5 WWE gimmick matches and the reason why we don't see them anymore

#4 WarGames

WarGames match from WCW Fall Brawl 1996

Long before the days of Hell in a Cell or the Elimination Chamber, the NWA, and later WCW, were busy pioneering their own cage-based multi-man match.

Concocted by Dusty Rhodes himself, the WarGames gimmick involved two teams of four or five squaring off inside a pair of rings placed side-by-side, which were in turn surrounded by a giant steel cage. Pretty creative stuff for 1987.

There were plenty more rules, such as staggered entrances at various time intervals, which in some ways made the match a little convoluted. Still, the fact that two separate WarGames matches have received the maximum five-star rating from Dave Meltzer pretty much speaks for itself.

Unfortunately, the concept essentially died with WCW, although Dusty’s son Cody did reveal there were rumblings of a potential return for the gimmick at the inaugural Battleground PPV back in October 2013. But given its association with WCW, and with WWE seemingly reluctant to do anything but tarnish the memory of its old rival, at this point it doesn’t seem likely that we’ll ever be seeing that WarGames revival.