WCW/New Japan Collision in Korea

[Betty Houle]

Anyone ever seen this? Comments?

[Betty Houle]

Chris Benoit vs 2 Cold Scorpio

Yuji Nagata vs Tokumitsu Ishizawa

Masa Chono & Hiro Saito vs El Samurai & Tadao Yasuda

Manami Toyota & Mariko Yoshida vs Akira Hokuto & Bull Nakano

Shinya Hashimoto vs Scott Norton

Hawk vs Tadao Yasuda

Hiro Hase & Kensuke Sasaki vs Rick & Scott Steiner

Antonio Inoki vs Ric Flair

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

I've never seen this show. But I am currently looking to get a copy of it if anyone can help me out......

[Guest MikeSC]

Anyone ever seen this? Comments?

Decent show. Not the greatest thing I've ever seen.

-=Mike

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

Recently got this show, haven't watched it yet. Maybe I'll have a look tonight.

[cawthon777]

It's not bad for 2 hours. Just a spliced up version of the 2-day event in April 95; it aired on my b-day that August so I decided to watch it. WCW hyped it up pretty big, much as they did with AAA's When Worlds Collide the previous November.

 

2 Cold / Benoit is good but short. Flair / Inoki was advertised as Flair's first match back from retirement (after Havoc 94) but I think he worked some tapings for WCW just prior to this show. It's an OK match.

 

The Steiners vs. Hase / Sasaki match is fun. Don't remember much from the Norton / Hashimoto bout other than it being pretty stiff.

 

I think this was supposed to feature the return of the Road Warriors as a tag team but for whatever reason Animal was taken out at the last minute.

 

I think they could have picked some better matches from the 2 shows. In retrospect, it seemed as though they were reintroducing Japanese talent to the WCW crowd to prepare the audience for the whole WCW / New Japan rivalry that winter (I seem to remember Sonny Ono being a commentator for the show). It's also interesting that Benoit would be back in WCW just a few weeks after this aired.

[Guest Banders Kennany]

It's also interesting that Benoit would be back in WCW just a few weeks after this aired.

Benoit had two stints in WCW?

 

Also, wasn't this the event that had the largest audience ever for a wrestling show?

[cawthon777]

Benoit first came to WCW in 1993, making his singles debut at January's Clash of the Champions. Stuck around until the fall, after a short-lived tag team pairing with Bobby Eaton. Then he returned in the fall of 1995 after his stint in ECW. He did work one show for WCW in 92, during the NWA Tag Team Championship Tournament.

 

The first night of the event drew, IIRC, 100,000 people and the second topped it with 150,000. I don't think you could really call the Koreans wrestling fans, though. I believe they were pretty much forced to go by the communist government. I don't think the country had seen much wrestling prior to this ... certainly not enough that a show in Korea could draw those kind of numbers.