Ep. 230: WCW & NJPW's Collision in Korea (Part 1) (1995)

The Lapsed Fan

Wrestling, Tv & Film, Sports

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🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 346 minutes

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. And this is progress of sorts.
0:25.0	At the weekend beneath a portrait of the great leader, a wrestling tournament featuring American and Japanese stars was held in Pyongyang's May Day Stadium.
0:37.0	150,000 people judifully turned up for what was called a festival for peace, the focus of which was a game most here have never
0:45.3	seen or heard of in which breaking the rules is a virtue.
0:49.8	Most early bouts were watched in bemused silence. The point though was political.
0:54.3	10,000 foreigners were given visas to come more than at any time in North Korea's
0:59.5	history. And while the site of the Secretary of the Korean Workers Party congratulating these sweaty
1:05.8	helps from the imperialist West seemed rather bizarre, it was designed to send an important
1:11.2	signal to the people of Korea as well as to the outside world
1:15.0	about the country's intention to open itself up.
1:18.0	It's the Laps Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack Encarnassio and J.P. Sorrows.
1:25.4	It's still real to be, damn it!
1:27.4	The Lapsed Fan.
1:28.6	In all my years in professional wrestling,
1:31.2	I've never seen anything like it.
1:33.0	Oh my God!
1:34.0	Drop kick in a beauty!
1:36.0	The girl money!
1:38.0	The girl coming! Let's kill me!
1:39.0	When it's the last fan man,
1:40.0	mother won the ring,
1:42.0	forget about the start,
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