-2hr 55min. Q=Master. 2 DVDs
Peter Smit vs. Herman Renting 15:02
Willie Peeters vs. Marcel Haarmans 10:51. ***
Chris Dolman vs. Bill Kazmaier R5 1:10
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 11:05
Peter Smit vs. Herman Renting 15:02
Willie Peeters vs. Marcel Haarmans 10:51. ***
Chris Dolman vs. Bill Kazmaier R5 1:10
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 11:05
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Herman Renting 11:12
Chris Dolman vs. Tom Van Maurik 7:26
Willy Wilhelm vs. Pieter Smit 6:37
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 8:01
WATER BOUT: Mitsuya Nagai vs. Herman Renting 12:23. ***
Bert Kops Jr. vs. Willie Peeters 12:37. ***1/4
UNIVERSE BOUT: Dick Vrij vs. Tom Van Maurik R5 2:07
EARTH BOUT: Akira Maeda vs. Willy Wilhelm 10:00
Grom Zaza vs. Koichiro Kimura 24:46
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Herman Renting 5R
Chris Dolman vs. Tiger Levani 11:29
Dick Vrij vs. Willie Peeters 9:08.
Gerard Gordeau vs. Mitsuya Nagai R4 0:34
Masaaki Satake vs. Hans Nijman 5R
Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han 12:16. ***1/2
5/11/91 Yokohama Arena
Chris Dolman vs. Bill Kazmaier R5 1:10
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 11:05
8/1/91 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Herman Renting 11:12
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 8:01
9/14/91 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Bert Kops Jr. vs. Willie Peeters 12:37
EARTH BOUT: Akira Maeda vs. Willy Wilhelm 10:00
12/7/91 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Herman Renting 5R
Masaaki Satake vs. Hans Nijman 5R
Dick Vrij vs. Willie Peeters 9:08.
Gerard Gordeau vs. Mitsuya Nagai R4 0:34
Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han 12:16
Herman Renting vs. Shtorm Koba
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Koichiro Kimura. Good shoot.
Willie Peeters vs. Bert Kops, Jr.
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Rob Kaman
Willy Wilhelm vs. Igor Kolmykov
Masaaki Satake vs. Gerard Gordeau
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij
Herman Renting vs. Shtorm Koba
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Koichiro Kimura. Good shoot.
Willie Peeters vs. Bert Kops, Jr.
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Rob Kaman
Willy Wilhelm vs. Igor Kolmykov
Masaaki Satake vs. Gerard Gordeau
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij
Adam Watt vs. Hans Nijman 6R
Volk Han vs. Gennady Gigant 12:38. ***3/4
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Rudy Ewoldt 6:10
Dick Vrij vs. Herman Renting 8:42
Willie Williams vs. Pieter Smit R1 2:50
Masaaki Satake vs. Fred Oosterom 6:22
Akira Maeda vs. Buzariashvili Ramazi 11:18
EARTH BOUT: Koichiro Kimura vs. Ted Tenguiz
AQUA BOUT: Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Tom Van Maurik
FIRE BOUT: Willie Peeters vs. Yoshinori Nishi 6R
AIR BOUT: Dick Vrij vs. Marcel Haarmans 10:15
THUNDER BOUT: Mitsuya Nagai vs. Willie Williams R2 1:13
UNIVERSE BOUT: Herman Renting vs. Masaaki Satake 9:39
ASTRAL BOUT: Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han 17:28. ***3/4
EARTH BOUT: Koichiro Kimura vs. Ted Tenguiz
AQUA BOUT: Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Tom Van Maurik
FIRE BOUT: Willie Peeters vs. Yoshinori Nishi
AIR BOUT: Dick Vrij vs. Marcel Haarmans
THUNDER BOUT: Mitsuya Nagai vs. Willie Williams
UNIVERSE BOUT: Herman Renting vs. Masaaki Satake
ASTRAL BOUT: Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han ***3/4
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Masayuki Naruse 15:00
Volk Han vs. Grom Zaza 12:06. ****
Peter Aerts vs. Adam Watt R2 2:48
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Dick Vrij 6:11
Willie Williams vs. Ameran Bitsadze R3 0:27
Masaaki Satake vs. Bert Kops, Jr. R2 2:09
Akira Maeda vs. Hank Newman 5:24
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Masayuki Naruse 15:00
Yoshinori Nishi vs. Peter Dijkman R1 1:57
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Nobuaki Kakuda 5R. Good shoot.
3Min 5Rd: Naoyuki Taira vs. Eric Edelenbos R4 2:45. Good shoot.
Willie Williams vs. Tom Van Maurik 5:08
Volk Han vs. Herman Renting 9:18. ***3/4
Masaaki Satake vs. Willie Peeters 6R
Akira Maeda vs. Hans Nijman 6:35
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Masayuki Naruse 15:00
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Yukihiro Takenami R2 0:59
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Willie Peeters 5R. ***
Dick Vrij vs. Hans Nijman 10:21
Chris Dolman vs. Buzariashibili Ramaji 5:14
Peter Oele vs. Masaaki Satake R4 1:02
Volk Han vs. Andrei Kopylov 17:05. ***1/2
Akira Maeda vs. Willie Williams R3 2:03
Koichiro Kimura vs. Masayuki Naruse 9:39. Good shoot.
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Yoshinori Nishi 5R
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Cvetan Pavlov 5:45
Grom Zaza vs. Shtorm Koba 11:06
Chris Dolman vs. Herman Renting 5:51
Kick Rule 3Min 5Rd: Masaaki Satake vs. Rob Kaman 5R
Volk Han vs. Dick Vrij 10:35. ***1/2
Akira Maeda vs. Andrei Kopylov 18:18. ***1/4
Dimitar Petkov vs. Vladimir Kravchuck 8:52
Georgi Kandelaki vs. Hanse Nijman R4 0:35
Willie Peeters vs. Herman Renting 12:10. ***
Andrei Kopylov vs. Sotir Gotchev 11:50. ***1/4
Dick Vrij vs. Nobuaki Kakuda 6:05
Chris Dolman vs. Grom Zaza 5:27
Masaaki Satake vs. Mitsuya Nagai R1 1:24
Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han 23:27. ***1/2
Masayuki Naruse vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 21:39
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT '92 2nd Round: Herman Renting vs. Nobuaki Kakuda R4 1:50
Willie Williams vs. Yukihiro Takenami R2 1:33
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT '92 2nd Round: Dick Vrij vs. Hans Nijman R6 1:30
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT '92 2nd Round: Chris Dolman vs. Andrei Kopylov 10:30
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT '92 2nd Round: Akira Maeda vs. Dimitar Petkov 8:11
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto R6 0:14. Very good shoot.
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Sergei Sousserov 17:29
Georgi Kandelaki vs. Rudy Ewoldt R2
Volk Han vs. Sotir Gotchev 14:25. ***
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT '92 Semifinals
Dick Vrij vs. Herman Renting R5 2:59
Akira Maeda vs. Chris Dolman 10:41
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Masayuki Naruse 8:10
Sotir Gotchev vs. Todor Todorov 10:56
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Yoshinori Nishi 12:32
Volk Han vs. Andre Tournamidze 13:48. ***3/4
MEGA-BATTLE '92 3rd Place Match: Akira Maeda vs. Herman Renting 8:58
MEGA-BATTLE '92 Final, 3Min 5Rd: Chris Dolman vs. Dick Vrij R4 1:08
MEGA BATTLE 1st 1/25/92 Tokyo Bay NK Hall
Willie Peeters vs. Bert Kops, Jr.
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij
MEGA BATTLE 2nd 3/5/92 Amagasaki Shi Kinen Koen Sogo Taiikukan
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Rudy Ewoldt
Akira Maeda vs. Buzariashivili Ramazi
MEGA BATTLE 3rd 4/3/92 Hiroshima Sun Plaza
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Willie Williams
Masaaki Satake vs. Herman Renting
Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han
MEGA BATTLE 4th 5/16/92 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum
3 Minutes 5 Rounds Special Kick Rule: Peter Aerts vs. Adam Watt
3 Minutes 5 Rounds: Masaaki Satake vs. Bert Kops, Jr.
MEGA BATTLE 5th 6/25/92 Sendai Miyagi-ken Sports Center
Yoshinori Nishi vs. Peter Dijkman
3 Minutes 5 Rounds: Mitsuya Nagai vs. Nobuaki Kakuda
MEGA BATTLE 6th 7/16/92 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
Volk Han vs. Andrei Kopylov
Akira Maeda vs. Willie Williams
MEGA BATTLE SPECIAL 8/21/92 Kanagawa Yokohama Arena
Volk Han vs. Dick Vrij
Akira Maeda vs. Andrei Kopylov
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT '92 1st Round 10/29/92 Nagoya Rainbow Hall
Dimitar Petkov vs. Vladimir Kravchuck
Georgi Kandelaki vs. Hanse Nijman
Willie Peeters vs. Herman Renting
Andrei Kopylov vs. Sotir Gotchev
Dick Vrij vs. Nobuaki Kakuda
Chris Dolman vs. Grom Zaza
Masaaki Satake vs. Mitsuya Nagai
Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT '92 2nd Round 11/13/92 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan 2
Dick Vrij vs. Hans Nijman
Chris Dolman vs. Andrei Kopylov
Akira Maeda vs. Dimitar Petkov
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT '92 Semifinal Commercial Tape 12/19/92 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum
Dick Vrij vs. Herman Renting
Akira Maeda vs. Chris Dolman
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT '92 Final 1/23/93 Tokyo Bay NK Hall
MEGA-BATTLE '92 3rd Place Match: Akira Maeda vs. Herman Renting
MEGA-BATTLE '92 Final, 3Min 5Rd: Chris Dolman vs. Dick Vrij
2/28/93
Sergei Sousserov vs. Masayuki Naruse 12:26
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Sandor Telgen 5:27
3Min 5R: Naoyuki Taira vs. Toshiyuki Atokawa R5
4/30/93
3Min 5R: Mitsuya Nagai vs. Nobuhiro Tsurumaki R3 0:37
Yuki Ishikawa vs. Koichiro Kimura 3R
Masayuki Naruse vs. Atsushi Tamaki 24:22. Good match.
3Min 5R: Adam Watt vs. Nobuki Iwashita R1 1:56
Nobuaki Kakuda vs. Masayuki Naruse 13:28. ***1/4
Sirra Fubicha vs. Kalil Valvitov 6R
Pieter Oele vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 7:56
Willie Peeters vs. Sergei Sousserov 4:49
Dick Vrij vs. Mitsuya Nagai 4:53
Volk Han vs. Andrei Kopilov 8:30 ***
Masayuki Naruse vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 8:48
Ramazi Buzariashivili vs. Grom Zaza 11:40. ***3/4
Todor Todorov vs. Sergei Sousserov 11:46
Pieter Oele vs. Dick Vrij 6R
Bart Vale vs. Hans Nijman 8:35
Volk Han vs. Mitsuya Nagai 16:05. ***3/4
Masayuki Naruse vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 8:48
Ramazi Buzariashivili vs. Grom Zaza 11:40. ***3/4
Todor Todorov vs. Sergei Sousserov 11:46
Pieter Oele vs. Dick Vrij 6R
Bart Vale vs. Hans Nijman 8:35
Volk Han vs. Mitsuya Nagai 16:05. ***3/4
Masayuki Naruse vs. Yuki Ishikawa 30:00. ***1/2
Glove Match: Georgi Keandelaki vs. Mikhail Simov R3 1:34
Willie Peeters vs. Nobuaki Kakuda 10:18
Dick Vriji vs. Andrei Kopilov 7:06. ***
Chris Dolman vs. Mitsuya Nagai R4 0:40
Volk Han vs. Willie Williams 11:46
Masayuki Naruse vs. Yuki Ishikawa 30:00
Glove Match: Georgi Keandelaki vs. Mikhail Simov R3 1:34
Willie Peeters vs. Nobuaki Kakuda 10:18
Dick Vriji vs. Andrei Kopilov 7:06
Chris Dolman vs. Mitsuya Nagai R4 0:40
Volk Han vs. Willie Williams 11:46
Koichiro Kimura vs. Hideaki Mikata R5 2:48
Masayuki Naruse vs. Atsushi Tamaki 8:39
Sambo exhibition: Yoshikazu Endo vs. Hori Takeuchi
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Yoshinori Nishi 5R
Bob Schrijber vs. Toshiyuki Atokawa 5R
3Min 5Rd: Georgi Keandelaki vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 5R
3Min 5Rd: Masayuki Naruse vs. Nobuaki Kakuda R5 1:20
Nikolai Zouev vs. Tudor Todorov 9:50. ***1/2
3Min 5Rd: Hans Nijman vs. Mitsuya Nagai R3 0:33
3Min 5Rd. Willie Williams vs. Bitsadze Tariel R3 1:35
Ranking Match: Volk Han vs. Dick Vrij 9:09. ****
Satoshi Honma vs. Yasunori Okuda R1 2:57
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Eric Edlenbos 11:09
sambo exhibition: Nikolai Zouev vs. Wataru Sakata
Masayuki Naruse vs. Carlos Dieke 10:22
Kickboxing: Jan Lomulder vs. Bob Schrijber R5
Masayuki Naruse vs. Tigr Levani 30:00
3Min 5Rd: Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Mihail Simov R3 1:39
Pieter Oele vs. Willie Peeters 12:01
Nikolai Zouev vs. Grom Zaza 15:59
3Min 5Rd: Bitsadze Tariel vs. Hans Nijman R5 0:39
Special Match: Willie Williams vs. Dick Vrij 5R.
Special Match: Volk Han vs. Chris Dolman 6:20
Satoshi Honma vs. Fumio Akiyama
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Nobuhiro Tsurumaki
Grappling & Submission Demonstration
Kickboxing: Shigeo Imai vs. Minoru Shinkai
Masayuki Naruse vs. Dieuseul Berto
Andrei Kopylov vs. Mitsuya Nagai
History of Akira Maeda
BATTLE DIMENSION '93 3/5/93 Osaka Metropolitan Circuit
Masayuki Naruse vs. Nobuaki Kakuda. Good bout.
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Peiter Oele. Average.
Willie Peeters vs. Sergei Sousserov. Bad.
BATTLE DIMENSION '93 4/24 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan Tokyo Bay Area Circuit #1
Bart Vale vs. Hans Nijman. Awful.
Volk Han vs. Mitsuya Nagai. Great performance by Han, who does all sorts of sleek and innovative submissions. Nagai was also quite good and the crowd was really pulling for him. Great.
BATTLE DIMENSION '93 RINGS 2nd Anniversary 5/29/93 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum Tokyo Bay Area Circuit #2
Dick Vrij vs. Andrei Kopylov. Hellacious Vrij high kick KO. Average.
Han vs. Willie Williams. Williams was so awful. Average due to Han.
'93 Round 1 2/28/93 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Nagai vs. Sandor Telgen. Okay
Kickboxing: Naoyuki Taira vs. Toshiyuki Atokawa. Bad.
'93 Round 3 6/9/93 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Toshiyuki Atokawa vs. Bob Schrieber. Ok
'93 Round 4 8/6/93 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Masayuki Naruse vs. Carlos Dieke. Average.
'93 Round 5 9/10/93 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
Nagai vs. Kopylov. Ok
BATTLE DIMENSION'93 7/13/93 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan Osaka Metropolitan Circuit #2
Nagai vs. Hans Nijman. Ok
Han vs. Vrij. Very good bout. Han was excellent and he was able to hide that Vrij is far from excellent.
BATTLE DIMENSION'93 8/21/93 Yokohama Arena Tokyo Bay Area Circuit #3
Vrij vs. Williams. Slow, plodding, and fake looking. Bad.
Han vs. Dolman. Ok.
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Willie Peeters
Peter Oele vs. Tariel Bitsadze
Herman Renting vs. Hanse Nijman
Volk Han vs. Masayuki Naruse
3 Min 5 Rd: Willie Williams vs. Dick Vrij
Andrei Kopylov vs. Nikolai Zouev
Akira Maeda vs. Sotir Gotchev
Naniev Olegg vs. Georgii Galdava
Georgi Kandelaki vs. Masayuki Naruse
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Vladimir Petkov
BATTLE DIMENSION TOURNAMENT 2nd Round:
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Dick Vrij
Chris Dolman vs. Willie Peeters
Volk Han vs. Nikolai Zouev
Akira Maeda vs. Herman Renting
Grom Zaza vs. Hank Newman
Masayuki Naruse vs. Tudor Todorov
Georgi Gandelaki vs. Sarsania Zolab
Dick Vrij vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Volk Han vs. Pavel Orlov
Tournament Semifinal: Bitsadze Tariel vs. Nikolai Zouev
Tournament Semifinal: Akira Maeda vs. Chris Dolman
Tsuromaki vs. Moriyasu
Koichiro Kimura vs. Honma
Bob Schreiber vs. Mori Kazuya
Masayuki Naruse vs. Eric Edlenbos
Andrei Kopylov vs. Orlav Pavel
Akira Maeda vs. Mitsuya Nagai
Fred Oosterom vs. Andre Tourmanidze
Bart Vale vs. Peter Smit
Kickboxing: Rene Rooze vs. Rob Esdonk
Volk Han vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto. Dramatic match with Yamamoto showing a lot of spunk and charisma. Great heat. Han did his typical assortment of cool submissions. A bit one-sided, but still a very good and exciting bout.
Dick Vrij vs. Mikhail Simov
Chris Dolman vs. Nikolai Zouev
Battle Dimension Final: Akira Maeda vs. Bitsadze Tariel. Very heated sprint. Passable.
Naniev Oleg vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Dimitre Petkov vs. Masayuki Naruse
Todor Todorov vs. Herman Renting
Judo Exhibition
Kickboxing: Kim Lee Klin vs. Rob Esdonk
Bart Vale vs. Dick Vrij
Mixed Match: Volk Han vs. Gueorgui Keandelaki
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Vladmir Klementiv
Akira Maeda vs. Andrei Kopylov
Grom Zaza vs. Todor Todorov
Hans Nijman vs. Mitsuya Nagai
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Sotir Gotchev
Masayuki Naruse vs. Nikolai Zouev
Volk Han vs. Tariel Bitsadze
Akira Maeda vs. Peter Oele
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Sergei Sousserov 3:13
David Khakhaleshvili vs. Mikhail Simov 5:49
Dick Vrij vs. Masayuki Naruse 5:16
Volk Han vs. Mitsuya Nagai 9:03
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Hans Nijman 6R
Akira Maeda vs. Willie Williams 2:38
Willy Wilhelm vs. Dimitri Petkov 8:52
Willie Peeters vs. Mikhail Simov R3 0:29
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Bitsadze Ameran 5:18
Mikhail Ilioukhine vs. Mitsuya Nagai 14:42
Willie Williams vs. Masayuki Naruse 10:54
Dick Vrij vs. Bitsadze Tariel 8:04
Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han 18:06
Kickboxing: Georgi Keandelaki vs. Rene Rooze 5R
Masayuki Naruse vs. Yuri Bekichev 6:18. Short, but explosive match with a ton of action. Knockdowns back and forth highlighted by Bekichev putting Naruse down with an incredible rolling heel kick. Very good.
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Stefanov Petrov 10:35. Exciting bout with a lot of action. Good.
Andrei Kopylov vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 9:38. Another good bout with a lot of action. Kopylov's performance was strong. Started off hot, but they never turned it up a notch so it didn't quite reach it's potential, but on the other hand you wouldn't have expect any better than good coming in.
Volk Han vs. Hans Nijman 6:50. A good bout, which is rare with Hans involved but Han is the man. Han was absolutely destroyed during the standup portion. Bout was somewhat disappointing because Han won as soon as it hit the mat.
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 2:54. Vrij went for the quick win. Stiff bout that was good while it lasted, which was for less than 3 minutes. I suppose that's more good minutes than you normally get from Vrij, but this was awful short for a main event. Okay bout.
3Min 5 Rd: Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Nobuhiro Tsurumaki
Masayuki Naruse vs. Satoshi Honma
Willy Wilhelm vs. David Hahareshivili
Willie Peeters vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Tony Halme vs. Thomas Lurosi
Volk Han vs. Georgi Gandelaki
Akira Maeda vs. Chabadze Zaour
Masayuki Naruse vs. Todor Todorov. Decent
Pieter Dykman vs. Youri Bekichev. Ok.
Mihail Simov vs. Bitsadze Tariel. Bad match. Awful doesn't even describe how bad Tariel is.
Hans Nijman vs. Grom Zaza. VQ gets bad then unwatchable in the midst of this match, but is back to normal for the next bout.
Volk Han vs. Sotir Gotchev. Slow developing match that never got exciting. Ok, but very disappointing given Han was involved.
Pieter Oele vs. Vladmir Klementiv. Really bad bout mainly consisting of really fake strikes.
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Nikolai Zouev. Well booked match that became exciting and heated, but wasn't always that great. Pretty good.
Pieter Oele vs. Aldinov Roussimov 6:05
Mikhail Ilioukhine vs. Willie Peeters 9:56
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Bitsadze Ameran 7:24
Hans Nijman vs. Masayuki Naruse 4:37
Tony Halme vs. Dimitri Petkov 5:14
Grom Zaza vs. Andrei Kopilov 8:41
Dick Vrij vs. Akira Maeda 2:54
3/19/94 Yokohama Arena
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Vladmir Klementiv
Akira Maeda vs. Andrei Kopylov
4/23/94 Hiroshima Sun Plaza
Volk Han vs. Bitsadze Tariel
Akira Maeda vs. Peter Oele
5/17/94 Miyagi-ken Sports Center
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Hans Nijman 6R
Akira Maeda vs. Willie Williams 2:38
6/18/94 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Bitsadze Ameran 5:18
Dick Vrij vs. Bitsadze Tariel 8:04
Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han 18:06
7/14/94 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan
Volk Han vs. Hans Nijman 6:50
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 2:54
8/20/94 Yokohama Arena
Willie Peeters vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Volk Han vs. Georgi Gandelaki
Akira Maeda vs. Chabadze Zaour
9/21/94 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan: Dick Vrij vs. Akira Maeda 2:54
Bart Vale vs. Masayuki Naruse 7:04
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Grom Zaza 7:41
Willie Williams vs. Pieter Oele 6:41
Chris Dolman vs. Mitsuya Nagai 4:25
Hans Nijman vs. Nikolai Zouev 6:35
Tony Halme vs. Bitsadze Tariel 4:19
Dick Vrij vs. Mikhail Ilioukhine 6:06
Andrei Kopilov vs. Volk Han 10:05
Bart Vale vs. Masayuki Naruse 7:04
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Grom Zaza 7:41
Willie Williams vs. Pieter Oele 6:41
Chris Dolman vs. Mitsuya Nagai 4:25
Hans Nijman vs. Nikolai Zouev 6:35
Tony Halme vs. Bitsadze Tariel 4:19
Dick Vrij vs. Mikhail Ilioukhine 6:06
Andrei Kopilov vs. Volk Han 10:05
Wataru Sakata vs. Nobuhiro Tsurumaki
Masayuki Naruse vs. Rene Van De Zander
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Dmitre Petkov
3rd Round Matches
Dick Vrij vs. Hans Nijman
Chris Dolman vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Volk Han vs. Willie Williams
Akira Maeda vs. Tony Halme
Wataru Sakata vs. Nobuhiro Tsurumaki
Masayuki Naruse vs. Rene Van De Zander
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Dmitre Petkov
3rd Round Matches
Dick Vrij vs. Hans Nijman
Chris Dolman vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Volk Han vs. Willie Williams
Akira Maeda vs. Tony Halme
Wataru Sakata vs. Minoru Tanaka. The inexperienced Tanaka was no match for Sakata in this shoot.
Kickboxing: Jan Lomulder vs. Alben Belinski. Exciting bout with a lot of heavy kicks by both men. Defense wasn't all that great as these guys appeared to be bangers. Very good.
Willie Peeters vs. Pieter Oele. Appeared to be a shoot. A lot of striking with the out of shape Peeters taking a beating. Entertaining bout with a lot of high impact blows. Oele's low kick was very strong.
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Masayuki Naruse. Fairly even match that the fans were into. Strong technique as well as good strikes, particularly by Nagai. Very good.
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Bitsadze Ameran. Terrible. Just a bunch of fake looking strikes.
Semi-Finals
Volk Han vs. Hans Nijman. Very good short match due to an excellent performance by Han. It was Han's submissions vs. Hans' kicks, with Han allowing himself to be rocked in between catching Hans in a submission.
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto. The fans were really into this. Yamamoto showed great charisma and the fans were going nuts at one point screaming Yamamoto until he made it to the ropes to escape Maeda's hiza jujigatame. Yamamoto's selling was quite good. Maeda looked slow on his strikes, but worked really stiff. It's really a shame Yamamoto's body didn't hold up as he had the potential to be great. Very good to excellent match.
Kazunori Hase vs. Kazuo Tachi 5R
Wataru Sakata vs. Takeshi Ono 11:28
Tsuyoshi Kohsaka vs. Daisuke Ikeda 8:17
Vasily Chvaia vs. Masauki Naruse 11:10
Volk Han vs. Mitsuya Nagai 15:15
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 11:44
Wataru Sakata vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Herman Renting vs. David Khauchaleishyuli
Bob Schrieber vs. Aldinov Roussinov
Sotir Gotchev vs. Masayuki Naruse
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Mark Ashford
Dick Vrij vs. Tony Halme
Tournament 3rd Place Match: Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Hans Nijman. Really strong performance by Yamamoto to turn this into a good bout.
Tournament Final: Maeda vs. Han. Bombs from start to finish. Major heat. Huge pop for the finish even though the fans hero lost.
Andrei Kopylov vs. Hans Nijman
Ronnie Rivano vs. Piet Bernzen
Masayuki Naruse vs. Willie Peeters
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Rudy Ewoldt
Dick Vrij vs. Mitsuya Nagai
Akira Maeda vs. Chris Dolman
David Levecky vs. Herman Renting
John Ovverkerk vs. Joop Vid Ven
3Min 5Rd: Valentin Davidov vs. Bob Schreiber
Masayuki Naruse vs. Wataru Sakata
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Bart Vale
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 17:18
Volk Han vs. Nikolai Zouev
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 5:38
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Wataru Sakata. Probably a shoot. More interesting than their last match, but still not too good. Okay
Willie Peeters vs. Mitsuya Nagai. Exciting match with a lot of big strikes. Peeters wanted nothing to do with the mat, so it was almost all standup. Good.
Dick Vrij vs. Todor Todorov. Vrij dominated with his kicks. Todorov seemed to just grab Vrij once in a while without doing any kind of hold to him. Fair.
Hans Nijman vs. Goditedze Bakouri. Pretty good match that the fans were into. Some cool big moves, especially a great ipponzeoi by Bakouri.
Volk Han vs. Masayuki Naruse. Exciting match, but one of Han's least believable. At one point he had Naruse trapped in an udehishigigyakujujigatame in the center of the ring, but he basically just let his arm go since it wasn't the finish. It seemed like Han either got injured or had the wind knocked out of him in the middle of the match. Good.
Rankingsen: Akira Maeda (#2) vs. Bitsadze Tariel (#4) 6:25. Had heat, but wasn't good in any regard.Maeda did a lot of standup because that's Tariel's strength, but they are both too slow and lumbering to make it look good.
Chris Dolman Retirement Match: Chris Dolman vs. Joop Kasteel
Wataru Sakata vs. Nobuhiro Tsurumaki 30:00
Sotir Gotchev vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka 8:30
Herman Renting vs. Masayuki Naruse 5:21
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Andrei Kopilov 8:00
Willie Williams vs. Grom Zaza 6:47
Akira Maeda vs. Nikolai Zouev 9:10
Yuri Bekichev vs. Wataru Sakata 5:06
Sergei Sousserov vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka 11:30
Mikhail Ilioukhine vs. Masayuki Naruse 9:26
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Carl Greco 3:35
Akira Maeda vs. Vladimir Klementiev 3:26
Ranking Match: Volk Han vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 15:15
Bob Schrijber vs. Kenneth Felter 5R
Masayuki Naruse vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka 11:00
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Mitsuya Nagai 7:06
Hans Nijman vs. Bitsadze Ameran 3:59 via submission
Ranking Match: Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Dick Vrij 9:04
Akira Maeda vs. David Khakhaleshvili 3:30
Ranking Match: Volk Han vs. Tony Halme 6:36
Dimitri Petkov vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka 11:35
Mikhail Ilioukhine vs. Christopher Haseman 5:43
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Herman Renting 5:00
Ranking Match: Hans Nijman vs. Mitsuya Nagai 8:59
Ranking Match: Dick Vrij vs. Tony Halme 2:43
Ranking Match: Bitsadze Tariel vs. Volk Han 8:26
Ranking Match: Andrei Kopilov vs. Akira Maeda 9:29
Wataru Sakata vs. Sotir Gotchev
Georgi Gandelaki vs. Svilen Roussinoff
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Joop Van Den
Peter Oele vs. Mitsuya Nagai
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Dick Vrij 8:21
Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han 9:41
3/18/95 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 17:18
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 5:38
4/28/95 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan: Akira Maeda vs. Bitsadze Tariel 6:25
5/20/95 Kagoshima Arena: Akira Maeda vs. Nikolai Zouev 9:10
6/17/95 Tokyo Ariake Coliseum
Akira Maeda vs. Vladimir Klementiev 3:26
Ranking Match: Volk Han vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 15:15
7/18/95 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan Ranking Match: Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Dick Vrij 9:04
8/27/95 Tokyo Bay NK Hall
Ranking Match: Andrei Kopilov vs. Akira Maeda 9:29
Ranking Match: Bitsadze Tariel vs. Volk Han 8:26
9/22/95 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Dick Vrij 8:21
Akira Maeda vs. Volk Han 9:41
Digest of 2/19/95 Amsterdam Sporthaal Zuid
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Rudy Ewoldt
Akira Maeda vs. Chris Dolman
MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT 1995 1st Round Matches:
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Gogitidze Bakouri 6:38
Mikhail Ilioukhine vs. Nikolai Zouev 12:27
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Bitsadze Ameran 4:36
Hans Nijman vs. Ramazi Buzariashvili 4:31
Andrei Kopilov vs. Grom Zaza 10:32
Volk Han vs. Pieter Oele 4:14
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Dimitri Petkov 4:36
Akira Maeda vs. Dick Vrij 4:58
Willie Peeters vs. Wataru Sakata. This had a lot of showmanship, but it was a shoot. At one point Sakata ducked a high kick and Peeters went over the top rope to the floor. Sakata then got a red card for attacking Peeters on the apron, and when Peeters got up from this he was ready to kill Sakata. Peeters soon caught Sakata with a vicious knee and kept pummeling him until he crashed to the mat like a rock. Good bout with some vicious strikes.
Dennis Raven vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka. Exciting shoot with Kosaka taking a lot of punishment
Tournament Round 2
Mikhail Ilyukhin vs. Hans Nijman. Big style clash here, which was made worse by the fact that Mikhail wasn't all that used to working RINGS at this point. Ok
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Mitsuya Nagai. Pretty good match, but not nearly as good as I expected as neither were up to their usual standard. Mainly not all that exciting matwork. Pretty good.
Volk Han vs. Andrei Kopylov. Pretty much all on the mat with finishers back & forth.
Akira Maeda vs. Bitsadze Tariel. As bad as you'd expect.
Wataru Sakata vs. Emil Krastev. Shooter vs. kickboxer, with Krastev fighting with gloves on. The usual style for these kind of matches with Sakata going all out to get it on the ground, and Krastev grabbing the ropes ASAP once Sakata got him down. Interesting match, but it was really short. Sakata did a good job, but Krastev seemed out of his element.
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Grom Zaza. Way better than I expected. Kosaka hadn't come into his own yet, and I'd never seen a Zaza match that wasn't BORING, but this was actually very good. Kosaka was very good though, and Zaza gave his best performance. It was fast-paced, and they went though a lot of points. It actually could have been excellent if Kosaka was allowed to compete. ***1/2
Vladimir Klementiev vs. Pieter Oele. Almost all standup, but the striking wasn't particularly impressive. *
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Nikolai Zouev. Solid, well worked match. Not that exciting, but fairly "realistic." **1/4
WORLD MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT Junkessho: Volk Han vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto. It was definitely a work, but the way they were able to work together to do the complicated sequences or even just keep reacting to each other and avoiding the potential submissions is really what made the match. They thought and reacted so quickly. As soon as one guy tried to apply a submission, the other was rolling or spinning into a position where he could try to go right into a submission. There was really no advantage in this sprint because as soon as you seemingly had it, the other guy took it right away from you. Right off the bat they were trying to lock submissions on, but their opponent would always turn, spin, on one occassion even "dance" his way out of trouble. The match was built in the sense that in the beginning all the attempts at submissions were quickly avoided, but as time went on they'd come closer and closer to catching their opponent and advancing to the final of the annual MEGA BATTLE TOURNAMENT. Read Review. ****1/2
WORLD MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT Junkessho: Akira Maeda vs. Hanse Nijman. It was all action, but it was short and came off flat after the previous classic because these guys didn't chain anything together. *1/4
Michail Ilioukhine vs. Wataru Sakata
Willie Peeters vs. Christopher Haseman
Vladimir Klementov vs. Gogitidze Bakouri
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Tony Halme
Maurice Smith vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Dennis Raven
MEGA BATTLE TOURNAMENT 1995 3rd Place Match: Volk Han vs. Hanse Nijman
MEGA BATTLE TOURNAMENT 1995 Final: Akira Maeda vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Wataru Sakata vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto R1 3:28
Tjerk Vermanen vs. Valentijn Overeem R1 3:05
John Benner vs. Jimmy Porter R2 2:33
Michael Tielrooy vs. Edwin Gertenbach R1 5:00
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Ruud Ewoldt R2 2:11
Thai Boxing: Rene Rooze vs. Rob Esdonk R1 1:08
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Willie Peeters R2 0:11
Emil Kristev vs. Bob Schrieber R1 4:07
Hans Nijman vs. Allen Harris R2 1:30
Lee Hasdell vs. Andrew Mannaart 2R
Dick Vrij vs. Hubert Numrich R1 1:37
Iouri Bekichev vs. Emil Kristev
Wataru Sakata vs. Christopher Haseman
Mikhail Ilioukhine vs. Mitsuya Nagai
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Hans Nijman
Volk Han vs. Dick Vrij
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Bitsadze Tariel
Michael Stann vs. Jacob Hamilton
Wataru Sakata vs. Todor Todorov
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Glenn Brown
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Willie Williams
Maurice Smith vs. Dick Vrij
Volk Han vs. Nikolai Zouev
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Mikhail Ilioukhine vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Yuri Kochiken vs. Emil Krastev
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Yuri Bekchen
Dick Vrij vs. Vladimir Kuramenchev
Volk Han vs. Hanse Nijman
Andrei Kopylov vs. Bart Vale
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Busariashibin Ramaji
Nikolai Zouev vs. Willie Williams
Wataru Sakata vs. Willie Peeters
Masayuki Naruse vs. Todor Todorov
Bitsadze Ameran vs. Dennis Raven
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Dick Vrij
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Jacob Hamilton
Volk Han vs. Mitsuya Nagai
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Maurice Smith 30:00
Wataru Sakata vs. Valentijn Overeem
Masayuki Naruse vs. Sergei Sousserov
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Willie Peeters
Dick Vrij vs. Christopher Haseman
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Joop Kasteel
Volk Han vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Hanse Nijman
Willie Peeters vs. Wataru Sakata
Masayuki Naruse vs. Egen Inoue
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Maurice Smith
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Dick Vrij
Walter Schnabelt vs. Vladimir Kuramenchev
Volk Han vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Mikhail Ilioukhine vs. Adilson Lima
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Ricardo Morias
Peter Dijkman vs. Wataru Sakata 5:26
Masayuki Naruse vs. Christopher Hazeman 9:12
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka 11:05
Volk Han vs. Kiyoshi Tamura 10:32. ****3/4
Hans Nijman vs. Bitsadze Tariel 5:19
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Andrei Kopylov 12:33
Tournament Ikkaisen
Todor Todorov vs. Gogitidze Bakouri 8:09. Dull match. It wasn't believable, and they didn't exactly sacrifice believability for entertainment value. *
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Dick Vrij 5:35. Kosaka fought Vrij much like Tamura, keeping the match in standup almost the whole time where he mainly took Vrij's strikes. Vrij wasn't nearly as stiff with Kosaka as he is with Tamura though. Kosaka did a good job of putting Vrij over, barely getting back to his feet before the 10 counts. It was good for what it was, but Yamamoto & Tamura have done much better with Vrij. *3/4
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Mikhail Ilyukhin 14:40. They mainly wrestled on the mat, displaying a high level of technical prowess. Watching these two manuever their way out of trouble was particularly beautiful. Tamura got behind on points, and Mikhail faired particularly well in the final third of the match, Mikhail just couldn't trap Tamura in a submission. ***1/2
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Willie Peeters 9:36. I was disappointed in this match. It was slow moving and dull. They didn't do anything to make it look realistic, and Peeters can't come close to displaying the intensity he shows in a shoot. *1/2
Nikolai Zouev vs. Bitsadze Tariel 5:34. They went through most of the allotted points in five minutes, but Tariel isn't even carryable by Tamura, much less Zouev. Tariel thinks he can strike, but he has no athleticism so his kicks and knees are unimpressive. Zouev didn't do much of anything, which made no sense because he was TKO'd from lost points. DUD
Volk Han vs. Masayuke Naruse 10:24. Han was really on top of his game here, carrying Naruse to the best match I've seen him in. Han is jst the master of making worked shoots exciting and dramatic, and this was no exception. He made the fans believe in Naruse, so they got into rooting for Naruse to win. Naruse actually had Han down to the final down. This was damn good. ***3/4
Special Match
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. David Khakhaleishvili 2:24. David is very overweight and can't work at all. They kept it really short, but Yamamoto couldn't get anything out of this slug. DUD
Akira Maeda Fukkisen (comeback match): Akira Maeda vs. Andrei Kopylov 4:54. This was below both men's standards. They mainly just rolled around on the mat. It was pretty weak technically, and the finish was lame. Maeda didn't look good. *
Nikolai Zouev vs. Wataru Sakata 10:01. Solid, but unspectacular match. Sakata was overmatched, but he showed some spunk here by hanging in the whole way. **
Masayuki Naruse vs. Dick Vrij 6:16. I was all ready to hate this match and call it another Vrij turd. However, by some miracle, this match pretty much ruled. It was a fast paced match with both men fighting really hard and stiff. As was the case with last month's match against Han, Naruse showed a ton of heart and refused to give up even though Vrij was just wrecking him in standup. Naruse did knock Vrij down twice to show he wasn't all submissions though. The highlight of the match came when when both men were down to the final down and Vrij blasted Naruse with a vicious high kick. Naruse was in the center of the ring, but somehow he was blown back enough that he was able to grab the top rope and pull himself up to avoid the TKO. ***1/2
Tournament Nikaisen
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Mitsuya Nagai 6:13. I thought this would be an excellent match, but it wasn't even average. This was like watching a (lack of) Pride match, it just seemed like nothing of note happened in the entire match. *1/4
Volk Han vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka 10:27. An excellent match that was pretty much only held back by the length (not that 10 minutes is short for a worked shoot). Han was the man here. He did all of his favorite moves, but the match was even more explosive than normal. Between all the big moves and counters, they really kept you on your toes. Han really put the ever improving Kosaka over, particularly in standup. ****
Feature on the 96 Sambo championships
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Gogitese Bakhouri 4:52. This two didn't work well together, so the match was kind of hit and miss. The match wasn't very interesting because they lacked intensity, and they didn't chain anything together or do any nice counters. *1/4
Bitsadze Tariel vs. Hans Nijman 10:11. What an awful match! These guys are too big and slow to look impressive as strikers, but it may as well have been a kickboxing match because the only time anyone left their feet was when they were knocked off them. DUD
Special Match
Akira Maeda vs. Yoshiaki Fujiwara 10:55. Traditional UWF style bout. At one time, this might have looked good, but the style had evolved to the point that this slow matwork was no longer viable. This should have had great heat because Maeda was still very much over, and these guys hadn't been in the ring with each other in a long time because they both formed their own companies when UWF split up. Unfortunately, it was a dull match with no heat. *1/4
Masayuki Naruse vs. Dick Vrij 6:01. *1/2
Mitsuya Nagai vs. Gogitidze Bakouri 8:59. *3/4
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Hans Nijman 9:24. *1/2
Maurice Smith vs. Bitsadze Amiran 4:54. 1/2*
Feature on the '96 Sambo Championships
MEGA BATTLE 1996 Junkessho
Volk Han vs. Bitsadze Tariel 6:17. **1/4
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto 9:49. ***1/4
Special Match
Akira Maeda vs. Vladmir Klementiev 3:17. 1/2*