2008 in Fighting Network Rings

The year 2008 is the 14th year in the history of Fighting Network Rings, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. In 2008 Fighting Network Rings held 4 events beginning with, Rings: The Outsider.

2008 in Fighting Network Rings
Information
First date	March 30, 2008
Last date	December 20, 2008
Events
Total events	4
Fights
Total fights	95
Chronology
2007 in RINGS 2008 in Fighting Network Rings 2009 in RINGS

Events list

Main article: List of Fighting Network Rings events

#	Event Title	Date	Arena	Location
103	Rings: The Outsider 4	December 20, 2008	Differ Ariake Arena	Tokyo, Japan
102	Rings: The Outsider 3	October 19, 2008	Differ Ariake Arena	Tokyo, Japan
101	Rings: The Outsider 2	July 19, 2008	Differ Ariake Arena	Tokyo, Japan
100	Rings: The Outsider	March 30, 2008	Differ Ariake Arena	Tokyo, Japan

Rings: The Outsider

Rings: The Outsider^[1] was an event held on March 30, 2008, at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Tomoya Kato	def.	Hideyuki Yokuni	TKO (Punches)	2	1:40
	Junji Urita	def.	Ayumu Kusunoki	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	2:40
	Yuji Takagaki	def.	Hiroki Nakamura	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	1:36
	Naoki Akimoto	def.	Tatsuya Ueda	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	3:00
	Tomoaki Hata	def.	Satoshi Watanabe	TKO (Punches)	1	0:52
	Keinosuke Yoshinaga	def.	Takayuki Urano	TKO (Punches)	1	1:58
	Teppei Hori	def.	Masahiko Saito	Submission (Armbar)	1	0:15
	Eiji Ogawa	def.	Hironobu Takahashi	TKO (Punches)	2	0:39
	Ken Nishizawa	def.	Momomaru Harada	TKO (Punches)	1	1:16
	Tsuyoshi Nomura	def.	Mitsusuke Okugawa	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	1:15
	Asato Hashimoto	vs.	Yutaka Inada	Draw (Split)	2	3:00
	Yosuke Ota	def.	Isamu Taniguchi	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	3:00
	Hisato Izawa	def.	Yusuke Gondai	Decision (Majority)	2	3:00
	Tomokazu Sakai	def.	Nobuhiro Ubukata	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:03
	Hiroyuki Hayashi	def.	Lethal Fat Boy	KO (Punch)	1	2:51
	Kazuhiko Oyama	def.	Naoki Umehara	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Daisuke Fujii	def.	Go Hishinuma	TKO (Punches)	2	1:30
	Shunta Nakamura	vs.	Akihiro Fujisawa	Draw (Split)	2	3:00
	Yusuke Kobayashi	def.	Shingo Hamada	TKO (Punches)	1	0:40
	Tsuguaki Yamazaki	def.	Hidetora Hidetora	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Shuhei Kawabata	def.	Kazuya Okamoto	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	0:41
	Tsubasa Akiyama	def.	Takahiro Kuroishi	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	1:24

Rings: The Outsider 2

Rings: The Outsider 2^[2] was an event held on July 19, 2008, at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Seishiro Shimizu	def.	Hiroshi Kawaguchi	KO (Punches)	1	1:20
	Tsubasa Akiyama	def.	Yuji Takagaki	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Keinosuke Yoshinaga	def.	Junpei Nakamura	Submission (Triangle Choke)	1	0:50
	Kazuhiko Oyama	def.	Yuki Takei	TKO (Punches)	1	1:48
	Masahiro Otani	def.	Junji Urita	TKO (Punches)	1	0:28
	Shinji Otake	def.	Kamikaze Tobimaru	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	2:07
	Toshiharu Yamauchi	def.	Kazuki Nagasawa	TKO (Punches)	1	1:53
	Teppei Hori	def.	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:00
	Tomokazu Sakai	def.	Shin Shin	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Hiroshi Sato	def.	Momomaru Harada	Submission (Armbar)	2	1:32
	Daisuke Hayashi	def.	Koji Nakanishi	Submission (Armbar)	2	1:22
	Hidetora Hidetora	def.	Yusuke Gondai	KO (Punches)	1	0:28
	Shunta Nakamura	def.	Daisuke Maku	Decision (Majority)	2	3:00
	Kazuhiro Okubo	def.	Masomichi Suita	TKO (Head Kick and Punches)	1	2:59
	Masatomi Yoshida	def.	Yasuhiro Nonaka	KO (Spinning Back Kick)	2	2:46
	Takashi Tomoda	def.	Tomoyuki Tsuruma	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	1	1:03
	Yoshitaka Ideta	def.	Satoru Seo	TKO (Punches and Knees)	1	0:49
	Tatsuya Watanabe	def.	Hiroki Nakamura	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	0:32
	Tomohiro Tamai	def.	Mitsuharu Abe	TKO (Punches)	1	1:59
	Tsuyoshi Nomura	def.	Kazuki Iwamoto	Submission (Armbar)	1	0:56
	Ryohei Masuda	def.	Takahiro Kuroishi	KO (Punch)	1	0:02
	Makoto Toriumi	def.	Kiichiro Kiichiro	TKO (Doctor Stoppage)	2	1:30
	Hiroya Kato	def.	Norihisa Takada	TKO (Punches)	2	1:08
	Tomomi Takashima	def.	Toru Toru	Decision (Majority)	2	3:00

Rings: The Outsider 3

Rings: The Outsider 3^[3] was an event held on October 19, 2008, at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Masaru Kawamura	def.	Leo Takahashi	KO (Knee)	1	2:46
	Keinosuke Yoshinaga	def.	Yuichi Eda	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:30
	Joji Ogawa	def.	Kenta Tamura	KO (Punch)	1	2:32
	Kazuhiko Oyama	def.	Hiroshi Sato	Decision (Majority)	2	3:00
	Hidetora Hidetora	def.	Tatsuya Ueda	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Koji Nakanishi	def.	Masomichi Suita	KO (Punches)	1	2:49
	Yohei Matsuoka	def.	Terukazu Murayama	KO (Punches)	1	2:53
	Tsuyoshi Nomura	def.	Masahiro Otani	KO (Punch)	2	0:12
	Satoshi Kanechika	def.	Takashi Ofuji	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Tsubasa Akiyama	def.	Takashi Tomoda	Decision (Majority)	2	3:00
	Yutaka Naito	def.	Mitsuharu Abe	KO (Punch)	1	1:08
	Kamikaze Tobimaru	def.	Tsuyoshi Hayakawa	Submission (Armbar)	2	0:31
	Junichi Kichima	def.	Masayoshi Izuka	Submission (Kimura)	2	0:47
	Minechika Matsumoto	def.	Kazuki Iwamoto	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Norihisa Takada	def.	Go Hishinuma	Decision (Majority)	2	3:00
	Nobuaki Nakagawa	def.	Akiyuki Akaishi	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	1:23
	Yoshikazu Kaneshima	def.	Isamu Okubo	TKO (Punches)	1	2:14
	Yuichi Kishino	def.	Ken Watanabe	KO (Punch)	1	0:35
	Asuka Mikami	def.	Hiroki Nakamura	KO (Punch)	1	1:03
	Masato Kobayashi	def.	Tomohiro Tamai	KO (Punches)	1	0:04
	Kenichi Tsuya	def.	Hisashi Yamamoto	TKO (Punches)	1	2:15
	Hisashi Yamamoto	def.	Chise Umeki	TKO (Punches)	1	1:08
	Daisuke Maku	def.	Aran Watabiki	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	0:12
	Masaharu Tsuchihashi	def.	Pero Pero	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	2	0:56
	Takayuki Urano	def.	Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi	KO (Punch)	1	2:59

Rings: The Outsider 4

Rings: The Outsider 4^[4] was an event held on December 20, 2008, at Differ Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
	Tomoya Kato	def.	Seishiro Shimizu	TKO (Punches)	2	0:36
	Tetsuya Sano	def.	Keinosuke Yoshinaga	TKO (Knees and Punches)	2	2:59
	Yuji Takagaki	def.	Keigo Kuriyama	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Hidetora Hidetora	def.	Hisato Izawa	TKO (Punches)	1	2:05
	Yuki Takei	def.	Shoki Shoki	Decision (Majority)	2	3:00
	Teppei Hori	def.	Hiroya Kato	Submission (Triangle Choke)	2	1:16
	Nobutsuna Komori	vs.	Takahiro Kuroishi	NC (Kuroishi Threw Punch Before Fight Began)	1	0:00
	Takashi Tomoda	def.	Hisashi Yamamoto	KO (Punch)	1	1:13
	Kaiji Hirano	def.	Ryohei Masuda	Submission (Armbar)	1	1:28
	Katsuji Yuki	def.	Joji Ogawa	TKO (Punches)	1	2:23
	Ayumu Ayumu	def.	Masoto Shimojo	TKO (Punches)	2	2:24
	Tatsuya Watanabe	def.	Hiroyuki Naito	TKO (Punches)	2	1:17
	Tomoyuki Manabe	def.	Kamikaze Tobimaru	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	1:39
	Yoshihiro Saegusa	def.	Yohei Matsuoka	Submission (Rear-Naked Choke)	1	2:41
	Takumi Sugita	def.	Tadashi Amemiya	Technical Submission (Scarf Hold)	1	2:58
	Fumihiro Yamada	def.	Yuji Tsuchiya	Submission (Armbar)	1	0:32
	Yujiro Sekiya	def.	Atsushi Kuroda	TKO (Punches)	1	2:39
	Yasuhiro Nonaka	vs.	Yoshinobu Iwama	Draw (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Akiyuki Akaishi	def.	Toshiyuki Koyanagi	KO (Punch)	1	1:50
	Yoshitaka Ideta	def.	Tatsuru Suzuki	KO (Punches)	1	0:35
	Yoshikazu Kaneshima	def.	Nobuaki Nakagawa	Submission (Kimura)	1	1:11
	Daisuke Maku	def.	Nanmin Sato	Decision (Unanimous)	2	3:00
	Kenichiro Otani	def.	Ryo Masuda	TKO (Punches)	2	1:37
	Minechika Matsumoto	def.	Masaya Shimonaka	TKO (Punches)	1	2:14

See also

• Fighting Network Rings
• List of Fighting Network Rings events