Arn Anderson highlighted the key elements for a great WarGames match on a recent episode of The ARN Show.
He stressed the importance of a consistent formula that began with a one-on-one situation, typically involving a heel and a coin flip that the heels had to win for a two-on-one advantage. The babyface would then enter to balance the odds, followed by another heel to maintain their advantage, setting the stage for thrilling comebacks. Arn also emphasized the need to keep the action continuous by immediately engaging with incoming opponents in the two-ring WarGames setup.
In Anderson’s own words:
“Well, there’s a formula that always works. But if you vary from that formula, I don’t know what you got. Because however many of those I was in, same formula. I would start, Dusty or whoever would start with me, and you had your coin flip. It was imperative that the heels won the coin flip so you would always have a two-on-one situation. Then the babyface came in next and evened it up. Then another heel would come in, and it was like you always had the advantage if you were the bad guys. And you were available then for the next fresh babyface who’s coming in to feed him a comeback. And if you didn’t go to him and soon as he stepped through that door, if you were on the other side of the ring hypothetically, two rings put together. If a guy had to go and cover all the way, two rings to get to a guy to get beat up, flat. There needed to be one guy or two guys, depending on how many were in the ring to meet him as soon as he stepped in that cage and cut down on that dead time, that was imperative.”
(h/t 411mania)