{"id":8262,"date":"2017-10-04T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=8262"},"modified":"2017-10-04T20:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:38:58","slug":"breaking-spoiler-former-nwawcw-gimmick-coming-nxt-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/10\/04\/breaking-spoiler-former-nwawcw-gimmick-coming-nxt-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING SPOILER: Former NWA\/WCW Gimmick Coming to NXT TakeOver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, you were warned. So read the rest at your own risk&#8230;Just moments ago at tonight&#8217;s NXT tapings, it was announced that at <em><strong>NXT Takeover: Houston<\/strong><\/em> in November over <em><strong>Survivor Series<\/strong><\/em> in Houston, Texas, there will be a tag team three way match featuring <strong>SaNiTY<\/strong> (<strong>Eric Young, Alexander Wolfe<\/strong> and <strong>Killian Dain<\/strong>) vs. <strong>The Undisputed Era<\/strong> (<strong>Adam Cole, Bobby Fish<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Kyle O&#8217;Reilly<\/strong>) vs. <strong>The Authors of Pain<\/strong> and <strong>Roderick Strong<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scoop #25: Roddy comes out, teases joining Undisputed Era but attacks them, at Takeover it&#39;s Sanity vs Undisputed Era vs AOP &amp; Roddy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3xmd7mrfqt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/3xmd7mrfqt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jacob Cohen (@MrJacobCohen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrJacobCohen\/status\/915733230338416640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But the big news is that the match will take place inside a steel cage and TWO RINGS. The three teams will compete in a <strong>War Games<\/strong> match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scoop #27: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c8YSqPhPSj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/c8YSqPhPSj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jacob Cohen (@MrJacobCohen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrJacobCohen\/status\/915733480918708224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>War Games was a popular NWA\/WCW event &#8211; like <em><strong>Starrcade<\/strong><\/em>, invented by the late, great <strong>Dusty Rhodes<\/strong> &#8211; that debuted in 1987 at the NWA Mid-Atlantic&#8217;s <em><strong>Great American Bash<\/strong><\/em> and featured <strong>The Road Warriors<\/strong>, Dusty Rhodes, <strong>Nikita Koloff<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Ellering<\/strong> vs. <strong>The Four Horsemen<\/strong> (<strong>Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard, Lex Luger<\/strong> and <strong>JJ Dillon<\/strong>) and became a gimmick match used throughout various NWA (and subsequently WCW) Live Events and PPVs. From 1992 until 1998, it was held exclusively at WCW&#8217;s <em><strong>Fall Brawl<\/strong><\/em> PPV. It was eliminated in 1999, but <strong>Vince Russo<\/strong> brought it back for one match in 2000, on an episode of <em><strong>Monday Nitro<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark the first time the WWE has held a War Games match in it&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, you were warned. So read the rest at your own risk&#8230;Just moments ago at tonight&#8217;s NXT tapings, it was announced that at NXT Takeover: Houston in November over Survivor Series in Houston, Texas, there will be a tag team three way match featuring SaNiTY (Eric Young, Alexander Wolfe and Killian Dain) vs. The Undisputed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":8264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[84,527,179,116,261,1555],"class_list":["post-8262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wwe-universe","tag-adam-cole","tag-authors-of-pain","tag-bobby-fish","tag-nxt","tag-sanity","tag-war-games"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}