With Honoka Shigeta injured and out of her deliberate bout towards Namiko “Hime” Kawabata, a brand new important occasion has been booked for Deep Jewels 48 on March twenty third in Tokyo, Japan. Former Rizin FF, Invicta FC and Jewels champion Ayaka Hamasaki will battle Moeri “Black Diamond” Suda.
Deep Jewels officers introduced the 49kg tremendous atomweight conflict in the present day. Hamasaki final competed for the promotion greater than ten years in the past at Deep Jewels 5. The veteran now makes her return in an intriguing battle towards 20-year-old rising star Suda, who has gained 4 of her previous 5 bouts.
Hamasaki (25-6-0) is one in every of MMA’s most completed feminine fighters, with notable wins all through her profession that dates again to her beginner debut almost 15 years in the past. She has had a number of prolonged reigns atop the ladies’s atomweight rankings, however fights in recent times have yielded blended outcomes. Hamasaki misplaced her Rizin FF girls’s tremendous atomweight title in a rematch towards Seika Izawa in April 2022, and has fought simply thrice since then resulting from a chronic damage layoff. She gained two of these three bouts, nonetheless, and is coming off of a second-round submission win over former Street FC champion Yu Ri Shim in November.
Suda (12-6-0) has maintained a really energetic combating schedule since turning professional at age 16 in October 2020. After dropping her first two fights, Suda racked up 5 straight victories to earn a shot on the Deep Jewels atomweight title in Could 2022. Although she was defeated, Suda rebounded by profitable her Rizin FF debut two months later and went on to avenge her first profession defeat when she outpointed Aya Murakami of their September 2022 rematch. Suda’s lone defeat in her previous 5 bouts got here by way of a considerably controversial resolution towards Si Yoon Park in an atomweight title battle at Black Fight 10, however she is at the moment driving a two-fight submission profitable streak.
Along with the primary occasion between Hamasaki and Suda, Deep Jewels 48 additionally acquired a brand new battle on the preliminary card. Ery Isshiki Cadelina (0-1-0 beginner) makes her second look for Deep Jewels towards debuting striker Misaki Horiuchi (0-0-0 beginner) in a 53kg beginner contest.
Deep Jewels 48 takes place on March twenty third at New Pier Corridor in Tokyo, Japan.
Deep Jewels 48 Struggle Card (up to now; topic to vary):
– Ayaka Hamasaki vs Moeri “Black Diamond” Suda [49kg Bout – 3×5]– Yoko Higashi vs Mana Akagi [Bantamweight Bout – 3×5]– Hikaru Aono vs Saki Kitamura [49kg Bout – 2×5]– Momoko Yamazaki vs Kimika “Jaka” Kawaguchi [44kg Microweight Bout – 2×5]– Kyoka “Chibisai” Minagawa vs Rena Kobayashi [44kg Microweight Bout – 2×5]
– Yuko “Pochan Z” Matsuura vs Elena [63kg Bout – 2×5]– Misaki Suda vs Princess Saaya [49kg Bout – 2×5]– Karin Horii vs Yua Yokose [Strawweight Bout – 2×5]– Miku Yokose vs Asuka Yokoe [49kg Bout – 2×5]– Yuka Shimamura vs Saki Nakamura [Strawweight Kickboxing Bout – 2×2]– Akipi vs Yuna Suyama [Amateur Strawweight Bout – 2×3]– Ery Isshiki Cadelina vs Misaki Horiuchi [Amateur 53kg Bout – 2×3]
