Media Masahiro Oishi has fought every year since 1993. He’s in a tiny group of active fighters with 30+ W’s, 20+ L’s and 20+ years. Two of his former opps (Hideo Tokoro and Imanari) are in that group. All 3 fought in 2024 but not in 2025. Here’s hoping they all get booked soon, maybe against each other!
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u/RalIyVincent 15h ago edited 11h ago
Are they doing it for money or passion of the sport? Continuing to fight mma at 50+ years old just sounds awful.
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u/Background_Case_9038 15h ago
Imma guess for the passion cause I doubt you can sustain a decent living as an old regional fighter. But even then, this shit not worth it for the potential brain trauma or injuries.
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u/Cool_Apartment3344 2h ago
They probably spar sporadically and pick fights with opponents that aren't too dangerous / won't hurt them bad.
It's probably for the passion and thrill. Not sure they get a lot of Brain Trauma from low output spar and one "fight" a year. (There is still trauma, but to a lesser degree than full time fighters)
It also keeps them in shape.
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u/JimJonesdrinkkoolaid 8h ago
Continuing to fight mma at 50+ years old just sounds awful
Probably love to fight. Willing to take their health risks in return for their enjoyment of fighting.
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u/sarsfox 15h ago
Great question. Last few opps had zero wins. So … money?
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u/IAmPandaRock 3h ago
Why does that mean it's just for money? Maybe they just want some chance of not getting smashed at 50+ years old
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u/THOMTHOMsatnav 8h ago
People go way too dad mode on fighters sometimes, bro's been fighting since the 90s im sure he's aware of the risks, if he wants to fight let him fight lol
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u/Altruistic_Cause6712 14h ago
Fuck it feed him CM Punk
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u/potatowned 13h ago
I don't know anything about this guy other than the info provided in this post.... But I think he smashed CM Punk
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u/crazybartur UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle 6h ago
Those Japanese vets just do it for the love of the game. Another example: Yuki Kondo, 50 years old, 65-40-9 record, debuted in 1996. He’s booked to fight Akihiro Gono in Japan next month, who himself is also 50 with a 38-24-8 record.
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u/GunnerySarge-B-Bird get fucked sour bitch 12h ago
Here's hoping he doesn't get booked, let the man retire
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u/wlwmmagirl 11h ago
9 no contest, I wanna check this out in depth later.
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u/crazybartur UFC 279: A GOOFCON Miracle 6h ago
9 draws, in some Japanese promotions back in the 90’s and 2000’s the rules were that if the fight went the distance it was an automatic draw
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u/crunchydibbydonkers 3h ago
They continued this practice for a while. Before ufc and one became the gold standard for flyweight and bantamweight around 2012-2015, a lot of those guys had to fight in whatever regional promotion with whatever ruleset was prevalent or move up to a weight class that a bigger promotion could book you in. Thats why you see a lot of those guys from prior to the mid 2010s with draws and losses to people that never made a name for themselves. If youre 5'4 and in north america, you could be fighting a guy at 155 whose 5'11 and walks at 175, likewise, if your a flyweight in japan, you have a lot of competition and they dont like split decisions and not attempting subs when grounded.
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u/dorozco 15h ago
I’ve heard enough. Feed him Merab