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105.06.2025Inserthere7509.0 
203.06.2025Demon King9.0 
323.04.2025Headdrop10.0 
416.03.2025kaszi2K10.0 
510.03.2025xitachi10.0 
604.03.2025ChopChopChop9.0A near perfect product from beginning to end. It should have gone longer with the MMA and Pro-Wrestling divisions going separate ways but it still gave us incredible memories.
714.01.2025JuanLoco9.0 
821.10.2024Maniaofmania10.0The Best promotion ever as stated in another place, I favour shoot style over everything and this is the peak level of that style. This is Possibly the consistent promotion ever hands down with no question and no promotion is close Booking great matches even better perfect.
904.08.2024RyanKras1610.0 
1031.07.2024Zak224.0Ok, fine, fine... hate me for this but I really don't enjoy RINGS much at all. Shoot style isn't my main thing (I like MMA, especially a bit of Pride, I love boxing and I don't mind me some NCAA or Olympic wrestling) but shoot style has never been my go to product, don't mind a bit of of Vader in UWF-i but shoot style isn't for me. I come to pro wrestling for some Misawa v Kawada stuff or mid-90s Rey Mysterio, I don't come to pro wrestling for long holds on each others legs (which happens a lot in RINGS). I do enjoy some RINGS matches but for the most part I find the matches pretty dull. I get the appeal of realistic combat with some good wrestling but it doesn't grab me. The best thing about this promotion can be summed up in two words - Volk Han. Volk Han was fantastic to watch but he doesn't bring the promotion up for me, I just wish I could have seen him elsewhere. I do enjoy the mixture of talents from Russia, the US and of course Japan.
1124.05.2024puroraisedme10.0 
1229.03.2024YourKingMob10.0UWFi is for the youths, RINGS is for men. The very pinnacle of shootstyle, producing better matches of that type in the mid to late 90s era than any of the other of the organizations out there. Quite easily the greatest org for foreign recruiting and turning fighting athletes into passable pro wrestlers frighteningly quick! Seeing RINGS bring in a rotation of roided out, Dutch Muay Thai (LITERAL) gangsters who might just be too stupid to remember that it's a work? Absolutely insane. Then a cadre of post Soviet wrestlers and sambo guys who were told to "just go out there and do the coolest thing you can can think of" and with that producing Volk hand and Andrei Kopylov, among others? And then finally, once MMA has completely smashed the kayfabe of Japanese Pro Wrestlers being good fighters, to push all of your fighters into doing legit MMA matches as a last hurrah and many of them doing credibly and sometimes against the very best in the world at fighting? Truly the Westvleteren XII of wrestling with some of the best wrestlers you have ever seen: the three kings of Kiyoshi Tamura, Volk Han and Tsyoshi Kohsaka were a trio of an unparalleled era. All I have to say is: MA-E-DA ! MA-E-DA ! MA-E-DA !
1322.03.2024GeneBlastKyodai10.0 
1412.01.2024HC710.0 
1522.08.2023Zero10.0 
1620.08.2023jameswarrington1990110.0 
1718.05.2023AidanArcher10.0 
1819.04.2023CoolKyle10.0 
1929.12.2022Target10.0 
2024.11.2022AucklandSambist10.0 
2104.09.2022No One10.0Definitely one of the very best Shoot-Style wrestling promotions to ever exist. They had several guys on the roster who are revered as legends today: Kiyoshi Tamura, Volk Han, Akira Maeda, & Tsuyoshi Kohsaka. There was a major match between Akira Maeda against the legendary Alexander Karelin. Under Akria Maeda's leadership, the promotion operated throughout the entire 1990's decade working a "Worked-Shoot" style, and the fact that they didn't even run that many events actually helped protect the aura that almost every show felt special. They ventured into working full shoot fights in the 2000's after Akira Maeda's retirement from competition, which saw them bring in several MMA Fighters who are revered as legends today as well. All & all this is one of the most interesting wrestling promotions of all time.
2203.09.2022GD10.0 
2322.08.2022Ofir10.0One of the best pure wrestling promotion of all time. An insanely talented roster, and the best shoot style wrestling you're likely to ever see. With guys like Kimura, Han, Maeda, Yamamoto, Kohsaka, Vrij and many more, it's nearly impossible to not have incredible matches on a regular basis. A great find for me, a promotion i hope more people will find and appreciate and maybe someday will mark a return for great shoot style wrestling again.
2419.03.2021CyberpunkGrappling10.0The person below me said it all. This promotion gave us some of the best Shoot-Style and Technical matches of all times. Kiyoshi Tamura's run in 96-98 was amazing, the 4-match saga between Naruse and Volk Han is one of the greatest display of storytelling I have ever seen, and average workers like Mikhail Ilhyukin and the Bitsadze brothers have been in some wrestling masterpieces. 10/10 There will never be another promotion like RINGS.
2504.03.2020Makai Club 10.0 
2611.09.2019SZ198910.0One of the greatest promotions of all time. RINGS was the peak of shoot-style wrestling and featured legendary grapplers like Volk Han, Andrei Kopylov, Kiyoshi Tamura, and Tsuyoshi Kohsaka. It also featured icons like Dick Vrij, Valentijn Overeem, Masayuki Naruse, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Akira Maeda, Gilbert Yvel, and many more. The production was top-notch, and the crowds were always hot. It is very hard to describe the level of technique and commitment most RINGS workers had, and it showed in nearly every event. RINGS would later transition into a full shoot promotion after Akira Maeda's retirement in 1999, but even then, RINGS would become one of the pioneers of Japanese MMA as the promotion would bring in legends like Randy Couture, Dan Henderson, Fedor Emelianenko, and Antonio Nogueria before they made their name in PRIDE and UFC (and with the ruleset they had, the high-level grappling remained as the key highlight of the product).