List of Shooto Pacific Rim champions
Welterweight Championship

List of Shooto Pacific Rim champions

Section Title: Welterweight Championship
Table Section Text: None

Name:	Date:	Defenses:

South Korea Koutetsu Boku (def. Ryan Bow)	January 29, 2005

Title vacated	December 17, 2005	Boku suffered a knee injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.

Japan Mitsuhiro Ishida (def. Kenichiro Togashi)	February 17, 2006

Title vacated	December 2006	Ishida suffered an injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.

Japan Takashi Nakakura (def. Mizuto Hirota)	February 17, 2007

Title vacated	May 2008	Nakakura vacated the title when he won the Welterweight Shooto title.

Japan Yusuke Endo (def. Kenichiro Togashi)	July 18, 2008	def. Koutetsu Boku on September 22, 2009

Title vacated	June 2010	Endo vacated the title to challenge Willamy Freire for the Shooto 154lb title

Japan Yoshihiro Koyama (def. Shinji Sasaki)	January 10, 2011	def. Kenichiro Togashi on September 23, 2011

Title vacated	2012	Koyama vacated the title to challenge Kuniyoshi Hironaka for the Shooto 154lb title

Japan Shinji Sasaki (def. Shin Kochiwa)	January 20, 2013

Japan Nobumitsu Osawa	March 16, 2014

Japan Koshi Matsumoto	April 18, 2015	draw with Yuki Kawana on July 26, 2015 def. Hiroki Aoki on November 11, 2016

Sentence(s)

Hirota faced Takashi Nakakura in Shooto Pacific Rim Welterweight Championship.

final_sentence: Hirota faced Takashi Nakakura in Shooto Pacific Rim Welterweight Championship.