Rankings - Top Fighters by Region

World

Year Lightweight Middleweight Heavyweight Super Heavyweight
2007 1. Vasiliy Khudiakov RUSSIA
2. Roman Uzunyan
RUSSIA
3. Kou Tanigawa
JAPAN
4.
Yuzo Suzuki JAPAN
5.
Gabor Rózsa HUNGARY
1. Arsen Hachatryan RUSSIA
2.
Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUS.
3.
Kazuhito Yamada JAPAN
4.
Andrews Nakahara BRAZIL
5. Sulimen Kosumov
RUSSIA
1. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA
2.
Roman Nesterenko RUSSIA
3.
Alejandro Navarro SPAIN
4.
Darmen Sadvokasov RUSSIA
5.
Darius Gudauskas LITHUANIA
1. Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL
2. Takayuki Tsukakoshi
JAPAN
3. Anzor Shikhabakhov
RUSSIA
4. Jan Sokup
CZECH REPUBLIC
5. Donatas Imbras
LITHUANIA
2006 1. Darren Stringer GT BRITAIN
2. Emil Bitkash
RUSSIA
3. Dimitar Popov
BULGARIA
4. Dmitry Startsev
RUSSIA
5.
Vasiliy Khudiakov RUSSIA
1. Andrews Nakahara BRAZIL
2.
Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUS.
3. Chris Odunakan
GT BRITAIN
4. Christian Christiansen
DENMARK
5. Alexei Gorokhov
RUSSIA
1. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA
2. Darmen Sadvokasov
RUSSIA
3. Roman Nesterenko
RUSSIA
4. Alejandro Navarro
SPAIN
5.
Krzysztof Habraszka
POLAND
1. Anzor Shikhabakhov RUSSIA
2. Norichika Tsukamoto
JAPAN
3.
Artur Oganasian ARMENIA
4. Mikhail Kozlov
RUSSIA
5. Yoshiaki Uchida
JAPAN
2005 1. Lucien Gogonel  ROMANIA
2. Roman Uzunyan
RUSSIA
3. Kou Tanigawa
JAPAN

4.
Osamu Shiojima JAPAN
5.
Igor Dzaganiya RUSSIA
1. Shamsudin Abdurashidov RUS.
2.
Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA
3. Andrews Nakahara
BRAZIL
4.
Hiroyuki Kidachi JAPAN
5. Alexei Gorokhov
RUSSIA
1. Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
2. Kentaro Tanaka
JAPAN
3.
Maxim Dedik RUSSIA
4. Fabiano Da Silva
BRAZIL
5.
Krzysztof Habraszka POLAND
1. Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL
2. Lechi Kurbanov
RUSSIA

3. Timur Gatashev
RUSSIA

4. Takayuki Tsukakoshi
JAPAN
5. Donatas Imbras
LITHUANIA
2004 1. Roman Uzunyan RUSSIA
2. Marcel Murakaev
RUSSIA
3. Kou Tanigawa
JAPAN

4.
Dimitar Popov BULGARIA
5.
Vasily Khudiakov RUSSIA
1. Alexei Gorokhov RUSSIA
2. Kazuhito Yamada
JAPAN
3. Andrey Noskov
RUSSIA
4. Jakoeb Groenhof
HOLLAND
5. Nurmamed Mamedov
RUSSIA
1. Kentaro Tanaka JAPAN
2.
Maxim Dedik RUSSIA
3.
Anzor Shikhabakhov RUSSIA
4.
Krzysztof Habraszka POLAND
5.
Naohiro Nomoto JAPAN
1. Mikhail Kozlov RUSSIA
2.
Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL
3.
Igor Peplov RUSSIA
4.
Takayuki Tsukakoshi JAPAN
5
. Hadi Azikhani IRAN
2003 1. Masafumi Tagahara JAPAN
2. Osamu Shiojima
JAPAN
3. Dimitar Popov
BULGARIA
4. Yuuki Fukuii
JAPAN
5. Daisuke Komiyama
JAPAN
1. Valeri Dimitrov BULGARIA
2. Muzaffer Bacak
 GERMANY 
3. Hiroyuki Kidachi
JAPAN
4. Alexei Gorokhov
RUSSIA

5.
Tsuyoshi Takezawa JAPAN
1. Hitoshi Kiyama JAPAN
2. Sergey Osipov
RUSSIA
3. Emil Kostov
BULGARIA
4. Francisco Jose Carpena
SPAIN
5. Kentaro Tanaka
JAPAN
1. Kunihiro Suzuki JAPAN
2. Ewerton Teixeira
BRAZIL
3. Sergey Plekhanov
RUSSIA
4. Yuichiro Osaka
JAPAN
5. Glaube Feitosa
BRAZIL
2002 1. Konstantin Donstov RUSSIA
2. Jonathan Tineo
SPAIN
3. Vyacheslav Lukjanov
RUSSIA
4. Vasily Khudiakov
RUSSIA
5. Daisuke Komiyama
JAPAN
1. Maxim Dedik RUSSIA
2. Emil Kostov
BULGARIA
3. Yoshitaka Sato
JAPAN
4. Akbolat Appaev
RUSSIA
5. Tsuyoshi Takezawa
JAPAN
1. Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
2. Tadashi Ishihara
JAPAN
3. Hitoshi Kiyama
JAPAN
4. Anzor Shikhabakhov
RUSSIA
5. Artem Pukas
RUSSIA
1. Ewerton Teixeira BRAZIL
2. Lechi Kurbanov
RUSSIA

3. Igor Peplov
RUSSIA
4. Hajime Kazumi
JAPAN

5. Kunihiro Suzuki
JAPAN
2001 1. Viktor Karasyuk RUSSIA
2. Masafumi Tagahara
JAPAN
3. Takahiro Miyano JAPAN
4. Yuuki Fukuii JAPAN
5. Shiro Yaginuma
JAPAN
1. Emil Kostov BULGARIA
2. Paulius Klapatauskas
LITH.
3.
Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy RUSSIA
4.
Hiroyuki Kidachi JAPAN
5. Maxim Dedik
RUSSIA
1. Hitoshi Kiyama JAPAN
2.
Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
3. Gediminas Tankevicius
LITH.
4. Kentaro Tanaka
JAPAN
5. Anzor Shikhabakhov
RUSSIA
1. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
2. Denis Grigoriev
RUSSIA
3. Kunihiro Suzuki
JAPAN
4. Atsushi Kadoi
JAPAN
5. Sergey Plekhanov
RUSSIA
2000 1. Maxim Bakushin RUSSIA
2. Piotr Sawicki
POLAND
3.
Marcel Murakaev RUSSIA
4.
Diego Beltran CANADA
5. Vasily Khudiakov
RUSSIA
1. Hiroyuki Kidachi JAPAN
2. Sylwester Sypien
POLAND  
3. Tatsuyoshi Miyuki
JAPAN
4. Yoshitaka Sato
JAPAN
5. Emil Kostov
BULGARIA
1. Hitoshi Kiyama JAPAN
2. Thorsten Domke
SWITZERLAND
3. Kentaro Tanaka
JAPAN
4.
Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
5. Bela Haszman
HUNGARY
1. Jakov Zobnin RUSSIA
2. Kunihiro Suzuki
JAPAN
3. Sergio Da Costa
BRAZIL
4.
Yasuhiro Kimura JAPAN
5. Sergey Plekhanov
RUSSIA
1999 1. Ryu Narushima JAPAN
2. Viktor Karasyuk
RUSSIA
3. Kou Tanigawa
JAPAN
4. Masafumi Tagahara
JAPAN
5. Mark Goodwin
GT BRITAIN
1. Muzaffer Bacak  GERMANY
2.
Simphwe Dlulane S. AFRICA
3.
Hiroyuki Kidachi JAPAN
4.
Emil Kostov BULGARIA
5.
Shinegori Sakamoto JAPAN
1. Toru Okamoto JAPAN
2. Sotoshi Niiho
JAPAN
3. Tadashi Ishihara
JAPAN
4.
Sergey Osipov RUSSIA
5. Osamu Sumitani
JAPAN
1. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
2. Hajime Kazumi
JAPAN
 
3.
Alexander Pichkunov RUSSIA
4.
Glaube Feitosa BRAZIL
5.
Nicholas Pettas DENMARK
1998 1. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
2.
Piotr Sawicki POLAND
3. Oleg Florin
RUSSIA
4.
Marcel Murakaev RUSSIA
5. Viktor Karasyuk
RUSSIA
1. Paulius Klapatauskas LITH.
2. Tatsuya Fukuda
JAPAN
3. Sergey Osipov
RUSSIA

4. Garry O'Neill
 AUSTRALIA
5. Fabiano Da Silva
BRAZIL
1. Toru Okamoto JAPAN
2. Hitoshi Kiyama
JAPAN
3. Tadashi Ishihara
JAPAN
4. Atsushi Kadoi
JAPAN
5. Mateusz Wojick
POLAND
1. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
2.
Glaube Feitosa BRAZIL
3.
Yoshihiro Tamura JAPAN
4. Kunihiro Suzuki
JAPAN
5. Yasuhiro Kimura
JAPAN
1997 1. Piotr Sawicki POLAND  
2. Kou Tanigawa
JAPAN
3. Oleg Florin
RUSSIA
4.
Leszek Zgrzebiniak POLAND
5. Antal Bencze
HUNGARY
1. Garry O'Neill  AUSTRALIA
2. Hitoshi Kiyama
JAPAN
3. Tadashi Ishihara
JAPAN
4. Muzaffer Bacak
 GERMANY 
5. Shinji Adachi
JAPAN
1. Masayoshi Takaku JAPAN
2. Toru Okamoto
JAPAN
3. Norihisa Horiike
JAPAN
4. Alim Daduev
RUSSIA
5. Igor Shumin
RUSSIA
1. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
2. Norichika Tsukamoto
JAPAN
3. Jakov Zobnin
RUSSIA
4. Glaube Feitosa
BRAZIL
5. Hajime Kazumi
JAPAN

1996

              1. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
              2. Oleg Florin RUSSIA
              3. Ryu Narushima JAPAN
              4. Piotr Sawicki POLAND  
              5. Masafumi Tagahara JAPAN
              1. Garry O'Neill  AUSTRALIA
              2. Hiroyuki Miake JAPAN
              3. Paulius Klapatauskas LITH.
              4. Tadashi Ishihara JAPAN
              5. Muzaffer Bacak  GERMANY 
              1. Norichika Tsukamoto JAPAN
              2. Kunihiro Suzuki JAPAN
              3. Toru Okamoto JAPAN
              4. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
              5. Tsuyoshi Murase JAPAN

1995

              1. Ryu Narushima JAPAN
              2. Antal Bencze HUNGARY
              3. Kensaku Yamamoto JAPAN
              4. Piotr Szeligowski POLAND  
              5. Marcel Murakaev RUSSIA
              1. Garry O'Neill  AUSTRALIA
              2. Eugenisz Dadziburg POLAND  
              3. Masoto Ikeda JAPAN
              4. Tadashi Ishihara JAPAN
              5. Paulius Klapatauskas LITH. 
              1. Kenji Yamaki JAPAN
              2. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
              3. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
              4. Nicholas Pettas DENMARK
              5. Hiroki Kurosawa JAPAN

1994

              1. Kou Tanigawa JAPAN
              2. Oleg Florin RUSSIA
              3. Ryu Narushima JAPAN
              4. Akbolat Appaev RUSSIA
              5. Yevgeniy Krivinozhkin RUSSIA
              1. Ken Fitzpatrick IRELAND
              2. Hiroyuki Miake JAPAN 
              3. Andrei Anufriev RUSSIA
              4. Yoshinori Ikeda JAPAN
              5. Marcos Costa BRAZIL
              1. Kenji Yamaki JAPAN
              2. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
              3. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
              4. Naoki Ichimura JAPAN
              5. Norichika Tsukamoto JAPAN

1993

                1. David Pickthall GT BRITAIN
              2. Hidenori Aoki JAPAN 
              3. Sean Dillon GT BRITAIN
              4. Hans Mars HOLLAND
              5. Igor Timofiev RUSSIA
              1. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN 
              2. Kenji Yamaki JAPAN
              3. Yoshihiro Tamura JAPAN
              4. Walter Schnaubelt PNG
              5. Toru Okamoto JAPAN

1992

                1. Robert Van Boxtel HOLLAND
              2. Eiji Kawamoto JAPAN
              3. Thomasz Najduch POLAND  
              4. Hidenori Aoki JAPAN 
              5. Ken Fitzpatrick IRELAND
              1. Yoshihiro Tamura JAPAN
              2. Hajime Kazumi JAPAN
              3. Francisco Filho BRAZIL
              4. Toru Okamoto JAPAN
              5. Yashuri Shichinohe JAPAN 
              1. Akira Masuda JAPAN 
        2. Hiroki Kurosawa
JAPAN
        3. Yashuri Shichinohe
JAPAN
 
        4. Jean Riviere
CANADA
        5. Yutaka Ishi
JAPAN
 

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