The newly-vacant Deep Jewels Interim Strawweight Championship shall be up for grabs on Could twenty sixth at Deep Jewels 45 in Tokyo, Japan. Si Woo “Korean Queen Bee” Park and Machi Fukuda will compete for the title in one in every of 5 further matchups that have been introduced for the occasion this week.
Arisa Matsuda captured the interim championship in November with a slim Break up Resolution win over Fukuda, however she has elected to vacate the title and is predicted to be competing overseas in the course of the coming months. Park received back-to-back fights for Deep and Deep Jewels this previous yr.
Park (11-5-0) has received six of her previous seven fights courting again to her first battle in opposition to Seika Izawa in October 2021, which resulted in a aggressive choice loss for Park. Her lone defeat since then additionally got here in opposition to Izawa, in an much more closely-contested bout at Rizin FF 40 on the finish of 2022, which noticed Izawa eke out a Break up Resolution victory. Park is 3-1 in Rizin, with wins over high stars Rena Kubota, Kanna Asakura and former champion Ayaka Hamasaki, and she or he loved a profitable marketing campaign for Deep in 2023 with two wins together with a first-round TKO stoppage in December.
Fukuda (4-1-0) received her first three professional bouts for Deep Jewels previous to her twentieth birthday this previous June. She then confronted Shooto champion Ayaka Watanabe at Rizin FF: “Landmark Vol. 6” in October and earned a slim Break up Resolution victory. Fukuda had hoped to seize a title in her fifth professional bout in opposition to Matsuda at Deep Jewels 43. Nevertheless, regardless of Fukuda’s dominant remaining spherical, Matsuda’s clinch management and placing within the first two rounds was simply sufficient to offer her a razor-thin Break up Resolution win. Now trying to rebound from the setback, Fukuda could have a second shot on the title subsequent month.
Additionally introduced for the cardboard have been 4 further matchups. Tae “Te-a” Murayama (3-5-0) faces Momoko Saito (0-2-0, 1 NC) in a 59kg bout. Murayama has struggled lately after opening her professional profession with two straight wins. Saito would have scored an enormous victory this previous month in opposition to the undefeated Yuka Okutomi, however Saito got here in considerably chubby and the would-be flyweight bout formally resulted in a No Contest consequently.
In a 44kg microweight bout, Kimika “Jaka” Kawaguchi (2-1-0) faces 15-year-old prospect Mahina China (1-0-0), who received her professional debut in spectacular vogue at Deep Jewels 44. Haruka “Boss” Suzuki (1-2-0) takes on former Shooto competitor Juki Sue (1-1-0) at flyweight, and Misaki Suda (1-5-0 newbie) meets Seari Sumimura (4-1-0 newbie) in a 49kg newbie tremendous atomweight bout.
Deep Jewels 45 takes place on Could twenty sixth at New Pier Corridor in Tokyo, Japan.
Deep Jewels 45 Battle Card (to this point; topic to alter):
– Saori Oshima vs Aya Murakami [Deep & Deep Jewels Microweight Double Title Bout – 3×5]– Rin Nakai vs Aoi Kuriyama [Deep Jewels Flyweight Title Bout – 3×5]– Si Woo Park vs Machi Fukuda [Deep Jewels Interim Strawweight Title Bout – 3×5]
– Tae Murayama vs Momoko Saito [59kg Bout – 2×5]– Kimika “Jaka” Kawaguchi vs Mahina China [44kg Microweight Bout – 2×5]– Haruka “Boss” Suzuki vs Juki Sue [Flyweight Bout – 2×5]– Misaki Suda vs Seari Sumimura [Amateur 49kg Bout – 2×3]
(Photograph Credit score: Deep Jewels)
