Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-28381997-20160509220110/@comment-3965545-20160510003239

Nope. Madara awakened his Rinnegan long before he even met Obito. He awakened it before he transplanted it into pre-5/6yr old Nagato according to Manga and DB4. He had Rinnegan for a long time before he put them into Nagato.