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Greenland isn't a country, it's a territory of Denmark.
I've read of at least one major wrestling event in Iran, and Iraq had a HUGE wrestling scene in the '70s. Until about three years ago, I don't believe there had been any pro wrestling in China. Nazi Germany had some of the top wrestlers in the Olympics in 1936. Singapore had a NWA World title change between Harley Race and Ric Flair, and I'm pretty sure NJPW went to Thailand and Vietnam as well.
Guys like Mick Foley and Luke Gallows have crazy stories about being booked into the deepest, darkest parts of Africa and not being allowed to leave.
Bruno wrestled a match in Columbia or Venezuela, and there was pro wrestling in Brazil in the '40s and '60s.
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This message was edited by TheBestThereNeverWillBe on August 07th, 2019 22:26 GMT
Quoted from: 1990sAttitudeEraFan, January 29th, 2019 22:20 GMTHow about North Korea (not counting the NJPW show)?
8/30/14 & 8/31/14
IGF International Pro-Wrestling Festival in Pyongyang
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1 Crusher Kawaguchi defeated Daichi Hashimoto (3:02 minutes)
2 Wang Bin defeated Keisuke Okuda (1:56 minutes)
3 Último Dragón defeated Hajime Ohara (10:33 minutes)
4 Kyoko Kimura and Ray defeated DASH Chisako and Meiko Satomura (14:10 minutes)
5 Bob Sapp and Jon Andersen defeated Atsushi Sawada and Shogun Okamoto (6:23 minutes)
6 Montanha Silva defeated Taka Kuno (3:36 minutes)
7 Jérôme Le Banner defeated Shin'ichi Suzukawa (3:22 minutes) by KO
8 Kazuyuki Fujita defeated Eric Hammer (7:15 minutes)
1 Crusher Kawaguchi defeated Keisuke Okuda (3:07 minutes)
2 Wang Bin defeated Taka Kuno (2:44 minutes)
3 Último Dragón defeated Heddi French (8:36 minutes)
4 Meiko Satomura and Ray defeated DASH Chisako and Kyoko Kimura (11:34 minutes)
5 Daichi Hashimoto and Shogun Okamoto defeated Eric Hammer and Jon Andersen (6:16 minutes)
6 Bob Sapp defeated Atsushi Sawada (4:40 minutes)
7 Shin'ichi Suzukawa defeated Montanha Silva (5:55 minutes)
8 Kazuyuki Fujita defeated Jérôme Le Banner (5:02 minutes)
Quoted from: 1990sAttitudeEraFan, January 29th, 2019 22:20 GMTHow about Venezuela and China?
1957/01/20
Show @ Santiago de León de Caracas
1 Belle Starr defeated Judy Glover
2 Barbara Baker defeated Ethel Brown
3 June Byers defeated Babs Wingo
1995/07/02
Show @ Santiago de León de Caracas
1 Volcano Kid and The Tonga Kid defeated Matt Borne & Brett Sawyer
2 The Warlord and Hercules defeated Emory Hale and Thomas Cook
3 Sunny Beach defeated Nikolai Volkoff by disqualification
4 Konnan el Bárbaro and Rey Misterio Jr. defeated Sabu and Psicosis
Didn't Bruno famously have a match in Venezuela in the late '60s and tried to keep him from leaving?
China has it's own promotion called OWE, founded by Cima from Dragongate. WWE and NWA have also ran shows in China.
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Here's a list of some unusual countries for wrestling with results on Wrestlingdata:
Afghanistan
Algeria
Argentina
Bahrain
Belarus
Cameroon
Mariana Islands
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Egypt
Estonia
Honduras
Kenya
Lebanon
Malaysia
Malta
Myanmar
Nepal
Nigeria
Pakistan
Peru
Qatar
Taiwan
Serbia
Sudan
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
Zimbabwe
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Wrestling was much, much more popular on a world-wide basis during the early part of the 1900's. Many countries we wouldn't even think about that WWE might hit once every ten years or so now. At one time had regular events.
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All of the ones I listed had shows in the last 20-30 years or so
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I could see a Nazi germany Pro wrestling show having a Nazi as a face and a jewish wrestler a heel. Did Pro Wrestling exist in communist countries like the Soviet Union?
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Yes, although that stopped with WW2. It began to become popular again in Eastern Europe in the '50s and '60s, and in Russia in the '80s.
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My girlfriends grandfather was the Finnish Heavyweight Freestyle Champ and scored a not title match against the world champ. Apparently freestyle was very popular in Finland. Also for many years Finland was involved in lots of conflicts. Civil wars, the soviets, the Swedes etc.
To her knowledge there was no catch-as-catch-can there
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Quoted from: TheBestThereNeverWillBe, February 21st, 2020 20:09 GMTYes, although that stopped with WW2. It began to become popular again in Eastern Europe in the '50s and '60s, and in Russia in the '80s.
Actually, they never had pro-wrestling in the Soviet Union the way we had it in the West. There were wrestlers who travelled with circuses and carnivals who put on a performance. However, there were no promoters, territories, championships, etc. Wrestling was just one attraction in the repertoire of the circus.
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Quoted from: Nature Boy Rogers, January 08th, 2024 03:06 GMTQuoted from: TheBestThereNeverWillBe, February 21st, 2020 20:09 GMTYes, although that stopped with WW2. It began to become popular again in Eastern Europe in the '50s and '60s, and in Russia in the '80s.
Actually, they never had pro-wrestling in the Soviet Union the way we had it in the West. There were wrestlers who travelled with circuses and carnivals who put on a performance. However, there were no promoters, territories, championships, etc. Wrestling was just one attraction in the repertoire of the circus.
That makes sense.
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Quoted from: PeteF3, July 22nd, 2016 20:13 GMTQuoted from: SharkWrestling, July 22nd, 2016 18:59 GMTI have never heard about any wrestling in southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines etc.
Singapore had a scene for awhile, though it's arguably more Western-friendly than most of its neighbors.
Wasn't Singapore promoted by NWA promoter Steve Rickard out of New Zealand?
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