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- The following is a list of professional wrestling attendance records. The list is dominated by the Japanese wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) which is the largest organization in the country. NJPW's Collision in Korea, a two-day interpromotional supercard co-hosted with World Championship Wrestling, was the first-ever pro wrestling event held in North Korea and remains the most attended live event of all-time with a combined crowd of 320,000. The second highest number of shows is held by the U.S.-based World Wrestling Entertainment which controlled the wrestling industry in North America from 2002 to 2019. According to this list, 17 events are from WWE's flagship WrestleMania pay-per-view (PPV) event, which since 2007's WrestleMania 23 has (except in 2020) been held exclusively in stadiums that typically have a seating capacity of at least 70,000 people. Excluding WWE live events, there are no attendance records remaining from the "Territory-era" (1940s-1980s) and only one record from the "Pioneer-era" (1900s-1940s). All but thirty-seven of the events have been held in Japan, while twenty-one have been held in the United States, six in Greece, four in Canada, three in Pakistan, two in Australia and one each in Italy, India, Mexico and North Korea. (en)
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