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Herman Renting

Tales from the MMA jobber file, #9: This one doesn't even feel particularly fair, honestly. Herman Renting was one of the numerous students of the legendary Chris Dolman, and as with a number of said students he spent most of his career--nearly a decade--in the shoot-style wrestling promotion Fighting Network RINGS in primarily worked matches.

His time in MMA, by contrast to a lot of his peers, was a brief curiosity. He only had four matches in his career that are generally agreed not to be works, and even though they took place over six years their timeline is extremely brief: The first two happened within three weeks in 1995 and the latter two within three months half a decade later in 2000/2001. He went 1-3, with his only victory coming in one of those 1995 proto-MMA style-vs-style matches, using his Dolman-honed sambo skills to take a decision over wing chun loyalist and former Rickson Gracie victim David Levicki (who would also retire at 1-3, funnily enough). His most notable loss, and the reason he's included in this collection, was his appearance at Pride 11 against the elemental spirit of Japanese MMA, Mr. Pride himself, Akira Shoji--and as was Shoji's job at the time, despite being visibly outsized he bounced Renting by armbar in just under four minutes.

Renting has his place in history, but that place is much more in the annals of RINGS than in MMA itself, and unfortunately, RINGS is sort of doomed to obscurity, a thing known primarily to hardcore tape traders and older-school puro enthusiasts. If you want to read more about him, or it, check out the TK Scissors blog, a fascinating and incredibly dense watchthrough of one man's insane tape collection: http://tkscissors.blogspot.com/

Moveset, stats, logic and four attires (RINGS Battle Dimensions '92 vs Satake / Pride 11 vs Shoji / RINGS Holland vs Levicki / RINGS Holland Heroes Live Forever vs van Gammeren).