Deep (mixed martial arts)

Deep (stylized as DEEP) is a Japan- based mixed martial arts promoting and sanctioning organization. It is promoted by Shigeru Saeki who is also the former Public Relations Director of Pride Fighting Championships. Deep is considered second-tier Japanese promotion, as a feeder to larger shows like Dream. Their inaugural event took place in 2001 and featured Paulo Filho and Royler Gracie. On May 17, 2008, Deep announced a partnership with ZST to share fighters, co-promote shows and eventually unify the promotions.^[1]

History

Deep was established in 2000 as "Deep 2001", and the first event was promoted on January 8, 2001. In 2003, Deep 2001 changed its name to Deep.

Deep started playing a role of subcontractor for Pride Fighting Championships since Dream Stage Entertainment(DSE) started promoting Pride Bushido series which focused training Japanese fighters at middleweight and lightweight in September 2003. For this reason, some Japanese fighters grew up to fight in major organization in the events of Deep. For instance, Ryo Chonan and Ikuhisa Minowa are the examples of fighters became famous because of Deep.

Deep started promoting bouts of women fighters since the 13th event on July 13, 2003.

On February 22,2008, Deep started using the weight division system started by Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) and established the weight division system for men fighters.

On December 19, 2009, Deep used an Octagon for their MMA event.

A press conference was held in Macao on December 1, 2010 where it was announced that Deep are going international. But Deep's first international event was canceled due to low ticket sales.^[2]

Current Deep champions

Men's division	Champion	Title Defenses
Megaton	Levan Razmadze	0
Light Heavyweight	Yoshiyuki Nakanishi	1
Middleweight	Riki Fukuda	1
Welterweight	Yuya Shirai	1
Lightweight	Mizuto Hirota	0
Featherweight	Koichiro Matsumoto	1
Bantamweight	Takafumi Otsuka	0

Women's division	Champion	Title Defenses
Flyweight	Satoko Shinashi	0

Other notable fighters

• Shinya Aoki
• Ryo Chonan
• Dong Hyun Kim
• Ryan Bow
• Daiki Hata
• Ryuta Sakurai
• Seigo Inoue
• Fabricio Monteiro
• Seichi Ikemoto
• Masakazu Imanari
• Hisae Watanabe
• Kazunori Yokota
• Ikuhisa Minowa
• Don Frye
• Milton Vieira
• Ryuki Ueyama

See also

• List of Deep champions

External links

• Official website
• DEEP event results at sherdog

References

1. ^ Deep, ZST Partner Up
2. ^ DEEP MAYHEM IN MACAO CANCELED!

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