8 New Directions For WWE After Survivor Series: WarGames 2025
1. Triple H Rethinks WarGames
Sorry to end on a low note, but this must be said.
Triple H and WWE as a whole need to sit down and think about why they've slid back into booking around the calendar when Vince McMahon was criticised for that towards the end of his run. Trips claimed that he wouldn't do things the same way when he took charge, but now he is. It's fine for standards like the Rumble, Elimination Chamber, Money In The Bank and the like, but not for WarGames.
This is a match type that badly needs matches worthy of the gimmick. So, WWE don't necessarily need to change anything about how the match works (although some have always hated that it can't technically finish until everyone's in), but more just who's involved. Both WarGames bouts felt weaker than usual going in this year, and neither felt like it should've been anything more than a standard/traditional elimination match.
Instead, the elimination scrap was shunted off to SmackDown.
The women's match, in particular, might rank as one of the poorest WarGames in history. As aforementioned, it wasn’t especially violent, never felt dangerous, and long stretches of it were flat out boring. Also, there are only so many times we can watch IYO SKY stick a trashcan over her head and leap off the top of the cage. That's been done to death, guys.
The simple solution is this: Only wheel out WarGames when there's a rivalry between groups that merits it. It's annoying that this seems like such a hard concept for WWE to grasp.
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