Sayaka Shioda

Sayaka Shioda is a Japanese former mixed martial arts fighter and a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, judo and sambo, born in Gunma. She began her mixed martial arts career in 2005 as a flyweight in Pancrase and Shooto and became the Shooto Grappling Flyweight Champion. In 2007 she won the ADCC Asian Championships in Tokyo and then the ADCC World Championship by beating Cynthia Hales, Bianca Baretto and Felicia Oh, and the same year she took silver at the IBJJF World Championship. She is also a sambo world champion and a two-time Pan IBJJF champion in the lower belt divisions.