This is a list of Deep champions at each weight class. Deep is a Japan-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promoting and sanctioning organization.
Current champions
editMen
editDivision | Champion | Since | Defenses |
---|---|---|---|
Megatonweight | Roque Martinez | July 15, 2017 | 3 |
Light Heavyweight | Vacant | March 9, 2019 | — |
Middleweight | João Batista Yoshimura | July 4, 2021 | 0 |
Welterweight | Yoichiro Sato | July 14, 2024 | 0 |
Lightweight | Shunta Nomura | September 16, 2024 | 0 |
Featherweight | Jin Aoi | March 9, 2024 | 0 |
Bantamweight | Ryuya Fukuda | September 16, 2024 | 0 |
Flyweight | Ryuya Fukuda | March 29, 2024 | 0 |
Strawweight | Haruo Ochi | May 26, 2024 | 0 |
Women
editDivision | Champion | Since | Defenses |
---|---|---|---|
Openweight | Amanda Lucas | February 18, 2012 | 0 |
Atomweight | Vacant | March 9, 2019 | — |
Microweight | Saori Oshima | September 20, 2020 | 1 |
Men's championship history
editMegatonweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: Unlimited
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Yusuke Kawaguchi def. Shunsuke Inoue |
Deep: Megaton Grand Prix 2008 Finals Tokyo, Japan |
August 2, 2008 | 870 days |
1. def Baru Harn at Deep 38 Impact on October 23, 2008 |
Kawaguchi vacated the title on December 20, 2010.[1] | |||||
2 | Kazuhisa Tazawa def. Yuji Sakuragi |
Deep 52 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 25, 2011 | 182 days | |
3 | Levan Razmadze | Deep 55 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
August 26, 2011 | 327 days |
1. def. Ryuta Noji at Deep 57 Impact on February 18, 2012 |
Razmadze vacated the title in July 4, 2012. | |||||
4 | Ken Hasegawa def. Seigo Mizuguchi |
Deep 61 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 16, 2013 | 970 days |
1. def. Hirohide Fujinuma at Deep 63 Impact on August 25, 2013 |
Hasegawa vacated the title on October 14, 2015 when he started competing at a lower weight class.[2] | |||||
5 | Jaideep Singh def. Carlos Toyota |
Deep 73 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
October 17, 2015 | 637 days | |
6 | Roque Martinez | Deep Cage Impact 2017: At Korakuen Hall Tokyo, Japan |
July 15, 2017 | 2,669 days (incumbent) |
1. def. Ryo Sakai at Deep 88 Impact on March 9, 2019 |
— | Ryo Sakai def. Yukinori Akazawa for interim title |
Deep 110 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
November 12, 2022 | 483 days | 1. def Tatsuya Mizuno at Deep 114 Impact on July 2, 2023. |
Light Heavyweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 93 kg (205 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Yoshiyuki Nakanishi def. Ryuta Noji |
Deep 47 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
April 17, 2010 | 3,248 days |
1. def. Bernard Ackah at Deep 54 Impact on June 24, 2011 |
Nakanishi vacated the title on March 9, 2019 when he retired.[3] |
Middleweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 84 kg (185.2 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ryuki Ueyama def. Eiji Ishikawa |
Deep 5 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
June 9, 2002 | 914 days |
1. drew with Masanori Suda at Deep 12 Impact on September 15, 2003 |
2 | Ryuta Sakurai | Deep 17 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
December 8, 2004 | 425 days | |
3 | Ryo Chonan | Deep 23 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 5, 2006 | 676 days |
1. def. Ryuta Sakurai at Deep 28 Impact on February 16, 2007 |
Chonan vacated the title on December 12, 2007.[4] | |||||
4 | Yuichi Nakanishi def. Riki Fukuda |
Deep 35 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
May 19, 2008 | 408 days | |
5 | Riki Fukuda | Deep: 42 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
June 30, 2009 | 738 days |
1. def. Ryuta Sakurai at Deep 49 Impact on August 27, 2010 |
Fukuda vacated the title in July 8, 2011 due to being signed with the UFC.[5] | |||||
6 | Kazuhiro Nakamura def. Choi Young |
Deep 61 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 16, 2013 | 673 days | |
7 | Yoshiyuki Nakanishi | Deep 70 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
Decision 20, 2014 | 296 days | |
8 | Choi Young | Deep Cage Impact 2015 in Osaka Osaka, Japan |
October 11, 2015 | ? days | |
Choi vacated the title in 2016 when he signed with Road FC.[6] | |||||
9 | Tatsuya Mizuno def. Taisuke Okuno |
Deep 82 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 24, 2018 | 1,227 days | |
10 | João-Batista Yoshimura | Deep 102 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
July 4, 2021 | 1,219 days (incumbent) |
Welterweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 77 kg (169.7 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jutaro Nakao def. Daisuke Nakamura |
Deep 16 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
October 30, 2004 | 840 days |
1. def. Seichi Ikemoto at RealRhythm 3rd Stage on March 4, 2006 |
2 | Hidehiko Hasegawa | Deep 28 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 16, 2007 | 528 days |
1. drew with Dong Hyun Kim at Deep 32 Impact on October 10, 2007 |
3 | Seichi Ikemoto | Deep 36 Impact Osaka, Japan |
July 27, 2008 | 547 days |
1. def. Hidetaka Monma at Deep: 40 Impact on February 20, 2009 |
4 | Yuya Shirai | Deep 45 Impact Osaka, Japan |
January 24, 2010 | 1,189 days |
1. def. Shigetoshi Iwase at Deep 50 Impact on October 24, 2010 |
5 | Dan Hornbuckle | Deep 62 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
April 26, 2013 | 178 days | |
6 | Ryo Chonan | Deep - Tribe Tokyo Night Tokyo, Japan |
October 20, 2013 | >1 day | |
Chonan won the title in his retirement fight and retired as champion.[7] | |||||
7 | Yuta Watanabe def. Taisuke Okuno |
Deep 66 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
April 29, 2014 | 438 days |
1. def. Yuya Shirai at Deep 70 Impact on December 20, 2014 |
8 | Keita Nakamura | Deep - Cage Impact 2015 Tokyo, Japan |
July 20, 2015 | ? days | |
Title vacant when Nakamura signed with the UFC. | |||||
9 | Ryuichiro Sumimura def. Ken Hasegawa |
Deep - Cage Impact 2017: at Korakuen Hall Tokyo, Japan |
July 15, 2017 | 1775 days |
1. def. Yoichiro Sato at Deep 83 Impact on April 28, 2018 |
— | Daichi Abe def. Gota Yamashita for interim title |
Deep - 100 Impact - 20th Anniversary Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan |
February 21, 2021 | 458 days | |
Sumimura vacated the title in May 25, 2022 following an injury. | |||||
10 | Daichi Abe promoted to undisputed champion |
— | May 25, 2022 | 262 days | |
11 | Shingo Suzuki | Deep 112 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 11, 2023 | 519 days | |
12 | Yoichiro Sato | Deep 120 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
July 14, 2024 | 113 days (incumbent) |
Lightweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 70 kg (154.3 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dokonjonosuke Mishima def. Tomomi "Taisho" Iwama |
Deep 18 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 12, 2005 | ? days | |
Mishima vacated the title in February 2006, as he was unable to defend in the mandatory time period.[8] | |||||
2 | Nobuhiro Obiya def. Ryan Bow |
Deep 24 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
April 11, 2006 | 312 days | |
3 | Kazunori Yokota | Deep 28 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 16, 2007 | 459 days | |
4 | Bang Seung-hwan | Deep 35 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
May 19, 2008 | ? days | |
Bang vacated the title in October 2008. | |||||
5 | Katsunori Kikuno def. Koichiro Matsumoto |
Deep: 41 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
April 16, 2009 | 863 days |
1. def. Nobuhiro Obiya at Deep 50 Impact on October 24, 2010 |
6 | Mizuto Hirota | Deep 55 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
August 26, 2011 | ? days |
1. def. Seichi Ikemoto at Deep 57 Impact on February 18, 2012 |
Hirota vacated the title in April 2012.[9] | |||||
7 | Daisuke Nakamura def. Yasuaki Kishimoto |
Deep 58 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
June 15, 2012 | 326 days |
1. def. Takafumi Ito at Deep 60 Impact on October 19, 2012[citation needed] |
8 | Satoru Kitaoka | Deep 62 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
April 26, 2013 | 2,011 days |
1. def. Naoto Miyazaki at Deep 66 Impact on April 29, 2014 |
9 | Koji Takeda | Deep 86 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
October 27, 2018 | 1,235 days |
1. def. Juri Ohara at Deep 82 Impact on October 22, 2019 |
— | Juri Ohara def. Ryota Oki for interim title |
Deep 102 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
July 4, 2021 | 227 days |
|
Takeda vacated the belt on March 15, 2022.[10] | |||||
10 | Juri Ohara promoted to undisputed champion |
— | March 15, 2022 | 552 days |
1. def. Yuma Ishizuka at Deep 108 Impact on Jul 10, 2022 |
11 | Lee Song-ha | Deep 115 Impact: Deep Vs. Black Combat 2 Tokyo, Japan |
September 18, 2023 | 173 days |
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12 | Kimihiro Eto | Deep 118 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
March 9, 2024 | 191 days |
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13 | Shunta Nomura | Deep 121 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
September 16, 2024 | 49 days (incumbent) |
Featherweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 65 kg (143.3 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Masakazu Imanari def. Yoshiro Maeda |
Deep 22 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
December 2, 2005 | 900 days |
1. def. Tsuyoshi Yamazaki at Deep 26 Impact on Oct 10, 2006 |
2 | Dokonjonosuke Mishima | Deep 35 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
May 19, 2008 | 462 days | |
3 | Takafumi Otsuka | Deep: 43 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
August 23, 2009 | 315 days | |
4 | Koichiro Matsumoto | Deep 48 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
July 3, 2010 | 420 days |
1. def. Tatsunao Nagakura at Deep 55 Impact on Aug 26, 2011 |
Matsumoto retired on August 26, 2011, thereby vacating the title.[11] | |||||
5 | Kazunori Yokota def. Hideki Kadowaki |
Deep 57 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 18, 2012 | ? days |
1. def. Katsunori Tsuda at Deep 66 Impact on Apr 29, 2014 |
Yokota vacated the title in May 2016 when he left to compete for ONE Championship.[12] | |||||
6 | Masakazu Imanari (2) def. Tatsunao Nagakura |
Deep Cage Impact 2016: Deep vs. WSOF-GC Tokyo, Japan |
December 17, 2016 | ? days | |
Imanari vacated the title for unknown reasons. | |||||
7 | Hiroto Uesako def. Koichi Ishizuka |
Deep Cage Impact 2017: At Korakuen Hall Tokyo, Japan |
July 15, 2017 | 162 days | |
8 | Takahiro Ashida | Deep 81 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
December 23, 2017 | 309 days | |
9 | Satoshi Yamasu | Deep 86 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
October 27, 2018 | 695 days |
1. def. Daiki Hata at Deep 89 Impact on May 12, 2019 |
10 | Juntaro Ushiku | Deep 97 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
September 20, 2020 | 1189 days |
1. def. Daisuke Nakamura at Deep 102 Impact on July 4, 2021 |
— | Kouya Kanda def. Hiroto Gomyo for interim title |
Deep 112 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 11, 2023 | 313 days | |
Ushiku vacated the title on December 21, 2023, when he started competing at a lower weight class.[13] | |||||
11 | Kouya Kanda promoted to undisputed champion |
— | December 21, 2023 | 79 days | |
12 | Jin Aoi | Deep 118 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
March 9, 2024 | 240 days (incumbent) |
Bantamweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 60 kg (132.3 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Masakazu Imanari def. Hiroshi Umemura |
Deep 37 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
August 17, 2008 | 1,018 days |
1. def. Tomohiko Hori at Deep: 43 Impact on August 23, 2009 |
Imanari vacated the title on May 31, 2011. | |||||
2 | Takafumi Otsuka def. Hiroshi Nakamura |
Deep 54 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
June 24, 2011 | 240 days | |
3 | Yoshiro Maeda | Deep 57 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 18, 2012 | 434 days |
1. def. Tatsumitsu Wada at Deep 59 Impact on August 18, 2012 |
4 | Daiki Hata | Deep 62 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
April 26, 2013 | ? days | |
Hata vacated the title. | |||||
5 | Takafumi Otsuka (2) def. Kenji Osawa |
Deep 66 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
April 29, 2014 | ? days |
1. def. Toshinori Tsunemura at Deep 69 Impact on October 26, 2014 |
Otsuka vacated the title for unknown reasons. | |||||
6 | Son Jin-soo def. Toshiaki Kitada |
Deep 83 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
April 28, 2018 | ? days | |
Son vacated the title in 2018 when he signed with UFC. | |||||
7 | Yuki Motoya def. Makoto Kamaya |
Deep 86 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
October 27, 2018 | 134 days | |
8 | Victor Henry | Deep 88 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
March 9, 2019 | 1,619 days | |
— | Kosuke Terashima def. Daiki Hata for interim title |
Deep 107 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
May 8, 2022 | 215 days | |
— | Koichi Ishizuka def. Kosuke Terashima for interim title |
Deep 110 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
November 12, 2022 | 276 days | |
Henry vacated the title on August 15, 2023 due to being unable to defend his title while signed with UFC.[14] | |||||
9 | Koichi Ishizuka promoted to undisputed champion |
— | August 15, 2023 | 34 days |
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10 | Yoo Soo-young | Deep 115 Impact: Deep Vs. Black Combat 2 Tokyo, Japan |
September 18, 2023 | 194 days | |
Soo-young vacated the title on March 30, 2024 to compete in Road to UFC.[15] | |||||
11 | Ryuya Fukuda def. Kenta Takizawa |
Deep 121 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
September 16, 2024 | 49 days (incumbent) |
Flyweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 56 kg (123.4 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Yuki Motoya def. Akira Kibe |
Deep Nagoya Impact Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
July 22, 2012 | 400 days | |
2 | Tatsumitsu Wada | Deep 63 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
August 25, 2013 | 364 days | |
3 | Yuki Motoya (2) | Deep 68 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
August 23, 2014 | ? days |
1. def. Kojima Sota at Deep 73 Impact on October 17, 2015 |
Motoya vacated the title in April 2016.[16] | |||||
4 | Tatsumitsu Wada (2) def. Yuya Shibata |
Deep 76 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
June 26, 2016 | 1,342 days |
1. def. Makoto Takahashi at Deep 83 Impact on April 28, 2018 |
— | Makoto Takahashi def. Yuya Shibata for interim title |
Deep 90 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
June 29, 2019 | 246 days | |
Wada vacated the title on February 28, 2020.[17] | |||||
5 | Makoto Takahashi promoted to undisputed champion. |
— | February 28, 2020 | 1,490 days |
1. def. Yamato Fujita in unification bout at Deep 107 Impact on May 8, 2022 |
— | Yamato Fujita def. Kazuki Shibuya for interim title |
Deep 100 Impact - 20th Anniversary Tokyo, Japan |
February 21, 2021 | 441 days |
1. def. Yuki Ito at Deep 103 Impact on September 23, 2021 |
— | Ryuya Fukuda def. Ryosuke Honda for interim title |
Deep 113 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
May 7, 2023 | 327 days | |
Takahashi vacated the title on March 29, 2024 to focus on competing in RIZIN.[18] | |||||
6 | Ryuya Fukuda promoted to undisputed champion. |
— | March 29, 2024 | 220 days (incumbent) |
Strawweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 52 kg (114.6 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kanta Sato def. Kojima Sota |
Deep Cage Impact 2016: Korakuen Hall Tokyo, Japan |
October 18, 2016 | 334 days | |
2 | Haruo Ochi | Deep 79 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
September 16, 2017 | 1,073 days |
1. def. Yuya Shibata at Deep Cage Impact in Osaka 2018 on April 8, 2018 |
3 | Namiki Kawahara | Deep 96 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
August 23, 2020 | 1,372 days | |
— | Haruo Ochi def. Yusuke Uehara for interim title |
Deep 117 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
December 10, 2023 | 168 days | |
4 | Haruo Ochi (2) | DEEP Tokyo Impact 2024 3rd Round Tokyo, Japan |
May 26, 2024 | 162 days (incumbent) |
Women's championship history
editWomen's Openweight Championship
editNo. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Amanda Lucas def. Yumiko Hotta |
Deep 57 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 18, 2012 | 3,918 days[Note 1] |
Women's Atomweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 48 kg (105.8 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Hisae Watanabe def. Satoko Shinashi |
Deep 25 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
August 4, 2006 | 367 days | |
2 | Miku Matsumoto | Deep 31 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
August 5, 2007 | 987 days |
1. def. Misaki Takimoto at Deep 37 Impact on August 17, 2008 |
Matsumoto vacated the title on April 17, 2010, following her retirement from the sport.[19] |
Women's Microweight Championship
edit- Weight limit: 45 kg (99.2 lb)
No. | Name | Event | Date | Reign (total) |
Defenses |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Satoko Shinashi def. Sachiko Yamamoto |
Deep 34 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
February 22, 2008 | 3,962 days[Note 2] | |
Shinashi vacated the title in 2018. | |||||
2 | Saori Oshima def. Mizuki Oshiro |
Deep 97 Impact Tokyo, Japan |
September 20, 2020 | 1,506 days (incumbent) |
1. def. Mizuki Furuse at Deep 110 Impact on November 12, 2022 |
Footnotes
editSee also
editReferences
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