Shooto Ranking February 2010

Its been a while since I have updated the Shooto rankings, but here are the latest from earlier this month.

There have been some big climbers, Taiki Tsuchiya comes straight into lightweight #3 after a win over Kadowaki.

In the welterweight rankings, Yoshihiro Koyama comes into #10 but I am expecting him to climb into top 5 within 2010.

Hiryuki Abe has climbed into #2 flyweight, and is there for in contention for "M-16"'s title. Will be interesting to see who gets the title shot next time.

Flyweight:
Champion: Ramba “M-16” Somdet
-From November 23 2009, defeated Noburo "Shinpei" Tahara.

1. Noburo "Shinpei" Tahara
2. Hiryuki Abe
3. Atsushi Takeuchi
4. Katsuya Murofushi
5. Junji Ikoma
6. Junji Ito
7. “Heat” Takeshi Sato
8. Shinya Murofushi
8. Hiroaki Yoshioka

Bantamweight:
Champion: Shinichi “BJ” Kojima
-From October 14 2006, Defended 3 times against Mamoru, Akagi, Urushitani and Shojo.

1. Yasuhiro Urushitani
2. Ryuichi Miki
3. Mamoru Yamaguchi
4. Jucie Formiga
5. Yuki Shoujou
6. Ayumu “Gozo” Shioda
7. Masaaki Sugawara Shimokawa Yusei
8. Yusei Shimokawa
9. Jesse Taitano
10. Daiji Takahashi


Featherweight:
Champion: Masakatsu Ueda
-From March 28 2008, Defended 3 Times against Galvao, Tazawa and Dantas

1. Marcos “Louro” Galvao
2. Koetsu Okazaki
3. Eduardo Dantas
4. Hiromasa Ogikubo
5. Tetsu Suzuki
6. Shuichiro Katsumura
7. So Tazawa
8. Carlos Roberto “Betinho” (?)
9. Teruyuki Matsumoto
10. Rodolfo Marques



Lightweight:
Champion: “Lion” Takeshi Inoue
-From November 29 2008. Defended 1 Time against Rumina Sato.

1. Hatsu Hioki
2. Renan Barao
3. Taiki Tsuchiya
4. Hideki Kadowaki
5. Issei Tamura
6. Gustavo Falciroli
7. Hiroshi "Iron" Nakamura
8. Matteus Lahdesmaki
9. Akiyo "Wicky" Nishiura
10. Akitoshi Tamura



Welterweight:
Champion: Willamy Freire " Chiquerim"
-From May 3 2008 Defended 0 times.

1. Yusuke Endo
2. Takashi Nakakura
3. Takanori Gomi
4. Bendy Casimir
5. Kenichiro Togashi
6. Mizuto Hirota
7. Koutetsu Boku
8. Ganjo Tensuku
9. Hamid Corassani
10. Yoshihiro Koyama



Middleweight:
Champion: Shinya Aoki
-From February 17 2006, defended 1 time against Kikuchi

1. Xavier Lucas
2. Luis Ramos
3. Yoichiro Sato
4. Takuya Wada
5. Igor Fernandes
6. Hernani Perpetuo
7. Zelim Felican
8. Shiko Yamashita
9. Akihiro Murayama
10. David Baron


Light-Heavyweight:
Champ: Siyar Bahadourzada
- From July 15 2007, defended 0 times

1. Sauli Heilimo
2. Carlos Alexandre Pereira
3. Andre Silva
4. Petras Morkevicius
5. Leandro Silva
6. Grazhuydas Smailis
7. Nathan Schouteren
8. Rolandas Agrba
9. Mikkel Guldbaek Masashi Yozen
10. Bastiaan Rejen

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