Best and Worst of the steel cage match

**Executioner** · 05-05-2005, 11:43 AM

OK i want to hear everyones feedback on this thread. Lets see what cage match everyone believes is the best and which is the worst. It can be any style of cage match: normal cage, Hell in a Cell, Tower of Doom, War Games, etc. To start off with, my pick for the best cage match of all time would have to be WAR GAMES I at NWA's The Great American Bash 1987. It was a great idea created by Dusty Rhodes, who himself participated in the match as well. The idea of settling a feud between two fighting stables within the confines of a two ring two cage match is tremendous. I clearly remember that the first two teams to ever be in WAR GAMES were the Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) along with Paul Ellering and the Superpowers (Dusty and Nikita Kolloff) faced the Four Hoursemen (Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Lex Luger, and J.J. Dillon). The promos leading up to the event were great, from the construction to the lowering of the cage in Atlanta's Omni. Now for the worst cage match, i would have to choose the "Chamber of Horrors Thunderdome" match at WCW's Halloween Havoc 1991. The idea behind this match was terrible. If i remeber correctly, the object of this match was to place your opponent in the "Chair of Tortures" (a pathetic excuse for an electric chair) and pull the switch which was located about 10' up on the side of the thunderdome (there weren't any wires even coming out of the box which made the fakeness really obvious). The participants were Sting, the Steiner Brothers, and El Gigante against Abdulla the Butcher, Cactus Jack, The Diamond Studd (Scott Hall), and Big Van Vader. To make the finish of this match even worse, WCW put pyro on the chair and cage which surrounded the chair (which incidentally caught a small part of the ring on fire) which made the "electric Chair" appear to execute the loser stuck in it (in this case it was abdulla who felt the electricity). So now that ive made my choices lets hear what everone else thinks. For a great overview of the Steel Cage Match, go to http://www.steelcagematch.com/ this website has great pictures for the wrestling fan who loves his cage matches.

05-05-2005, 11:43 AM	#1
Executioner I'm A Tazz Dan Guy Posts: 735	Best and Worst of the steel cage match OK i want to hear everyones feedback on this thread. Lets see what cage match everyone believes is the best and which is the worst. It can be any style of cage match: normal cage, Hell in a Cell, Tower of Doom, War Games, etc. To start off with, my pick for the best cage match of all time would have to be WAR GAMES I at NWA's The Great American Bash 1987. It was a great idea created by Dusty Rhodes, who himself participated in the match as well. The idea of settling a feud between two fighting stables within the confines of a two ring two cage match is tremendous. I clearly remember that the first two teams to ever be in WAR GAMES were the Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) along with Paul Ellering and the Superpowers (Dusty and Nikita Kolloff) faced the Four Hoursemen (Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Lex Luger, and J.J. Dillon). The promos leading up to the event were great, from the construction to the lowering of the cage in Atlanta's Omni. Now for the worst cage match, i would have to choose the "Chamber of Horrors Thunderdome" match at WCW's Halloween Havoc 1991. The idea behind this match was terrible. If i remeber correctly, the object of this match was to place your opponent in the "Chair of Tortures" (a pathetic excuse for an electric chair) and pull the switch which was located about 10' up on the side of the thunderdome (there weren't any wires even coming out of the box which made the fakeness really obvious). The participants were Sting, the Steiner Brothers, and El Gigante against Abdulla the Butcher, Cactus Jack, The Diamond Studd (Scott Hall), and Big Van Vader. To make the finish of this match even worse, WCW put pyro on the chair and cage which surrounded the chair (which incidentally caught a small part of the ring on fire) which made the "electric Chair" appear to execute the loser stuck in it (in this case it was abdulla who felt the electricity). So now that ive made my choices lets hear what everone else thinks. For a great overview of the Steel Cage Match, go to http://www.steelcagematch.com/ this website has great pictures for the wrestling fan who loves his cage matches.