{"id":12552,"date":"2015-05-09T05:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T09:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12552"},"modified":"2024-09-03T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:38:51","slug":"oral-history-of-pro-wrestlings-1995-historic-excursion-into-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12552","title":{"rendered":"Oral History of Pro Wrestling\u2019s 1995 Historic Excursion into North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z050915wcw_northkorea_si.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1995,<strong> Muhammad Ali <\/strong>joined <strong>Ric Flair, Eric Bishoff<\/strong> and other<strong> WCW<\/strong> superstars to journey to <strong>North Korea<\/strong> to take part in the <strong>&#8220;International Sports and Cultural Festival for Peace.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trip had highs (wrestling before the largest crowds in professional wrestling history &#8211; a record that still stands, traveling with <strong>Muhammad Ali<\/strong>) and lows (tapped phones, terrible food and US pro wrestlers getting into a real fight) but remains largely unknown to fans who haven&#8217;t read&#8230; <strong>Dan Greene<\/strong> and <strong>Sports Illustrated&#8217;s<\/strong> an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.com\/extra-mustard\/2015\/04\/27\/muhammad-ali-ric-flair-oral-history-pro-wrestling-north-korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oral History of Pro Wrestling\u2019s 1995 Historic Excursion into North Korea<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995, Muhammad Ali joined Ric Flair, Eric Bishoff and other WCW superstars to journey to North Korea to take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[49,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27664,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions\/27664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}