10 Times WWE Actually Worked With Other Companies
5. SWS - Crossing The Pacific
The WWE/SWS working relationship between 1990 and 1991 didn't leave much in the way of a lasting legacy beyond some stunning clips and pictures of Vince McMahon's neon colossuses working beautiful Japanese buildings, and two diametrically opposed nights in the life and career of Koji Kitao.
A few supershows between the two sides never saw McMahon make more of a dent in a marketplace already dominated by well established companies, nor did it help Super World of Sports last longer than 1992, but Kitao's mad week in 1991 remains the stuff of bizarre wrestling legend.
The former sumo star barely sold a blow as he cruised to victory over former three-time tag team champions Demolition at WrestleMania VII alongside Genichiro Tenryu. This might have looked weirder had WWE not been gradually moving the Smash and Crush version of the group down the card by then, but the weird vibe was topped by Kitao's performance a week later back on home soil.
On supercard between the two companies in Japan, his match with fellow former sumo star Earthquake descended into farce when Kitao decided to abandon the very notion of kayfabe halfway through. He stopped selling, attempted to shoot on 'Quake, pied the referee off and called wrestling fake over the house microphone.
This, unsurprisingly, wasn't covered on Superstars or Wrestling Challenge at the time.