Fact❗ MLW was the official owner of the “WAR GAMES” trademark from 2000-2018 Until Court Bauer sold the rights to the trademark to the WWE. Another fact ❗ MLW filed the official trademark in the early 2000s shortly after WCW was bought, revealing that WWE never officially owned the WarGames name throughout that time🤦🏿♂️
"So, when Vince acquired the assets of WCW, what those assets were just were dependent on what they had coming in. So, if they had never filed for trademarks, and had done nothing on that paperwork, well then, they never had them. They had abandoned a lot of trademarks" Court Bauer
The original War Games was before WCW split from the NWA. The NWA really dropped the ball by not trademarking a lot of things like War Games, the Great American Bash and Starrcade.
What's crappy about it (at least in my opinion) is Bauer was cool with anyone using the War Games name but WWE was not so they threw money at him until he couldn't turn it down. This is why, for a spell, you had MLW and WWE both hosting War Games matches.
What gets me is how much Ole Anderson runs his mouth about Dusty. He says things like he couldn't book himself out of a paperbag. Ole is extremely jealous of Dusty's success and notoriety.
Honestly its a great concept, we haven't had anything as creative since the Elimination Chamber in 2002. This along with Hell in a cell are my favourite match types.
You should do a Dusty vs Billy Graham video. That's got to be one of the all time great rivalries. The two most charismatic guys in history going at it. The original match at MSG was pure gold too. Dusty was so good in that match.
I had the first one on VHS...The Great American Bash '87, War Games: The Match Beyond. The first one was insane...it just looked like something completely new. Using blatant moves like low blows (can still see Arn Anderson selling a nut shot by Dusty) and all the bleeding...it was amazing.
My first ever live wrestling show was in Huntsville, AL, July of 1988. The main event was War Games with Sting, Luger, the Road Warriors and Ellering vs. the Horsemen and Dillon. I was hooked.
The original Wargames is one of my all-time favorite matches!! That match is still very, very special to me. My best friends and I would have our own Wargames matches with our Remco AWA figures, back in the day. I remember us watching the Wargames (1&2) repeatedly on the Bash '87 VHS. Those were some amazing, incredible times! Thank you, Dusty!!
Some of the early matches like this in te NWA and the first few years of WCW were incredibly brutal to watch and I often wish I got a chance to see them growing up but we never really got any of this in the UK. I actually enjoy watching through many of the stuff from the late 80s and early 90s from them because it feels fresh to me and often watching it now most of the matches hold up much better than WWF matches of the same period for the most part.
That's my favorite war games match too. There's 3 wwe hall of famers on sting's team(sting/barry windham/ricky steamboat) and 2 legends(dustin rhodes/nikita koloff). And there's 4 wwe hall of famers on the DA team(arn anderson/steve austin/rick rude/larry z) and 1 legend(bobby eaton)
War games 1996 was still my favorite. I would’ve never thought in my life to see Sting and Luger team with the horsemen. That’s how much of a force the NWO was.
@@Bobbywoodhogan not only that, it was the first modification to the rules. Both teams had to wait backstage instead of ringside due to NWO interference in the Giant-Savage match. The dissent with Sting was BRILLIANT. I actually thought he was one of them.
@@deadliest_v2879 " until this day " should have made you tuck in you entire comment. That alone should have let you know that I still watch "wrastlin"
Another awesome Bio, suggestions for future projects Kevin Sullivan, the dog collar match at Starrcade, creations of Hell in the cell, Elimination Chamber, Wrestling Classic tournament and Battle Bowl
And THIS is what I loved about Crockett/NWA booking...those piledrivers at 12:39 would be used as Nikita would wear a neck brace during his title defense against Luger during the Bash and he ended up losing the U.S. title. It's the small things, but they did such a great job of continuity.
my biggest gripe with this set up was the gap between the two rings honestly,...they shouldve had the ring mats sewn together and added underlying support and made one run on ring instead, the same way they soldered the cage together.
Funny you mention that, I remember in the 1988 GAB, Barry Windham managed to get his head stuck between the two rings. I guess that was an angle run that year because I saw it live in Norfolk, VA and then saw it covered in another city in one of the wrestling magazines.
@@Mxyzptlk_Lives I just see it as a very lazy design,..and it left too great a margin open for wrestlers to suffer a real, potentially debilitating bump. In the very least if they were able to connect both ring mats together as I mentioned, they could've added a turnbuckle midway down and just added a singular row of ropes to delineate the two rings,..that way guys could've gotten tossed over with relatively little concern of injury. WWE has the money to do this,. But just like Owen Hart not taking Hulk's boots,..Bray Wyatt's initial push getting squashed,. And the myriad of other missed opportunities,..they're eventually gonna fold. Mark my words.
@@Th3feaR Good point. I said to myself recently as I watching older WarGames clips it's a wonder nobody got hurt climbing from one ring to the other. Considering how fast the guys were moving, it was possible someone to make a wrong step.
What I dug about old-school WarGames matches was they weren’t even really matches, they were just wild brawls. You’d get some normal spots at first, but as more people got in the ring they’d just get wilder and wilder.
I've watched the 1st wargames like 100 times lol classics are always awesome 😎🤟🙏 and great work as always wrestling bios, my fav wrestling youtube channel 😎🤟
This match made me the biggest wrestling mark! The wrestlers were over! The concept and storylines were great! And crazy crowd pops throughout the match!
That's a video I would like to see episode on Black Saturday I mean if it wasn't for Vince breaking away from the NWA and starting his 20-year rivalry with Ted Turner we would have never gotten the Golden era back in the 80s and we definitely most likely would have never gotten the Monday Night War in the 90s at all I'm glad that I was around to witness that great era of wrestling today's current product just doesn't do it for me
@@acewillingham Black Saturday has been done so much I would be afraid that no new takes would be able to have an original spin on what happened. I know this is a stretch but I would like a take on what happened with Ann Gunkel and the Georgia Wars.
@@rightyleftable I wish Giant Gonzalez would've attacked Sid instead of getting Pillman out of there. That would've made the crowd go nuts even after Sting and company lost.
Whoever complains that the heels tend to dominate the first half of these matches doesn't understand classic wrestling booking. The heels use the numbers advantage early on to get heat, and when the babyfaces finally catch up to them in full the payback is that much sweeter. Classic "the heel gets his comeuppance in the end" but with more people.
I love the war games they still use those nowadays and the classic matches independent companies use this match submit and surrender helps to end the match very well
Fantastic video, man. I knew that Dusty created it thanks to his feud with the horsemen, but that's all I knew. There are some of Dusty's creations that WWE only use to spite AEW (didn't use Great American Bash for years until 2019), but I can't fault them for keeping the WarGames name. It's become integral to the NXT brand, and the name fits with their aesthetic really well.
The AEW "Blood and Guts" match had the tagline of "A Match Beyond." I can see Blood and Guts returning when crowds can safely attend. The Blood and Guts match morphed into The Stadium Stampede. The Elite versus Inner Circle storyline needed a blow off. The Stadium Stampede sounded ridiculous, but was easily the most fun I have had seeing a match in a long time.
I remember not really enjoying the Wargames matches that much. My problem was that it was too big with too much going on to really follow. You suddenly had two rings full of stuff happening in them, and it just.. divided your attention. You missed a lot. Even with a battle royal, you can pretty much stay focused better because everything is in one big ring. It's just.. easier to see what's going on. It gives you one central focus, rather than two. It was a spectacle. It looked cool, but it just divided your attention too much. And let's not even talk about that WCW match with the cages stacked on top of each other. That's another painful can of worms. Haha!
Very good bio as always. The early War Games were much better than the ones WCW put on in late 90's. 1991 & 92 were the 2 best ones NWA/WCW did. Like how NXT is doing War Games combination of old & new school. You can do a couple more bios for War Games & one for NXT War Games
Good video. Never a fan of Dusty as a wrestler. He was very limited, but he was one of the best characters, talkers and bookers in wrestling. Would love to see a video of the dream coming to the WWF and the politics behind that.
As a kid, I was drawn to the spectacle and gimmicks of WWF. But now as an adult I'm enjoying the old NWA stuff more. Something real about it. The heat seemed genuine without weeks of build up. Just guys being competitive.
This man knows about HARD TIMES! WB is the best channel on the tube. Period. Wrestling or otherwise. Keep up the GREAT work. Still hoping for a Kevin Sullivan/Dungeon of Doom video
Been watching for a while, fellow British man here (I'm from Wales anyway) love your videos they've been a big help during all this corona malarkey being stuck in the house I just wanted to ask if you have time, could do a video about Bob Backlund? I don't really know much about him and would like to hear your take on him.
The Battle of Atlanta was the first stage of the war games between mad dog Buzz Sawyer and Tommy wildfire Rich then virtual runners AKA Dusty Rhodes thought of an idea to have the four horsemen versus the road warriors and Paul Ellery with the superpowers of the king koloff and Dusty Rhodes included a two-ring two-sided cage locked and you have wrestlers must win either by submit or surrender ! To do it the first time in Atlanta was amazing but to have it a second time in the Orange bowl in Miami Florida was totally awesome until this day nobody duplicate that ! Oh one more thing ! Could you imagine it Magnum PA was still around and not Nikita koloff the Russian nightmare ?
Looks like this match made modern wrestling Perhaps the most awaited matches Royal rumble, survicior, Hell in a cell, elimination chamber came from it Dusty rhodes was such an innvator. RIP
What a fantastic trip thru history to the immediate present. Sometimes we romanticize our memories of the past & make them better than they really were. This video brought back all the magic! I loved the original War Games as a kid. Very well done 👏👏👏
I remember they would always list the rules before the match and just feel like if people couldn’t figure it out by just watching it. Then it was probably to much. And it was. You can figure out the concept of a royal rumble pretty easily if just watching it for the first time. It’s a lot but it’s a simple concept . Which is why it works
WWC in Puerto Rico did the Great War match similar to WarGames but it was all 10 men in the ring at 1 time and the object was to handcuff your opponent members and then the winning team gets the key to free their partners who was handcuffed and beat up the losing team for 5 minutes.
The Battle of Atlanta was the first stage of the war games between mad dog but Sawyer and Tommy wildfire Rich then virtual runners AKA Dusty Rhodes thought of an idea to have the four horsemen versus the road warriors and Paul Ellery with the superpowers of the king koloff and Dusty Rhodes included a two-ring two-sided cage locked and you have wrestlers must win either by submit or surrender ! To do it the first time in Atlanta was amazing but to have it a second time in the Orange bowl in Miami Florida was totally awesome until this day nobody duplicate that !
A funny memory Arn shared about WarGames was how during one match, he finally got to come in fourth, thus having an easier night. Afterwards, Dusty informs him not to get comfortable because he's going to be coming in first again the following night lol
This is probably the second best gimmick match concept of all time in wrestling after the Royal Rumble...Dusty should be proud as hell of this one. Then again, the dog kennel match must be up there somewhere in the top 3 as well...
Finally a worthy Rhodes wrestler on Wrestling Bios, I feel like Golddust is the star of this channel (inadvertently of course, he was just around a lot during the Monday night wars)
Fact❗
MLW was the official owner of the “WAR GAMES” trademark from 2000-2018
Until Court Bauer sold the rights to the trademark to the WWE.
Another fact ❗
MLW filed the official trademark in the early 2000s shortly after WCW was bought, revealing that WWE never officially owned the WarGames name throughout that time🤦🏿♂️
"So, when Vince acquired the assets of WCW, what those assets were just were dependent on what they had coming in. So, if they had never filed for trademarks, and had done nothing on that paperwork, well then, they never had them. They had abandoned a lot of trademarks"
Court Bauer
The original War Games was before WCW split from the NWA. The NWA really dropped the ball by not trademarking a lot of things like War Games, the Great American Bash and Starrcade.
@@kfletch19 Different times back then.
What's crappy about it (at least in my opinion) is Bauer was cool with anyone using the War Games name but WWE was not so they threw money at him until he couldn't turn it down. This is why, for a spell, you had MLW and WWE both hosting War Games matches.
@@kfletch19 agree those were things that nwa used to have
What gets me is how much Ole Anderson runs his mouth about Dusty. He says things like he couldn't book himself out of a paperbag. Ole is extremely jealous of Dusty's success and notoriety.
Ole is a bitter old man.
Only thing I agree with Ole is the constant “dusty” finishes
What do you expect from Ole? This is the same guy who said nobody would pay to see the Undertaker wrestle.
@@christianholbrook2686 , oh wow, I never knew that.
@@biggdogg35810 Check out the smoking skull sessions if you have WWE network. Undertaker goes into that story when he worked for WCW.
Honestly its a great concept, we haven't had anything as creative since the Elimination Chamber in 2002. This along with Hell in a cell are my favourite match types.
Money in the bank ???
I Know That They are not WWE but TNA/GFW/Impact Wrestling Had The Ultimate X Matchtype
@@danielhudson5424 ultimate x is a great concept
@@danielhudson5424 ultimate x is just a ladder match lmao
@@mikescott8903 a ladder match WITHOUT ladders 😁 except for that one time with Team 3D
You should do a Dusty vs Billy Graham video. That's got to be one of the all time great rivalries. The two most charismatic guys in history going at it. The original match at MSG was pure gold too. Dusty was so good in that match.
I had the first one on VHS...The Great American Bash '87, War Games: The Match Beyond. The first one was insane...it just looked like something completely new. Using blatant moves like low blows (can still see Arn Anderson selling a nut shot by Dusty) and all the bleeding...it was amazing.
It was real wild bein there
Iive!! So yea I think the VHS was better than the DVD versions imo...I have both versions
I remember trembling to death at 5 years old seeing that cage for the first time. My dad had to calm me down and explain it to me.
War Games was the original Hell In A Cell.
@ShadowAngel You're right
Excellent observation
The Battle of Atlanta between mad dog buzz Sawyer versus Tommy wildfire Rich with the very first NWA version of hell in a cell !
Absolutely
Well it actually was
My first ever live wrestling show was in Huntsville, AL, July of 1988. The main event was War Games with Sting, Luger, the Road Warriors and Ellering vs. the Horsemen and Dillon. I was hooked.
I was there too brother. I'm from Ft. Payne. What a night it was!
These storylines which I'd have never found out about,had it not been for WB❤️
The original Wargames is one of my all-time favorite matches!! That match is still very, very special to me. My best friends and I would have our own Wargames matches with our Remco AWA figures, back in the day. I remember us watching the Wargames (1&2) repeatedly on the Bash '87 VHS. Those were some amazing, incredible times! Thank you, Dusty!!
Some of the early matches like this in te NWA and the first few years of WCW were incredibly brutal to watch and I often wish I got a chance to see them growing up but we never really got any of this in the UK. I actually enjoy watching through many of the stuff from the late 80s and early 90s from them because it feels fresh to me and often watching it now most of the matches hold up much better than WWF matches of the same period for the most part.
They hold up better than any of the matches that wwe produced from 2003 onwards
NWA invented it and WCW perfected it
RIP Dusty a True legend in business. May innovative and contributions never be forgotten!! The true American Dream!!
War Games '92: Dangerous Alliance v Sting's Squadron is my favorite.
I'm with you brother!
That's my favorite war games match too. There's 3 wwe hall of famers on sting's team(sting/barry windham/ricky steamboat) and 2 legends(dustin rhodes/nikita koloff). And there's 4 wwe hall of famers on the DA team(arn anderson/steve austin/rick rude/larry z) and 1 legend(bobby eaton)
That war games wrestle war 1992 is good war games match
Yup! The best!
War games 1996 was still my favorite. I would’ve never thought in my life to see Sting and Luger team with the horsemen. That’s how much of a force the NWO was.
That was the best one, there was a great story there with Sting
@@Bobbywoodhogan not only that, it was the first modification to the rules. Both teams had to wait backstage instead of ringside due to NWO interference in the Giant-Savage match. The dissent with Sting was BRILLIANT. I actually thought he was one of them.
God, Dusty is such an insane man to come up with this Idea.
@@thebandit0256 Cody's mother is Puerto Rican iif I"m not mistaken.
Well he kinda didn't come up with lol the writer of mad max did
@@Amongus-vb1mp Touche
@ShadowAngel ...I had a lot of coffee. A cat eating Tuna could have been Picasso in my eyes at the time.
He must have drunk and he pitched the idea that's the only way I believe he made this match
One of my first matches was seeing Stinger's Squadron vs. The Dangerous Alliance in WarGames
The only thing I love about the current NXT Wargames set up is that they bring in weapons. Would love to see WWE do a Raw vs Smackdown Wargames match.
I remember Wargames matches used to be held at WCW Fall Brawl Pay Per View
@ShadowAngel You ain't lying
I was 6 yrs old when the first one came out and it is still my most favorite match til this day
Your fav match. So u basically stoped watching wrastlin after this match
Good match to say its your favorite is to say your tv exploded and you never watched another match 😆
@@deadliest_v2879 " until this day " should have made you tuck in you entire comment. That alone should have let you know that I still watch "wrastlin"
@@zombi3on394 solid response
Another awesome Bio, suggestions for future projects Kevin Sullivan, the dog collar match at Starrcade, creations of Hell in the cell, Elimination Chamber, Wrestling Classic tournament and Battle Bowl
Oh yeah, WB take on the Lethal Lottery/Battle Bowl should be sweet.
And THIS is what I loved about Crockett/NWA booking...those piledrivers at 12:39 would be used as Nikita would wear a neck brace during his title defense against Luger during the Bash and he ended up losing the U.S. title. It's the small things, but they did such a great job of continuity.
5 Vs 5, so that's where Vince got the idea for Survivor Series, from War Games!
War Games was first. The first Survivor Series was several months later.
@@jimsheppard3166 read what I wrote again ✍🏾
@@7654x Jesus, apparently me no read so good 😆
@@jimsheppard3166 lol
I loved the 80s NWA, second to none, Dusty Rhodes was one of my favorite wrestlers of all time, always hated how WWE turned him into a joke.
my biggest gripe with this set up was the gap between the two rings honestly,...they shouldve had the ring mats sewn together and added underlying support and made one run on ring instead, the same way they soldered the cage together.
Funny you mention that, I remember in the 1988 GAB, Barry Windham managed to get his head stuck between the two rings. I guess that was an angle run that year because I saw it live in Norfolk, VA and then saw it covered in another city in one of the wrestling magazines.
@@Mxyzptlk_Lives I just see it as a very lazy design,..and it left too great a margin open for wrestlers to suffer a real, potentially debilitating bump. In the very least if they were able to connect both ring mats together as I mentioned, they could've added a turnbuckle midway down and just added a singular row of ropes to delineate the two rings,..that way guys could've gotten tossed over with relatively little concern of injury.
WWE has the money to do this,.
But just like Owen Hart not taking Hulk's boots,..Bray Wyatt's initial push getting squashed,. And the myriad of other missed opportunities,..they're eventually gonna fold. Mark my words.
@@Th3feaR Good point. I said to myself recently as I watching older WarGames clips it's a wonder nobody got hurt climbing from one ring to the other. Considering how fast the guys were moving, it was possible someone to make a wrong step.
Totally agree
That $250,000 gate in '87 is worth $573,000 today. Good gate.
Watching War Games was alot like World War III. It was a massive fustercluck, damn was it fun to watch.
What I dug about old-school WarGames matches was they weren’t even really matches, they were just wild brawls. You’d get some normal spots at first, but as more people got in the ring they’d just get wilder and wilder.
What a ridiculously dim witted analogy... nonsense
@@charliebowen5071 Apparently you've never seen any of the World War III pay per views then.
World War 3’s were a lot harder to follow though, they were wild, but they didn’t come across nearly as well on tell as the War Games did.
I've watched the 1st wargames like 100 times lol classics are always awesome 😎🤟🙏 and great work as always wrestling bios, my fav wrestling youtube channel 😎🤟
I have no idea why this man dosen't have more subscribers. This channel is better than a lot of other wrestling channels.
This match made me the biggest wrestling mark! The wrestlers were over! The concept and storylines were great! And crazy crowd pops throughout the match!
I love how the Mad Max movies inspired like 93% of 1980's wrestling ideas.
Can you do an episode on Arn Anderson? He's one wrestler I know very little about. Thanks!
Arn has his own shoot podcast right here on TH-cam
Watch Mid-south wrestling to start. He was a jobber using his real name.
RIP Dusty Rhodes
He was the reason NXT have WarGames
Wrestling Bios should do an episode about the WWF succeeding from the NWA in 1983 which officially started the Golden Age of WWF Wrestling
That's a video I would like to see episode on Black Saturday I mean if it wasn't for Vince breaking away from the NWA and starting his 20-year rivalry with Ted Turner we would have never gotten the Golden era back in the 80s and we definitely most likely would have never gotten the Monday Night War in the 90s at all I'm glad that I was around to witness that great era of wrestling today's current product just doesn't do it for me
@@acewillingham Black Saturday has been done so much I would be afraid that no new takes would be able to have an original spin on what happened. I know this is a stretch but I would like a take on what happened with Ann Gunkel and the Georgia Wars.
@@jknight1984 The Georgia Wars??? I’m intrigued 🤔🤔🤔
@@TheDirtySouth404 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Championship_Wrestling the best answer I could help.
Easily on of my favorite Wrestling bios videos. I love old WCW and War Games! Great job as always!
When Sid Vicious slammed Brian Pillman repeatedly against the cage was absolutely brutal.
Sid botched the first one, I think Pillman was legitimately injured.
@@rightyleftable I wish Giant Gonzalez would've attacked Sid instead of getting Pillman out of there. That would've made the crowd go nuts even after Sting and company lost.
@@InkWarrior but we all know that probably would’ve been botched. Pillman showed off his talent in that match.
@@rightyleftable Pillman was so great. In a time where ther were so few if any he really shined in WCW.
Dusty Rhodes, baby!
Wrestling Bios is my YT Dusty!!! Another great video. Always quality.
@wrestlingbios you always manage to cover topics i didn't even know i wanted to know about. Thanks for being awesome
Here after HHH said War Games is coming to Survivor Series.
I'm intrigued.
Whoever complains that the heels tend to dominate the first half of these matches doesn't understand classic wrestling booking. The heels use the numbers advantage early on to get heat, and when the babyfaces finally catch up to them in full the payback is that much sweeter. Classic "the heel gets his comeuppance in the end" but with more people.
I always liked the War Games match. I'm glad they brought it back.
I love war games too my favored
its interesting how they do the spike pile driver, the head is more in the guys groin then thighs, and falling back then straight down
Has it been said if that was the planned finish for the first war games, obviously not JJ getting injured, but to end it there?
This was the "real" wrestling when I was a kid
I love the war games they still use those nowadays and the classic matches independent companies use this match submit and surrender helps to end the match very well
AMEEEEEERRICAAAAAAAAAAAANNN
DREEEEEEEEEAM.
Not surprised that the Road Warriors were too stiff and legitimately injured JJ. Their finish was brutal.
It's a perfect example of going toe to toe against and challenge ur rival promotion concept..Survivor series vs Wargames
The greatest concept ever created and it will never be done again.
Fantastic video, man. I knew that Dusty created it thanks to his feud with the horsemen, but that's all I knew. There are some of Dusty's creations that WWE only use to spite AEW (didn't use Great American Bash for years until 2019), but I can't fault them for keeping the WarGames name. It's become integral to the NXT brand, and the name fits with their aesthetic really well.
You have no idea how much I waited for this
The AEW "Blood and Guts" match had the tagline of "A Match Beyond." I can see Blood and Guts returning when crowds can safely attend.
The Blood and Guts match morphed into The Stadium Stampede. The Elite versus Inner Circle storyline needed a blow off. The Stadium Stampede sounded ridiculous, but was easily the most fun I have had seeing a match in a long time.
Aew is doing one
I remember not really enjoying the Wargames matches that much. My problem was that it was too big with too much going on to really follow. You suddenly had two rings full of stuff happening in them, and it just.. divided your attention. You missed a lot. Even with a battle royal, you can pretty much stay focused better because everything is in one big ring. It's just.. easier to see what's going on. It gives you one central focus, rather than two. It was a spectacle. It looked cool, but it just divided your attention too much. And let's not even talk about that WCW match with the cages stacked on top of each other. That's another painful can of worms. Haha!
Very good bio as always. The early War Games were much better than the ones WCW put on in late 90's. 1991 & 92 were the 2 best ones NWA/WCW did. Like how NXT is doing War Games combination of old & new school. You can do a couple more bios for War Games & one for NXT War Games
Imagine this year's War Games event that involves both men and women; NXT style. That takes place last year. This time, it's the same exact thing.
And that guy who built the cage must've been real pissed when he also had to take it on tour!!!!!🤣
The 1992 WrestleWar (War Games) is my favorite, one of the best matches ever, major juicing, lots of action and a crazy HOT CROWD
Good video. Never a fan of Dusty as a wrestler. He was very limited, but he was one of the best characters, talkers and bookers in wrestling. Would love to see a video of the dream coming to the WWF and the politics behind that.
Limited? Mind body spirit he was a master. I disagree. But keep watching.
straight up historical 💪 thank you wrestling bios 👍
Can t believe Wcw/Nwa booked an Elimination chamber/Hell in a Cell match in 1987!
As a kid, I was drawn to the spectacle and gimmicks of WWF. But now as an adult I'm enjoying the old NWA stuff more. Something real about it. The heat seemed genuine without weeks of build up. Just guys being competitive.
This man knows about HARD TIMES! WB is the best channel on the tube. Period. Wrestling or otherwise. Keep up the GREAT work. Still hoping for a Kevin Sullivan/Dungeon of Doom video
Been watching for a while, fellow British man here (I'm from Wales anyway) love your videos they've been a big help during all this corona malarkey being stuck in the house I just wanted to ask if you have time, could do a video about Bob Backlund? I don't really know much about him and would like to hear your take on him.
Yes, Dusty was a very creative Booger. 😉
Hah, so I'm not the only one to hear that. 😂
The Battle of Atlanta was the first stage of the war games between mad dog Buzz Sawyer and Tommy wildfire Rich then virtual runners AKA Dusty Rhodes thought of an idea to have the four horsemen versus the road warriors and Paul Ellery with the superpowers of the king koloff and Dusty Rhodes included a two-ring two-sided cage locked and you have wrestlers must win either by submit or surrender ! To do it the first time in Atlanta was amazing but to have it a second time in the Orange bowl in Miami Florida was totally awesome until this day nobody duplicate that ! Oh one more thing ! Could you imagine it Magnum PA was still around and not Nikita koloff the Russian nightmare ?
I've just remembered those stories on Klondike Bill. Urghh.
Looks like this match made modern wrestling
Perhaps the most awaited matches Royal rumble, survicior, Hell in a cell, elimination chamber came from it
Dusty rhodes was such an innvator. RIP
Would love to know more about Nikita Koloff
You shock me again ....I didn't think you was going to ..do one on "WAR GAMES"... Looking forward to Thursday and Sunday bios ....!!
What a fantastic trip thru history to the immediate present. Sometimes we romanticize our memories of the past & make them better than they really were. This video brought back all the magic! I loved the original War Games as a kid. Very well done 👏👏👏
I have the dvd of all this I remember this story
Same, love these matches.
My first wrestling match was on my 7th bday in 94' War Games was in my town Roanoke VA. I was hooked. Lol
great video thanks again werstlingbios thank you for everything
I've said it once and I'll say it again.. This is the best ever channel not just TH-cam but the internet
The first WarGames in 1987 and the WarGames 1989 were my favorites.
Fact Check: Big Bubba Rogers wasn’t war machine or Giant Machine, he was Dark Journey in the second War Games.
Yeah I was there! It was an exciting environment that rainy windy night in ATL!
Had Dusty's theme as my ring tone for ages!
Please tell me it was the WWF Wheel of Fortune one? lol
How is this show not on Peacock/ the network? It might be under some NWA/WCW compilation something or another, but I cant find it 😓
Maybe it's time to put all the PPV concepts into the public domain
I have the WarGames DVD.
I watch them when it's WarGames season, like right now.
I'm a day late but I'm here awesome video buddy keep it up !!!
He's got a bicycle!
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I remember they would always list the rules before the match and just feel like if people couldn’t figure it out by just watching it. Then it was probably to much. And it was. You can figure out the concept of a royal rumble pretty easily if just watching it for the first time. It’s a lot but it’s a simple concept . Which is why it works
WWC in Puerto Rico did the Great War match similar to WarGames but it was all 10 men in the ring at 1 time and the object was to handcuff your opponent members and then the winning team gets the key to free their partners who was handcuffed and beat up the losing team for 5 minutes.
14:08...for context, that's the equivalent of about $572,000 in today's money. For ostensibly a glorified house show. That's an insane number.
Back then the house shows drew the money. TV and PPV was just coming on as a generator for the income to the business.
War Games is my favorite Nxt takeover
Same here
Not a real wargames unless it's by jim crockett promotions or wcw. Mlw came close though.
🤩Nice..... Damn I love your channel. You got it brother! I love this stuff!
That was great. Well done.
The Battle of Atlanta was the first stage of the war games between mad dog but Sawyer and Tommy wildfire Rich then virtual runners AKA Dusty Rhodes thought of an idea to have the four horsemen versus the road warriors and Paul Ellery with the superpowers of the king koloff and Dusty Rhodes included a two-ring two-sided cage locked and you have wrestlers must win either by submit or surrender ! To do it the first time in Atlanta was amazing but to have it a second time in the Orange bowl in Miami Florida was totally awesome until this day nobody duplicate that !
I was at the 3rd WG/MB in Chicago
I actually have an autographed picture of Klondike bill my uncle worked in for wccw in the late 70s and early 80s
A funny memory Arn shared about WarGames was how during one match, he finally got to come in fourth, thus having an easier night.
Afterwards, Dusty informs him not to get comfortable because he's going to be coming in first again the following night lol
I love love war games so much
Thank you for the ole southern NWA match beyond story!
This is probably the second best gimmick match concept of all time in wrestling after the Royal Rumble...Dusty should be proud as hell of this one. Then again, the dog kennel match must be up there somewhere in the top 3 as well...
Love your videos keep it up! Can you do a video series about goldust?
Finally a worthy Rhodes wrestler on Wrestling Bios, I feel like Golddust is the star of this channel (inadvertently of course, he was just around a lot during the Monday night wars)
The unofficial mascot of WB.
Another brilliant bio 👍
War games is the best wrestling concept ever..thank you dusty...