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Post by Nickybojelais on Jan 19, 2017 9:15:19 GMT -5
Sidebar, but Wikipedia says this is "one of sixteen PPV events" not on The Network. What are the other 15? I believe it's someone being liberal with what constitutes a pay-per-view and is including the live audio-only pay-per-listen events WCW's website did, or the pay-per-chatroom coverage WWF AOL did, and then maybe stuff like the UWF, When Worlds Collide and Legends of Wrestling pay-per-views. EDIT: Found it. What Culture with the list: whatculture.com/wwe/16-ppvs-not-on-the-wwe-network?page=1{Spoiler}{Spoiler} AWA Superclash When Worlds Collide WCW Nitro Girls Swimsuit Calendar Special Three WCW New Japan Supershows Collision in Korea WCW Millenium Final (German Only Pay-Per-View) No Holds Barred: The Match / The Movie WWF UK Rampage 80 WWF UK Rampage 91 WWF UK Rampage 92 WWF UK Rampage 93 WWF Battle Royal at Albert Hall (UK Only PPV) WWF Xperience (1996 AOL Chat Room only PPV from Toronto Sky Dome on the 10th anniversary of The Big Event. You've seen fancam footage of this, the famous Goldust-Shawn Michaels golden ladder match) WWF Mayhem in Manchester (98) WWF Global Warning (2002 Austrailia only Pay Per View, worth seeking the DVD out. Michael Cole has a notably great performance all night)
Thankfully I have UK Rampage 93 on a Silvervision Tagged Classics DVD. So I can watch Fatu v Knobbs, Kamala v Doink, Bob Backlund v Damien Demento, Typhoon v Brooklyn Brawler and the epic main event between Lex Luger and Hacksaw Jim Duggan anytime I desire!
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Post by chronocross on Jan 19, 2017 13:30:25 GMT -5
I don't know why they would include audio pay shows on the list as I doubt that it would ever make the Network, also for those UK Shows from 89-92, were they actually PPV events or just televised on their regular cable networks over there? Just wondering.
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Post by Ryushinku on Jan 19, 2017 15:10:42 GMT -5
Didn't Flair and the Steiners do an interview about this trip years later, and talk about how surreal it was? I believe their tale of it was in an extensive website's story, but plenty of wrestlers have gone on record since then telling stories of it. Norton's story is by far the scariest. I will say that the chapter on Collision in Korea is the absolute best part of Eric Bischoff's book and worth picking up just to read about it in detail from his perspective as the guy who put it together. If a movie were to be made on it, this would be the one to do it. Including him feeling like some strange, alien giant compared to the citizens when he decided to go out for a morning jog.
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Post by chazraps on Jan 19, 2017 15:51:32 GMT -5
I believe their tale of it was in an extensive website's story, but plenty of wrestlers have gone on record since then telling stories of it. Norton's story is by far the scariest. I will say that the chapter on Collision in Korea is the absolute best part of Eric Bischoff's book and worth picking up just to read about it in detail from his perspective as the guy who put it together. If a movie were to be made on it, this would be the one to do it. Including him feeling like some strange, alien giant compared to the citizens when he decided to go out for a morning jog. Yeesh, that's right. Forgot that part.
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Jan 19, 2017 18:42:15 GMT -5
My favorite story about this show came from Flair.
Along with the wrestling show, some celebrities and dignitaries were involved, notably Muhammad Ali.
Flair said that he and Ali were among those seated at a table with several North Korean officials who were going on and on about how North Korea was "morally superior" and could wipe out the US and Japan any time they wanted.
Due to his condition, Ali's speech was usually low and muffled. But, according to Flair, after listening to this talk for a while, Ali piped up, clear as a bell, and said, "No wonder we hate these motherf***ers."
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Post by Nickybojelais on Jan 19, 2017 19:54:00 GMT -5
I don't know why they would include audio pay shows on the list as I doubt that it would ever make the Network, also for those UK Shows from 89-92, were they actually PPV events or just televised on their regular cable networks over there? Just wondering. The UK Rampage events came included in our regular Sky subscription. Some of the early ones were shown on Sky Movies before Sky Sports launched in the early 90s. I think the first UK only PPV that we had was One Night Only in 1997.
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Post by msc on Jan 23, 2017 6:00:03 GMT -5
Scott Norton got interrogated by secret police types after telling his wife on a phone call that the place was a shithole, iirc. It's in someone's autobiography, possibly Jerichos?
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Post by sfvega on Jan 28, 2017 8:04:23 GMT -5
Thank you for posting that. I had always heard about Collision in Korea, but it never interested me for some reason. But that was one hell of a read.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Jan 28, 2017 10:12:26 GMT -5
"Welcome to WCW, live from a dystopian totalitarian prison state!"
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Post by Chris the Bambikiller on Feb 6, 2017 16:41:08 GMT -5
Either way, the weird thing is what happens with the current expansion to other countries, and the fact WWE Network hasn't put up the Royal Albert Hall shows from the UK in 1989-91 while hyping the UK tournament likely says they won't for this. If they did that, it'd likely say the Collision in Korea will go up when the Asian expansion does. I believe not even then would they do it. North Korea isn't really popular in other Asian countries, and helping their propaganda machine in any way wouldn't be something Vince would like to be associated with.
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Post by Ken: The Hero of WWE on Feb 6, 2017 17:30:15 GMT -5
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Post by avenger on Feb 12, 2017 17:14:29 GMT -5
I don't know why they would include audio pay shows on the list as I doubt that it would ever make the Network, also for those UK Shows from 89-92, were they actually PPV events or just televised on their regular cable networks over there? Just wondering. The UK Rampage events came included in our regular Sky subscription. Some of the early ones were shown on Sky Movies before Sky Sports launched in the early 90s. I think the first UK only PPV that we had was One Night Only in 1997. It was. Mayhem in Manchester wasn't even a glorified house show. It was a house show filmed in poor quality at crappy angles.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Feb 13, 2017 5:19:25 GMT -5
"Welcome to WCW, live from a dystopian totalitarian prison state!" Well the fact that the stadium which held the event has been used to host public executions should give it extra grim points.
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Post by wingedeagle on Feb 15, 2017 23:19:24 GMT -5
May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. Easy to see why they got a legit attendance of 150,000 people along with a dictator forcing them to go.
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