10 Worst WarGames Matches Ever | partsFUNknown
WarGames has a spotty history and hopefully this is as bad as the stipulation ever gets again. Tempest counts down the 10 worst WarGames matches ever but make sure you let us know which you think is the worst in the comments below!
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01:08 - 10
02:30 - 9
03:36 - 8
04:31 - 7
05:34 - 6
06:40 - 5
07:48 - 4
08:44 - 3
09:48 - 2
10:56 - 1
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WarGames has a spotty history and hopefully this is as bad as the stipulation ever gets again. Tempest counts down the 10 worst WarGames matches ever but make sure you let us know which you think is the worst in the comments below!
00:00 - Start
01:08 - 10
02:30 - 9
03:36 - 8
04:31 - 7
05:34 - 6
06:40 - 5
07:48 - 4
08:44 - 3
09:48 - 2
10:56 - 1
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00:00 Sun and Moon, Yin and Yang, Good War Games and Sh*t War Games.
00:06 You need a balance in life I suppose, but for as good as the best War Games matches
00:10 throughout history have been, I'm not sure they balance out just how utterly dog sh*t
00:16 the worst War Games matches are.
00:18 WWE is bringing the stip back this week and by all accounts, the first two WWE branded
00:22 War Games matches look like they're going to be pretty damn great.
00:25 At least I hope they will be because I cannot fathom the thought of any more matches reaching
00:30 the depths that we're about to recap.
00:32 For the sake of clarification as well, TNA's lethal lockdown matches shall count.
00:37 They follow War Games rules as much as possible most of the time.
00:41 There's only one ring, but otherwise it's about the same.
00:44 And it's a lot closer to War Games than entry number 10.
00:47 Hope you guys are prepared to hear the words "fall brawl" a lot.
00:49 I'm Tempest Haling from PartsFunNode and these are the 10 worst War Games matches ever.
00:54 And before we get on with our list, make sure of course that you like this video, hit subscribe
00:58 and enable notifications to always on so you never miss a fun wrestling list just like
01:01 it, and make sure to check out the list of the 10 best War Games matches.
01:04 It will be much more cheerful than this is about to be, I promise.
01:08 Number 10.
01:09 Kevin Nash, Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, and Vince Russo vs. Booker T, Sting, Goldberg,
01:14 and Kronik.
01:15 WCW Nitro, September 4th, 2000.
01:17 Is this a War Games match?
01:19 WCW said it was, and when did WCW ever lie to us in the year 2000?
01:24 This is going to get slotted in here at number 10, not because the other matches on this
01:27 list are worse than it, fat chance, this match is a steaming pile, but because it really
01:31 is apples to oranges.
01:33 The only thing that this match and the others on this list have in common is that there's
01:37 a metal fence around the ring and there are staggered entrances.
01:40 That's it.
01:42 Otherwise, this monstrous creation is its own beast.
01:45 The match can only be won by scaling this triple-decker steel cage and grabbing the
01:50 WCW championship, the world's most inconvenient ladder match.
01:55 Then descend the structure and have the belt in your possession as you walk out the door.
02:00 That ain't even close to War Games, and I haven't even talked about the match itself.
02:04 This match watches like it was written by a hyperactive squirrel, with so much nonsensical
02:09 garbage happening that it is impossible to keep track of.
02:12 The Harris brothers just start fighting, it's impossible to keep track of who's aligned
02:16 with who, all the while Vince Russo is in a hockey helmet trying to play wrestler.
02:20 It ends with a classic Russo swerve, and you know what?
02:23 It may be garbage, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I watched this with a bemused
02:27 smile on my face.
02:29 Number 9, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and Fake Sting vs. Ric Flair, Arn Anderson,
02:35 Lex Luger, and Real Sting, Ball Brawl 1996.
02:38 Man, when WCW grabbed the top stars from WWE, they brought the WWE main event style along
02:43 with them.
02:44 This was a match that was merely prelude to an angle, as the whole match rested on where
02:48 the allegiance of Sting truly lied.
02:50 Hogan, Hall, and Nash took most of the match, but did do a solid job of bumping for Arn
02:54 Anderson, Lex Luger, and Ric Flair when needed.
02:57 The fourth member of the NWO's team was, as the WCW video game put it, Sting.
03:02 A guy dressed and painted to look like Sting to fool the fans, and I guess the WCW team,
03:07 before the real Sting came down, laid out the NWO, then walked out on Team WCW for not
03:13 trusting him in the first place.
03:14 To be fair, this does seem like a catalyst event that would start the Man Called Sting's
03:18 emo phase.
03:19 The finish comes out of absolutely nowhere after this, as the Fake Sting puts the Scorpion
03:23 Deathlock on Luger, and he just passes out.
03:26 Again, a solid moment, and one of the most crucial moments in the WCW-NWO rivalry, but
03:31 unfortunately there is another 15 minutes of plotting action to sit through to get to
03:35 it.
03:36 Number 8, MVP, Willow, and the American Wolves vs. Austin Aries, Bobby Roode, and the Bro-Mans,
03:41 TNA Lockdown 2014.
03:43 What a bizarre match this is.
03:45 Work-wise, it's nothing to sneeze at.
03:46 You've got MVP, Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards, Austin Aries, Bobby Roode, it's a solid time.
03:51 However, this match also has every TNA fan's favorite thing, Dixie Carter, because this
03:57 match was contested over control of TNA, and thus there's a double helping of goofiness
04:01 at the end.
04:02 You had Jeff Hardy being removed from the building only for his shrieking alter ego
04:06 Willow to take his place, making a high-pitched noise every time he was hit with a move, and
04:10 you had Dixie's insurance policy, Bully Ray, serving as guest referee.
04:15 This plan worked about as well as Vince's plan to hire Brett's entire family at WrestleMania
04:19 26, a plan that worked perfectly and everyone liked.
04:22 Bully turned on Team Dixie and gave Team MVP the win, which is odd because he could have
04:27 just helped out MVP, the Wolves, and Wally the Wasp as soon as he entered the cage.
04:31 Number 7, Kevin Nash, Sixx, Konnan, and Buff Bagwell vs. Ric Flair, Chris Benoit, Kurt
04:36 Hennig, and Steve McMichael, Ball Brawl 1997.
04:40 I am still of the mind that Vince McMahon's WWE got the idea of beating babyfaces in their
04:44 hometown from this era of WCW beating Ric Flair and the Carolinas, the Poor Horsemen.
04:50 This match is more of a 15 minute prelude for another depressing angle.
04:53 The action in this match is at the very least passable as Chris Benoit did his best to pull
04:57 a good match out of Buff Bagwell, but once the seemingly injured Kurt Hennig enters the
05:01 match it is over for the Four Horsemen.
05:03 Hennig immediately turns on his team and handcuffs Benoit and Mongo to the cage and they just
05:08 beat on Ric Flair for ages.
05:10 I had a birthday while they beat on Flair.
05:13 Finally they got the Horsemen to quit as they threatened to slam the cage door on Flair's
05:16 head, a la Cary Von Erick in World Class, only to follow through and scramble the Nature
05:20 Boys brains anyway.
05:21 It also doesn't help that we get running commentary from Michael Buffer the entire time as he
05:25 feels the urge to announce every little thing as if the watching audience was filled with
05:29 blind fans.
05:30 The cage door bit is a memorable moment, but this match can be easily forgotten.
05:34 #6 AJ Styles, Austin Aries, Mr. Anderson, Rob Van Dam and Garrett Bischoff vs. Bully
05:39 Ray, Gunner, Christopher Daniels, Kazarian and Eric Bischoff.
05:43 TNA Lockdown 2012 Many of the best WarGames matches rely heavily
05:47 on starting the match with the best worker from each team.
05:49 Bobby Eaton, Arn Anderson, Johnny Gargano, Io Shirai, it makes sense that this section
05:54 of the match with the least amount of smoke and mirrors would feature those who are best
05:58 equipped to carry that load.
06:00 Which perfectly explains why TNA started this match with Adam Blampied's brother Garrett
06:04 Bischoff and Jackson f***ing Riker.
06:06 The other members of this match do their best to make up for it.
06:09 I mean AJ Styles and Austin Aries taking on Kazarian and Christopher Daniels sounds like
06:13 a recipe for a good time.
06:14 But the climax of this match is not any of the professional wrestlers wrestling professionally,
06:18 it's Adam's dad beating his son with a stick for all the times he caught him watching Raw
06:22 in the 90s while yelling that Garrett should have stayed out of his business as the fans
06:26 entertained themselves by chanting for other people not in the match.
06:30 Professional wrestlers wrestling usually sucks, but putting two of them against each other
06:33 as the featured performers of a match is a mistake TNA made with extreme regularity.
06:39 Number 5.
06:40 Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes, Sting, and The Shockmaster vs Sid Vicious, Vader, and
06:45 Harlem Heat.
06:46 Fall Brawl 1993.
06:47 Just as important to a War Games match as the opening two is who comes in as the final
06:51 entrant.
06:52 It doesn't have to be a huge surprise like Kevin Owens in 2019, but the last person to
06:57 enter the cage should be the one most likely to fill the crowd with renewed energy after
07:01 having watched 15-20 minutes of a match.
07:03 That begs the question as to why the f*ck The Shockmaster was chosen as the final entrant
07:08 of the 1993 War Games match, and a better question still is why he won the match with
07:14 a basic ass bear hug after running wild for just a few minutes.
07:18 This match played with the story of Dustin Rhodes being injured, but going against his
07:22 team's wishes and starting the match against Vader anyway.
07:25 So where this fell apart is basically the entire match was then just run by the heels
07:29 as Dustin was a non-factor for most of it.
07:32 If he had entered last and fought through the pain to get the win for his team, this
07:35 might have been pretty neat.
07:37 But his injury didn't add anything to the match and detracted from it heavily and again
07:41 I must ask, why the f*ck was The Shockmaster chosen as the featured performer of this match?
07:48 Number 4.
07:49 DDP, Sean Waltman, and BG James vs Jeff Jarrett, Montee Brown, and Billy Gunn.
07:54 TNA Lockdown 2005.
07:56 It's Waltman's knee pads over his jeans that really do it for me.
07:59 If you like watching half of DX several years past their primes wrestling one another in
08:04 a mess of a cage match, this one is for you.
08:06 Half of the initial five minutes doesn't even take place in the cage, and from there
08:10 it's just a hodgepodge of dudes hitting each other with trash cans.
08:14 It is more of the TNA nonsense that some found charming, but now it's just a bunch of guys
08:18 hitting each other in the head real hard, and no amount of Montee Brown being full of
08:22 beans could make up for that.
08:23 They also f*cked up the finish of this match to make matters worse, a fact the crowd let
08:27 them in on by chanting "You f*cked up" after a botched cover, and then Waltman immediately
08:31 hit a roll up that was also kicked out of but was the end of the match, with the commentators
08:36 trying to figure out whether or not the match was actually over, which is always the best
08:40 thing for your commentators to be saying during the most important part of a match.
08:44 Number 3.
08:45 Toxic Attraction in Dakota Kai vs Cora Jade, Raquel Gonzalez, Kaylee Ray, and Io Shirai.
08:50 NXT WarGames 2021.
08:52 The WarGames advantage is an easy stipulation to book.
08:55 The bad guys have an advantage and beat up the good guys, and then the babyfaces even
08:58 the odds and fight back.
09:00 Rinse repeat works every time.
09:02 Why NXT decided to flip this concept on its head for the poor women involved is beyond
09:06 me.
09:07 At NXT TakeOver 2021, we got the worst example of this to date, as the babyface team of Cora
09:13 Jade, Raquel Gonzalez, Kaylee Ray, and Io Shirai took on Dakota Kai and Toxic Attraction.
09:17 This is a concept that could probably work if there was a heel turn or an injury angle
09:21 to realign the babyface heel dynamic, but this match just doesn't do that.
09:25 The good guys outnumber and beat up the heels, and then the heels fight valiantly against
09:29 the odds as the crowd cheer them on.
09:31 That is the opposite effect that you want!
09:34 Add in the fact that this was the worst worked WarGames match under the NXT banner due to
09:38 the inexperience of a number of those involved, and an anticlimactic finish of an injured
09:42 Cora Jade crawling over to make a pin after Raquel's finish, and this was just no fun.
09:47 Number 2.
09:48 Logan, Randy Savage, Lex Luger, and Sting vs. The Dungeon of Doom.
09:52 Fall Brawl 1995.
09:53 Molasses.
09:54 Glaciers.
09:55 Continental Drift.
09:56 Pete making guesses in Survival Series.
09:58 What do all of these things have in common?
10:00 They're all not quite as slow as the pacing of this match.
10:03 A lot of the matches on this list are here because of a ridiculous angle that compromises
10:07 the quality of the matches, or maybe the match itself was just so batshit insane that it
10:11 had to be featured.
10:12 This match is just f*cking boring.
10:15 They took the slowest and least exciting heels on the WCW roster and just put them in the
10:20 most bog standard WarGames match possible.
10:22 There's something very 90s about Michael Buffer announcing the Dungeon of Doom from places
10:26 such as the Great Barrier Reef, the Yin and Yang, and deepest, darkest Africa.
10:32 This is the same year that Tupac was releasing Me Against the World, bro.
10:35 Why is Hulk Hogan wrestling a shark?
10:37 Hogan basically works heel for some reason, immediately throwing salt in the eyes of every
10:42 heel, raking John Tenta's eyes, biting Brutus Beefcake's stupid Zodiac face.
10:47 It's just so odd.
10:49 If this was the best that WCW had to offer, it's no wonder no one was watching wrestling
10:54 in 1995.
10:55 At number one, DDP, Roddy Piper, and The Warrior vs. Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, and Stevie Ray
11:01 vs. Kevin Nash, Lex Luger, and Sting.
11:03 All brawl 1998.
11:05 Holy sh*t.
11:06 This is one of the worst matches I have ever seen in my life.
11:10 When people talked about the glory days of the NWO and WCW in general, they sure as sh*t
11:15 don't mean this.
11:16 Oh how this match sucks.
11:18 Let me count the ways.
11:19 First of all, despite this match being able to end at any point regardless of whether
11:23 or not all the competitors had entered the match, no one in this sluggishly paced match
11:27 wrestled with one bit of urgency.
11:30 Worse still, this match was contested over a WCW World Title shot, with the person securing
11:34 the pin getting the shot, meaning everyone was attacking the field, including their partners,
11:39 so there were essentially no teams at all.
11:42 Despite this, there were still staggered entrants.
11:44 And even worse still, the entrants were in a completely random order, with two members
11:50 of the NWO Hollywood team in the ring before anyone from NWO Wolfpack.
11:55 Because there were no teams in this match, the match has zero flow, as it's just half
11:58 a dozen aging wrestlers clobbering each other.
12:01 Then Hulk Hogan jumps the gun and enters the match with a minute left on the clock because
12:05 I guess you can just do that with no consequences.
12:09 I HAVE A F***ING CLOCK!
12:11 And then, if all that wasn't enough, we get spooky bulls*** with the Warrior appearing
12:16 in a puff of smoke like the world's sh*ttest Batman, and that includes George Clooney.
12:21 Warrior also jumps the clock, and Hogan is too scared to continue so he runs away.
12:25 It doesn't even matter who won, we all lost by witnessing this.
12:28 And that's our list!
12:29 Make sure of course that you like this video, and subscribe and enable notifications to
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12:35 Make sure that you check out the list of the best WarGames matches ever, I have a lot more
12:39 fun watching those matches, and until then, I've been Tempest, Jam That Jam.
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