So, when you have that many people in there, not only creatively, but very excited for it, it makes it a piece of cake and really, really fun. Just because, again, the guys who have been in those matches, are really, really smart and have been doing this for a long time. But, from a group effort standpoint, surprisingly, it has never been too difficult. In a lot of those matches, I’ve been in there with a bunch of creative minds, again Shawn Michaels has always been super, super helpful in every way that he can. But, when it comes to creatively coming up with it, in every sense of the word, it’s always been a massive team effort. Again, you have a lot of bodies in there. So, yeah, the process was very, very exciting. It was like my first Takeover match was a WarGames match. "Especially the first time ‘cause I had just gotten to NXT.
"It was such an exciting, wild experience," Adam Cole told Fightful. Being the guinea pig was a fun project for the breakout star. The main character in that integral faction was Adam Cole, who has gone on to join All Elite Wrestling.
However, in 2017, WWE began running WarGames at the urging of Triple H.įor the first four years that it was brought back, the Undisputed Era were the fixtures, the final bosses. Outside of NXT, WWE has never run a WarGames match, instead, relying on their own Elimination Chamber structure for a different concept that they own. Now the WarGames name is safely nestled in the loving arms of WWE - specifically Triple H and NXT.
But how? Wasn't War Games a WCW property, and as a result a WWE property after the latter's acquisition? Not so fast, said MLW founder Court Bauer. The company would do the same in 2018, 15 years later. In 2003, MLW ran an honest-to-god WarGames titled extravaganza, complete with War Games vets Terry Funk and Dr. The concept re-emerged under different names in different companies. Knockouts Championship To Be Contested In A Texas Death Match At IMPACT Hard To Kill