 In the 1999 Final Elimination event, these six winners along with Mirko Filipović and IFKA Superheavyweight champion, Matt Skelton, were matched up with the previous year's eight finalists minus Brazilian Francisco Filiho (who was injured) and replaced by a returning fan favorite, Jerome Le Banner.In the WGP Qualifier all of last year's finalists proved to be too tough for the new up-and-comers except for Mirko Cro Cop who made his triumphant K-1 return by taking down Mike Bernardo and MUSASHI, who defeated Satake in a fight that many point to as the passing of the torch from one Japanese star to another.In the 99 WGP Mirko Cro Cop continued his return to K-1 by pummeling MUSASHI, while in the upset of the night the French Cyborg Jerome Le Banner took down defending WGP champion Peter Aerts.