[4.0] "Very boring match. The war games match type should've stayed in NXT because it just gets more and more uninspired. The face team winning every year gets so boring"
[3.0] "Worst women's war games match ever. It was so sloppy until Iyo came in. Nia looked like she had no idea what the hell she was doing and they had the team with the 2 world champions lose for the sake of furthering a story that nobody cared about."
[8.0] "Standard WWE-style wargames, that seemed uneventful to a lot of people at the time but to me was quite enjoyable due to some of the personalities involved. For the most part people you expect to be good are good, same goes the other way. Tiffany's leap was fabulous!"
[9.0] "This match has a really bad and untruthful rating. It's an underappreciated work. The botches didn't stand out enough to justify such a low score for the work of the women. The teams were very well coordinated, and there were a lot of great female wrestlers in the match. Each wrestler's character was perfectly expressed; we understood who is who and the motivation of each wrestler. Iyo Sky is a goddess. She created the most amazing content in the match. She was super charismatic. The fire extinguisher and the jump from the top of the cage bucket were genius. Honestly, this is probably the best match of 2024, I dare say. I was really interested in watching it, and I was engaged like in childhood. The only reason I gave it a 9 instead of a 10 is the unfair positioning of Morgan as a weak champion again. The pin was on her, even though it would have made more sense to pin Nia Jax or Candice LeRae. Although Liv was presented as the final boss and the last to come out to the ring. 4.25 stars."
[3.0] "Oof, the end of this match really masks 15 minutes of really poor stuff. So much of this match is girls not hitting each other. Rhea always looks like a megastar and Iyo arriving really picked it up. Watch that first 10 minutes back and show me anything that looks good."
[7.0] "Should've started the match with the best wrestler each team has, Iyo and Candice were right there man, instead they go with Nia and Bayley, the worst possible choice to start the match with. They did a whole lot of nothing for 40 minutes, if Iyo and Tiffany doesn't do the dive this match would not have any highlight at all lol."
[8.0] "This match is a great one even an amazing one. It's a botchfest at first and thats the reason it isn't a 10. The match is a huge showoff of the great women's roster in WWE with Candice Lerae, Tiffany Stratton, Liv Morgan, A significantly improved Nia Jax, Iyo Sky, Bayley, Bianca Belair Naomi and Rhea Rhipley. Iyo is really making history as Mrs. Wargames, Tiffy was great as well and the Mitb fakeout was really fun, Rhea putting Liv through a table was awesome and overall it was just amazing. I understand why people don't like it cause of the slow start and how the story doesn't make sense but as a match it is amazing."
[9.0] "****1/2(09/10) Guys! Are you serious? Do you not understand what exactly War Games showcases for the company as a reflection of where (each) divisions talent is currently at! Okay, I'll let this one go, because everyone is entitled to their opinion, as they say, though who exactly is they? I'm just kidding. I think the thing with WWE is because of where it stands in the Pro-Wrestling world, if something is not pristine perfect whatever may be an imperfection gets overblown in the consensus eye. But I'm telling you go and rewatch the opener to Survivor Series 2024. Maybe even smoke a little bit of weed and tell me you aren't watching an above star classic by the time IYO came falling from the sky inside a purple bin! I still wouldn't believe you, though. If you agree with what Meltzer rates, then you clearly aren't a (true) fan of Women's Pro-Wrestling."
[2.0] "agree with "This was possibly the worst women's war games match I've ever watched. Nia's chair shots pissed me off and the wrestlers selling those terrible shots made me even more mad. Also, this match really didn't need the match type cause it felt forced to be in war games. The fact that a multiply women feud in NXT had a better reason to have the War Games stipulation is all you need to know why this felt forced." gave a point for iyo being iyo"
[2.0] "This was pretty bad in my opinion. They didn't need a women's wargames this year and the story didn't even demand it. This match would have suited much better as a traditional 5 vs 5 elimination tag. They already messed it up in the start with the heels having the advantage. This match was too sloppy and messed up in my opinion. A shockingly bad performance from Bayley who has always been consistently good. Nia Jax shouldn't start wargames matches, she is not build for that kind of roles in wrestling. She should have been the last person for the heel team and destroyed everyone as she is much suited as a monster heel rather than being the ironman for a wargames match that they had her do here. The last five minutes was when the match really picked up with Iyo and Tiffany being the MVP's of the matches. Iyo Sky is the best women's wrestler in the world today. But overall pretty bad match in my opinion and a huge downgrade from last year. Should have been a 5 vs 5 elimination tag."
[1.0] "This match actively made me angrier as I watched it. I think it's because I'm watching these people ostensibly putting effort into this match, but not into making the match any good. A ton of effort was put into the match, coming up with all of these spots to do during the match. But there was no effort in actually putting anything together that made sense or peaked at the right points. The finish of the match was an avalanche Riptide, but that came five minutes after Nia Jax got put through a table off the top rope. Iyo Sky did her stupid dive off the cage, but Tiffany Stratton did a Swanton off the top of the cage at the same time. It was just a bunch of shit happening, a lot of it being done poorly. This would have been a bad Lethal Lockdown. This was a strong contender for Worst Match of the Year. 1/2 *"
[7.0] "Pretty weak until 5v5, in my opinion. I understand the theoretical reason for having someone of Nia's build in first but she just isn't good enough to carry that part of the match. I think the rest of the match was perfectly fine, to the point that I don't really understand an overall negative review."
[8.0] "The only reason this is not getting a higher grade is due to the botchy build up previous to the match, and how the superstars that were in some rivalries months ago now act like nothing happened. The in-ring action was absolutely brilliant. I really loved it. [****1/4]"
[5.0] "This match was a total botchfest, and made no sense story wise in the first place. I mean when you have Nia Jax, Tiffany Stratton, and Candice Lerae teaming with Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez when they were literally feuding earlier in the month makes no sense then you have Iyo and Bayley teaming up while they don't even acknowledge their feud earlier in the year. And in-ring the match was a super slow paced bad match as well with Nia Jax doing what may be the worst chair shots I've ever seen in my life. The only reason I even gave it a 5 is because Iyo, Tiffany and Candice had some crazy spots."
[3.0] "poorly produced match with wrestlers who seemed they were lacking in the cardio department. weak chair shots, the story wasn't there and this match wasn't warranted. botch fest too."
[2.0] "Awful build, awful match, worst chairshots since Hulk Hogan, it was not a war it was a bad spotfest, whoever decided to put Nia Jax in #1 is a criminal, you can make a 10min botch compilation from this match alone. The fact that I have to write a comment to justify this rating is kinda embarassing and all the people who rated this match above average should be banned asap"
[5.0] "Such a mid match, it was all over the place, and sloppy as hell, almost 40 minutes of bore fest, I'm only giving it 5 for IYO, Candice and Rhea performances"
[6.0] "Man this match was absolutely all over the place. It gets a 6 because I still had fun in the long run, but when you look at the small individual parts of the match it was a mess. As a Nia Jax defender, this match was absolutely awful for her. The chair shots, botches, and just overall a mess. Tiffany looked great, but I am so tired of the MITB briefcase just being used to make the carrier look like an idiot."
[2.0] "40+ minutes total of watching 3 of the worst female wrestlers in Jax, Morgan, and Rodriguez drag down everyone else to a boring slog of a match with a few high spots. Also, Jax starting the match? She was gassed by the end of the first 5 minutes. A woefully boring match that showcased the very worst in the WWE women's division."
[7.0] "That Trashcan moonsault was insane. IYO SKY is the real MVP. Damn I love how insane she is, and how effing good she is. She makes all the other wrestlers look bad. Especially Bianca Belair was a shadow of herself. I hope we cant stope this stupid feude between and LIV. It has run its course, and im so tired of it. Hoping for a good feud between Liv and IYO SKY, at some point."
[5.0] "Relatively boring and this match was unneccesary enough to have, it got better towards the end but this felt forced and ended up being decent enough for a 5. As bad as that you have the team with the most discourse within each other win the match, and making the team with the 2 women's championship lose. I hope they scrap WarGames for next year if i'm being honest."
[6.0] "I don't think match is as bad as people make it out to be, but was certainly full of some odd points that were very awkward to watch. It did have a good amount of action, a teased cash in and the right team won. 5.5/10"
[3.0] "It would have been a "2", if it wasn't for Ripley and Iyo Sky. The others were embarrassing, especially Nia Jax. I'm really disappointed by Jax: I was one of those who really liked her when she arrived, because she has the physique to be potentially impressive, but in the end she's not. She always botches, her hits are too light, she often appears confused, as if she doesn't know what to do. And she did too many horrible matches like this one, so now I'm getting down from the "Nia Jax train". The other girls were just slight better, but still: girls in general need to get "dirtier", to not be so afraid to get hurt or to hurt the opponent. There's still too much difference between men and women in wrestling and this needs to get fixed. Rhea Ripley is the perfect example of how a woman in wrestling should be: she's strong, she hits strong, she get bumps like a pro, she's sure of herself and of what she's doing."
[1.0] "Holy shit, this sucked out loud. Who made the call to have Nia Jax start the match? They should be fired on the spot. There is not a moment of believability in anything these girls are doing and most of it looks like shit. Using a bunch of weapons(mostly terribly and ineffectively) and a couple high spots do not make a good match that is proven in this match when that formula falls apart what is left is a train wreck."
[7.0] "This is a really good WG Match and I don't understand why there is this much hate about it. There's some botches of course, but to be honest, we saw really good action. IYO is really a WarGames MVP, and the end is quite interesting, and even the storytelling was good."
[4.0] "The match has a whole has a lot of flaws. Personally, I am not a big fan of the War Games format in general but I can look passed it if the match itself was good and entertaining. For most of this match, I did not think it was entertaining. A lot of the moves in ring did not look good, the best example was the Nia Jax chair shots. To give credit, obviously she is trying to change the reputation she has of injuring people, but I think she could make it look a little less obvious that she was not hitting them hard if she was even hitting them all. The story as well did not add up either. You have Liv Morgan and Nia Jax who were just feuding at Crown Jewel be on the same team which I feel like invalidates the Crown Jewel Championship even more. Alongside that, you make both brands champions look weak in this match as they were on the losing team with Liv eating the pin and it made it clear that this was done to build to another Rhea Liv match. Despite these issues, there is a reason that I did not give it a lower rating. I think once the real match actually got going it was very good. It provided a good spotlight on Candice Lerae who is one of the most underutilized talents on SmackDown in my opinion. Plus Iyo Sky really shined in this match as she usually does. Iyo Sky alone pretty much gets this match a little bit out of the gutters for me."
[7.0] "Enjoyed it. Plunder and action, too many talented women for this not to be a good match. Couple awkward moments, especially with Nia, but nothing that took me out of the match for too long so I don't think the rating needs to be dragged down too low."
[6.0] "Was a decent match.Had some of the usual WarGames spots but apart from that it was mid and lacked proper storyline.It was basically just heels vs faces.There should have been more argument within both teams given the history.Should have had the heels win and should have had Tiffy cash in.So overrall not bad but not great."
[3.0] "I don't want to talk much but the match was never needed and the so-called generational rivalry between Rhea and Liv just became oversaturated and Everyone seemed less experiences especially Nia"
[6.0] "I've read multiple times this match was a disaster. Well, the whole story was. It just was an amalgam of top women stories today in the main roster without a true organic connection (a brief altercation between Liv, Raquel, Jade and Bianca, the Nia Jax feud with Naomi and Bayley and the already burnt out Rhea vs Liv feud, with Io being inserted just because she is Liv's next challenger). The match was better than the story, but it wasn't nothing beyond really mid. WarGames is a stipulation that needs a heavy story to make it work. Without it, you're not going to see any excellence, just the same collection of spots and the basic match scheme this match could present. It's funny how WWE always present themselves as a tough business and their wrestlers have to be really tough to work for them (mostly they sell this idea in documentaries and shows like Tough Enough), but then the reality is they make their wrestlers, specially women, to work as soft and bland as possible. You look at this match and you look at a singles bout in a joshi promotion and they are completely different. Joshis are tough, women in this match were bland AF. Nia, Naomi, and I don't remember who else, throwing the Hulk Hogan weak ass chair shots over and over, Candice LeRae doing a moonsault on Bayley and just hitting her with the palm of her hand, Bianca Belair being the complete disappointment of the match by being MIA. Io Shirai, once again, was easily the best of the match, followed up by Nia (I can't believe I'm saying this, but it's also a proof of how mid this match really is). She didn't do much, but at least put on the most intensity, was part of the most appealing spot of the match (which was so damn forced, overdone and just made for the sake of fanservice that it didn't do anything for me but laugh at how unnatural it was). I tell you what, the whole Tiffany Stratton cash-in teasing is so overdone by now, but it would've been so refreshing and surprising she succesfully cashed-in here. doesn't matter on who, but no, just one more in the 134th teases they've been doing since Tiff won the briefcase. I think no women really had a great showing here. Some did better, some did worse, but in general, it's a match that didn't need to happen, a match that didn't need the stipulation and which only reason of existence is to prevent feminists on twitter from complaining for not giving a WarGames match to the women like they gave it to the men. It's not a thing of genders, in fact, the NXT women were more fit for having a WarGames than the main roster ones as they had an organic multiple women confrontation (***)"
[8.0] "Really not sure what all the complants area about, this was a fun and enjoyable match. Better than the men's. This actually felt like a proper WarGames match... and this is coming from an old timer who been watching since the first Fall Brawl. The women definitely caught the essence of what the match is supposed to about most than the main event."
[1.0] "Flat out atrocious. Everyone tried hard, don't get me wrong, but there was no flow to the match or any real sense of stakes or purpose. Worse still was the fact that a lot of the work and ideas were very poorly executed. It was a tough watch, made even worse by the absolute nonsense charade with Tiffany Stratton illogically thinking about cashing in her MITB briefcase. Who on earth is this for?"
[6.0] "This was not a great WarGames but much better than the rating suggests. It was confused, poorly booked and most importantly, I think it lacked character interactions even though there were so many possibilities among the babyface team. Still, many memorable spots and good moments."
[9.0] "I don't get all the hate this one is getting? Every year, since the inception of Wargames on the main roster, the women's match has been better than the men's and once again this was the case in 2024. The spots were better again, including IYO combining her usual two crazy ones to perform something insanely shocking in the trashcan Moonsault! There were some messy parts sure, with 'too' much happening at anyone time but that's the way these matches SHOULD look. It's war after all and there is no need for everything to look overly choreographed. Not a fan of Rhea pinning Liv for the finish though."
[6.0] "Man, had it not been for whatever that first half was, I'd probably be rating this a lot higher. Yeah, the first half was just so sloppy. I knew Jax starting things off wouldn't be good, and I was right. Luckily, the second half of this was pretty fun. SKY hitting a Moonsault from the top of the cage with a garbage can over her head was genuinely insane."
[5.0] "[2.75*] A pretty confusing match to rate, everything was horrible leading to be one of the worst wargames ever, until Bianca and Tiffany enters, the match begins to be more fun and enjoyable for the first time, it was a pain to watch nia doing her worst performance ever, and since she was the first to enter we had to watch her during the whole match."
[5.0] "The match in and of itself was fine. Cool spots here and there. The cash-in bait was entertaining. As for how it came to be, it is more debatable. It felt like a very forced build up. Which kind of dulled the match's impact. **1/2"
[3.0] "This match was a horrifically bad match. it was full of botches and failed spots and it struggled to get me re-hooked to the terrible feud between Liv and Rhea. IYO SKY was the only one cooking in this match, however I have a problem. She just repeated the garbage can spot. I don't understand why you'd do the same spot twice in the same area in the same match-type. I loved the sport and Tiffany's spot was also great, however this match just kinda failed with everything else and felt extremely slow."
[3.0] "This company needs to stop copy pasting men's matches for the women's division, especially when it's a stipulation based match. This absolutely was a bad match. Nia Jax and Bayley was the worst out of the wrestlers in the match. Nothing was syncing at all. The only saving grace was Iyo Sky, of course she is. The only compatible women's wrestler in the company. Everything she does is so good but the 9 others weren't helping"
[3.0] "I genuinely just didn't enjoy this match unfortunately. The story leading up to it barely made any sense to me and the in ring action was a chaotic mess, but not in the fun way that enhanced the match. Nia starting off for the heels was a very odd and confusing choice, both from a storytelling perspective and a match quality perspective. She could have easily been made the last entrant for her team as it would have made a ton of sense for her to push the other women into fighting for her and it would have alleviated a lot of problems with the flow of the match being hindered by Nia's not so great talent. She also hit some of the worst chair shots I've ever seen in my life, rivaling even Lance Storm's weak chairshots to the head in ECW (though in retrospect, he was right in the end for being super careful and weak with that.) Iyo was probably the best part of this match and even she felt pointlessly added just to get her usual Wargames spots in, which, while still cool, lack the oomph they had when she did them the first few times."
[7.0] "A decent WarGames match, everyone involved had a good outing with IYO and Tiffany being the stand out stars, that moonsault and senton spot off the cage was awesome. My problem is that there were so many wasted opportunities, Jade should have been in the match and they could of had her or Bianca turn heel on the other, they could of had Tiffany turn babyface and turn on Nia and even had a MITB cash in for the first time ever in a WarGames match."
[8.0] "I really enjoyed this match, I was actually shocked to see the discourse online. Dying on my hill here on my own though - I thought they all worked incredibly hard and pulled off some very memorable spots. Still find it insane where the womens division has come from given the crap people were watching ten years ago. Maybe people should remember that a bit more?"
[6.0] "Looking back at this match half of the people botch. Nia was slow and had terrible chair shots. Bayley was confused and was calling shots. No clue what the hell Naomi was doing. LeRae botch the flip onto the chairs. Iyo botch trying to flip into a powerbomb. Liv/Rhea/Bianca/Raquel barely did anything remarkable. Tiffany had those 2 good sequences in this match. But i found something weird in this match. Did anyone else notice how the superstars were looking for the weapons and it wasn't in the right spot? Every single person looked confused which has me questioning what if this was the producer's fault. It's one thing if a couple of people messed up but everyone who was getting weapons didn't know where the steel chair was or the table or the garbage can This match seems like it was to give Rhea her babyface moment once again which i don't get. This was probably the 3rd worst wargame ever existed the only worst ones were the WCW one and the NXT 2.0 wargames. my final rating i would give this match is a 2.75/5 just because I think it was more of a producers fault than the wrestlers."
[5.0] "From a storypoint they included a lot with Bayley trying to make ammends and the others needing to trust her, the Damage Control reunion, Stratton teasing another Cash-In and faceturn e.g. But on a technical point of view this was embarassing. Pretty much every single use of a weapon looked bad, a lot of ugly lucking moves and bumps."
[3.0] "This is the worst WarGames match under the WWE banner, the build up and structure of the match was way too rushed and out of place, the action and spots weren't that good all the time, everyone's performances were weak and this match did no favours for any woman involved with the storylines and feuds they had, particularly Rhea and Liv."
[3.0] "This was just soulless, the action was bad for 80% of the match. They shouldnt have started Nia or Bayley. They should have used the time to put someone in that can actually go and wrestle (not that I think Nia is all that bad just not good for this circumstance). Nia's use of the chair was just pathetic. Iyo, Tiffy and Namoi really carried this match, sad that Liv Raquel and Rhea drug it down with there terrible performances."
[8.0] "Nia Jax botching multiple things detracts from the quality, but I think the good definitely outshone the bad. Iyo was definitely the star of the show, with her trash can spot and also bringing out the fire extinguisher so Rhea could cuff Raquel to the ropes. Definitely a better match than the mens' war game match."
"[6.5] Not bad, sloppy match I must admit. Nia jax at the start was boring and ruined the vibe. Tiffany Stratton and iyo sky had some good spots that boost this rating."
[4.0] "Sloppy and the pacing was awful in the first half of the match. Very boring and most of the participants seemed lost. Some of the spots were good though."
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