Top five best WWE War Games matches: Ranked

War Games matches are a special stipulation, where two wrestling teams go to war against each other inside the steel cage covering two rings. It was founded by Dusty Rhodes in 1987 and the match was widely held across various promotions such as NWA, JCP and WCW for a long time. WWE brought this match to the promotion in 2017 and made it exclusive for the NXT brand until 2021.

The success of the match stipulation brought the match to the main roster in 2022 and is currently retaining it as a part of the Survivor Series PPV. WWE has now booked a War Games match for Survivor Series 2023. Ahead of that, here we rank the top five WWE War Games matches.

5. Team Belair vs Team Damage CTRL

This is the inaugural WarGames match in the main roster, where (Alexa Bliss, Asuka, Mia Yim and Becky Lynch under the leadership of Bianca Belair) Team Belair faced Team Damage CTRL (Bayley, Dakota Kai, IYO SKY, Nikki Cross and Rhea Ripley).

The match featured in the 2022 Survivor Series pay-per-view, which kicked-off the show. Damage CTRL entered the match with the entrance advantage with Bianca Belair and Dakota Kai starting the match. At the end, Becky Lynch pinned Dakota Kai to secure the win for Team Belair. The match received a 4 star rating by Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

4. Team Ripley vs Team Baszler

At NXT TakeOver: WarGames 2019, Team Ripley involving Rhea Ripley, Candice LeRae, Tegan Nox and Dakota Kai faced Team Baszler involving Shayna Baszler, Bianca Belair, Io Shirai and Kay Lee Ray. LeRae and Shirai began the match, where Belair, Ripley and Ray played one after another. When Kai was about to enter the ring, she attacked her fellow mate Tegan Nox and didn’t enter the cage.

Which made Team Baszler have the numbers advantage. However Team Ripley won the match by delivering Riptide on handcuffed Baszler through two chairs and won. The match received a huge reception among fans and was rated 4.25 ratings from Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Newsletter and A+ score by Bleacher Report.

3. The Undisputed Era vs Sanity vs Authors of Pain

This is the inaugural War Games Match held at NXT TakeOver: WarGames 2017 ppv. This is a Triple Threat War Games Match where The Undisputed Era (featuring Adam Cole, Kyle O’Rielly, and Bobby Fish), Team AOP (featuring Akam, Rezar and Roderick Strong) and Sanity (featuring Eric Young, Alexander Wolfe and Killian Dain) battled each other in a war. Where Team Undisputed Era won after Cole pinned Eric Young after performing Shining Wizard on a steel chair.

2. The Bloodline vs Brawling Brutes, Drew McIntyre and Butch

At the 2022 Survivor Series, The Bloodline including Roman Reigns, The Usos, Solo Sikoa and Sami Zayn went through a war against The Brawling Brutes (Sheamus, Butch, Ridge Holland), Drew McIntyre and Kevin Owens. Butch and Jey Uso started the match, where Holland entered next, when Jimmy tried to enter, Roman stopped him and sent Sami Zayn to prove his loyalty. McIntyre, Jimmy Uso, Kevin Owen, Solo Sikoa, Sheamus and Roman Reigns entered the ring, where the War went brutal.

At the final moments, when Kevin Owens tried to pin Roman, Zayn stopped him, delivered him a low blow and paved the way for Jey to hit the Uso Splash and proved his loyalty by winning the match.

1. The Undisputed Era vs Team Ciampa

At NXT TakeOver: War Games 2019 Team Ciampa featuring Tommaso Ciampa, Keith Lee, Dominik Dijakovic with one man short entered the War Games against The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong).

Where Kevin Owens came back to NXT and joined as the final member of Team Ciampa. The match went brutal and during the final moments, Ciampa performed an Air Raid Crash off the cage through the table on Cole to win the match. The match received 4.5 Star rating from Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Newsletter and A+ from the Bleacher Report, making it the best War Games Match of WWE.

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