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Fall Brawl '98: War Games

1998 World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Fall Brawl '98: War Games was the sixth Fall Brawl professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on September 13, 1998, from the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Editorial summary

“Fall Brawl '98: War Games” enters the record as 1998 World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view event. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fall, Brawl and Games can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fall, Brawl and Games.
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Why this record matters

“Fall Brawl '98: War Games” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fall, Brawl and Games provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fall Brawl '98: War Games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.