10 Most Controversial Wrestling Shows Of All Time
4. WCW/NJPW Collision In Korea
It's a bit rich of WWE to taciturnly take the moral high-ground over their long-defunct rivals in refusing to upload WCW's Collision in Korea even to the Network. After all, it served the precise same propaganda purpose as the Greatest Royal Rumble over two decades later - only somehow, North Korea comes across as somehow more liberal.
Yes, even women were allowed to compete on a show which saw a ludicrous 350,000 people herded into Pyongyang's May Day Stadium for their first - and last - taste of foreign pro-wrestling action. Of course, few of the mammoth crowd really knew what was going on. The point wasn't to entertain them, but rather project to the rest of the world just how rosy things were under Kim Jong-il.
The show didn't cause much of a stir at the time, but North Korea's 2018 status as a global pariah is enough for WWE to keep it off the Network, even twenty-three years after the fact. What would people think if they were seen to be effectively endorsing such a repressive regime? Oh.