Fall Brawl was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV)

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produced by

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(WCW) and was held in September from 1993 through 2000. The name was derived from the

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edition of ''

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'', called "Fall Brawl", in

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

, and

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

. There was no Fall Brawl event held in 1992. It was considered by many as WCW's answer to the World Wrestling Federation's annual

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pay-per-view event due to the main event

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held during most of the Fall Brawl shows.

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have owned the rights to Fall Brawl since they purchased

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in March 2001 and although they have not produced the event under the main banner,

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did use the "Fall Brawl" name during the time it was a WWE development territory. In 2014, All WCW pay-per-views were made available on the WWE Network.

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