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2003 In Deep
The year 2003 was the third year in the history of Deep (mixed martial arts), Deep, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2003 Deep held 8 events beginning with, ''Deep: 8th Impact''. Title fights Events list Deep: clubDeep Osaka Deep: clubDeep Osaka was an event held on December 7, 2003, at the Delfin Arena in Osaka, Japan. Results Deep: clubDeep West Chofu Deep: clubDeep West Chofu was an event held on November 24, 2003, at the West Chofu Combat Sports Arena in Tokyo, Japan. Results Deep: 12th Impact Deep: 12th Impact was an event held on September 15, 2003, at the Ota Ward Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. Results Deep: 11th Impact Deep: 11th Impact was an event held on July 13, 2003, at the Grand Cube in Osaka, Japan. Results Deep: 10th Impact Deep: 10th Impact was an event held on June 25, 2003, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Results Deep: clubDeep: Challenge in Club Ozon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryuta Sakurai
Ryuta Sakurai (born September 8, 1971) is a Japanese mixed martial artist who currently competes in the middleweight division. A veteran who fought for many companies such as Shooto, Pancrase and PRIDE. Nicknamed Mr. DEEP, he is best known for spending most of his fighting career in DEEP, where he is a former DEEP Middleweight champion. Career DEEP Sakurai defeated Ryuki Ueyama at Deep: 17 Impact on December 18, 2004, by technical knockout in the first round to win the championship. Sakurai would lose the title in February 2006 to Ryo Chonan at Deep: 23rd Impact in the first round due to a cut. He would challenge for the championship in a rematch against rival Riki Fukuda at Deep: 40 Impact, where he lost via unanimous decision. His last fight in DEEP to date was at Deep: 87 Impact on December 21, 2018, to a second round submission loss to Tatsuya Mizuno. Championship and accomplishments * DEEP ** DEEP Middleweight Championship (1 time) *GRACHAN **GRAND Welterweight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masanori Suda
Masanori Suda (born July 7, 1973) is a Japanese mixed martial artist. He competed in the Welterweight, Middleweight and Heavyweight divisions. Suda is known primarily for his time in Shooto, where he is a former Light Heavyweight Champion. Championships and accomplishments Mixed martial arts *Lumax Cup **Tournament of J '97 Middleweight Championship (1997) * Shooto ** Shooto Light Heavyweight Championship (one time) ***Two successful title defenses' *SuperBrawl **SuperBrawl Middleweight Championship (one time) Sambo *All Japan Sambo Championships **20th All Japan Sambo Championship 82kg class (1994) Mixed martial arts record , - , Loss , align=center, , Murilo Bustamante , Submission (armbar) , Pride: Bushido 9 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 3:20 , Tokyo, Japan , , - , Loss , align=center, 22–10–3 , Falaniko Vitale , KO (punch) , SB 39: Destiny , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 4:09 , Honolulu, Hawaii, United States , , - , Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 In Deep
The year 2002 was the second year in the history of Deep, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2002 Deep held 6 events beginning with, ''Deep: 4th Impact''. Title fights Events list Deep: 4th Impact Deep: 4th Impact was an event held on March 30, 2002 at the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya, Japan. Results Deep: 5th Impact Deep: 5th Impact was an event held on June 9, 2002 at the Differ Ariake in Tokyo, Japan. Results Deep: clubDeep Ozon Deep: clubDeep Ozon was an event held on July 14, 2002 at the Club Ozon in Nagoya, Japan. Results Deep: 6th Impact Deep: 6th Impact was an event held on September 7, 2002 at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan. Going into his fight, Shoichi Ichimiya was the holder of the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship, a comedic professional wrestling title promoted by Dramatic Dream Team (now DDT Pro-Wrestling) which is defended 24/7. As the result of his loss to Kazuki Okub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masakazu Imanari
is a Japanese mixed martial artist and submission wrestler. He currently competes in the Bantamweight division of Rizin Fighting Federation. A professional competitor since 2000, he is a veteran of ONE Championship, DEEP, ZST, Pancrase, PRIDE Fighting Championships, and Cage Rage. He was in the final Cage Rage Featherweight Champion, DEEP Bantamweight Champion, two-time DEEP Featherweight Champion and DREAM Japan Grand Prix Finalist. Imanari is a successful submission wrestler, placing as runner-up twice at the All-Japan Combat Wrestling Championship. He is the namesake of the "Imanari roll" maneuver. Mixed martial arts career After a childhood marked by a spinal condition which required surgery three times, Masakazu had his first contact with combat sports at age 18, training kickboxing and catch wrestling at the Fujiwara Dojo by Satoru Sayama's mediation. He later moved to Antonio Inoki's Universal Fighting-Arts Organization, and then Kingdom Ehrgeiz, where he trained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masanori Kanehara
Masanori Kanehara (born November 18, 1982) is a Japanese mixed martial artist currently competing the Bantamweight division in DEEP and Rizin FF. A professional competitor since 2003, Kanehara has formerly competed for World Victory Road, K-1, the UFC, Pancrase, ZST, and also made an appearance at Dynamite!! 2009. Kanehara is the 2009 Sengoku Featherweight Grand Prix Champion and inaugural Sengoku Featherweight Champion. Mixed martial arts career Early career Kanehara made his professional mixed martial arts debut in 2003, and compiled a record of 13–6–5 before being signed by World Victory Road. Sengoku Featherweight Grand Prix Kanehara was announced as a participant in World Victory Road's Featherweight Grand Prix. He advanced to the semi-final round with a pair of closely contested decision victories over Jong Man Kim in the first round and Chan Sung Jung in the second round. Kanehara lost in the semi-finals to Hatsu Hioki, but ended up replacing Hioki in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuya Shirai
Yuya Shirai (born April 2, 1980) is a Japanese professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Welterweight division. A professional competitor since 2003, Shirai has fought for ONE FC, DEEP, BAMMA, Glory World Series, M-1 Global, Pancrase, DREAM, and is a former DEEP Welterweight Champion. Mixed martial arts career Background Shirai comes from a judo background and holds a black belt in the discipline. On June 8, 2003, he won the Japanese National Sambo Championship in the under 90 kilograms weight class. Early career Shirai made his debut in mixed martial arts on September 15, 2003. He is currently signed with DEEP in the Welterweight division, and won the DEEP Welterweight Championship in January 2010 by defeating Seichi Ikemoto. He also took part in the DREAM Welterweight Grand Prix 2009, losing to Jason High by rear naked-choke in the first round. He then beat Che Mills at Hidehiko Yoshida's farewall event ASTRA. On February 26, 2011, he faced Paul Dal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuji Kato
is a Japanese mixed martial artist who competed in the welterweight and lightweight divisions in Shooto, Strikeforce and DEEP. He was the SuperBrawl 7 Light Heavyweight Tournament winner, defeating Ben Hernandez in the finals. __TOC__ Championships and Accomplishments *All Japan Amateur Shooto **3rd All Japan Amateur Shooto Championship Welterweight Tournament Runner Up (1996) *Icon Sport **SuperBrawl 7 Lightweight Tournament Winnerhttp://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=shows&show=74296 Mixed martial arts record , - , Win , align=center, 20-10 , Ilya Zelik , TKO (punches) , Trench Warz 11 - Redemption , , align=center, 2 , align=center, 2:11 , Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands , , - , Loss , align=center, 19-10 , Yoshihiro Koyama , TKO (punches) , Shooto: Revolutionary Exchanges 3 , , align=center, 2 , align=center, 1:12 , Tokyo, Japan , , - , Loss , align=center, 19-9 , Kenichiro Togashi , Decision (majority) , Shooto: Shooto Tradit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dokonjonosuke Mishima
known as , also written Dokonjyonosuke Mishima, is a Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler. He has competed professionally since 1998 in organizations such as Shooto, DEEP, PRIDE, the UFC and in his pro wrestling days he has competed in Kiyoshi Tamura's organization U-Style Pro Wrestling. Mishima is known for his charisma and emphasis on entertainment as well as competition. He typically enters the arena in an outlandish fashion, such as in his UFC debut, where he sported a bathrobe and devil mask while clutching a Snoopy stuffed animal. Career On December 14, 2002, Mishima challenged Takanori Gomi for the Shooto welterweight (154 lb) championship, but lost by technical knockout due to punches. On February 12, 2005, Mishima was victorious against fellow DEEP veteran Tomomi Iwama becoming the first lightweight (155 lb) champion of the organisation. However, Mishima didn't defend his belt and returned it one year later. Mishima had four fights in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Kohler
Bradley Kohler (born May 26, 1964) is an American retired professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Heavyweight division. A professional from 1997 until 2012, Kohler competed for the UFC, RINGS and DEEP. Career Kohler made his professional debut in July 1997 at the HOOKnSHOOT: Absolute Fighting Championship 2 Heavyweight Tournament, winning a grueling quarterfinal fight against then 8–4 Travis Fulton via TKO at 52:24. In the semifinal he won via TKO due to a hand injury, and in the final faced Caz Daniels. He won after Daniels submitted from strikes at 17:35. After amassing a professional record of 7–0, he made his UFC debut against Tra Telligman at UFC Japan. Kohler was handed his first professional loss via armbar at 10:05. Kohler's most notable fight occurred at UFC 22 against Steve Judson. Thirty seconds into the first round, Kohler feigned a takedown attempt, only to land a right cross. Judson was knocked out instantly, and suffered a deep gash to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Del Rio
José Alberto Rodríguez Chucuan (born 25 May 1977) is a Mexican professional wrestler, professional wrestling promoter, sports commentator, and mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to WWE and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he is a former 2-time AAA Mega Champion. In professional wrestling, he is best known for his time in WWE under the ring name Alberto Del Rio, and Impact Wrestling under the ring name Alberto El Patrón. Before working for WWE, Rodríguez used the ring name Dos Caras Jr. as both a mixed martial artist and luchador in mostly Mexico and Japan, achieving success in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) by winning the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship once. Rodríguez signed with WWE in 2009 and made his debut on their main roster the following year as Alberto Del Rio. In WWE, he became the first Mexico-born world champion in WWE history after he won the WWE Championship and the World Heavyweight Championship twice each. He also won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayato Sakurai
(born August 24, 1975) also known as , is a Japanese mixed martial artist. A professional competitor since 1996, he has formerly competed for the UFC, PRIDE, DREAM, Shooto, Vale Tudo Japan, DEEP, and participated in the Yarennoka!, Dynamite!! 2008, Dynamite!! 2009, Dynamite!! 2010, and Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011 events. Sakurai finished second (Silver) in the Absolute Class (no weight limit) ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship in 1999 at just under 77 kg. During the height of his career in 2000 and 2001 he was considered to be one of the top pound for pound fighters in MMA. He is the former Shooto Middleweight Champion. His nickname, " Mach", pronounced ''ma-ha'' in Japanese was taken as a tribute to his childhood professional wrestling hero, Higo Shigehisashi better known as Mach Hayato, the first Japanese professional wrestler to completely embrace the Mexican style of lucha libre and was also among the group of professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
