Satoru Kitaoka Tops Katsunori Kikuno, Daisuke Nakamura Captures LW Strap at Deep 58 Impact TOKYO -- “I entered this fight believing it was 'kill or be killed,'” said former Sengoku lightweight champion Satoru Kitaoka after besting...

Pictures: Deep ‘57 Impact’ Mizuto Hirota, Yoshiro Maeda and Amanda Lucas were among the fighters who left Tokyo Dome City Hall with Deep titles on Feb. 18. Sherdog.com photographer Taro Irei was ringside to shoot...

Lightweight King Mizuto Hirota Defends Crown Against Seiichi Ikemoto at Deep 57 Deep lightweight champion Mizuto Hirota successfully defended his title against Dream veteran Seiichi Ikemoto in the main event of Deep 57...

Pictures: Deep '55 Impact' Mizuto Hirota made his return following a gruesome arm injury inflicted by Shinya Aoki to put away the respected Katsunori Kikuno at Deep “55...

Hirota Takes Kikuno’s Crown; Matsumoto Retires at Deep 55 TOKYO -- Mizuto Hirota is back.

In his first bout since suffering a gruesome arm break at the hands of Dream lightweight champion Shinya Aoki 20 months ago in 2009's K-1 Dynamite, the former Sengoku Raiden Championship and Cage Force lightweight champion rebounded with a...

Kitaoka Taps Hironaka, Retires From Pancrase TOKYO -- Former Sengoku lightweight champion Satoru Kitaoka bested current Cage Force lightweight ace Kuniyoshi Hironaka on Sunday’s Pancrase...

Sherdog Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings After 20 fights and seven and a half years, Fedor Emelianenko’s reign atop the heavyweight division is over.

Sherdog Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings The flux in the heavyweight division continued to intensify on May 15 in St. Louis.

Sherdog Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Urijah Faber and Mike Thomas Brown won their bouts, but that doesn't mean that 2010 hasn't already had some featherweight shake-up.

Sherdog Official Mixed Martial Arts Rankings In a year during which the featherweight division has played a pivotal role, perhaps it is fitting that the division's hottest prospect will...