RINGS WORLD MEGA-BATTLE TOURNAMENT 1997 Final Live Special on WOWOW 
1/21/98 Tokyo Nippon Budokan 
Herman Renting vs. Wataru Sakata. **
Dominique Deligny vs. Masayuki Naruse. **
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Sione Latu. ***
Hans Nyman vs. Bitsadze Tariel. -*
Volk Han vs. Akira Maeda. ***
MEGA-BATTLE Final: Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Ilioukhine Mikhail. ****1/4

RINGS FIGHTING INTEGRATION 1st on WOWOW
taped 3/28/98 Tokyo Bay NK Hall 
Kenichi Yamamoto vs. Valentijn Overeem. ***1/2
Bob Gilstrap vs. Grom Zaza. DUD
Sander Thonhauser vs. Masayuki Naruse.**
Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Ilioukhine Mikhail. ***1/2
Rankingsen: Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Nikolai Zouev. **
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Dick Vrij. ***3/4

RINGS FIGHTING INTEGRATION 2nd on WOWOW 
taped 4/16/98 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukaikan 
Sander Thonhauser vs. Hiromitsu Kanehara. **
Gokiteze Bakhouri vs. Wataru Sakata. ***
Rankingsen: Andrei Kopilov vs. Masayuki Naruse. **1/4
Rankingsen: Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Joop Kasteel. **
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Valentijn Overeem. ***1/4
Volk Han vs. Akira Maeda. ***1/4

RINGS on WOWOW FIGHTING INTEGRATION 3rd 
taped 5/29/98 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center 
Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Lee Hasdell
Christopher Hazeman vs. Kenichi Yamamoto
Joop Kasteel vs. Grom Zaza
Masayuki Naruse vs. Ilioukhine Mikhail.
Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Volk Han.
RINGS Musabetsu Kyu Title Match: Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Bitsadze Tariel.

RINGS FIGHTING on WOWOW 6/29/98 FIGHTING INTEGRATION 4th 
taped 6/27 Tokyo Bay NK Hall 
Yasuhito Namekawa vs. Troy Ittensohn
Wataru Sakata vs. Willie Peeters
Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Sander MacKiljan
Hans Nyman vs. Vladmir Klementiv
Masayuki Naruse vs. Kenichi Yamamoto
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka. ****3/4

FIGHTING NETWORK RINGS on WOWOW Captured
7/20/98 Yokohama Arena 
Gilbert Yvel vs. Orjal Beckov
Christopher Hazeman vs. Borislav Jeliaskov
Joop Kasteel vs. Paul Varelans
Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Dick Vrij
Volk Han vs. Kenichi Yamamoto
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Wataru Sakata
RINGS Musabetsu Kyu Title Match: Bitsadze Tariel vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Akira Maeda Retirement Match: Akira Maeda vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto

RINGS on WOWOW FIGHTING INTEGRATION 5th
taped 8/28/98 Niigata Shi Taiikukan
Daniel Higgins vs. Yasuhito Namekawa
Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Grom Zaza
Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs. Nikolai Zouev
Kenichi Yamamoto vs. Wataru Sakata
Volk Han vs. Bitsadze Tariel
Rankingsen: Kiyoshi Tamura (#1) vs. Masayuki Naruse (#8)

RINGS on WOWOW FIGHTING INTEGRATION 6th
taped 9/21/98 Kanagawa Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan
Ryuuki Ueyama vs. Yasuhito Namekawa
Lee Hasdell vs. Kenichi Yamamoto
Wataru Sakata vs. Christopher Hazeman
Hiromitsu Kanehara vs. Willie Peeters
Rankingsen: Tsuyoshi Kosaka vs. Ilioukhine Mikhail
Rankingsen: Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto

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