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HipsterSheamus was apparently at the Boh's match on Friday night
NWA WCW/NJPW Wrestling Collision In Korea
4/28/95
Collision in Korea, officially known as the Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event jointly produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The event featured 15 matches over two evenings on April 28 and 29, 1995, at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. It aired in North America on August 4, 1995, when WCW broadcast a selection of eight matches from the show on pay-per-view.
The second day of the event holds the record for the largest ever attendance for a wrestling event, with a claimed audience of 190,000. The first day holds the record for the second-largest ever attendance, with a claimed audience of 165,000. American wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer reported different attendance numbers of 150,000 and 165,000 respectively.
Retired boxer Muhammad Ali was the event's guest of honor. NJPW's Hidekazu Tanaka was the ring announcer for the show, while Masao Tayama and Tiger Hattori refereed the matches. Commentary for the WCW pay-per-view presentation of the event was provided by Eric Bischoff, Mike Tenay, and Kazuo Ishikawa.
As of 2021, the event is one of the few WCW PPVs not available for streaming on the WWE Network. Collision in Korea is one of the topics covered in the third season of Vice TV's Dark Side of the Ring, which debuted in May 2021
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