Fighting Network Rings

Fighting Network Rings
Trade name	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]}