During his extraordinarily long career, Ōshio was ranked in "makuuchi" for 51 tournaments and 55 tournaments in "jūryō", for a total of 106 ranked as an elite "sekitori" wrestler, a record that stood until 2002 when it was broken by Terao. His total of "jūryō" tournaments is a record he shares with Hachiya. He also holds the "elevator" record for winning promotion to "makuuchi" from "jūryō" a total of 13 times, The longest he was able to stay in the top division consecutively was 18 tournaments between January 1981 and November 1983.