Whether it’s a good idea or not to trot out MMA’s greatest relics is a matter of personal taste, but for better or worse the GFL is creeping — very slowly — onto the fight scene. We’ve heard all the jokes. Geriatric Fight League. Only five fighters among the current batch of heavyweights on the roster fall under the age of 40. The other seven carry an average age of 43, with the eldest being Aleksei Oleinik, who is 47 years young.
Oleinik isn’t the oldest in the GFL, though. That distinction belongs to Yoel Romero, who is documented to have been born a few months earlier than the “Boa Constrictor.