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),[2][3][4] was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event jointly produced by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
[11] 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.
[7] At the time, Inoki was struggling with his political career and envisioned the event as an opportunity to improve the diplomatic relations between Japan and North Korea.
[7] In addition to Flair, other WCW wrestlers who participated in the event included 2 Cold Scorpio, Chris Benoit (under his gimmick as Wild Pegasus), Road Warrior Hawk, Scott Norton, and the Steiner Brothers.
[5] The main event was a singles match between Scott Norton and Shinya Hashimoto that ended in a time limit draw.
[6] The fifth bout was a tag team match in which Masahiro Chono & Scott Norton defeated Akira Nogami & Takayuki Iizuka by pinfall.
[5] The sixth bout was a singles match in which Hawk Warrior defeated Tadao Yasuda by pinfall[5] following a diving clothesline.
[7] 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.
[7] According to 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.