Made for Viceland, airing on TV April 7th in the US.
Season 2. Episode 4.
The story: In the early 90s, WCW and WWF were constantly battling against each other for TV ratings.
Vince McMahon of WWF really meant business and called on Vince Russo for ideas.
Russo brought the vision of professional wrestlers, not wrestling but actually fighting in the ring as a way to keep their devoted viewers as well as gaining new ones to their Monday Night Raw show.
It was stuff the audiences had never seen before and were actually confused by but they watched.
The concept was called 'Brawl For All'.
The point was to prove the toughest guy out of 16 wrestlers.
The men appointed parts in the show were ones with nothing to lose in their current wrestling careers but with the winning chance of boosting it.
Also, a big draw to the idea was that the winner would be awarded 75 thousand dollars and main event status...
But not everyone involved was convinced the show would work because some were better at fighting for real than others.
In the end, there was chaos.
Many fighters had to deal with fighting against good friends, wrestling mates and legitimately getting hurt.
Stars (voice) Chris Jericho, Vince Russo, Jim Cornette, Bart Gunn, Charles Wright, Charles Wright, Darren Drozdov, Butterbean, D'Lo Brown
Directed by Jason Eisener
Rated TV14
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