everyone who saw Dragon Ball from the beginning of the series know that the Martial Arts Tournaments are life. Known as the Tenkaichi Budokai, these matches were the power gauges of warriors just beginning their foray into the world of fighting.
Akira Toriyama was leading them in an impressive way showing that, although Goku was a hard stone to crack for his adversaries, the then Saiyan boy was not the most powerful in the world.
The one that Master Roshi wins under the pseudonym Jackie Chun was very good. The one in which he beat Ten Shin Han because Goku crashes into a car and falls first to the ground is brutal. But the one that the Saiyan finally wins after growing up and beating Piccolo is impressive.
This, specifically, is the 23rd edition of the Tenkaichi Budokai, a Martial Arts Tournament that could be completely different and change the course of the stories we know if what Akira Toriyama originally had in mind came true.
Old sketches that did not make it to the manga cartoons come to light, thanks to a review by Hobby Consoles. In the drafts, Akira Toriyama plans the crossovers for the Martial Arts Tournament, which if developed in this way would have changed everything.
In the images it can be seen that Toriyama planned to face Piccolo with Yamcha, who by then was well below his level and could have died in the confrontation. If this had happened, the namek would have lost and we would never have seen that brutal final.
Another of the confrontations that Toriyama thought was that of Ten Shin Han against Krillin, very interesting from any point of view.