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RINGS closes the rest of its draft and re-signs the following with its remaining picks: Bitsadze Ameran Todor Todorov Hans Nyman Joop Kasteel Christopher Haseman Adilson Lima Ricardo Morais

With its 31st pick, RINGS selects.....Wanderlei Silva from Brazil Vale Tudo!

After my next pick, I will probably just be re-signing RINGS guys for the rest of the draft, so if it is okay with everyone else, I'll just close my draft at that point with those picks and wait for free agency to make the rest of my moves (if any).

With its 30th pick...RINGS re-signs Willie Peeters.

With its 29th pick...RINGS selects...Kevin Randleman from Universal Vale Tudo Fighting!

RINGS will re-sign Egan Inoue with its 28th pick.

Don't forget @SirEdger

With its 27th pick, RINGS re-signs Dick Vrij @jeff5819 is up next

With its 26th pick, RINGS re-signs Bitsadze Tariel. @jeff5819 back on the clock

With its 25th pick...Fighting Network RINGS continues its Shooto raid and selects....Akihiro Gono. @jeff5819 is back on the board.

With its 24th pick...Fighting Network RINGS selects....Hayato Sakurai. @jeff5819 is back on the clock.

With it's 23rd pick, Fighting Network RINGS selects...Sanae Kikuta! Back to @jeff5819

Starting in Round 23, @Mr JMML will be on the board after Jeff goes.

With its next pick in Round 22...Fighting Network RINGS selects....Caol Uno! @jeff5819 is on the board

With it's pick in Round 21...Fighting Network RINGS selects....Rumina Sato! @jeff5819 is up next

With their pick in Round 20....Fighting Network RINGS selects.....Kenichi Yamamoto from UWFi! @Perfectly Straightedge is back on the board for Round 21.

With my 6th (19th) pick in the 1996 draft...Fighting Network RINGS selects...the real Baki the Grappler....Naoyuki Taira! With that we move on to round 20 and @Perfectly Straightedgeis back on the board

D'oh...

Great shows as always. It's interesting to see the fun undercards followed up by a solid main event. Shinya Hashimoto vs Dean Malenko and Brian Pillman vs Art Barr both sound like matches that would have been excellent. In other news, the Destruction Crew have been shown the door but the talking points will inevitably be around the "mystery man."

Thanks! Frank Shamrock actually fought in RINGS in 1997 against Kohsaka and 1999 against Tamura and both were excellent fights. I always wanted to see him against other RINGS guys like Volk Han. Takayama might be the perfect heir to Akira Maeda in terms of tall guys that can throw some stiff strikes... As for storylines, RINGS was pretty much presented like a sport. They were sort of like PRIDE before PRIDE. Fancy video game-esque graphics, and they only did singles matches (although I might introduce a tag team format). They had pre and post-fight interviews on their shows that sort of told the stories along with the in-ring stuff of course. I'll be making use of some WON-style posts to further storylines and give people a sense of what is transpiring beyond the match results. If you want a taste of what RINGS was like, you can find a lot of stuff on Youtube and the full shows are on PuroArchive's Internet Archive channel.

With my 5th (18th) pick, Fighting Network RINGS selects....Hiromitsu Kanehara @Perfectly Straightedge back on the board for Round 19.

Khabib isn't around yet so we don't have any bear fighters on our roster...maybe Volk Han could take him?

With their 4th (17th) pick in the 1996 Draft, RINGS selects....Semmy Schilt from Pancrase.