From The Great Outdoor Fight

Fauntleroy Brown, Great Outdoor Fight Champion, 1984, was a rare "gentleman fighter" to come to the Acres. Despite a background in private schools (where he was tormented for years with badly chanted renditions of the 1973 Jim Croce hit "Bad Bad Leroy Brown,") Fauntleroy was raised in the shadow of his famous father, 1966 champion Stanley "Grip" Brown. "Grip" had parlayed his success at the Great Outdoor Fight into a lucrative career as a professional wrestler and ABC Wide World of Sports special correspondent to Toughman, World's Strongest Man and Toughest Bouncer competitions. That, plus decent endorsement deals, allowed for "Grip" to keep his family in affluence and raise his children in considerably softer conditions than he had been brought up.

In 1984, now a Junior at Rutgers, Fauntleroy Brown had his lineage challenged by local bouncer (and future 1988 Great Outdoor Fight champion) Sonny Veith. Veith claimed no one as soft and (in his words) "girly" as Fauntleroy Brown could have sprung from the loins of Stanley "Grip" Brown. Angry (and embarrassed in front of several local women of ill repute), Brown made his way to Bakersfield, using the right of Blood of Champion to enter the fight without first going through qualifying rounds.

After entering the Acres, Brown found himself in trouble, being sought out by Fast Eddie Brandt within minutes of the gate going up. It looked like Brown -- until then never actually in a fight of any kind -- would be an early casualty. However, Brandt made the mistake of taunting Brown with the aforementioned Croce song. Brown, infuriated, thrust his fist through Brandt's ribcage and pulled out his heart.

Covered in Brandt's blood, Brown threw up in horror and disgust. The combination triggered a particularly violent Dutch fugue which lasted the remainder of the Fight. For the next three days, Brown did not rest. Nor did he participate in any of the Fight's entertainments. Caught in his Fugue, he tore through his competition -- maiming or killing 586 men single handed, including Jynik Gowno, the legendary "Pole Who Won't Fold". Though more organized fighters tried to separate Brown from the main body of the Fight (and more than one blood enemy united to try and stop the now nearly mindless killing machine), in the end Brown thrust his fingers into the eyes of Fancy Joe Comanche, the 2nd last man standing, hooked Comanche's skull eyesockets, and tore off his head and part of his spine to become 1984 Great Outdoor Fight champion.

Unable to rouse Brown from the fugue, organizers waited four more days before the blood soaked blueblood collapsed from exhaustion. He was committed by his family into the Happy Dale Sanitarium for the Criminally Insane.

In 1992, his therapist announced a breakthrough, and Brown was allowed to go outside without wearing restraints for the first time since the Fight. Unfortunately, being outdoors with unencumbered hands triggered a relapse of Brown's fugue which cost the lives of thirty seven of his fellow patients, nine doctors, three orderlies, a male nurse, and the Sanitarium dog, Sprinkles.

Fauntleroy Brown has not spoken or acknowledged the outside world since being told his father had passed away, in 1997. As of 2006, he remains under heavy restraint at Happy Dale.

[edit] Quotes

• "Oh, now there's a young man who shows promise." --1952 Fight champion Antonia Pery, in attendance in Tower One during the Fight.
• "Never in my decades of sports journalism including not an inconsiderable number of years covering this herculean effort that is the Great Outdoor Fight have I ever seen such a single minded sequence of brutality enacted upon the hallowed ground which so many have fought and died upon before." --radio announcer Bob Raffles
• "You have no idea... you weren't there. You have no idea what it was like to watch him, up close. He would have killed us all if he could." -- 1988 Champion Sonny Veith

[edit] Record

• 1984 - Champion, Last Man Standing

Preceded by: Jc Stocker

Great Outdoor Fight Champion 1984

Followed by: Pablo Jess Schreckengost