10 Wrestling Promotions That Did WarGames Better Than WWE

There has never been as good a period of interpromotional bloodshed as when ROH and CZW waged war in 2006.

It felt real, which every interpromotional feud should do, because these were Combat Zone Wrestling guys - having forged a reputation for, y'know, being hard f*ckers - invading the primarily honor-based and traditionalist Ring of Honor. It was authentically a meeting of two minds and their Cage of Death match was CZW's best offering of the stipulation.

Though the structure lacked a roof, had the cage planted on the venue's floor rather than the ring apron, and had its surrounding area doused with an arsenal of weaponry, all other WarGames rules applied for what was a well-booked and well-executed match. It's a lengthy one at forty-plus minutes, but no minute feels like it's dragging on with a molten pro-ROH audience soaking it all in.

The match is a solid piece of character development for Homicide, too, ahead of his ROH World Championship ascendancy just five months later. He'd been bubbling as an outstanding mid-card act and was evidently on the verge of becoming a breakthrough talent; his performance here was reminiscent of Sting's from Fall Brawl 1997, the ROH contingent being weary of trusting him and then, when he pinned Necro Butcher, talk about a moment.

ROH, much like the namesake event two months prior, was the Ring of Homicide.