Rin Nakai will search her twelfth straight victory when she subsequent competes on November twenty third at Deep Jewels 47 in Tokyo, Japan. Nakai, who has not misplaced since March 2016, is about to face off in opposition to prospect Haruka “Boss” Suzuki in one in every of ten fights formally introduced for the cardboard this previous weekend.
Nakai, who’s the reigning Deep Jewels Flyweight Champion, will stay on the greater weight of 58kg for the matchup in opposition to Suzuki, who’s 2-0 this yr. Within the Deep Jewels 47 co-main occasion, two-time interim strawweight title challenger Machi Fukuda meets Suwanan “Amp The Rocket” Boonsorn.
Nakai (27-2-1) has scored 11 straight finishes throughout her present streak of victories, together with seven in a row since debuting for Deep Jewels in June 2019. The 18-year veteran has battled accidents lately which have impacted a few of her performances, however she simply claimed the Deep Jewels flyweight title in Might 2022 and has since earned two extra wins together with one at Deep Jewels 45 in Might, the place Nakai rallied after a poor begin and choked out late substitute opponent Namiko “Hime” Kawabata within the third spherical.
Suzuki (2-2-0), very similar to Kawabata did in Might, will enter her showdown in opposition to Nakai as a big underdog. She has had a profitable 2024 marketing campaign to this point, nonetheless, and is coming off of a call win over Tae “Te-a” Murayama this previous month at Deep Jewels 46. Suzuki has made appreciable enhancements to her total MMA recreation since final yr when she was defeated in her first two professional MMA bouts, however she’s going to now face her hardest check by a big margin within the far more skilled Nakai.
Fukuda (5-2-0) dropped razor-thin Break up Choices to Arisa Matsuda and Si Woo Park in successive interim strawweight title bouts at Deep Jewels 43 and 45, however the gifted 21-year-old maintained her lively preventing schedule and received again into the win column at Deep Jewels 46 on September eighth when she submitted Morgane Manfredi within the night time’s fundamental occasion. She holds a key win over Shooto Ladies’s Tremendous Atomweight Champion Ayaka Watanabe and hopes to defeat one other former champ subsequent month.
Boonsorn (5-5-0) held the Deep Jewels Microweight Championship throughout COVID-19 lockdowns and shutdowns, however she was not capable of journey to defend the belt and didn’t return to Deep Jewels till Might 2023 when she was rapidly submitted by Seika Izawa in a non-title 49kg bout. Boonsorn’s first and solely title defence got here 4 months later at Deep Jewels 42 when she dropped a Unanimous Resolution and the belt to Aya Murakami. She now strikes up virtually 20 kilos in weight to face Fukuda.
In different featured skilled motion at Deep Jewels 47, Momoko Saito (2-2-0, 1 NC) seeks her third straight win when she faces the returning Yurina Horiguchi (2-3-0) at bantamweight. Additionally within the bantamweight division, Marina Kumagai (5-6-0) hopes to rebound from her Black Fight loss in August when she battles Mana Akagi (3-4-0). In a 49kg tremendous atomweight bout, Misaki Suda (1-0-0) appears to be like to observe up on her profitable professional debut this previous month when she takes on Princess Saaya (0-1-0). At atomweight, Sarah (0-1-0) goals for redemption after dropping her professional debut at Deep Jewels 46 when she meets Miku Yokose (2-1-0 newbie) in a rematch from their Deep Jewels 43 newbie bout, and Yua Yokose (2-0-0 newbie) kicks off her professional profession in opposition to Nonoka Sakamoto (0-0-0) at strawweight.
Rounding out the cardboard, Yuka Shimamura faces Hana Suyama in an newbie strawweight kickboxing match. Momoka Yoshikawa (1-8-0 newbie) takes on former Rizin FF ring lady Akipi (0-0-0 newbie) in an newbie strawweight MMA bout, and Asuka Yokoe (0-0-0 newbie) and Yuna Suyama (0-0-0 newbie) sq. off in 49kg newbie MMA motion.
Deep Jewels 47 takes place on November twenty third at New Pier Corridor in Tokyo, Japan.
