Akira Maeda
Four years later, Bluming was contacted by Akira Maeda from Fighting Network Rings, a professional wrestling and mixed martial arts promotion which had a working agreement with both Oyama himself and Bluming's apprentice Chris Dolman. Through Maeda, Masutatsu offered him to return as a trainer and mediator with Rings, which Bluming accepted with the condition to expel Loek Hollander from the school. In 1994, after Oyama's death, Bluming was awarded the 10º dan by Kenji Kurosaki.