Crimson Ring

The Crimson Ring is an underground network featuring gladiatorial combat to the death. Tournaments and matches are organized in hidden venues on Kalimdor like deep forests or abandoned ruins, such as Dire Maul. Members of the Ring include slavers, gladiator trainers, slaves, prisoners, criminals, and free gladiators.The audience who attends these events come from all walks of life, from liars, cheats, and gamblers; to entrepreneurs, aristocrats, and peasants.

The gladiatorial games begins with individual single combat matches and which ever gladiator teams can survive the individual trials intact can advance to team combat matches to vie for the team championship. It is presumed that members of the teams who were unable to advance to team combat matches continue to fight in single combat matches to vie for the single combat championship.

A gladiator who hasn't been "bloodied" has yet to make a first kill. Typically, the weapons and possessions of the fallen are inherited by the victors of the match.

The Crimson Ring has a secret armory in the Hall of Legends and uses the Ring of Valor to train their gladiators.