10 Wrestling Facts We Didn’t Know Last Week (May 3)

5. What Eric Bischoff Was Told About North Korea

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1995's 'Collision In Korea', as the event has become known, was a joint effort by NJPW and WCW. The event, officially known as the Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace occurred in North Korea and was groundbreaking stuff. It was also one of the most tense and terrifying periods of Eric Bischoff's life.

His hosts scared the p*ss out of him by clueing Bisch in on one key fact when he landed in Pyongyang.

They said that he was "only the seventh American" to step foot in North Korea who "hadn't been shot down or captured". How lovely of them. This set the tone for the trip, and it left Eric walking on eggshells for the entire four-five days he was in the country. Throughout, his North Korean guides repeatedly tried to badmouth the USA in front of him.

Despite playing in front of approx 355,000 people across two days at the giant May Day Stadium, the experience wasn't one Bischoff was keen to follow up on. We wonder why...

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