Contemporary off of a profitable Black Fight atomweight title defence this previous weekend, Si Yoon “Sankaru” Park will put her Deep Jewels Atomweight Championship on the road on March twenty fourth at Deep Jewels 44 in Tokyo, Japan. Park defends in opposition to Seika Izawa within the night time’s featured predominant occasion.
The Park-Izawa title tilt was considered one of ten bouts introduced for the cardboard at the moment. Park received the belt from Saori Oshima in a champion versus champion struggle at Deep: “115 Influence” in September. The undefeated Izawa, in the meantime, will look so as to add a 3rd divisional championship title to her rising assortment.
Park (6-3-0) returned to MMA competitors in 2023 after greater than three years away and she or he has rapidly established herself as a top-ranked atomweight. After scoring fast wins in March and Might, Park submitted Nam Hee Kim in July to grow to be the inaugural Black Fight Girls’s Atomweight Champion. She then confronted Oshima in a winner-take-all championship bout for each the Black Fight and Deep Jewels atomweight titles in September and prevailed by way of Unanimous Choice. This previous Saturday, Park retained her Black Fight title by defeating Moeri Suda at Black Fight 10.
Izawa (12-0-0) first turned a champion in her third MMA struggle when she defeated Miki Motono for a second time to say the Deep Jewels strawweight title in June 2021. Ten months later, she added the Rizin FF Girls’s Tremendous Atomweight Championship to her résumé when she bested Ayaka Hamasaki in a rematch at Rizin FF 35. Izawa has since received six extra fights, together with a Rizin FF atomweight grand prix title victory on the finish of 2022, and she or he most just lately submitted Miyuu Yamamoto in a non-title bout at Rizin FF 45 on New Yr’s Eve.
Within the tremendous atomweight co-main occasion, Street FC champion Jeong Eun “Little Wolf” Park (9-7-0) seems to comply with up on her dominant win at Deep Jewels 41 when she battles Namiko “Hime” Kawabata (4-3-0). Park was just lately reinstated as Street FC Girls’s Atomweight Champion following Yu Ri Shim’s departure from the promotion. She earned a one-sided first-round TKO win over Moeri Suda in Might and appears to make it two in a row underneath the Deep Jewels banner. Kawabata seeks to halt a two-fight dropping skid, however she stays a highly-ranked competitor as a result of her victory over Saori Oshima in 2022.
Additionally at tremendous atomweight, veteran Yuko Kiryu (13-10-0) takes on common prospect Kate “Lotus” Oyama (4-6-0). Kiryu ended a two-fight dropping skid in September with considered one of her greatest profession victories when she defeated Hikaru Aono at Deep Jewels 42. Oyama has proven appreciable enchancment in current fights, however she went a modest 1-2 in 2023 with a victory over Saki Kitamura sandwiched between resolution setbacks in opposition to the aforementioned Aono and Moeri Suda.
Rounding out the Deep Jewels 44 card to date, Mizuki Furuse (11-11-0) faces Saki Kitamura (1-2-0) at tremendous atomweight, Momoko Yamazaki (4-5-0) meets South Korean newcomer Libby (0-0-0) in a 44kg microweight bout, Marina Kumagai (4-5-0) takes on Chieko Hosoya (2-2-0) at bantamweight, fast-rising flyweight star Yuka “Dosukoi” Okutomi (3-0-0) places her undefeated document on the road in opposition to Momoko Saito (0-2-0), Kyoka “Chibisai” Minagawa (2-4-0, 1 NC) welcomes Mahina China (1-0-0 beginner) to Deep Jewels in a 44kg microweight contest, Hitomi Taniyama (1-2-0) clashes with Haruka “Boss” Suzuki (0-2-0) at flyweight, and Miku Yokose (1-1-0 beginner) faces Misaki Suda (1-4-0 beginner) in an beginner tremendous atomweight rematch from this previous March.
Deep Jewels 44 takes place on March twenty fourth at New Pier Corridor in Tokyo, Japan.
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