- World Mega Battle Tournament

Fighting Network RINGS Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium - Masayuki Naruse vs. Yasuhito Namekawa - 1998 World Mega Battle Tournament First Round Match ~ Hans Nyman/Dick Vrij/Joop Kasteel vs. Volk Han/Mikhail Ilyukhin/Sergei Sousserov - Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Vladimir Klementiev - 1998 World Mega Battle Tournament First Round Match ~ Yoshihisa Yamamoto/Hiromitsu Kanehara/Wataru Sakata vs. Dimitri Petkov/Todor Todorov/Boris Jeliazkov The tournament this year is a bit different! While still in single-elimination format, the contestants are now in teams rather than being individuals, and thus the tournament matches are now team contests, dantaisen 団体戦 might be the more familiar term to you if you’ve watched QUINTET or similar grappling exploits. Basically, one from each team start and the winner stays on until one team’s resources are exhausted. An exciting change of pace!