final fight 30th anniversary edition 1989

Several members of the gang are known to have struck out on their own since the destruction of the gang, choosing paths as disparate as professional wrestling, attempting to found a utopian nation, starting a legitimate and legal business, to continuing in law enforcement. While Mad Gear makes no appearance whatsoever in this installment due to major blows in both its authority and influence, it is stated that the more violent and renegade Skull Cross Gang had found its origins as a subordinate sub-group of Mad Gear before the latter's final downfall and complete destruction. There, they fought and defeated Retu, and the Mad Gear Gang has not recovered nor been heard from since.

The new trio smashed Mad Gear hideouts around the world until learning from a defeated Rolento that Rena and Genryusai were being held in the gang's main headquarters in Japan. Guy, however, was away training with Zeku and was unaware of the situation, so Rena's sister Maki enlisted Haggar's help, as well as that of a South American swordsman named Carlos Miyamoto. In retaliation for the defeat they had suffered, they kidnapped Guy's girlfriend Rena and his old master Genryusai. The gang members that remained had regrouped under the new leadership of a Japanese kabuki man named Retu and went international. In the ensuing fight, Cody sent Belger through a window with a strong uppercut punch and that Belger himself would eventually meet his grisly demise via his own plummet to the street below, leaving the gang completely crippled without their own leader.

The trio assaulted every ringleader in the gang that they could lay their hands on until they located Jessica in Belger's penthouse apartment. Rather than capitulating or negotiating, however, Haggar called on Jessica's boyfriend Cody and Cody's friend Guy, and fought back. The gang attempted to control the new mayor by kidnapping his daughter Jessica and holding her hostage. This situation came to a head when Mike Haggar was elected mayor after a campaign promising to be tough on crime. Though he proclaimed the gang was an outlet for the frustrated, disadvantaged youth of Metro City and a safe haven from the worst aspects of urban life, Mad Gear nevertheless was a racketeering and underworld enterprise under his lavish management. The Mad Gear Gang, led by the crooked businessman Belger, controlled virtually all of Metro City, from the slums to the transportation systems all the way to the uptown district, with at least one policeman in their pocket.

Final fight 30th anniversary edition 1989