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August 01, 2005
Ric Flair On North Korea
Apparantly professional wrestler and former WCW world champion Ric Flair once went to North Korea to do some wrestling event. Right Wing News has posted an excerpt from Flair's book To Be The Man about this trip. On a side side note Ric Flair happened to introduce one of my friend's parents to each other several decades ago at a party, which most of my friends agreed was the coolest story of how any of our parents had met:
The event itself was unlike anything I ever witnessed. A total of 380,000 spectators attended over two nights....During the show...(t)he fans held up different colored placards to create incredible mosaic images. It was beautiful, but also creepy. The first couple of sections were occupied exclusively by guys in military uniforms. The spectators cheered on cue. I almost got the feeling that they had been ordered to attend.
Muhammad Ali was also there and although I am not a fan of Ali he was pretty astute here:
Because of the ravages of Parkinson's disease, it was difficult to understand Muhammad Ali when he spoke. But at one function, we were sitting at a big, round table with a group of North Korean luminaries when one of the guys started rambling on about the moral superiority of North Korea, and how they could take out the United States or Japan any time they wanted. Suddenly, Ali piped up, clear as a bell, "No wonder we hate these motherf*ckers."
Posted by Pete at August 1, 2005 08:55 AM
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