Mitsuya Nagai

Mitsuya Nagai 長井満也
Nagai in November 2019
Born	(1968-11-10) November 10, 1968 (age 55) Sunagawa, Hokkaido, Japan
Other names	Mitsuyaman Makai #5 Great Tiger
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	108 kg (238 lb; 17.0 st)
Division	Middleweight
Style	Shootboxing, shoot wrestling
Team	RINGS Japan
Teacher(s)	Akira Maeda Satoru Sayama Naoyuki Taira
Years active	1991–2013 (MMA)[1] 1997–1999 (kickboxing) 1999–present (professional wrestling)
Kickboxing record
Total	7
Wins	0
By knockout	0
Losses	6
By knockout	4
No contests	1
Mixed martial arts record
Total	26
Wins	18
By knockout	4
By submission	14
Losses	8
By knockout	3
By submission	3
Unknown	2
Other information
Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog
Last updated on: January 8, 2014

Hirokazu Nagai (長井 弘和, Nagai Hirokazu, born November 10, 1968), better known as Mitsuya Nagai (長井満也, Nagai Mitsuya), is a Japanese mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and former kickboxer. A professional MMA competitor from 1991 until 2013, he fought the majority of his career in Fighting Network RINGS. Once a student of legendary professional wrestlers Satoru Sayama and Akira Maeda, Nagai holds notable victories over former King of Pancrase Super Heavyweight Champion Tsuyoshi Kosaka, Nobuaki Kakuda, four-time world kickboxing champion Andre Mannaart, Russian sambo champion Mikhail Ilyukhin, RINGS King of Kings 2000 Tournament runner up Valentijn Overeem, ADCC bronze medallist and RINGS Light Heavyweight title contender Chris Haseman, and Pancrase veteran Takaku Fuke. He also fought for K-1 in kickboxing.

He later transitioned to traditional puroresu and notably wrestled for Battlarts, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he is a former three time All Asia Tag Team Champion. He currently performs on a part-time basis and has competed for shoot style and MMA promotion GLEAT and Pro Wrestling Noah.