10 Wrestling Promotions That Did WarGames Better Than WWE

There were 31 WarGames matches throughout WCW history and no, they weren't all masterclasses in the stipulation - but how can you shun them from the conversation?

The latter-day examples should be left untouched, but travel back to the late eighties and early nineties to witness the match's peak. The epics between Sting, Ric Flair, and Dusty Rhodes-led squads are pro wrestling royalty. Rhodes, particularly, is a legend of the stipulation for his miraculous performance against The Four Horsemen at the 1987 Great American Bash, setting the example for a gutsy babyface performance, a common WarGames trope almost four decades later.

Even in the mid-nineties, the match was a roaring fire and was used greatly to put over the hierarchy that was ongoing within the promotion. The nWo were the rulers and this was made clear in battles opposite a glut of WCW do-gooders. The prime example of this was from the '96 Fall Brawl, as Hollywood Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and *sigh* nWo Sting triumphed over Ric Flair, Lex Luger, Arn Anderson, and the real Sting in a match that served as a major coup for the Hogan-led unit.

After that, check out Sting's Squadron vs. The Dangerous Alliance from WrestleWar 1992. It is the best WarGames match of all time that marked the beginning of the end for the Paul E. Dangerously-fronted alliance.

It's not quite the best WarGames-like match, though...