List of Shooto champions
Middleweight Championship

List of Shooto champions

Section Title: Middleweight Championship
Table Section Text: None

Name:	Date:	Defenses:

Japan Yasuto Sekishima (def. Yoshimasa Ishikawa)	May 12, 1990	draw. Naoki Sakurada on November 28, 1990

Japan Yoshimasa Ishikawa	August 3, 1991

Ishikawa vacated the title in 1991 to compete as a lightweight.

Japan Naoki Sakurada (def. Yasuto Sekishima)	October 17, 1991	def. Kazuhiro Kusayanagi on September 25, 1992

Sakurada announced his retirement on January 18, 1997 thus relinquishing the title.

Japan Hayato Sakurai	May 13, 1998	def. Tetsuji Kato on March 17, 2000

Brazil Anderson Silva	August 26, 2001

Silva vacated the title on January 9, 2002 after signing with PRIDE.

United States Jake Shields (def. Ray Cooper)	July 9, 2004

Japan Akira Kikuchi	December 14, 2004

Japan Shinya Aoki	February 17, 2006	def. Akira Kikuchi on February 17, 2007

Aoki vacated the title on May 21, 2010 after years of not defending it, fighting for other promotions, and fighting primarily as a lightweight.

Brazil Luis Ramos (def. Igor Fernandes)	August 6, 2010

Ramos vacated the title on August 9, 2011 after signing with the UFC.

Brazil Hernani Perpetuo (def. Tommy Depret)	August 25, 2013

Sentence(s)

Akira Kikuchi is a Japanese Shooto Champion.

final_sentence: Akira Kikuchi is a Japanese Shooto Champion.