10 Wrestling Promotions That Did WarGames Better Than WWE

WarGames, at its best, is a match designed for blood feuds. Promotional warfare, maybe, but blood feuds through and through.

It's why the 2021 WarGames match worked so well for GCW, as it pitted a Nick Gage-led unit of company lifers against the villainous 44OH! faction, headed up by Rickey Shane Page. The match was a hoot, and looked straight out of a nineties mashup of WCW and ECW, being both storytelling and slaughterously-ripe.

Adopting the established rules of the match with a scaffold at ringside because hey, this is GCW, partner, this was fought with the intensity and ferocity with which the match desired. Each fist, each slam, each head-spiking bump was delivered with an extra dash of bloodthirstiness in a match that quite literally oozed bloodthirstiness. The two-ring setup was a claret-coated mess by the match's end, the end itself coming after Rickey Shane Page had been sent flying off the scaffold into an ocean of weaponry.

That wasn't as murderous as the match got, though; instead, that would be when Alex Colon flawlessly Spanish Flyed Atticus Cogar off the scaffold onto a door that had been placed in-ring.

The added perilousness of the regularly shaking scaffold made this one a hard - good - watch.