Returning after a knee injury kept her sidelined for all of 2025, Momoko Saito became Deep Jewels Bantamweight Champion with a dominant second-round TKO victory tonight at Deep Jewels 52 in Tokyo, Japan. Saito overwhelmed opponent Juki Sue on the ground to earn the main event win.
Elsewhere on the Deep Jewels 52 card, reigning strawweight champion Machi Fukuda easily won her non-title co-main event bout against Road FC representative Dan Bi Kim. Fukuda needed just 58 seconds to submit the South Korean with a guillotine choke in the shortest fight of the night.
Deep Jewels kicked off the new year with its first event of 2026 tonight at New Pier Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Deep Jewels 52 was headlined by a vacant Deep Jewels Bantamweight Championship matchup between Momoko Saito and Juki Sue, who both brought three-fight winning streaks into the bout.
Shooto kicked off the new year with its latest all-female fight card tonight at New Pier Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The Shooto: “Colors 6” card was headlined by an atomweight matchup between veteran Megumi Sugimoto and teen prospect Noa Tokumoto, who scored a 32-second KO win in September.
After struggles in 2025, Deep and Deep Jewels Microweight Champion Saori “Little Giant” Oshima seeks a fresh start this year when she competes on March 7th at Rizin Fighting Federation 52 in Tokyo, Japan. Oshima faces Keito “Kate Lotus” Oyama in a 49kg super atomweight bout on the card.
A new bantamweight champion will be crowned on February 23rd when Deep Jewels returns to New Pier Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Momoko Saito and Juki Sue are set to face off for the vacant title in the main event of Deep Jewels 52, which had a total of 13 fights confirmed earlier this week.
Facing her greatest career adversity, Rizin FF Women’s Super Atomweight Champion Seika Izawa rallied from the brink of defeat and retained her title tonight at Rizin Fighting Federation: “Shiwasu no Cho Tsuwamono Matsuri” in Saitama, Japan. Izawa submitted Rena Kubota in the second round.
In her first fight back since leaving her long-time gym at AACC, former Rizin champion Ayaka Hamasaki scored a much-needed victory tonight at Deep Jewels 51 in Tokyo, Japan. The newly-freelance Hamasaki defeated Ye Ji Lee with a strong performance in the 49kg super atomweight main event.
Deep Jewels closed out 2025 with its final event of the year tonight at New Pier Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Deep Jewels 51 was headlined by a super atomweight showdown between former Rizin champion Ayaka Hamasaki and Korean upset queen Ye Ji Lee, who sought another big victory.