10 Wrestling Promotions That Did WarGames Better Than WWE

10. All Elite Wrestling

Indeed, AEW Blood and Guts 2023 is already a legendary clash.

Describing it as such may read as a biased take - again, the match hasn't happened yet at the time of submission - but it's the consensus opinion. The line-up is the strongest the match has ever had, it's an authentically heated feud that feels as such, and it'll mark the craved AEW arrival of Kota Ibushi. Revealed as The Elite's fifth man - smartly via video package, thus saving his first heroic pop for the match itself - Ibushi has been an AEW fan demand for years. If AEW is able to pull off his debut successfully, Blood and Guts 2023 will be a legendary clash.

It helps, too, that AEW already has a marginally strong track record with these matches. The Inner Circle vs. The Pinnacle in 2021 and The Jericho Appreciation Society vs. a Blackpool Combat Club-led unit of six in 2022 were both serviceable. They weren't perfect - Chris Jericho's comical fall of the cage in '21 onto a pile of conveniently-placed styrofoam was a particularly damning incident - but the matches both delivered on what the WarGames match represents.

AEW nailed the story, the character development, and the moments in these matches.

These felt like the first WarGames matches since the height of WCW.