MASAAKI NOIRI

"The Phenomenal"

4-450% win rate

FIGHTER IDENTITY

Organization

ONE

Nationality

Japan

Birth

11/05/1993 (33)

Birthplace

Nagoya

Japan

Sport / Status

Kickboxing · Active

Weight class

Lightweight

Height

175 cm (5'9")

ONE Championship record

4-3

Biography

Masaaki Noiri ( 野杁正明 , Noiri Masaaki ; born May 11, 1993) is a Japanese kickboxer , currently competing in the Featherweight Division of ONE Championship , where he is a former interim Featherweight Kickboxing World Champion . He is a two-weight K-1 champion, having held the K-1 World GP Super Lightweight Championship between 2017 and 2018 and the K-1 World GP Welterweight Championship between 2021 and 2024, as well as a one-time Grand Prix winner, having won the 2021 K-1 World Welterweight Grand Prix. He began practicing karate as a teenager and had great success in both full contact karate and amateur kickboxing in his early teens, which included winning the K-1 Koshien 62 kg (136 lb) schoolboys tournament in 2009, two JKJO titles and a Shin Karate title. After turning professional in 2010, he became a mainstay in the Krush promotion and was victorious in the 2011 Krush Under-22 ~63kg Supernova~ Tournament .