Brawl For All – The WWE Failure at WrestleMania 15

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Butterbean and The End of Bart Gunn

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“The whole deal was set up purely to humiliate Bart because he had humiliated Jim Ross’s boy ‘Dr. Death.’ The office knew he didn’t have a chance. Even if Bart had beaten Butterbean, they would have found another way to screw with him."

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“When the Brawl for All fight rolled around at WrestleMania XV, everybody was watching the monitor backstage."

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Brawl For All – Why It Happened, and Why It Failed

Brawl for All was a 1998 tournament held in the WWE (then-WWF) featuring wrestlers legit shootfighting. The tournament resulted in several injuries, and it was negatively panned by wrestlers and critics alike. Here is how it all fell apart, particularly for one ex-Smoking Gunn.