1st World Weight Championship in Kyokushin (IFK). Moscow, Russia, 1997
Lightweight
- Oleg Florin — Russia
- Marcel Murakaev — Russia
- Akbolat Appaev — Russia
- Ilya Volkov — Ukraine
- Erdembileg — Mongolia
- Trevor Weeks — Great Britain
- Urkal Ozdemir — Turkey
- Mark Mitchell — Great Britain
Middleweight
- Timmy Warden — Great Britain
- Andreas Sprecher — Switzerland
- Ken Fitzpatrick — Ireland
- Andrey Belekon — Russia
- Andrey Pashuk — Russia
- Chris Seal — Great Britain
- Piotr Szeligowski — Poland
- Ivan Lont — Netherlands
Heavyweight
- Jakov Zobnin — Russia
- Alim Daduev — Russia
- Vasily Strutchkov — Latvia
- Felix Ntumazah — Great Britain
- Dimitry Alekhnovich — Belarus
- Gela Gelashvili — Georgia
- Vitaly Datzenko — Ukraine
- Batir — Kazakhstan