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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 2816147, member: 1899"] It was called the Brawl For All, a shoot-fighting tournament comprised mostly of wrestlers who had nothing better to do around that time (June of 1998). The whole thing was a mess from the start. The whole aim was to generate publicity but there were agendas riddled through out the tournament. For instance despite having guys with actual shootfight/amateur wrestler backgrounds, they didn't allow them to compete and when it became clear that one guy was going to sweep the entire tournament, they had him withdraw after the first round. They also wanted to use the tournament to push this one wrestler called Dr Death Steve Williams so he'd have some status before challenging Stone Cold Steve Austin in a fake match. The problem was, the rules were completely vague and changing all the time, so the format didn't suit him and he was promptly eliminated in the second round after suffering a serious injury mid-match. In the end a complete no-name in Bart Gunn took out the tournament. He quietly disappeared off television, only to resurface in the lead up to Wrestlemania where he took on gimmick boxer Butterbean. Butterbean cleaned his clock making the entire show look even more silly than it was (this was around the time a wrestler was going around, abducting other wrestlers and performing satanic rituals on them...with no police intervention whatsoever). It didn't draw fans in, the fans who paid money to be at the show found the fights boring and the only thing to come out of it was injuries. It was an absolute trainwreck, but in the best kind of way since fans to this day still remember it and laugh at the ridiculousness of it. If you want to learn more here's a video recapping the entire tournament: [MEDIA=youtube]khgTtYhysJc[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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