10 Wrestling Careers That Bombed After Their Biggest Match

7. Bart Gunn

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Poor Bart Gunn. If ever there was a man punished for being tougher than anyone had first presumed, it was the former three-time WWF Tag Team Champion. Gunn was the surprise winner of the 1998 Brawl For All, an infamous tournament steeped in legend and myth, although the crushing reality of Bart Gunn's left hand was all too real for those in charge.

Gunn's prize for winning the tournament eventually became a WrestleMania XV boxing match with Butterbean, far and away the biggest singles stage that Gunn had found himself on. The whole thing was blatantly set-up to make an example of Gunn; a boxing match against an actual professional boxer on a worldwide stage. Gunn had been sent to boxing training beforehand but this had a negative effect on his approach, taking him out of the brute force wheelhouse that had seen him stun everyone on his route to the Brawl For All title.

Butterbean knocked Gunn out in seconds, and that was that for the former Smoking Gunn. The Florida-native was released soon after the event, knocking around the independents and Japan before calling it a day in 2007.

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