Fighting Network Rings

Fighting Network Rings
RINGS
Company typePrivate
IndustryProfessional wrestling promotion
Mixed martial arts promotion
PredecessorNewborn UWF
Founded1991
(as a professional wrestling promotion)
1995
(original mixed martial arts promotion)
2008
(revived promotion)
FounderAkira Maeda
Defunct1995
(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]