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In 2005 the Shooto Organization decided to create splinter Shooto organizations around the world, with their own rankings and champions. Along with a European and American Shooto organization, a Pacific Rim organization was created focusing on Asia (but mostly Japan). This is the title history for the Pacific Rim titles.
| No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Keita Nakamura def. Ronald Jhun | July 21, 2006 | |
| Nakamura vacated the title on June 6, 2007, as he was unable to defend the title in the mandated time [1] | |||
| 2 |  Xavier Lucas def. Yoshitaro Niimi | October 26, 2008 | 1. def. Akihiro Yamazaki on September 22, 2009 |
| Lucas vacated the title on January 28, 2010, for undisclosed reasons [2] | |||
| 3 | Yoichiro Sato def. Jung Min Kang | March 22, 2010 | 1. def. Takasuke Kume on August 7, 2010 |
| 4 | Akihiro Murayama | June 11, 2011 | |
| Murayama vacated the title on March 1, 2019, for undisclosed reasons [3] | |||
| 5 | Soki def. Yukinari Tamura | June 16, 2019 | |
| 6 | Yukinari Tamura | May 15, 2022 | |
| No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kotetsu Boku def. Ryan Bow | January 29, 2005 | |
| Boku vacated the title on December 17, 2005 as he suffered a knee injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time. | |||
| 2 | Mitsuhiro Ishida def. Kenichiro Togashi | February 17, 2006 | |
| Ishida vacated the title on January 12, 2007 as he was unable to defend the title in the mandated time [4] | |||
| 3 | Takashi Nakakura def. Mizuto Hirota | February 17, 2007 | |
| Nakakura vacated the title on May 3, 2008 after winning the world title | |||
| 4 | Yusuke Endo def. Kenichiro Togashi | February 17, 2007 | 1. def. Kotetsu Boku on September 22, 2009 |
| Endo vacated the title on September 26, 2010 to challenge Willamy Freire for the Shooto 154lb title. | |||
| 5 | Yoshihiro Koyama def. Shinji Sasaki | February 17, 2007 | 1. def. Kenichiro Togashi on September 23, 2011 |
| Koyama vacated the title to challenge Kuniyoshi Hironaka for the Shooto 154lb title. [5] | |||
| 6 | Shinji Sasaki def. Shin Kochiwa | January 20, 2013 | |
| 7 | Nobumitsu Osawa | March 16, 2014 | |
| 8 | Koshi Matsumoto | April 18, 2015 | 1. draw. Yuki Kawana on July 26, 2015 |
| Matsumoto vacated the title to challenge Yuki Kawana for the Shooto 154lb title [6] | |||
| 9 | Yuki Kawana def. Hiroki Aoki | July 23, 2017 | |
| Matsumoto vacated the title on July 12, 2020, after winning the world title [7] | |||
| 10 | Shutaro Debana def. Yu Tanaka | December 20, 2020 | 1. def. Max Sugimoto on December 18, 2021 |
| No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rumina Sato def. Makoto Ishikawa | March 11, 2005 | |
| Sato suffered an injury which prevented him from defending his title in the mandatory time period per Shooto regulations | |||
| 2 | Akitoshi Tamura def. Tenkei Fujimiya | February 17, 2007 | |
| Due to Tamura winning the Shooto World Lightweight belt he was asked to relinquish the Pacific Rim Title | |||
| 3 | Taiki Tsuchiya def. Hideki Kadowaki | January 23, 2010 | 1. def. Issei Tamura on July 19, 2010 |
| Tsuchiya vacates the title due to losing a non-title match to Takeshi Inoue on April 30, 2011 | |||
| 4 | Yusuke Yachi def. Wataru Miki | November 11, 2012 | 1. def. Yuji Hoshino on March 17, 2013 |
| Yachi vacated the title signing with Pacific Xtreme Combat | |||
| 5 | Yoshifumi Nakamura | January 25, 2015 | |
| 6 | Yutaka Saito | May 3, 2015 | |
| Saito vacated the title to challenge Yoshifumi Nakamura for the Shooto 143lb title | |||
| 7 | Ryogo Takahashi def. Tomoya Hirakawa | November 12, 2016 | 1. def. Jin Aoi on October 15, 2017 |
| Takahashi vacated the title on 2018 when he signed with ONE Championship. | |||
| 8 | Mitsuhiro Toma def. Derricott Yamamoto | June 17, 2018 | 1. def. Akira Takano on June 30, 2019 |
| 9 | Takashi Nakayama | January 26, 2020 | |
| 10 | Keisuke Sasu | September 19, 2020 | 1. def. Taison Naito on January 30, 2021 |
| Sasu vacated the title to challenge Ryoji Kudo for the Shooto 143lb title | |||
| No. | Name | Date | Defenses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Koetsu Okazaki def. Hiromasa Ogikubo | October 17, 2009 | 1. def. Tetsu Suzuki on July 19, 2010 |
| Okazaki vacated | |||
| 2 | Yuta Sasaki def. Tetsu Suzuki | January 20, 2013 | 1. def. Kenji Yamamoto on July 27, 2013 |
| Sasaki vacated | |||
| 3 | Yuta Nezu def. Kota Onojima | March 16, 2014 | 1. def. Keita Ishibashi on September 27, 2014 |
| Nezu vacated | |||
| 4 | Daichi Takenaka def. Takuya Ogura | March 21, 2016 | |
| Takenaka vacated the title on 2016 when he signed with ONE Championship. | |||
| 5 | Keita Ishibashi def. Ryo Okada | November 12, 2016 | |
| Ishibashi vacated the title to challenge Shoko Sato for the Shooto 132lb title | |||
| 6 | Kazuma Sone def. Mamoru Uoi | January 28, 2018 | |
| 7 | Ryo Okada | January 27, 2019 | 1. drew with Tatsuya Ando on September 22, 2019 |
| Okada vacated the title to challenge Kazuma Kuramoto for the interim Shooto 132lb title | |||
| 8 | Tatsuya Ando def. Takumi Tamaru | August 1, 2020 | 1. def. Hayato Ishii on September 20, 2021 |
| Ando vacated the title to challenge Ryo Okada for the Shooto 132lb title | |||
| 9 | Kota Onojima def. Nobuki Fuji | January 16, 2022 | |
| 10 | Hayato Ishii | May 22, 2022 | |
| 11 | Nobuki Fuji | November 27, 2022 | 1. def. Takuma Sudo on January 28, 2024 |
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