List of Shooto champions
Featherweight Championship

List of Shooto champions

Section Title: Featherweight Championship
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Name:	Date:	Defenses:

Japan Mamoru Yamaguchi (def. Jin Akimoto)	December 17, 2000

Japan Masahiro Oishi	November 25, 2001	drew w. Hisao Ikeda on September 16, 2002

Japan Ryota Matsune	August 10, 2003	def. Kentaro Imaizumi on November 12, 2004

Matsune vacated the title in February 2006 after suffering a knee injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.

Japan Akitoshi Hokazono (def. Kenji Osawa)	July 21, 2006

Hokazono announced his retirement on January 26, 2008 and thus relinquished the title.

Japan Masakatsu Ueda (def. Koetsu Okazaki)	March 28, 2008	drew w. Marcos Galvao on September 28, 2008 def.

Japan Shuichiro Katsumura	March 22, 2010

Japan Koetsu Okazaki	April 29, 2011

Japan Hiromasa Ogikubo	May 18, 2012

Japan Kyoji Horiguchi	March 16, 2013	def. Shintaro Ishiwatari on June 22, 2013

Horiguchi vacated the title in December 2015 to compete in the UFC.

Sentence(s)

Horiguchi competed in the UFC and is a former Shooto Champion.

final_sentence: Horiguchi competed in the UFC and is a former Shooto Champion.