10 Wrestling Promotions That Did WarGames Better Than WWE
3. IMPACT Wrestling
IMPACT Wrestling has actually made use of WarGames tropes three times, but nobody recalls a memorable Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday match or a Hardcore War, for the best. They're dull, monotonous, lifeless affairs that fail in comparison to the group's real standout stipulation: Lethal Lockdown.
Established in 2005, the stipulation provided the backbone for the Lockdown pay-per-view, the coup de grace of which was 2007's battle between Christian Cage and Kurt Angle's quintets. Pitting Cage, AJ Styles, Tomko, Abyss, and Scott Steiner against Angle, Sting, Jeff Jarrett, Samoa Joe, and Rhino, the match was heavy throughout and became a chaotic brawl when Jarrett arrived.
The match also offered one of the only times where a multi-man cage match's participants leaving the structure made sense; you could feel the anger and the hatred of the entrants. The cage was there for temporary confinement, but nobody was keeping them in there the whole match and it made perfect sense because of how it was executed. Rhino, in Goring Tomko through the door, provided the gateway to freedom in a sickening shot that legitimately busted the door's chain.
Other heavy-hitting spots included Angle tossing Styles off the roof of the cage and Jarrett thwacking Abyss with a thumbtack-filled guitar, but neither sound compared to the vibration of a steel-busting Gore.