Besides the Shootboxing middle weight world tournament ‘S-Cup’, we organize another fighting festival, aiming to go beyond the limits of separated groups and competitions. As you all know, the original meaning of ‘GROUND ZERO’ is ‘the center of an explosion’. Bringing together several excellent fighters from different backgrounds, we want to create a great sensation in the world by being the center of a ‘martial arts explosion’. Until now, we have organized this tournament four times.

First Event 26 January 1996／Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium

Shootboxing realized the dream of featuring together with different kinds of sports such as Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Pro-Wrestling, Kyokushin Karate, Daidojuku and SAW. It was a festival hold in order to spread the attractive points of each martial art.
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Takehiro Murahama VS Chamuakpet Chorchamuang

Hiromu Yoshitaka VS Yacob Komat/Manson Gibson VS Yoji Anjo, and others.

 

Second event November 14 1998 / Nihon Budoukan

A dream tournament that brought together 6 different groups of the disunited Japanese national Kickboxing organization. Masato and Kohiruimaki, who would became fully active in K-1 MAX, also participated in this tournament. The unique fight between the at that time much talked about gay Muay Thai fighter Parinya and the female pro-wrestler Kyoko Inoue that became a topic in the news, was held in this tournament.
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Kenichi Ogata VS Ramon Dekker / Masato VS Tetsumasa Shimamura / Hiroyuki Doi VS Takayuki Kohiruimaki, and others.


Third event January 23 2005 / Fukuoka International Center

The first time Shootboxing held an event in Fukuoka. Having an exhibition match featuring Rumina Sato, the charismatic Shoot fighter who has also participated in K-1, an MMA match featuring the PRIDE fighter Daijiro Matsui, this event got a lot of public attention as well.
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Kenichi Ogata VS Serkan Yilmaz / Hiroki Shishido VS Ole Laursen / Daijiro Matsui VS Bryan Foster / Nobu Hayashi VS Ben Rose, and others.


Fourth event October 28 2007 / Ryogoku Kokugikan

Different from the former events, this event featured many top fighters, such as Andy Ologon, Gilbert Yvel, and Hayato ‘Mach’ Sakurai, who would fight under Shootboxing rules. SB top fighters Souwer, Ogata and Shishido also participated, gathering more than 8000 fans to the event.
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Andy Souwer vs Andy Ologon / Kenichi Ogata VS Bryan Lowanyu / Hiroki Shishido VS Big Ben / Hayato ‘Mach’ Sakurai VS Jani Lax, and others.