonio Carvalho (10-4-0)
3. Savant Young (9-7-0)
4. “Lion” Takeshi Inoue (14-3-0)
5. Hatsu Hioki (15-3-1)
6. Rumina Sato (24-4-2)
7. Bao Quach (14-8-1)
8. Katsuya Toida (10-9-3)
9. David Lejenas (5-3-0)
10. Hiroyuki Takaya (9-5-1)

Welterweight:
Champ: Takashi Nakakura (10-2-1) (from May 3 2008 Defended 0 times)
1. Yusuke Endo (11-2-1)
2. Ganjo Tensuku (9-3-2)
3. Bendy Casimir (14-4-2)
4. Jani Lax (8-7-0)
5. Brian Cobb (12-4-0)
6. Mizuto Hirota (9-2-0)
7. Willian Chiqueirinho (6-0-0)
8. Eiji Mitsuoka (13-5-2)
9. Giovani Diniz (6-2-0)
10. Tatsuya Kawajiri (22-4-2)

Middleweight:
Champ: Shinya Aoki (From February 17 2006, defended 1 times)
1. David Baron (15-2-0)2. Scott Henze (21-10-2)
3. Wim Deputter (18-2-0)
4. Grzegorz Trendowski (5-0-1)
5. Niek Tromp (4-2-2)
6. Zelim Felican (2-1-0)
7. Roemer Trumpert (7-6-0)
8. Ronald Jhun (22-23-2)
9. Brent Weedman (9-4-1)
10. Keita Nakamura “K-Taro” (14-3-2)

Light-Heavyweight:
Champ: Siyar Bahadourzada (13-3-1) (From July 15 2007, defended 0 times)
1. Leandro Silva (10-5-0)
2. Akihiro Murayama (9-3-4)
3. Shiko Yamashita (10-4-3)
4. Grazhuydas Smailis (8-4-0)）
5. Masashi Yozen (5-2-1)
6. Nathan Schouteren (12-6-2）
7. Petras Morkevicius (17-6-2)
8. Rolandas Agrba (3-3-0)
9. Edward O’Daniel (1-2-0)
10. Dustin Denes (12-4-3)