List of Shooto champions
Lightweight Championship

List of Shooto champions

Section Title: Lightweight Championship
Table Section Text: None

Name:	Date:	Defenses:

Japan Kenichi Tanaka (def. Kazuhiro Sakamoto)	September 8, 1990

Japan Kazuhiro Sakamoto	May 31, 1991	def. Hiroyuki Kanno on October 17, 1991

Japan Noboru Asahi	March 27, 1992	draw. Kenichi Tanaka on July 23, 1992 draw. Uchu Tatsumi on March 28, 1999

Brazil Alexandre Franca Nogueira	September 5, 1999	def. Uchu Tatsumi on August 27, 2000 def.

Nogueira vacated the title on May 7, 2006 after suffering a knee injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations.

Japan Takeshi Inoue (def. Antonio Carvalho)	May 12, 2006

Japan Akitoshi Tamura	May 18, 2007

Japan Hideki Kadowaki	March 28, 2008

Japan Takeshi Inoue (2)	November 29, 2008	def. Rumina Sato on May 10, 2009

Japan Hatsu Hioki	May 30, 2010

Hioki vacated the title on May 31, 2011 to compete in the UFC.

Japan Yutaka Saito (def. Yoshifumi Nakamura)	January 11, 2016	def. Caol Uno on April 23, 2017

Sentence(s)

Alexandre Franca Nogueira is a Brazilian Shooto Lightweight Champion.

final_sentence: Alexandre Franca Nogueira is a Brazilian Shooto Lightweight Champion.