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 Inokis home promotion New Japan ProWrestling 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 Mexicos 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