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Name
RINGS

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Poster

Established
1991 (33 years old)

First Recorded Event
1950-01-01

Current Season
2019

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Location
Worldwide

Gender
Male

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Results

The Outsider 54 (04 Nov 19)

The Outsider 39 (27 Mar 17)

The Outsider 35 (17 May 15)

The Outsider 33 (07 Dec 14)

The Outsider 29 (16 Feb 14)

The Outsider 14 (04 Dec 10)

The Outsider 13 (11 Oct 10)

The Outsider 12 (20 Jun 10)

The Outsider 11 (03 Apr 10)

The Outsider 10 (14 Feb 10)

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Fighting Network RINGS, is a Japanese combat sport promotion that has lived three distinct periods. RINGS was founded by Akira Maeda on May 11, 1991, following the dissolution of Newborn UWF. At that time, Maeda and Mitsuya Nagai were the only two people to transfer from UWF, wrestlers such as Kiyoshi Tamura, Hiromitsu Kanehara and Kenichi Yamamoto would later also transfer from UWF International.

Maeda retired from active duty in 1998, leaving Tamura as the top star, but the collapse of UWF International and the subsequent rise of PRIDE provided competition that proved to be too much for the promotion. On February 15, 2002, RINGS ceased activity.

Many Japanese RINGS stars, including Masayuki Naruse, Wataru Sakata and Hiroyuki Ito, made the transition back into puroresu. The MMA promotion ZST was founded in November 2002 to accommodate former Japanese RINGS fighters who remained competitors in mixed martial arts.

Following the dissolution of Hero's and the conclusion of Maeda's involvement with FEG, Maeda revived the RINGS brand for a new series of MMA events named The Outsider. The first RINGS The Outsider event occurred on March 30, 2008. Over a dozen Outsider events have been held since.

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