11 Fascinating WCW/NJPW Collision In Korea Facts

by John Bills

1. Collision In Korea Is The Biggest Wrestling Show In History

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All records are broken eventually. This is especially true in professional wrestling, a world that is carefully put together by experienced minds. If WWE wants to break a record then they can carefully create a situation in which they can. Despite this, it is difficult to see how the attendance records that Collision in Korea set can ever be matched, let alone beaten.

The numbers are difficult to be sure of, of course, but regardless of whether 160,000 or 190,000 people attended the second night it still stands way ahead of WrestleMania 32. This was a unique audience, almost 200,000 people who were forced to attend or face dire consequences, the biggest drawing wrestling show of all time where the audience had no idea about the sport.

Collision in Korea will forever hold a unique spot in wrestling mythology. On the one hand, it showed that professional wrestling crosses all cultural boundaries and can be a useful tool for bringing people closer together. On the other, Scott Norton almost got killed over a throwaway comment on the phone.

You win some, you lose some.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.