If you grew up as a metal fan in the 90s, you'll know it was truly the decade where alternative subcultures began to cross over in spectacular style. From Celebrity Death Match bringing together alt icons of the day in gruesomely entertaining fashion to Korn appearing on South Park, worlds were colliding all over the joint.
Rarely was that ever more apparent, however, than in one of 90s professional wrestling's most bizarre but entertaining experiments, World Championship Wrestling's Beach Brawl 1999. Broadcast on MTV in January, the event featured a real wrestling ring set up in the middle of a beach in Cancun, Mexico, in front of a live crowd, with a battle royale taking place within it to determine the inaugural winner of the 'coveted' Beach Brawl trophy. Taking part in the battle royale were future WWE and AEW superstar and Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho, Billy Kidman, Rey Mysterio Jr, Chavo Gurrerro Jr, Hugh Morris and Perry Saturn, while, in a maddening and inexplicable twist, industrial metal heavyweights Fear Factory played live on a stage set up just outside the ring.
