Fall Brawl (1999) was the seventh

Fall Brawl Fall Brawl was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and was held in September from 1993 through 2000. The name was derived from the fall edition of ''Clash of the Champions'', ca ...

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(PPV)

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produced by

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(WCW). It took place on September 12, 1999 from the

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. As of 2014 the event is available on the

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Production

Background

The

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was created when

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was inspired by a viewing of ''

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''. It was originally used as a specialty match for the

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. The first WarGames match took place at

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in Atlanta during the NWA's

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'87 tour, where it was known as War Games: The Match Beyond. It became a traditional

event from 1993 to 1998. This was the first Fall Brawl not to have a War Games Match.

Storylines

The event featured

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that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Professional wrestlers portray

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, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Event

Berlyn was originally supposed to face

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, but the storyline was that Bagwell was late in arriving. In reality, Bagwell had refused to lose the match. Instead Berlyn wrestled against

Jim Duggan James Edward Duggan Jr. (born January 14, 1954), better known by his ring name "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE on a Legends contract. His best-known character is that of an American patriot, which ...

. In the main event

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put an unconscious

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in the

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after knocking him out with a baseball bat and Hogan failed to respond to his arm being raised three times by referee Charles Robinson. The outcome of the match played out due to large amounts of interference.

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was the first to interfere, attacking referee Nick Patrick and then hit the Diamond Cutter on Hogan. After Hogan kicked out Page attacked Patrick with the Diamond Cutter and took him out of the match.

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then came out to attack Page while Hogan forced Sting to the outside.

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entered the ring to attack Hogan but was quickly taken out with the Big Boot. Hogan then intercepted a bat-wielding

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as he tried to interfere; Sting then took the bat after Luger had dropped it and assaulted Hogan with it. After the match, Sting and Luger celebrated in the middle of the ring.

Reception

In 2007, Arnold Furious of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 2.0

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stating, "In terms of delivering tonight’s matches went 0 for 9. That has to be worth some sort of special mention. Hey, you’ll never believe how awful the WCW PPV was! This one is to be avoided at all costs. There’s nothing to redeem it."

Results

References

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