The Wild Rings is a wrestling/martial arts game that combines professional wrestling with mixed martial arts, offering eleven different fighting styles, from various kinds of wrestling (including sumo) to judo, boxing, karate, and kickboxing. The game features 100 fighters, many of which are modeled after real-life athletes.
The game includes a character editor where pre-existing fighters can be edited, and up to 50 additional ones can be created. Exhibition matches allow one-on-one and tag team fights as well as a Battle Royale. Single and tag matches are also available in tournament and league modes, with the game's main career mode being Champions Road , which is a 30-fight ladder to claim the title.
In the ring, the controls allow for normal, running, grappling, and ground attacks in three different strengths, as well as taunts. For each different fighting style, there are also style-specific attacks and moves.