TAPE 79

Quality: EX (Master Convert)

Length: 2 hrs (DVD)

RINGS 1994 TOURNAMENT (Terrific tape that covers the entire 1994 Mega Battle tournament.
	Amazingly, only the first round matches are clipped, everything else is complete!  No ****
 	classics here, but lots of good matches, all of them very high on the stiffness.  Great stuff. 
 	I've got a master convert, so VQ is perfect.)

	Pieter Oele vs Adinov Roussinov, 9/21/94 (clips)
	Ilioukhine Mikhail vs Willie Peeters, 9/21/94 (clips)
	Mitsuya Nagai vs Bitsadze Ameran, 9/21/94 (clips)
	Hans Nyman vs Masayuki Naruse, 9/21/94 (clips)
	Tony Halme vs Dimitri Petokov, 9/21/94 (clips)
	Grom Zaza vs Andrei Kopylov, 9/21/94 (clips)
	Grom Zaza vs Yoshihisa Yamamoto, 10/22/94 (Terrific match - ***1/2!)
	Willie Williams vs Pieter Oele, 10/22/94
	Chris Dolman vs Mitsuya Nagai, 10/22/94
	Hans Nyman vs Nikolai Zouev, 10/22/94
	Tony Halme vs Bitsadze Tariel, 10/22/94 (I hate matches like this - where one guy totally
 		dominates only to lose the match when he's within one knockdown of winning.  It makes the
 		fact that it's a work just seem so OBVIOUS.  Especially when the finishing KO is a weak
 		one.  Funny moment when Tariel knocks down Halme: He punches Halme in the kidneys,
 		prompting a very loud "Hey, what the fuck?" from Halme.)
	Dick Vrij vs Ilioukhine Mikhail, 10/22/94
	Dick Vrij vs Hans Nyman, 11/19/94 (I wonder if Vrij losing this early in the tourney - in the
 		quarterfinals - is a payback of sorts for his KO'ing Maeda on 9/21/94?)
	Chris Dolman vs Yoshihisa Yamamoto, 11/19/94
	Willie Williams vs Volk Han, 11/19/94
	Tony Halme vs Akira Maeda, 11/19/94
	Hans Nyman vs Volk Han, 12/16/94
	Yoshihisa Yamamoto vs Akira Maeda, 12/16/94 (Great match!  Give Maeda some credit for this 
		one - he lays a terrific beating on Yamamoto, but man does he take one in return!  These
 		guys just wail on each other!  ***1/2, almost ****)
	Hans Nyman vs Yoshihisa Yamamoto, 1/25/95 (3rd place match - take everything I said about
 		Maeda/Yamamoto and add to it!  Nyman just beats the crap out of Yamamoto.)
	Akira Maeda vs Volk Han, 1/25/95 (Finals - Really good match.)