After the success of WarGames in NXT, Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque brought the concept to one of WWE’s biggest shows of the year—and it looks like it’s here to stay.
It was more than 35 years ago, during the spring of 1987, when vignettes appeared on all Jim Crockett Promotions television shows, promising a new concept, “War Games,” that would debut on that year’s July 4 holiday show at the Omni in Atlanta.
This was before Crockett promotions got into the pay-per-view game later in the year. “War Games: The Match Beyond” was a creation of Dusty Rhodes, Crockett’s booker, with the name based on a popular 1983 movie called WarGames.