4: Brawl For All
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Honestly, the Brawl For All was such a bad idea that it deserves its own article, but alas, here we are.
For those who are unfamiliar, the Brawl For All was a shoot boxing tournament held by the WWE in the summer of 1998 in what can only he assumed as Vince’s attempt at cashing in on the growing popularity of MMA at the time.
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The tournament was a vehicle to get Dr. Death, who had just signed with the WWE, over as a legitimate badass and pitted a slew of lower card wrestlers against each other. The tournament took place on episodes of Raw in 1998 with 15-minute segments a show.
The fights were bland with wrestlers who were untrained in boxing getting tired just moments into the fight. The tournament led to injuries to the wrestlers and led to bad feelings amongst them. And the worst part, the fans thought it was scripted either way. The Brawl For All killed Dr. Death’s WWE career in its infancy and the eventual winner Bart Gunn was rewarded by barely being used for the rest of the year and getting knocked out by Butterbean at WrestleMania.
