World Wrestling Peace Festival (1996)
The World Wrestling Peace Festival was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki, which took place on June 1, 1996 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The event was organized by Inoki to promote world peace with an interpromotional event involving major promotions from around the world. Forty wrestlers from six countries ended up taking part in the event. Inoki's home promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), as well as smaller independent groups, represented Japan, while World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) took part on behalf of the United States. Both of Mexico's top promotions Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) participated in the event, which was considered unlikely by many in the industry given their own heated rivalry.
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Kanji Inoki as Antonio Inoki |
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Dan Severn as |
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Yoshiaki Fujiwara as |
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Oleg Taktarov as |
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Steve Borden as |
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Paul Wight as |
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Keiichi Yamada as |
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Masanori Murakawa as |
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Christopher Keith Irvine as |
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Scott Bigelow as |
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Charles Ashenoff as |
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Adolfo Tapia Ibarra as |
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Jim Neidhart as |
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Chris Benoit as |
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Alex Wright as |
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Craig Pittman as |
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Keiko Aoki as |
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Óscar Gutiérrez Rubio as |
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Yoshihiro Asai as |
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Erick Francisco Casas Ruiz as |
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Dionicio Castellanos as |
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Jose Casas Ruiz as |
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El Hijo del Santo as |
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Larry Pfohl as |
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Masanori Saito as |
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Juan Manuel González Barrón as |
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Tatsumi Fujinami as |
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Victor Mar Manuel as |
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Pierroth Jr. as |
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Octavio López Arreola as |
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Héctor Garza as |