Former DEEP Lightweight Champion Katsunori Kikuno has signed a multi-fight deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championships. Kikuno has been with the DEEP promotion, which is based out of Japan, with nineteen of twenty eight career fights coming in the promotion. Thus far in his eight year career, Kikuno has fought top fighters like Eddie Alvarez, Gesias Cavalcante and Daisuka Nakamura. There is no debut date set yet for Kikuno, but he should make his promotional debut sometime in early 2014.