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00:30I actually see the stadium and the crowd and the people, and I just stop.
00:34Over 300,000 locals gathered to witness collision in Korea.
00:39It was unbelievable.
00:41A wrestling extravaganza orchestrated in the name of world peace,
00:45which in reality casts wrestlers as unwitting players in a high-risk act of political theater.
00:52You realize you're surrounded by a bunch of people that think you're the devil.
00:56I mean, we're totally under their control.
00:58You walk out your room, bam, they're there.
01:01You go in the lobby, bam, those guys was there.
01:03Under the strict surveillance of North Korean authorities.
01:06We're living the wrestling life.
01:08You hit North Korean, man, that shit stops right.
01:11Boom!
01:11Wrestlers found themselves trapped in a surreal nightmare.
01:15It was like beating the Twilight Zone.
01:17And helplessly in over their heads, leaving some fighting for their lives.
01:22Next thing we know, somebody's punching somebody.
01:24I'm gonna run, jump off these stairs, and I'm just gonna curb stomp them to death.
01:30I mean, it was just like thumbs down, kill them.
01:47My name is Eric Bischoff.
01:49I'm coming to you from Cody, Wyoming.
01:51I spent a couple minutes in the professional wrestling business, and now spend all my time
01:57looking back upon it.
02:00By the mid-90s, how would you describe what your role was at WCW?
02:05Well, as I said, when I first got to WCW as an announcer, I was like a fly on the
02:10wall.
02:11You know, I get to see things happening from a perspective that sometimes the current management
02:17didn't see.
02:18There was a lot of financial abuse and some fraud and theft that I saw a lot of in WCW
02:23as that fly on the wall.
02:26So when I finally got the opportunity to run WCW and was made vice president, I instituted
02:32a lot of changes.
02:33By 1994, WCW was still seen as a regional promotion, and if it had any chance of competing
02:42against the powerhouse brand of WWF, Eric Bischoff had to reach a wider, global wrestling
02:49audience.
02:50Make no mistake about it, WCW is set to dominate the globe when it comes to professional wrestling.
02:57One of the first things I did was reestablish a failed relationship with New Japan Pro Wrestling.
03:03You know, WCW had engaged in some shaky tactics and left the Japanese with a very bitter
03:11taste in your mouth in terms of doing business with Americans.
03:14From the land of the rising sun, the Greek Muka!
03:21So I wanted to re-engage New Japan Pro Wrestling and just to see if I could possibly resurrect that
03:27relationship.
03:28And it went really well, and we did.
03:30And I started bringing a lot of the top Japanese stars over to the United States on a real consistent
03:35basis.
03:39But also to do the same thing with our WCW talent over in Japan.
03:47Because that way, our talent was getting more exposure in that market, their talent was getting
03:52great exposure in our market, and everybody's happy.
03:55With increased international exposure, WCW was gaining traction, but still lagged behind WWF
04:03when it came to drawing power and staging mammoth events.
04:06Over 80,000 fans!
04:09All that was about to change when Eric Bischoff was offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
04:15Antonio Inoki, who was the chairman of New Japan Pro Wrestling, founder, reached out to me asking
04:21me if I would be willing and interested in bringing all of our WCW roster over to North
04:28Korea to compete in a peace festival.
04:32For a non-wrestling fan, how would you describe who Antonio Inoki is?
04:36Antonio Inoki, wow, he's really kind of an enigma.
04:40He was the Vince McMahon of Japan, is probably the best way to say it.
04:44He was one of the most well-known wrestling personalities in Japan, and a great athlete.
04:51He was just the most popular professional wrestler I've ever seen in my life, and I've been
04:56around almost all of them.
04:59I'm professional wrestler Scott Norton.
05:04I was touring in Japan, doing my arm wrestling stuff, I was a world champion, and that's what
05:09led me to be a professional wrestler.
05:12And so that's when I started learning about Inoki.
05:15One of his favorite movies in wrestling, he would slap the taste buds out your mouth.
05:20And when he slapped you, it was in there.
05:25What's up?
05:25How y'all doing?
05:26This is Too Cold Scorpio, one of the most famous high flyers in the world.
05:31What's up?
05:32Scorpio, go to the top.
05:39After me being trained in Japan and been there for years, I would have to let people know,
05:45Inoki is somebody like Hulk Hogan, but two times above that level in Japan.
05:52While Inoki was operating his wrestling company, he was also a fairly high profile politician,
05:58and became really one of the most famous people in Japan.
06:02Inoki constantly defied the limits of professional wrestling by staging events that made international
06:08headlines for their shocking audacity.
06:11In 1976, Inoki boldly combined wrestling and boxing for a match against the legendary Muhammad Ali.
06:19He also used the sport to successfully negotiate the release of Japanese hostages held in Iraq.
06:26But bringing wrestlers into the heart of North Korea was designed to eclipse them all.
06:48Among Inoki's more unpopular moves were frequent trips to North Korea,
06:53and meeting with officials from the recluse of regime.
06:56I'm already standing on my feet, but if I wanted to watch the release of all of the people,
07:03I was able to make a decision meeting immediately.
07:08On April 4th, I received a speech on the day of the day of the day of the century.
07:15For me, there was a big name in the world.
07:33António Anoki asked me
07:34if I could help him get a meeting
07:36with Muhammad Ali.
07:37I called Muhammad Ali
07:38and he got excited
07:39about it immediately
07:40because he lived most
07:41of his life
07:42trying to be an ambassador
07:44to World Peace
07:45and he really believed
07:46in breaking down barriers
07:48de culturas y religión
07:50y race
07:50y no he hesita
07:53a todo
07:54así que si puse ese puzzle
07:57y tengo que el resto de mi equipo
07:58bien, yo nunca he ido a Pyongyang
08:01en Corea, vamos a hacer eso
08:04¿Vas difícil
08:05tener el talento en board?
08:09Que fue una comedia
08:10Inoki wanted Hogan
08:12Hogan was el mayor nombre en wrestling
08:14en ese momento
08:15para hacer un montón de noticias
08:16para hacer un montón de noticias
08:17para hacer un buen trabajo
08:18para hacer un buen trabajo
08:18Yo me pregunté
08:20pero
08:21era una respuesta
08:22¿Hm?
08:24¿Cómo hacer eso, hermano?
08:26Eso fue eso, hermano
08:27Es una conversación de 5 minutos
08:29Creo que Hogan
08:31Hogan es un hombre
08:32que es un hombre
08:33y creo que no me ha perdido
08:37No me ha perdido
08:40Cuando Hogan te acercas
08:41¿Cuál es el plan B?
08:42Ryd Flair
08:46while he may not have been quite as popular as hulk hogan nationwide he has such a fantastic
08:52reputation of being able to put out a great match with just about anybody to my face he was all
08:59for
08:59it he was excited about it i think subsequently i learned that his feelings were hurt just a little
09:04bit knowing he was the second choice who first pitched you the idea of north korea all right
09:11we're sitting in the locker room just got done working out before a show
09:15hattori and masa come into the locker room they go scottson i says yes he says we have big match
09:22north korea next month you want it then i look around the locker room and the japanese boys are
09:28just going nuts and they're squabbling back and forth they're talking i'm going what the hell's
09:32going on so i went over to chono i says chono i says what's going on he says we go
09:37north korea
09:38and i says that's what masa just told him we're going north korea he says they want us dead they
09:43don't like us very much okay it was a little bit controversial which is one of the reasons that
09:49anoki was trying to establish this rapport with the north koreans because the japanese and north koreans
09:54have been killing each other for thousands of years there's no love lost between north koreans
09:59and japanese and japanese and tonight after just returning from a tour of japan for me i was very
10:06excited to go to another place in the world every place i've ever been south africa india everything
10:13i've ever been is because of wrestling so for me to be able to have a chance to go over
10:18to north korea
10:19was like man i've never been to a communist country i had no idea what it was gonna be like
10:25i didn't know the difference on being in america i had no clue none whatsoever
10:36when it came to traveling to north korea the united states government even then
10:41viewed north korea as a much more hostile potential enemy so americans were not supposed to be
10:47in north korea and even going to the federal government to get permission to do something
10:52it could take six months to get a yes or a no so i just said yeah i'm just gonna
10:56go my boss didn't
10:57even know i was doing it joining rick flair scott norton and too cold scorpio on the trip
11:03would be road warrior hawk the steiner brothers chris benoit and some of new japan pro wrestling's
11:10top performers but no one could match the star power of one of the world's most recognizable
11:15celebrities we found out the muhammad ali was going to be on the tour biggest boxing hero of all time
11:21you know and i'm just going holy smokes so when we got to the airport in japan it's me flair
11:27steiners
11:28hawk benoit we're all standing there and the airport's just packed the reporters everywhere
11:33then all of a sudden this commotion comes rolling in and it's muhammad ali with his entourage
11:41and all the reporters that were on us just went
11:47and all of a sudden he comes right to me and he started doing magic tricks for everybody
11:57we all oh and he'd have the biggest smile on his face it just made him happy
12:03then a lot of people were a lot more comfortable because you got enoki and muhammad ali they're huge
12:10huge names the north korean military sent over a plane uh to tokyo you know you couldn't you know
12:18call up delta and get a flight to pyongyang that was the moment when we all got on that plane
12:24and realized it was a military transport wasn't the safest looking plane certainly not comfortable
12:31you know not what the guys were used to this plane was like made in the 40s and i'm telling
12:38you it was
12:39a piece of garbage flair was the funniest we can't find this thing we can't he's just losing it
12:44and i just kind of set the tone before we even got on japan you knew you were you were
12:50about to do
12:51something quite different i think that's when i started sensing people getting a little nervous
12:56so we're flying over and man that was quite scary to me i had the window seat so for me
13:03i seen the
13:04south side of south korea and then all of a sudden as you get closer to the border you see
13:10all these
13:10cannons you know set up and army stuff set up aiming toward the north we kept flying over we seen
13:17all the
13:17north tanks and shit pointing toward the south dude on this ridge it's like man this is like
13:22wartime i was like okay what am i really getting myself into and when the plane landed they finally
13:30brought the stairs out and we got off the plane we're all standing around and looking around and
13:36there's nobody and we're getting our bags and we're walking to the airport once we got inside
13:42it was cake with dust this high it was unbelievable nobody's been in this room forever
13:47and all of a sudden these military people start coming up to us where's your passport i had an
13:53inside pocket and i went in i grabbed my passport like this and i'm kind of looking back at my
13:57bag
13:58and he just snatched it i said what the are you doing you don't lose your passport when you're doing
14:04what we do they took my walkman they took the tapes anything to do with america they didn't want
14:09in their country and flair went nuts he goes scott they got our passports why would they take
14:14everything they hated us i mean you got that right away i'm in a communist country you took my passport
14:22now what's going to happen to us
14:34going to north korea is a really strange experience and it's like going through the looking glass it's
14:40an utterly different society for somebody like myself who'd grown up in the states
14:45we are accompanied by guides and we do have some limits on where else we can go in the country
14:50i'm mike chenoy i was a foreign correspondent for cnn and one of the assignments that i had was to
14:58cover this big wrestling event in north korea the wrestling event in 1995 has to rank as one of the
15:08weirdest most bizarre experiences that i witnessed as a journalist because you had this combination
15:15of north korea which is remote isolated highly regimented largely cut off from the rest of the
15:25world and certainly cut off from north america and then suddenly in the middle of this you had
15:31this collection of eccentric characters from the world of wrestling and muhammad ali showing up in
15:39the capital of north korea and being part of one of these mass events which the north koreans are
15:45masters of staging so it was this absolutely bizarre collision of what almost you could call alien
15:52civilizations upon their arrival the wrestlers are greeted with unsettling hostility but unbeknownst to
15:59them this is only the beginning of what's to come we were paired off into twos and we were escorted
16:06to our
16:06cars then assigned an attache who was going to be with us 24 7 and driven into pyongyang my attache
16:16she
16:16told me that i was only the seventh american to step foot in north korea that hadn't been either shot
16:24down
16:25or captured right there that moment that puts everything into perspective
16:32and this is the past that they gave us when we got there it's in korean my nationality they wanted
16:39to keep track of us you know that was that was a big main thing my name is sunny ono
16:44i was the evil
16:45japanese manager for world championship wrestling my job started out with being a liaison officer between
16:54wcw and new japan pro wrestling so what did you know about north korea at this point yeah i was
17:01told by
17:01my government hey we can't guarantee your safety you shouldn't go we were evil include the japanese
17:07that's what their propaganda is and so the first thing we were told is you can't do this you can't
17:13do that and you know by the way don't rape our women japan colonized north korea at the beginning of
17:20the 20th century and the japanese ruled north korea until the end of world war ii it was a brutal
17:27colonial
17:27rule and there's tremendous bad feeling towards the japanese that persists uh until this day
17:35the first stop on our way to the hotel was to pay homage to the dear leader kim il sung
17:42who had died a
17:43year before north korean government would hand us bouquets of flowers and we all were forced to walk up
17:50the steps and lay our flowers the foot of the statue of the dear leader and then the north korean
17:54news media
17:55would film us they wanted it to look like we were so excited to be in north korea we flew
18:01all the way
18:02there so we could pay homage to the dear leader we are all very touched and honored to be here
18:10today
18:10the north koreans are always trying to leverage these uh visits for propaganda purposes and subtlety is not a
18:19north korean strong point when we got to the hotel we had to carry our luggage up seven floors we're
18:26big
18:26guys man we don't do stairs very well the military guys they would follow you around
18:35when i got to my room he stopped about 10 feet from the hall
18:40open my door and i stepped inside my room i take my bags and i looked around the room
18:44the guys following us they're just hanging outside your room we had like four guys spying on us
18:50watching us at all times it's like man we can't do nothing so as far as really trying to pass
18:55the
18:55time sat in your room trying to watch tv and all you get is three government channel all political so
19:03it
19:03was like why even bother so it was really kind of driving kind of nuts hawk was right in the
19:10room next
19:10to me right so i step out the door as soon as i started walking that little dude started following
19:15me then i realized that the other guy's about 10 feet down here that's that hawk's room
19:23i'm talking to hawk i'm going you know one of these little bastards gonna with me
19:27mike and i'm gonna take him out i mean there's no reason to stay in this hotel room
19:34me benoit hawk and a couple guys going out in the lobby and they had a pool table and i
19:39was just
19:39surprised as hell they had a pool table i said well let's play some pool anyways i mean do something
19:45it took me two hours for that gal at the desk to give me the balls they had to clear
19:50it through the
19:50military guys it was crazy so one time i shot and the ball jumped and it went off the table
19:59and that ball went bing bing bing nine hard marble floors
20:11it pissed them off so damn bad the pool game was over and for that ball leaving the table they
20:18looked at
20:18you like how dare you how dare you would do something like that they took the balls away from us
20:25you know
20:26he started smashing boom boom boom boom boom boom so we're just standing like what the we were getting
20:32pissed off the way we were being treated hawk didn't like it scotty steiner didn't like it i was pissed
20:38to a point where grab one of these little bastards you know give it to him masa just got me
20:45off the side
20:45said scott you've got to settle down just promise me you can get through these next four days and i
20:51says all right man i mean in my mind i'm going what the f are we doing in this country
20:57nobody wants us here
20:59as the harsh reality of their situation comes crashing down the wrestlers find themselves
21:05strangers in a strange land with tensions on the rise and tempers flaring they must adapt to their
21:12surroundings or face the dire consequences that await
21:23struggling to adjust to the surreal circumstances in north korea the wrestling outsiders
21:29search for ways to cope so by the time i got to north korea i was kind of craving a
21:35run so i
21:37went to bed one night and planned on getting up early and running didn't even think that i should
21:43probably let my attache know no i'm just gonna get up and go for a run i'll be back before
21:48i'm supposed
21:49to be anywhere else and boom it'll be fine i took off by myself it's dark out streets were completely
21:57deserted i'm running i'm running i'm running sun's coming up now all of a sudden i see people starting
22:05to come out into the street and as i'm running through the streets of pyongyang departing
22:09they were looking at me like something out of a monster movie now the school kids are coming out
22:15the look of terror they weren't afraid of me they were terrorized by my presence and i don't see
22:23terror in anybody's eyes especially kids you got this american that's supposed to be idea of evil
22:31that they have never imagine most of these people have never seen america so you know this guy's coming
22:35running at him can you imagine what these people thought when i saw the look of terror in people's
22:41eyes as i was running down the street really made a big impression on me and made me realize just
22:46how
22:47easy it is to foment hate and fear and how dangerous that is i got back to the hotel and
22:54my attache was
22:55there she was livid and i thought god if i don't see her tomorrow it's because they're going to shoot
23:02her for letting me go out and run through the streets of downtown pyongyang i was literally
23:06concerned for her was there some story with hawk getting into it with scorpio or something yeah
23:17do you know about what happened between scorpio and hawk on the bus no so you weren't aware that
23:25maybe scorpio was plotting the murder hawk in north korea no that uh that not until this moment
23:33what took place on this bus well well it all started out with prior to even going to north
23:42korea i had heat with flair because of yesterday it happened overseas on one of rick flair's trip that
23:49he had booked um i got into some trouble um i felt like rick flair was messing with me i
23:54had got far from
23:55wcw and still to this day i don't give a damn what he said i still will feel that truly
24:01that it was
24:01because of him i let it build up seven eight years and i'm still holding a grudge against somebody who
24:08i think was the cause of me getting fired and so now we're all in north korea going all these
24:16sites
24:17and everywhere we went um hawk was riding with flair well hawk decided this day he wants to ride the
24:24bus this day so he comes out on the bus so rick flair comes out of the hotel we're all
24:28on the bus so
24:29rick flair's kind of looking around like this and hawk goes man he he looked like he's looking for
24:35somebody maybe he's looking for me maybe he wants me to ride with him again that pussy let him ride
24:41by
24:41himself hawk said what did you say i says you didn't hear me i says that pussy let him ride
24:49by himself
24:49i said what part of it you didn't hear was it the him let him ride by himself or was
24:54it the
24:54pussy part and he got mad about it and he came back there and he called me anyway he said
24:59he swung
25:00he missed i hit the about five six times and i was wearing his ass out scorp said something
25:07hawk and mike responded back in his typical way and i guess scorp hit him and dazed him a couple
25:14times
25:16now he's bleeding from his face bleeding from his mouth and all this japanese boys grab me i fall down
25:21in the seat you know they're holding me down he comes over and gets on me he's trying to punch
25:26me i'm
25:27ducking and dodging he can't hit me i jumped on him stuck my finger in his eye and i was
25:33on my
25:33way out with his eye i had his eye halfway out of the socket and stuff and japanese boys jumped
25:39on
25:39me i scored sure and i stopped and then we kind of got up i ripped over my shirt and
25:45i just gave him
25:45wow a straight kick right in the face backed him up you know and that's when it slowed him down
25:52and the
25:52boys had enough distance to get between us and calm us down and gave me his best shot and tell
26:00you
26:00if that's his best shot bro you were in trouble this one mike was battling his hepatitis c and he
26:07was
26:07on interferon when you take that interferon it makes you very sick very flu-like symptoms and just
26:14very ill and you know a scorp could think what he wants but the regular mike would have killed his
26:24ass
26:30when we got back to the hotel i wanted to call home call my wife i've been trying to contact
26:36her for
26:36three days i get through to my wife i says hey babe she goes where the hell you been i
26:44said tammy you
26:44don't understand what kind of what we're going through here and i'm trying to explain to her
26:48the situation she ain't gonna have nothing to do with it she thinks that i'm out partying with the
26:53guys and i says tammy you don't understand what kind of shithole i'm in here and all of a sudden
26:59the
26:59phone went click i thought she hung up on me i took the phone i thrown it down i'm just
27:06going what the f
27:13then all of a sudden somebody pounds on my door
27:18and here's some guy this guy could speak perfect english and he's telling me you're coming with us
27:27with a dangerous new line crossed their fate now hangs in the balance between life and death
27:42after wrestler scott norton's phone call with his wife is intercepted north korean officials materialize
27:49and he is forcibly taken from his hotel room and i'm looking at these guys man i mean
27:54they soon shoot me right there and then i'm just going what the hell is going on here
28:01now nobody knows where i'm at i'm in this room
28:07i mean it just felt like at any point in time i was just going to be dealt with it
28:12was like a movie
28:15i swear to god and i'm just sitting there i'm going oh my lord they could care less if i
28:19lived or died
28:24then this guy comes in you could just tell the way he came in the room that he was the
28:28top dude and
28:29then he spoke english to me and he told me he says you can't say nothing wrong about north korea
28:34and i says i mean you know what i said to my wife i says we're just back and forth
28:41i've been trying to
28:41call home he's no more phone calls you don't talk nobody we hear you say something bad north korea
28:47that's it i mean he's pointing his finger at me he's saying you can't say anything bad about north
28:54korea this is a superior country he's telling me all this and i'm getting it now i mean i'm just
29:00like
29:01i ain't gonna say a word about north korea and i was just soaked freaking i'll do anything to get
29:08out of this room i apologize i mean it's serious and the looks on these people's face there's no
29:15doubt in my mind they just put a bowl in my head after he'd been interrogated then i think mr
29:21noki's people or new japan people got him out of there and i'm sure they were told to make sure
29:26to
29:26tell him to watch what he says finally you go now
29:34i got to my room and i'm just going oh my god what's just happening
29:41can't mess with these people scott but you think they might have had a little talk with us and give
29:46us a little heads up on this stuff they just told you as you went you know i mean before
29:53the grand
29:53event is to finally kick off the wrestlers are ushered to one last propaganda opportunity
30:00a visit to a sacred tomb honoring the founder of korea's first kingdom we finally get to this
30:07five-year-old hunting temple site that we got to go look at i ain't got no damn clue who
30:12it is
30:13so anyways we're walking and we're walking and the next thing you know we notice the hominol is taking
30:18his jacket off and he rolled the sleeves up and he started jogging up the stairs
30:24and you know we're following all late and all of a sudden ollie got to the top
30:30and he's shadow boxing it was unbelievable and here's muhammad ali just snapping him out
30:35and he's dancing around and he's doing like the ollie shuffle a little bit
30:41and he was moving like it was the old times man he's just having the time of his life i
30:48mean we're
30:48the only people in the world saw this and we're just like blown away you know that's ali brother
30:55i mean it was unbelievable that way in itself made my whole trip
31:02so as we make our way out of the temple and we're making our way down the stairs i finally
31:07go up to
31:08hawk i says look bro i said we're supposed to be over here on a peace treaty and i says
31:14we over
31:14here acting like we fighting amongst each other americans he walks three steps in front of me
31:20turns and swings as hard as he can hits me i don't go down i look at him like he's
31:28crazy
31:29see i jump after him i go after the japanese boys grab me snatch me out of the air and
31:35i started
31:35going off cameras around us cameras just filling i'm saying you pussy i said that's all you got
31:41that's all you got i said you hear me with your best shot that's all you got i said i'm
31:44gonna kill you
31:46and so now i'm thinking street smarts i'm gonna get him i'm gonna hurt him
31:54so we had to go to that special state dinner that's where they had the stainless steel chopsticks
31:59so i would take one pair of stainless steel chopsticks eat with it drop one pick it up slid it
32:05into my
32:06pocket grab another one did the same thing dropped it slid into my pocket
32:13me and chris had to share a room chris benoit and we're back in the room and chris is sitting
32:17there looking at me and he's watching me and all of a sudden i open up the windowsill and i
32:22pull out the
32:23chopsticks and the windowsill is all rough concrete and i'm sharpening the stainless steel chopsticks
32:29on the window bringing them to more of a point chris is like what are you doing i said man
32:35i'm
32:35making a shift he goes what he's like yeah i'm gonna stab that my tape the ends together like i
32:39know how to make a shift you know i said my dad ain't been to prison and don't know how
32:43to do this
32:43shit with no reason i know how to do this yeah i'm like okay i'm gonna get him i'm gonna
32:47take him out
32:48chris said man don't do it man i said man you don't want to do that man
32:51if you kill hulk over here you will just be here for the rest of your life
32:57what am i gonna do i can't let it punk me and get away with it you know we're gonna
33:01have to settle this
33:10after surviving days of grueling conditions and life-threatening situations the wrestlers head
33:16to the massive mayday stadium where festivities are about to commence and i'm riding with rick and
33:23we're driving down the road and two lanes where nothing but people walk into the show and i says
33:30rick man we're really drawing a crowd here i mean these people really want to see this and all of
33:35a
33:35sudden the driver goes no he says they don't want to come he says if they don't show up they
33:39get a
33:40bullet in the head forced attendance and i'm just going you've got to be kidding me we got there our
33:47first night 170 000 people there and i thought oh my god antonio enoki is a genius this is amazing
33:58we're
33:58leaving wrestlemania in the dirt the way that you had over a hundred and something thousand people
34:24working and moving together and flashing all at the same time it was mind-blowing you didn't even have
34:29to be high to trip off that i mean it was straight up mind-blowing their show made the halftime
34:35of the
34:36super bowl look like a high school gig i'm not kidding it was just unbelievable before the matches
34:42started we're all jacked and we thought this would be awesome and then the matches start and i realized
34:49that none of these people have a clue what they're watching why they're watching it it makes no sense
34:57to them first match went out there it was quieter than it is in this room right now doing this
35:05interview that's hard to do hawk during his match stood on the second rope and yelled and he says what
35:16and the eff are you even doing here you rotten and he cussed the crowd out
35:24this is a society where this kind of extravagant display of people throwing themselves around
35:31especially for example the the female wrestlers must have been utterly alien to the north koreans
35:39i wrestled hashimo the first night in a main event the north koreans just stood there and watched us
35:44we never got a reaction to anything just this stuff doesn't happen in this business and you're just
35:51busting your tail trying to get these people to respond to you and nothing absolutely nothing the
35:57challenge to engage the crowd would now fall on the shoulders of promoter antonio enoki whose
36:03connection to the people of north korea was even deeper than it seemed for enoki this event would also
36:10pay tribute to his fallen mentor ricky dozen a wrestling icon in japan who struggled to keep his north
36:16korean nationality a secret until it was too late well no toot the ocean a little bit of a
36:50as the story goes he was murdered by japanese gangsters in a bar
37:10the japanese yakuza which is their version of the mafia killed them because he was north korean
37:19and he wasn't japanese and he was becoming very very popular
37:24in the north korean mythology his death becomes this glorious tragic thing where in his final
37:29breaths he expresses his loyalty to north korea
37:35and the fact that enoki had this association with him gave enoki credibility in north korean eyes
37:41the north koreans understood the connection between enoki and ricky dozen he got kind of the hometown
37:47treatment
37:48black flair they didn't know what to make of black flair
37:51bleached blonde hair sequenced robe they didn't understand it again this match starts and it's quiet
37:59and i'm going god man amazing to me that this is the first ever matchup between these two wrestling
38:06legends they went to a different place they kind of went old school one to the chest one to the
38:11forehead
38:12and they kept working awesome you could hear the people start coming with enoki we hear the crowd
38:17from one of the few times at collision in korea really responding to enoki and about halfway through
38:24that match that place is going absolutely crazy now coming off the rope sets up verbally plants his feet
38:31and takes the nature boy rick flair off his feet this is a testament to ricky because rick's job was
38:36to get
38:36anoki over rick's job was to showcase anoki there's nobody better at that flair in a lot of trouble
38:42anoki tosses flair and i remember the the finish of the match
38:50and anoki went over and the place just came undue
38:58these people were entertained for probably the first time in their lives i mean because there was no
39:04happiness in this place man this was like going to hell and living they had a little fun that night
39:10you know and i guess if that forced attendance they're glad they're forced there you know for
39:15that one anyways that was the greatest match that's ever happened in this business ever
39:23with the largest wrestling event in history coming to a close and freedom within reach the americans must
39:30stay in line for just a few more hours or else this bizarre trip will become a permanent stay
39:45as the epic event draws to a close and with just hours remaining before the group departs
39:50a final ceremonial dinner is scorpio's last chance to settle the score with hawk
39:56i hear doors closing everybody's going down to dinner i open my door i go out i walk around the
40:03corner it's me and hawk
40:07we're face to face now we're looking at each other i'm looking at him i'm like what you want
40:13to do you want to finish this right now he pushes the button for the elevator so i turn and
40:18i back
40:18into the elevator keep my eye on him at all times i got my shank with me
40:23he gets into the elevator he's not saying nothing we're just looking at each other i'm like what
40:28you want to do you want to finish this right now and all of a sudden he said i ran
40:34out of pills
40:34i ain't got no steroids got no smoke i got no nothing my nerves got to me i was upset
40:43i said i accept your apology i said but i'll tell you what we get back to tokyo
40:47if you still want to finish this we're going to finish this he's all right man whatever you want
40:52to do we end up squashing there in north korea got to japan i was ready that never happened man
40:58but he got an ass whooping and learned that scorpio ain't the one that missed but i'll tell you that
41:02shit we were in north korea for four days it was a relatively short period of time that felt like
41:09a
41:10lifetime so by the time it was the day to leave everybody was on edge we were physically tired
41:15we were mentally tired and there was a little bit of attention in the air because we still didn't
41:21have our passports yet but once when we physically had our passports in our hand and we were on the
41:26plane and we were headed back to japan everything changed it wasn't until the plane landed rick flair
41:34literally walked down the stairs of the plane walked out of the tarmac got down on the ground and
41:39kissed the pavement that's how excited rick flair was
41:45three thousand dollar suit on alligator shoes get down his hands and knees and kissed the ground
41:52says i love japan and i mean he was wooing and now he's brick flair again he was happier and
42:00a lark man
42:00and we all felt the same way the event failed to energize enoki's political ambitions as he lost his
42:09re-election bid and left politics behind for almost two decades while this fusion of staged combat and
42:16international politics seems like an unlikely pairing it revealed a fascinating parallel between wrestling and
42:23north korea as they are both masters of blurring the lines between fantasy and reality the show itself
42:31was super cool meet muhammad ali on top of it wrestle in front of that dude i mean i remember
42:38after my
42:39first match he told me he says oh you you're really good you're very good i just think i mean
42:45this is
42:45i'm not late brother so being a part of that was was absolutely awesome two nights in a row 189
43:00000
43:01people i've i've never seen that many people together ever that's the only thing that i could
43:07ever brag about to hogan that i've done something that he has i've done is i rest for 199 000
43:13people
43:14two nights in a row two nights in a row not one and that's all i got on him
43:19i've been a part of wrestlemania and i've been to super bowls you know i've been to a lot of
43:24different
43:24big events they pale in comparison to what i saw in pyongyang i knew that vince mcmahon was probably
43:40livid that there was a wrestling event that drew a bigger house than wrestlemania
43:47but my joy is mitigated by the fact that none of them were paying customers and they were kind of
43:52forced to be there technically if you go to wikipedia folks largest wrestling event in the world
43:59Olympic event city and the world commenteurs have the vị of king and state-これ that he's famous for him
44:05let's give up
44:06CrazyCox wijam
44:06CrazyCox
44:06CrazyCox
44:07CrazyCox
44:07Gracias.
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