20 Secret Highlights Of WCW That WWE Won't Tell You About
9. The Now-Extinct Signature Gimmick Matches
WWE's been the only game in town for so long that when other companies try to come up with unique match types, they normally wind up with barely revamped McMahon creations. TNA in particular is fond of simply doing WWE matches backwards: A battle royal where you climb INTO the ring! A ladder match where you hang the belt from a carabiner! But WCW had its own array of unique match types that were exactly as iconic as their WWE counterparts.
There was World War III, a yearly battle royal that saw sixty men do battle across three rings. There was BattleBowl, a tournament in which randomly-assembled tag teams competed gain entry into a multi-man free-for-all. Not that there weren't stinkers: WCW also brought us the Doomsday Cage, a multi-man snooze fest that saw the Mega Powers defeat every heel in WCW, and then also Zeus from No Holds Barred and Bane from Batman and Robin.
Plus, the triple-decker cage from Ready to Rumble made an actual appearance, but no amount of dumb matches can erase the wonder that was WarGames. This team-based, two-ring, submission-only cage match remains perhaps the greatest gimmick match of all time.