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WWE Brawl for All

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  • Audience-Alienating Premise: The entire concept of Brawl For All — pitting several wrestlers into no-holds-barred boxing matches — is something that was seemingly propelled by an initial thought with zero follow-up on exactly how sound it would be. "We want wrestling!" fan chants were immediate, and it was clear that pretty much all the participants did not know how to box, making the whole thing massively dangerous, exposing of how fake actual professional wrestling is, and just plain goofy and annoying to watch. There's also the Open Secret that the entire thing was designed to get over several important talent — namely "Dr. Death" Steve Williams — and the fact most of them got injured very quickly (including Williams) only added more animosity to the experience as a bad concept that quickly derailed into something where nobody won.
  • Awesome Music: The theme song for Brawl For All is pretty much one good thing people generally accepted from the whole Brawl For All tournament.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: While the "Dr. Death" Steve Williams and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin feud never panned out, Williams and Austin actually had been in the ring together before. They teamed up at the 1992 edition of WCW Halloween Havoc to challenge for the unified (WCW and NWA) World Tag Team Championship held by Barry Windham and "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes note 
  • Questionable Casting: Pierre Carl Ouelett, who was blind in one eye, was added as part of the Brawl for Allnote . As well as Brakkus who, in Jim Ross's words "had about as much business in the Brawl for All as [he] would."
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: For all the utter, utter stupidity of the Brawl For All, even at the eleventh hour, WWF could at least have tried to make lemonade out of lemons. Bart Gunn had won, for better or worse, and had even somewhat gotten over. The company could have given him a push and let the Brawl For All have done some good, even if it wouldn't've cancelled out all the injuries and suffering it caused; while Dr. Death's name didn't have the same value in the United States Bart's successful run in Japan afterwards shows the potential was there. Instead, they spitefully benched him for months, only brought him out to have him brutally squashed by a legitimate pugilist, and then fired Bart and threw him out the door, just for winning a legitimate fight fair and square when the WWF was stupid enough to book it in the first place, ensuring that absolutely no good whatsoever was done by the tournament.
  • X-Pac Heat: The Brawl for All was this from the start, with the fans chanting "Boring" and "We Want Wrestling." While this was seemingly reversed due to Bart Gunn legitimately knocking out his opponents gaining attention, most agree that it was simply a terrible idea.

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