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| Bart Gunn
Height: 6'3" Weight: 258 lbs. Real name: Mike Plotcheck Hometown: Titusville, Florida (billed from Austin, Texas) Pro debut: 1992 Finishing move: Barton Buster / Bart Buster (Powerbomb), Barton Cutter (Cutter), Barton Death Star (Crucifix powerbomb) Other aliases: Mike Barton (Japan), Brett Colt (IWF), Bodacious Bart (WWE), Bart "The Hammer" Gunn Career highlights: WWE World Tag Team Champion (3) (w/Billy Gunn), NWA World Tag Team Champion (w/Bob Holly), WWE Brawl for All title, AJPW World Tag Team Champion (w/Johnny Ace), IWF World Tag Team Champion (2) (w/Kip Winchester), PCW Americas Heavyweight Champion (2) Trained by: Denny Kass, Blackjack Mulligan Plotcheck was famous in the World Wrestling Federation as one-half of the tag team The Smoking Gunns with his storyline brother and former WWE star Billy Gunn. The team were WWF World Tag Team Champions three times before breaking up and engaging in a brief feud. Their first match against each other involved Bart dropping Billy face first into the top rope, supposedly injuring Billy. Plotcheck would then recreate the Midnight Express tag team as "Bodacious Bart" with partner "Bombastic Bob" (Bob Holly). The team had limited success. When the WWF announced a shoot tournament called the Brawl for All in which the competition would be real and winners would not be predetermined, Plotcheck volunteered to participate. Plotcheck actually drew partner Bob Holly in the first round but was declared winner by the complicated point system. The tournament is heavily rumoured to have been intended as a vehicle to establish newly signed "Dr. Death" Steve Williams as a legitimate tough guy but any such plans went awry in the second round when Plotcheck knocked Williams out, stunning everyone. After knocking out The Godfather in the semi-finals, Plotcheck was a heavy favorite to knock out Bradshaw in the finals. He did handily and Shawn Michaels, who was on commentary for the final match, suggested Plotcheck "just opened the door to a new future." Afterward, Plotcheck feuded with both Holly and Williams, the pair angry at having been beaten in the tournament, the latter masking himself and pushing Plotcheck off a stage. To continue capitalizing on the impressive Brawl for All showing, the WWF set up a Brawl for All match between Plotcheck and heavyweight boxer Eric "Butterbean" Esch at WrestleMania XV. Esch knocked out Plotcheck within 30 seconds. Plotcheck's legitimacy ruined just as he had ruined that of Williams, Plotcheck was soon released by WWF after this. After leaving the WWF, Plotcheck found success wrestling in Japan (due to the fame of Steve Williams in Japan and his knockout pushing him as tougher than Dr. Death) with New Japan and All Japan Wrestling under the ring name "Mike Barton." Plotcheck made his mixed martial arts debut on June 17, 2006, defeating Wesley "Cabbage" Correira at Rumble On The Rock: Beatdown in less than two minutes by technical knockout on the basis of a cut suffered by Correira. |