WWE Brawl

n 2009, WWE and THQ started work on a top-secret WWE video game.

This confidential project began right after THQ released WWE Legends of WrestleMania, the latest experiment in a three-pronged strategy to widen the scope of WWE video games. In WWE Legends of WrestleMania and, later, WWE All Stars, THQ delivered an arcade-style fighting game to complement the established, simulation-oriented WWE SmackDown vs. Raw series.

The third part of THQ’s plan, the big secret to be kept under wraps until its underlying concept was more fully realized, was to produce a four-player, platform fighting game which would take WWE action out of the ring and into a world inspired by the larger-than-life personas of WWE Superstars and Divas.

That video game was to be called WWE Brawl.

It was never released.