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WarGames is a specialized steel cage match in professional wrestling.The match usually involves two teams of four or more wrestlers locked inside a steel cage that encompasses two rings placed side by side.
NXT TakeOver was a series of periodic professional wrestling events produced by WWE for the company's developmental brand NXT.The 17th TakeOver event was originally titled as TakeOver: Houston, as the event was held in Houston, Texas; [1] however, the event's name was changed to TakeOver: WarGames after an announcement by WWE executive Triple H on October 4, 2017.
The main event was a WarGames match between The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly, and Roderick Strong) and the team of WWE United Kingdom Champion Pete Dunne, NXT North American Champion Ricochet and War Raiders (Hanson and Rowe). The match began with Cole and Ricochet in the ring.
WarGames (2018) was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Major League Wrestling (MLW), which took place on September 6, 2018 at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The first match was the WarGames match involving Team Ripley (Rhea Ripley, Candice LeRae, Tegan Nox, and Dakota Kai) and Team Baszler (NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler, Bianca Belair, Io Shirai, and NXT UK Women's Champion Kay Lee Ray). LeRae and Shirai began. After five minutes, Belair entered, followed by Ripley and Ray.
The TakeOver event featured the namesake match, which was the first time in nearly twenty years since the match last occurred. The inaugural TakeOver: WarGames was held on November 18, 2017, at Houston's Toyota Center and was a support show for that year's Survivor Series pay-per-view (PPV). [3]
From 2017 to 2020, WWE's NXT brand held an annual subseries of events under the TakeOver series titled WarGames, based around the WarGames match.In September 2021, the NXT brand went through a restructuring, being rebranded as "NXT 2.0", reverting, in part, to a developmental territory for WWE. [1]
The 2020 WarGames event was the 32nd NXT TakeOver event and was held on December 6, 2020. It was the fourth in the WarGames chronology, a subseries of TakeOvers that feature the WarGames match and were originally held as a support show for WWE's annual Survivor Series pay-per-view.