[6.0] "Just surreal. The card leaned into safe, simplified house show mode with wrestlers clearly working at half speed like they were afraid a headlock might cause an international incident. A few matchups were interesting but never committed and most bouts felt designed to politely happen rather than actually be. Still, the historical weight carries more here, with bigger names and moments that briefly cut through the eerie silence. Not satisfying as a wrestling show but fascinating as a cultural artifact that still feels unreal decades later."

[6.0] "This was a really weird spectacle. I am rating this based on the WCW version of the PPV, it was just odd seeing these guys work these matches and the crowd not really understanding you can make noise, until Antonio Inoki wrestled Ric Flair, which was cool to see."

[6.0] "The largest attented wrestling show of all time. In North Korea. In the 1990s. A really bizzare spectacle. From the silent and confused crowd to the equally confused wrestlers. Gives a definite house show vibe (maybe a predecessor to the early WWE Saudi Arabia shows) and most of the wrestlers treat it accordingly as the majority of the matches are basic without much fanfare. The two that stand out are the iconic Inoki vs. Flair and my MOTN: Nakano vs. Hokuto. Production is pretty decent, considering the circumstances, while Eric Bischoff and Mike Tenay offer an okay and at times entertaining commentary. Overall, an average show, but one of huge historical significance."

[5.0] "Better than the first night because we got two legitimately good matches (Steiners/Hase&Sasaki and Nakano/Hokuto in clipped form) and a more star-studded main event, along with shorter undercard matchups."

[6.0] "The second day of the strange NJPW/WCW North Korean venture was the more interesting of the two from an in-ring standpoint. Here we get the only match that would ever occur between Inoki and Flair; they played it somewhat safe and largely as an exhibition match, but it's worth seeing for the sheer novelty, and what they did succeeded in actually getting the gigantic forced audience invested, which goes a ways to proving the idea of wrestling being a "universal language, " and that's worth more than any tangible in-ring quality. The Steiners vs. Hase/Sasaki tag match was also very good (slightly marred by the camera work, which notably missed most of the finish), and solid exhibition matches like Benoit vs. Scorpio and H. Saito vs. the young Nagata. As with the first day, the primary reason to watch is the event's value as a curiosity and spectacle."