History Characters / UniversalWrestlingFederationRINGS

-->''"Orihashi was a heavyweight student at the Power of Dream gym, an early Japanese MMA academy founded by RINGS, Pride and UFC veteran Kenichi Yamamoto. POD was nver an enormously successful gym, but it put together a few well-rounded fighters, most notably DEEP standout Tomoya Miyashita, who was on his way to a title before he was claimed by cancer at the tragically young age of 30. Orihashi, for his part, was not one of those well-roudned fighters. Despite having some wrestling skills, he was a puncher, and was not content with his fights unless punching was heavily involved. At 5'10" and 250 pounds, Orihashi was a stout, reckless brawler. It showed in his results. Of his final 8-7 record, seven wins were TKOs anchored by his hands and six losses were TKOs incurred as the price for his style, and only three fights in total made it past one round. The first six fights of Orihashi's career happened on two nights-- a pair of single-day tournaments with the Tokyo-based Titan FIghting Championship--and none lasted longer than 93 seconds. He failed to capture either tournament, and wouldn't win another fight for three and a half years afterward. But that's the life of a brawler. He did it unrepentantly and he succeeded more often than he failed: That's all you can ask of the brawling journeyman. It's a shame his one Pride appearance has been lost."''

* PartyOfRepresentatives: RINGS was divided in branches from all around the world. RINGS' system was largely much inspired by organizations such as the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance and UsefulNotes/FIFAWorldCup, and featured fighters from different countries organized into stables. We had RINGS Japan (a small team of native shoot wrestlers), RINGS Holland (a clan of Dutch kickboxers and freefighters from the Jon Bluming lineage), RINGS Russia (an union of UsefulNotes/{{Sambo}} (and a few UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}) champions from the former USSR, with a later addition of a small team of Russian Kyokushin fighters), RINGS Georgia (random wrestling and other martial arts champions from Georgia), RINGS Bulgaria ([[AlternateCompanyEquivalent similar structure to RINGS Georgia]]), RINGS Korea (solely represented by UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}} champion Kim Lee Klin and notably got shut down after his one fight in RINGS), RINGS Australia (jiu-jitsu students under Mark and Chris Haseman), RINGS UK (a sort of grassroots movement among martial arts gyms headed by Lee Hasdell), RINGS USA (fighters under Miletich Fighting Systems and others managed by Monte Cox), RINGS Brazil (young bloods from future legendary MMA teams), RINGS Lithuania (a collection of various martial arts clubs under Donatas Simanaitis), RINGS France (a small team of fighters from Cyrille Diabaté's French Konnection and his Snake Team school) and some other minor branches.

* ThreeAmigos: Between RINGS Bulgaria, Georgia, and Russia. Their fighters often cornered each other in their matches. May have something to do with their countries being all part of the former Soviet Union and spoke similar languages, and some fans even refer to their relation as “RINGS Soviet Union”, which is kind of a MythologyGag since RINGS Russia was originally called RINGS Soviet since Wrestling/VolkHan’s first match was just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

* ThreeAmigos: Was part of the Bulgarian team along with Dimitar Petkov and Todor Todorov for the World Mega Battle Tournament of 1998.

* ThreeAmigos: Was part of the Bulgarian team along with Todor Todorov and Borislav Jeliazkov for the World Mega Battle Tournament of 1998.

* ThreeAmigos: Was part of the Bulgarian team along with Dimitar Petkov and Borislav Jeliazkov for the World Mega Battle Tournament of 1998.

* ThreeAmigos: Was part of the Georgian team along with Tariel and Grom Zaza for the World Mega Battle Tournament of 1998. Team Georgia won that tournament.

* ThreeAmigos: Was the captain of the Georgian team along with his brother Amiran and Grom Zaza for the World Mega Battle Tournament of 1998. Team Georgia won that tournament.

* ThreeAmigos: Was part of the Georgian team along with Amiran and Tariel Bitsadze for the World Mega Battle Tournament of 1998. Team Georgia won that tournament.

* MartialArtsUniform: Wore gi pants in his matches.

* MartialArtsUniform: Wore gi pants in his matches, though he later switched to shorts when he fought under the KOK rules.

* MartialArtsUniform: Wore gi pants in his matches.

* MartialArtsUniform: Wore gi pants in his matches.

* {{Bishonen}}: He is very popular with female fans for this reason.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Zigzagged, starting in the mid-90s, fighters could opt to either wear shoes or not, though they still had to wear shin guards until the change to KOK rules. Their kickboxing matches also allowed fighters to wear shoes and shinguards.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: He wore only footguards along his gi pants.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: He wore only footguards along his gi.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Wore foot guards instead.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Wore foot guards.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Apparently he self-taught himself English fluently. He is one of the few Japanese MMA fighters who can talk and interview without an interpreter.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: For a Japanese person, she translated for Wrestling/AkiraMaeda. She is also a Japanese representative of UFC and Brazilian Top Team and was apparently Rickson Gracie's agent in Japan.

* BadassInCharge: Is basically the face of the Lumax Cup events.

* NamesTheSame: Aside from their surname their mother first named both Nogueira brothers after their father Antônio.

* NamesTheSame: Not to be confused with another fighter of the same name who uses the nickname "Bombinha".

* NamesTheSame: Not to be confused with another BJJ black belt and trainer called Gustavo Machado, nicknamed "Guga".

* NamesTheSame: Not to be confused with another older Bulgarian wrestler of the same name.

* NamesTheSame: Not to be confused with several Russian boxing and MMA fighters.

* NamesTheSame: Same first name with Grom Koba. Which is why he is usually listed as Shtorm Koba.

* NamesTheSame: Same name as a character from Manga/HajimeNoIppo.

* FightingWithChucks: Celebrated his win over Kazuo Tachi by showing off his skills.

** The first four RINGS stables had colour coded tracksuits, black for the Japanese, green for the Dutch, orange for the Russians, and purple for the Georgians. When RINGS Bulgaria was established, they switched the colors around a bit, the Japanese switched to blue, the Dutch became purple, Russia became red, Georgia became black, and Bulgaria got green. They eventually abandoned the concept when the other stables came in.

* TheApprentice: One of the last students of Euclydes Hatem. He also trained under Fausto Brunocilla, Carlos Brunocilla, Roberto Leitao, Joao Ricardo, Oswaldo Alves, Flavio Molina, Luiz Alves, and Mestre Camisa.

* BadassFamily: His father Vinícius Ruas is a judoka and trained Marco in judo.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Had one in ZST, which is sometimes known as Fighting Network ZST and was formed by many members of the RINGS management staff.

** The first four RINGS stables had colour coded tracksuits, blue for the Japanese, green for the Dutch, orange for the Russians, and purple for the Georgians. When RINGS Bulgaria was established, they switched the colors around a bit, the Japanese kept to blue, the Dutch became purple, Russia became red, Georgia became black, and Bulgaria got green. They eventually abandoned the concept when the other stables came in.

* EarlyBirdCameo: His match in RINGS is this as he spent most of his MMA career in Shooto.

* {{Jobber}}: An MMA record of 2 wins and 6 losses, though one of his wins was over a debuting Akihiro Gono at the 1994 Lumax Cup.

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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: In 2001, he broke the Guinness world record in breaking baseball bats with his shin within one minute with 27 bats. In 2002, [[TookALevelInBadass he broke it again with 33 bats]]. On 12 February 2009, [[UpToEleven he broke it yet again with 54 bats]]. His record was eventually beaten by German martial artist Kerim Duygu, who managed to break 65 bats in 2017.

* ThreeAmigos: Between RINGS Bulgaria, Georgia, and Russia. Their fighters often cornered each other in their matches. May have something to do with their countries being all part of the former Soviet Union and spoke similar languages, and some fans even refer to their relation as “RINGS Soviet Union”, which is kind of a MythologyGag for RINGS because of Maeda’s attempts to recruit fighters before the collapse of the USSR.

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* TheApprentice: To Agenor Moreira Sampaio aka Mestre Sinhozinho and to judokas Takeo Yano and Kengo Katayawa.

* TheApprentice: To Luta Livre founder Euclydes Hatem and to judokas Takeo Yano and Kengo Katayawa.

* [[IKnowKarate I Know Luta Livre]]: A 10th dan black belt. He was originally trained in UsefulNotes/{{Judo}} and is a 4th dan black belt. He also trained in UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}} under Agenor Moreira Sampaio aka Mestre Sinhozinho.

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* BaldOfAwesome: Started losing his hair during the end of his run in RINGS.

* BaldOfAwesome: Not completely but he didn't have much at the top.

* BaldOfAwesome: Was already losing his hair when RINGS was at its peak.

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* BaldOfAwesome: What he has now.

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