List of Deep champions

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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[]

[1]

Men[]

Division Champion Since Defenses
Megatonweight Guam Roque Martinez Jul 15, 2017 2
Light Heavyweight Vacant Mar 9, 2019 –
Middleweight Brazil Joao Batista Yoshimura Jul 4, 2021 0
Welterweight Japan Ryuichiro Sumimura Jul 15, 2017 2
Japan Daichi Abe (interim) Feb 21, 2021 0
Lightweight Japan Koji Takeda Oct 27, 2018 2
Japan Juri Ohara (interim) Jul 4, 2021 0
Featherweight Japan Juntaro Ushiku Sep 20, 2020 2
Bantamweight United States Victor Henry Mar 9, 2019 0
Flyweight Japan Yamato Fujita Feb 21, 2021 1
Strawweight Japan Namiki Kawahara Aug 23, 2020 0

Women[]

Division Champion Since Defenses
Openweight United States Amanda Lucas Febr 18, 2012 0
Lightweight Vacant Mar 9, 2019 –
Microweight Japan Saori Oshima Sep 20, 2020 0

Men's Championship History[]

Megatonweight Championship[]

Weight limit: Unlimited
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Yūsuke Kawaguchi
def. Shunsuke Inoue 		Club DEEP Tokyo "Megaton GP 2008 Final"
Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 2, 2008 870 days

1. def Baru Harn at DEEP 38 Impact on Oct 23, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Seigo Mizuguchi at Deep: 44 Impact on Oct 10, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan
3. def. Roque Martinez at Deep: Cage Impact 2009 on Dec 19, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Kawaguchi vacated the title on December 20, 2010.[2]
2 Japan Kazuhisa Tazawa
def. Yuji Sakuragi 		DEEP 52 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 25, 2011 182 days
3 Georgia (country) Levan Razmadze DEEP 55 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 26, 2011 ? days

1. def. Ryuta Noji at DEEP 57 Impact on Feb 18, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan

Levan Razmadze vacated the title in February 2012.
4 Japan Ken Hasegawa
def. Seigo Mizuguchi 		DEEP 61 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 16, 2013 970 days

1. def. Hirohide Fujinuma at DEEP 63 Impact on Aug. 25, 2013 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Kazuhiro Nakamura at DEEP 65 Impact on Mar. 22, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan

Hasegawa vacated the title on October 14, 2015, when he started competing at a lower weight class.[3]
5 India Jaideep Singh
def. Carlos Toyota 		DEEP 73 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Oct 17, 2015 637 days
6 Guam Roque Martinez DEEP Cage Impact 2017: At Korakuen Hall
Tokyo, Japan 		Jul 15, 2017 1,624 days
(incumbent)

1. def. Ryo Sakai at DEEP 88 Impact on March 9, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Seigo Mizuguchi at DEEP 93 Impact on Dec. 15, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

Light Heavyweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 93 kg (205 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Yoshiyuki Nakanishi
def. Ryuta Noji 		DEEP 47 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Apr 17, 2010 3,248 days

1. def. Bernard Ackah at DEEP 54 Impact on Jun 24, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Yuki Niimura at DEEP 60 Impact on Oct 19, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan
3. def. Shunsuke Inoue at DEEP 66 Impact on Apr 29, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan

The Championship was vacated when Yoshiyuki Nakanishi retired on March 9, 2019 at DEEP 88.[4]

Middleweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 84 kg (185.2 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Ryuki Ueyama
def. Eiji Ishikawa 		DEEP 5 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Jun 9, 2002 914 days

1. drew with Masanori Suda at DEEP 12 Impact on Sep 15, 2003 in Tokyo, Japan

2 Japan Ryuta Sakurai DEEP 17 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Dec 8, 2004 425 days
3 Japan Ryo Chonan DEEP 23 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 5, 2006 676 days

1. def. Ryuta Sakurai at DEEP 28 Impact on Feb 16, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan

Ryo Chonan vacated the title on December 12, 2007.[5]
4 Japan Yuichi Nakanishi
def. Riki Fukuda 		DEEP 35 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		May 19, 2008 408 days
5 Japan Riki Fukuda Deep: 42 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Jun 30, 2009 ? days

1. def. Ryuta Sakurai at DEEP 49 Impact on Aug 27, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan

Riki Fukuda vacated the title in October 2011.[6]
6 Japan Kazuhiro Nakamura
def. Young Choi 		DEEP 61 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 16, 2013 673 days
7 Japan Yoshiyuki Nakanishi DEEP 70 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Dec 20, 2014 296 days
8 Japan Young Choi DEEP Cage Impact 2015 in Osaka
Osaka, Japan 		Oct 11, 2015 ? days
Young Choi vacated the title in 2016 when he signed with Road FC.[7]
9 Japan Tatsuya Mizuno
def. Taisuke Okuno 		DEEP 82 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 24, 2018 1,227 days
10 Brazil Joao Batista Yoshimura DEEP 102 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		July 4, 2021 174 days
(incumbent)

Welterweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 77 kg (169.7 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Jutaro Nakao
def. Daisuke Nakamura 		DEEP 16 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Oct 30, 2004 840 days

1. def. Seichi Ikemoto at RealRhythm 3rd Stage on Mar 4, 2006 in Osaka, Japan

2 Japan Hidehiko Hasegawa DEEP 28 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 16, 2007 528 days

1. drew with Dong Hyun Kim at DEEP 32 Impact on Oct 10, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan

3 Japan Seichi Ikemoto DEEP 36 Impact
Osaka, Japan 		Jul 27, 2008 547 days

1. def. Hidetaka Monma at Deep: 40 Impact on Feb 20, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan

4 Japan Yuya Shirai DEEP 45 Impact
Osaka, Japan 		Jan 24, 2010 1,189 days

1. def. Shigetoshi Iwase at DEEP 50 Impact on Oct 24, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Taisuke Okuno at DEEP 56 Impact on Dec 16, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan

5 United States Dan Hornbuckle DEEP 62 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Apr 26, 2013 178 days
6 Japan Ryo Chonan DEEP - Tribe Tokyo Night
Tokyo, Japan 		Oct 20, 2013 >1 day
Ryo Chonan won the title in his retirement fight and retired as champion.[8]
7 Japan Yuta Watanabe
def. Taisuke Okuno 		DEEP 66 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Apr 29, 2014 438 days

1. def. Yuya Shirai at DEEP 70 Impact on Dec 20, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan

8 Japan Keita Nakamura DEEP - Cage Impact 2015
Tokyo, Japan 		Jul 20, 2015 ? days
Title vacant when Nakamura signed with the UFC.
9 Japan Ryuichiro Sumimura
def. Ken Hasegawa 		DEEP - Cage Impact 2017: at Korakuen Hall
Tokyo, Japan 		Jul 15, 2017 1,624 days
(incumbent)

1. def. Yoichiro Sato at DEEP 83 Impact on Apr 28, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Yuta Watanabe at DEEP 94 Impact on Mar 1, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan

- Japan Daichi Abe
def. Gota Yamashita for interim title 		DEEP - 100 Impact - 20th Anniversary
Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 21, 2021 307 days
(incumbent)

Lightweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 70 kg (154.3 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Dokonjonosuke Mishima
def. Tomomi "Taisho" Iwama 		DEEP 18 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 12, 2005 ? days
Dokonjonosuke Mishima vacated the title in February 2006, as he was unable to defend in the mandatory time period.[9]
2 Japan Nobuhiro Obiya
def. Ryan Bow 		DEEP 24 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Apr 11, 2006 312 days
3 Japan Kazunori Yokota DEEP 28 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 16, 2007 459 days
4 South Korea Seung-Hwan Bang DEEP 35 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		May 19, 2008 ? days
Seung-Hwan Bang vacated the title in October 2008.
5 Japan Katsunori Kikuno def. Koichiro Matsumoto Deep: 41 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Apr 16, 2009 863 days

1. def. Nobuhiro Obiya at DEEP 50 Impact on Oct 24, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan

6 Japan Mizuto Hirota DEEP 55 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 26, 2011 ? days

1. def. Seichi Ikemoto at DEEP 57 Impact on Feb 18, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan

Mizuto Hirota vacated the title in April 2012.[10]
7 Japan Daisuke Nakamura
def. Yasuaki Kishimoto 		DEEP 58 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Jun 15, 2012 326 days

1. def. Takafumi Ito at DEEP 60 Impact on Oct 19, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan[citation needed]

8 Japan Satoru Kitaoka DEEP 62 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Apr 26, 2013 2,011 days

1. def. Naoto Miyazaki at DEEP 66 Impact on Apr 29, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Yoshiyuki Yoshida at DEEP Dream Impact: Omisoka Special on Dec 31, 2014 in Saitama, Japan
3. def. Yuki Okano at DEEP Cage Impact 2015 on Jul 20, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan
4. def. Kota Shimoishi at DEEP 76 Impact on Jun 26, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan

9 Japan Koji Takeda DEEP 86 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Oct 27, 2018 1,155 days
(incumbent)

1. def. Juri Ohara at DEEP 82 Impact on Oct 22, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Juri Ohara at DEEP 93 Impact on Dec 15, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

- Japan Juri Ohara
def. Ryota Oki for interim title 		DEEP 102 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Jul 4, 2021 174 days
(incumbent)

Featherweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 65 kg (143.3 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Masakazu Imanari
def. Yoshiro Maeda 		DEEP 22 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Dec 2, 2005 900 days

1. def. Tsuyoshi Yamazaki at DEEP 26 Impact on Oct 10, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan

2 Japan Dokonjonosuke Mishima DEEP 35 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		May 19, 2008 462 days
3 Japan Takafumi Otsuka Deep: 43 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 23, 2009 315 days
4 Japan Koichiro Matsumoto DEEP 48 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Jul 3, 2010 420 days

1. def. Tatsunao Nagakura at DEEP 55 Impact on Aug 26, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan

Koichiro Matsumoto retired on August 26, 2011, thereby vacating the title.[11]
5 Japan Kazunori Yokota
def. Hideki Kadowaki 		DEEP 57 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 18, 2012 ? days

1. def. Katsunori Tsuda at DEEP 66 Impact on Apr 29, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan

Kazunori Yokota vacated the title in May 2016 when he left to compete for ONE Championship.[12]
6 Japan Masakazu Imanari (2)
def. Tatsunao Nagakura 		DEEP Cage Impact 2016: DEEP vs. WSOF-GC
Tokyo, Japan 		Dec 17, 2016 ? days
Imanari vacated the title for unknown reasons.
7 Japan Hiroto Uesako
def. Koichi Ishizuka 		DEEP Cage Impact 2017: At Korakuen Hall
Tokyo, Japan 		Jul 15, 2017 162 days
8 Japan Takahiro Ashida DEEP 81 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Dec 23, 2017 309 days
9 Japan Satoshi Yamasu DEEP 86 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Oct 27, 2018 695 days

1. def. Daiki Hata at DEEP 89 Impact on May 12, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

10 Japan Juntaro Ushiku DEEP 97 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Sep 20, 2020 461 days
(incumbent)

1. def. Daisuke Nakamura at DEEP 102 Impact on Jul 4, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Kouya Kanda at DEEP 105 Impact on Dec 12, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan

Bantamweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 60 kg (132.3 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Masakazu Imanari
def. Hiroshi Umemura 		DEEP 37 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 17, 2008 1,018 days

1. def. Tomohiko Hori at Deep: 43 Impact on Aug 23, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Tomoya Miyashita at DEEP 49 Impact on Aug 27, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan

Masakazu Imanari vacated the title on May 31, 2011.
2 Japan Takafumi Otsuka
def. Hiroshi Nakamura 		DEEP 54 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Jun 24, 2011 240 days
3 Japan Yoshiro Maeda DEEP 57 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 18, 2012 434 days

1. def. Tatsumitsu Wada at DEEP 59 Impact on Aug 18, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan

4 Japan Daiki Hata DEEP 62 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Apr 26, 2013 ? days
Daiki Hata vacated the title.
5 Japan Takafumi Otsuka (2)
def. Kenji Osawa 		DEEP 66 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Apr 29, 2014 ? days

1. def. Toshinori Tsunemura at DEEP 69 Impact on Oct 26, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Toshiaki Kitada at DEEP 72 Impact on May 16, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan
3. def. Koichi Ishizuka at DEEP Cage Impact 2017 on May 13, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan

Otsuka vacated the title for unknown reasons.
6 South Korea Jin Soo Son
def. Toshiaki Kitada 		DEEP 83 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Apr 28, 2018 ? days
Jin Soo Son vacated the title in 2018 when he signed with UFC.
7 Japan Yuki Motoya
def. Makoto Kamaya 		DEEP 86 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Oct 27, 2018 134 days
8 United States Victor Henry DEEP 88 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Mar 9, 2019 1,022 days
(incumbent)

Flyweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 56 kg (123.4 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Yuki Motoya
def. Akira Kibe 		DEEP Nagoya Impact
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan 		Jul 22, 2012 400 days
2 Japan Tatsumitsu Wada DEEP 63 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 25, 2013 364 days
3 Japan Yuki Motoya (2) DEEP 68 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 23, 2014 ? days

1. def. Kojima Sota at Deep 73 Impact on Oct 17, 2015 in Tokyo, Japan

Yuki Motoya vacated the title in April 2016.[13]
4 Japan Tatsumitsu Wada (2)
def. Yuya Shibata 		DEEP 76 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Jun 26, 2016 ? days

1. def. Makoto Takahashi at Deep 83 Impact on Apr 28, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan

Tatsumitsu Wada vacated the title on Feb 2020.
- Japan Makoto Takahashi
def. Yuya Shibata for interim title 		DEEP 90 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Jun 29, 2019 ? days
Makoto Takahashi vacated the title on Aug 2020 when he signed with Rizin Fighting Federation.
5 Japan Yamato Fujita
def. Kazuki Shibuya for interim title 		DEEP 100 Impact - 20th Anniversary
Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 21, 2021 307 days
(incumbent) 		1. def. Yuki Ito at DEEP 103 Impact on Sept 23, 2021 in Bunkyo

Strawweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 52 kg (114.6 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Kanta Sato
def. Kojima Sota 		DEEP Cage Impact 2016: Korakuen Hall
Tokyo, Japan 		Oct 18, 2016 334 days
2 Japan Haruo Ochi DEEP 79 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Sep 16, 2017 1,073 days

1. def. Yuya Shibata at DEEP Cage Impact in Osaka 2018 on Apr 8, 2018 in Osaka, Japan
2. def. Namiki Kawahara at DEEP 88 Impact on Mar 9, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

3 Japan Namiki Kawahara DEEP 96 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 23, 2020 489 days
(incumbent)

Women's Championship History[]

Openweight Championship[]

No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 United States Amanda Lucas
def. Yumiko Hotta 		DEEP 57 Impact
Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 18, 2012 ? days[Note 1]

Lightweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 50 kg (110.2 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Hisae Watanabe
def. Satoko Shinashi 		DEEP 25 Impact
Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 4, 2006 367 days
2 Japan Miku Matsumoto DEEP 31 Impact
Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan 		Aug 5, 2007 987 days

1. def. Misaki Takimoto at DEEP 37 Impact on Aug 17, 2008 in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan
2. def. Lisa Ward at DEEP TOYAMA Impact on Jun 28, 2009 in Toyama, Toyama, Japan

Miku Matsumoto vacated the title on April 17, 2010, following her retirement from the sport.[14]

Flyweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 45 kg (99.2 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Satoko Shinashi
def. Sachiko Yamamoto 		DEEP 34 Impact
Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan 		Feb 22, 2008 ? days[Note 2]

Microweight Championship[]

Weight limit: 44 kg (97 lb)
No. Name Event Date Reign
(total)		 Defenses
1 Japan Saori Oshima
def. Mizuki Oshiro 		DEEP 97 Impact
Tokyo, Japan 		Sep 20, 2020 461 days
(incumbent)

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ While the title hasn't been active since 2012 and Lucas isn't competing anymore, Deep never announced the vacancy of the title.
  2. ^ While the title hasn't been active since 2018, Deep never announced the vacancy of the title.

See also[]

References[]

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  3. ^ "【DEEP】無敗の長谷川賢がミドル級転向「RIZINに出たい」". efight.jp. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  4. ^ "【DEEP】DEEP二階級制覇・中西良行が3月9日（土）『DEEP 88 IMPACT』後楽園ホール大会で引退の10カウントゴング". gonkaku.jp. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
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  6. ^ "【DEEP】8・26福田力がミドル級王座を返上！王者査定試合で桜井隆多vs柴田勝頼". gbring.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  7. ^ "'돌아온 적당주의' 최영 "차정환이 갖고 있는 로드FC 벨트 원해"". spotvnews.co.kr. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
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  10. ^ "DEEP Lightweight Champion vacated the Title"
  11. ^ "廣田瑞人が菊野克紀を下し新王者 松本晃市郎が王座防衛で引退 DEEP55沸騰". miruhon.net. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  12. ^ "【ONE42】尿酸値と戦う<02>横田一則 「尿酸値だけパスすれば、試合は必ず勝てるので」". mmaplanet.jp. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  13. ^ "6･26　DEEP後楽園ホール　【DEEPライト級タイトルマッチ】北岡悟vs下石康太　【第4代DEEPフライ級王者決定戦】和田竜光vs柴田"MONKEY"有哉". battle-news.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  14. ^ Nelson, Chris. "Miku Matsumoto Announces Retirement". bloodyelbow.com. Retrieved 13 July 2021.

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