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.