8 Wrestling Records That Will Never Be Broken
8. Largest Crowd (160,000 People)
Attendance is a sensitive area when it comes to pro wrestling.
Nothing makes a company look hotter than drawing a huge crowd, and in a sport built on lies, it's typically been accepted that there's no harm in fudging that statistic. The most famous wrestling attendance number - 93,173 fans at WrestleMania III - is a complete fabrication. The actual number for that show was about 15,000 fewer fans, and in reality, SummerSlam 1992 is the only WWE show to ever draw more than 80,000 fans. Last year's WrestleMania at AT&T broke both the real and kayfabe WWE records (no matter how many fans actually showed up, the company announced 100,000+), but they were still way off from the real record.
In 1995, WCW and New Japan came together to hold a pair of shows at Pyongyang, North Korea's May Day Stadium. The event - called Collision in Korea - ended up drawing 150,000 fans the first night and a staggering 190,000 fans the second. The Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer has reported that these numbers were also exaggerated, but that the second night still hosted around 160,000 fans. Of course, this isn't exactly a rosy statistic - given that the event was held in North Korea, the fans in attendance didn't have much choice about turning up.