Over the course of two days, 355,000 people attended the event at May Day Stadium. Following the purchase of WCW and its assets by WWE in 2001, the company has rarely acknowledged the event and has not released the event on its WWE Network, despite having released almost all other WCW taped events. According to Eric Bischoff and sports journalist Dave Meltzer, this may be because WWE claims the attendance of 93,173 people for their WrestleMania III in 1987 as one of the largest ever for a professional wrestling event, and acknowledging that a competitor of theirs broke that record would hurt their image.
Following the event, North Korean officials requested that Flair read a statement that the nation had the capability to dominate the United States, though Flair declined and instead made a statement wherein he expressed praise for the “beautiful and peaceful country” of North Korea and said, “His Excellency, Kim Il-sung, will always be with us”.[8] In late 1995, an image taken during the event showing a bloody Flair being beaten by Inoki was featured on propaganda leaflets that were dropped by the North Korean government over Seoul.[8]
:kim-drip:
this is what they took from you
Apparently the whole thing was put together by Eric Bischoff and Antonio Inoki ,who had a political career at the time with the Sports and Peace party in Japan. ( I had originally said he was a cool dude, but he aint)
Inoki had ties with the Yakuza and Right-Wing elements in Japan. It’s nice to see someone in Japan trying to improve DPRK-Japan relations, but still, this guy is not cool.
