Shinji Oyama :Tokyo Prospect

Fighter profile of Shinji Oyama by Jim Powers

 When you ask MMA Fight manager Jim Powers of his star pupil Shinji Oyama he will tell you that he is like no one you have ever seen before. As a youngin , Shinji Was an only child of two fairly poor parents in Tokyo by the time he was 7 he devloped a short temper and was constantly fighting other kids. His parents enrolled him in a local BJJ class and he quickly adapted. By age 13 Oyama was only a blue belt in BJJ as his master was a strict one ane rarely gave out belts. Shinji went on to win Grappling contests in Japan and even World Competetions. By age 20 he was still short tempered and decided to take wrestling at the local Submission Wrestling gym, This allowed him to mix his BJJ with Wrestling , Soon enough his Coaches insisted he get into MMA. 

Although the (now) 24 year old BJJ wizard is still relatively new to the sports, He has racked up a 2-0-0 with QFC both coming via submission. The Japanase Prodigy was recenly awarded his Brown belt in both Brazilian Jiu jitsu and No-gi Jitsu.

Oyama has found financial succes early on as he is both signed and sponsered. Shinji is taking on the part of a bad boy trash talker in the Tokyo Region of MMA so whether it's hype or pure talent is hard to tell as he has faced novel competitors and only has a hand full of mma expereince

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