The match idea for WarGames was conceived by the legendary Dusty Rhodes many years in the past. Lately, it was resurrected by Triple H, making its first look within the WWE ecosystem for “NXT” earlier than turning into the centerpiece of final yr’s Survivor Sequence. However with WarGames sitting on the shelf for a variety of years, it solely is smart that Dusty’s son, Cody Rhodes, has but to be locked contained in the cage for such a match. 

He almost got here shut in 2000 with AEW’s iteration  — Blood & Guts — however the COVID-19 pandemic put a cease to it earlier than it might ever truly occur. However who is aware of what the longer term holds for “The American Nightmare” in coming into a match of “The American Dream’s” design? Rhodes has already given it a little bit of thought as he had a solution throughout a current Reddit AMA for who he’d placed on his WarGames dream crew if he ever had the chance to be part of the match. 

Rhodes had a forward-thinking method if he have been to drag solely from the present WWE roster. Exterior of himself, he’d need to crew with 4 variations of Kevin Owens — clearly requiring cloning to be extra commonplace. In any case, in WarGames’ brief WWE historical past, Owens is already a little bit of a veteran. In 2019, he was on the profitable facet of the equation as he made his approach to “NXT” to accomplice up with Dominik Dijakovic, Keith Lee, and Tommaso Ciampa in opposition to The Undisputed Period. Nevertheless, final November, he tasted defeat by the hands of The Bloodline and their “Honorary Uce” on the time, Sami Zayn.

However in assembling a crew of all-time wrestling greats, Rhodes would select to face beside his father Dusty, along with Sting, Shawn Michaels, and Rey Mysterio. Of his squad, solely Sting has been inside WarGames earlier than, coming into 19 over the course of his profession and being victorious in 15 of them.