War games wcw 1998

But the all-time biggest War Games debacle came in As a matter of fact, it laid the groundwork for the demise of WCW. Since , the rules of the match consisted of two teams sending one member in the cage to start the match. After five minutes of action, a coin flip would determine who would send in their second man, giving that team the advantage.

Every two minutes, a member from the opposing team would enter, and so on and so forth until all men are officially in the match. The finish only comes when one team can make a member of the opposing team submit or surrender. The rules changed that year. Instead of two teams of four, it spread to three teams of three.

The match could be won by any member of any team at any time regardless if all men have entered and pinfall was an option to win. Was the match really about teams, though?

As a reminder, only the person who scored the decision gets the title shot, so why should any of the teams actually work together? WCW went out of their way to emphasize that while there are three teams of three, it really was every man for himself. Now for the actual War Games match!!!

DDP comes out first to start the match to some very generic music that was played about the same time that they were lowering the cage down to the ring. Maybe a WWE Network edit due to music copyrights.

Bret Hart is out second to the same generic music. The commentary team Tony Schavione, Bobby Heenan and Mike Tenay discuss about whose side Bret was on considering his storyline and real-life heat with Hogan. They also announce at this time that Goldberg would be facing Sting the following evening on Nitro. Of course, if Sting is in the match, now you take away any belief that he could win and face Goldberg again at Halloween Havoc….

This would also be one the first times in a War Games match that there are referees inside the cage because they have to somehow count the pinfall. Stevie would start in on Page with Bret coming in to help for a double team. There would be an opportunity during this time that Stevie would appear to go for pinfall but backed off last minute.

Sting would be out fourth. He heads to ring 1 to battle Stevie Ray, who eventually retreats to ring 2, only for Sting to dive over both set of ropes. What a variation of the Stinger Splash that was! First of all, he barely made it and secondly, it was also a flying clothesline. Six minutes in and Page and Hart are both down on the mat just like Okada and Omega after 45 minutes of their wars.

Lex Luger walks out sixth. Oh yeah! He goes straight into ring 1 with Stevie Ray and Piper while everyone else is in ring 2. Thirty-seven seconds later there was a clock on screen , Hogan is walking down the ramp and sneaking into the cage. Stevie Ray tosses Hogan his signature slapjack to use on Nash and Piper and then bashes Sting and Luger, who at the time, had Hart ready to submit with the Torture Rack. Hogan and Hart come face to face in the ring until Stevie Ray chop blocks Bret.

Charles Ashenoff Konnan as Konnan. Scott Levy Raven as Raven. Storyline Edit. Curt Hennig, Perry Saturn vs. Raven, Konnan vs.

Norman Smiley — Anonymous. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Smith landed incorrectly on one of the Ultimate Warrior's Jim Hellwig trapdoors and spent months in the hospital. User reviews 2 Review. Top review. Utter Crap. This was such a bad PPV. The only match that was anywhere close to good was Raven vs.

Perry Saturn. Alex Wright and Disco Inferno, were seemingly thrown onto the card with no reason to be there other than to give those guys something to do.

The main event, War Games, was the worst of its kind and killed off the match as the Fall Brawl main event forever. Read: the 2 years, 6 months and 13 days WCW had left. The heavily hyped return of the Ultimate Warrior only served to make the product worse. Don't watch this show. JasonIK75 Mar 20, Details Edit. Release date September 13, United States.

United States. Fall Brawl.