WarGames matches don't need to happen every year

WWE Survivor Series: WarGames is a few days away. This is one of the tentpole events for the WWE schedule each year. The shift to the WarGames styles matches have added a new layer to the event, especially since dropping the troupe of “Brand Supremacy.” However, in just three short years the conversation is now that the WarGames matches have overstayed their welcome and it’s time for a change with this PLE.

For this year, it looks like two WarGames matches are set. Roman Reigns will lead one version of “The Bloodline,” while Solo Sikoa will lead his group into the steel cage. On the women’s side, Rhea Ripley and Liv Morgan will continue their angle with four allies to round out their teams. As with all the other WarGames matches to date, these will be fun with several highlights worthy of talking about in the evenings that follow. They will certainly bring the “sports entertainment.” But are fans right to be “tired” of them every year.

WarGames is heading for the same situation that the Hell in a Cell stipulation found itself in. What started out as a great, new match concept to bring about a violent end to a feud, became nothing more than a placeholder on the WWE schedule. Matches were shoe-horned into the cage, regardless of if they were hot angles or not. That is the direction that WarGames is edging close to in just three years since moving it to the main roster. Survivor Series traded one troupe in the brand supremacy defined by elimination style matches, to find ways to force these “teams” together to take part in WarGames.

Think about what it would mean if WWE took the match type and used it once a year, but at different points. Instead of knowing it was coming every year in November, WWE Creative would have to find creative ways to build these teams within an angle, if it was necessary. It would make sense to take time off to keep the matches fresh. Take, for example, lumberjack matches which do not happen as often as they once did. Now, they offer an intriguing wrinkle to matches that are shown every week or month. WarGames should have that same type of impact on angle. Its involvement should let fans know that this has become a “serious matter,” rather than it just being that time of the year.

WWE Survivor Series: WarGames 2024 is set to offer two fun and violent matches. Once this event comes and goes, perhaps it’s time for WWE to reevaluate how the stipulation is used going forward.