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Venue
  
May Day Stadium

Collision in Korea
  
Fall Brawl (1995)

City
  
Pyongyang, North Korea

Collision in Korea

Promotion
  
World Championship Wrestling New Japan Pro Wrestling

Date
  
April 28–29, 1995 Aired August 4, 1995

Attendance
  
Total = 355,000 Day 1: 165,000 Day 2: 190,000

Collision in Korea, officially known as the Pyongyang International Sports and Culture Festival for Peace (平和のための平壌国際体育・文化祝典, Heiwa no tame no Pyon'yan kokusai taiiku bunka shukuten), was the largest professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event in history. It was jointly produced by World Championship Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling, and took place over a period of two days on April 28 and 29, 1995 at May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. However, it did not air in North America until August 4, 1995, when WCW broadcast a selection of matches from the show on pay-per-view.

The event was the first PPV from a North American wrestling promotion to be held in North Korea, and holds the current record for the largest combined attendance for a wrestling event, with a claimed crowd of 165,000 and 190,000 for the first and second day respectively. Noted American wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer reported different attendance numbers of 150,000 and 160,000 respectively.

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.

It is currently one of the few WCW pay-per-views not yet available on the WWE Network.

References

Collision in Korea Wikipedia