Ranking All 16 WWE WrestleMania Celebrity Matches

10. WrestleMania 15: Butterbean Versus Bart Gunn

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Nowadays, celebrity matches at WrestleMania are seen as important fixtures that are entrusted to reliable hands who can deliver the best possible product on the night.

That certainly wasn’t the case at WrestleMania 15, when Bart Gunn fought knockout artist Butterbean in what can best be described as a punishment match – an ironic term considering it was a major PPV match.

In 1998, Bart Gunn shocked the world (and especially expected winner “Dr. Death” Steve Williams) by winning the Brawl for All tournament. The shoot toughman competition was a disaster for WWE and killed Dr. Death’s aura. Gunn was rewarded by being taken off TV and brought back to fight Butterbean, who proceeded to knock Bart out in less than a minute.

That would be Gunn’s last televised match in WWE for nearly nine years, returning only for a 15th anniversary battle royal in late 2007.

 
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.