Fall Brawl was an annual professional wrestling

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(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 fall edition of '' Clash of the Champions'', called "Fall Brawl", in

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1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

, and

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

. 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 WCW 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.

Events

References

{{WCWPPV, Fall Brawl