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RINGS | |
Company type | Private |
Industry | Professional wrestling promotion Mixed martial arts promotion |
Predecessor | Newborn UWF |
Founded | 1991 (as a professional wrestling promotion) 1995 (original mixed martial arts promotion) 2008 (revived promotion) |
Founder | Akira Maeda |
Defunct | 1995 (as a professional wrestling promotion) February 15, 2002 (original mixed martial arts promotion) |
Key people | Akira Maeda |
Fighting Network Rings, trademarked as RINGS, is a Japanese combat sport promotion that has lived three distinct periods: shoot style puroresu promotion from its inauguration to 1995, mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion from 1995 to its 2002 disestablishment, and a revived MMA promotion from 2008 onward.[citation needed]