10 Wrestling Promotions That Did WarGames Better Than WWE

ECW cultivated a success story out of being grungey and alternative. Much of their actual success has gone lost to time outside of the big-hitting angles and moments because of that underground appeal, but one gem worth digging deep for is the 1994 Ultimate Jeopardy match between Terry Funk and Shane Douglas' quartets.

Though not blow-away great - WarGames matches rarely were either - ECW's WarGames variant was a divine take on WCW's solitary positive stipulation. It played under the same rules, too, outside of the one-ring set-up, and added forfeits for each competitor, which was an additional layer of storytelling majesty that ECW rarely receives credit for.

Funk led a brilliant performance throughout, perfectly channelling his babyface-in-peril style against Shane Douglas, who was the established top heel in ECW at the time. Douglas was vying for Funk's ECW World Heavyweight Championship, which was Terry's penalty if he were to be pinned, and this came across marvellously when he surrounded himself in the match with three heavy-hitting goons in Mr Hughes, Johnny Grunge, and Rocco Rock. He was everything ECW needed you to hate: the good-looking, chiselled blue chipper battering the icon of everything ECW embodied.

The match is scrappy in places and the audience is quiet at times, but the 1994 Ultimate Jeopardy match came together strongly as a respectable storytelling device.