Royce Keys Discusses His Dream WarGames Roster

Royce Keys recently weighed in on the kind of dream scenario a lot of wrestling fans love to debate: if he could build a WarGames team using any wrestler from WWE history, who would he want in his corner? Keys shared his hypothetical roster, running through the mix of names he’d want by his side heading into the double-ring structure.

WarGames has become one of the most anticipated matches on the WWE calendar over the past several years, now an annual centerpiece of Survivor Series weekend. What started as a WCW and NWA staple decades ago has been revived by WWE as a showcase for its most physical, chaotic style of tag team storytelling, with both the men’s and women’s divisions getting their own versions of the match. Roster spots in the real WarGames matches have become a badge of honor for teams and factions looking to be taken seriously, and the format’s brutality — steel cages, weapons, and waves of competitors entering one at a time — has made it a favorite among hardcore fans.

That kind of stage naturally invites the fantasy-booking exercise Keys took part in, and it’s easy to see why. Building an all-time dream team forces a wrestler or personality to think not just about star power, but chemistry, size, toughness, and who they’d trust to have their back once the door to the cage locks. It’s a exercise that plenty of talents and fans alike enjoy, especially with WarGames now cemented as a signature November attraction rather than a novelty one-off.

With Survivor Series weekend still months away, speculation about who might actually compete in this year’s WarGames matches is only going to ramp up. Exercises like this one from Keys are as much a temperature check on which stars and legends still resonate with the current generation as they are simple fun — and they tend to fuel exactly the kind of debate WWE loves to see building toward its biggest matches of the fall.

As the build to Survivor Series continues, expect more talents to be asked the same question, and expect the names that come up most often to say a lot about who fans and wrestlers alike view as the gold standard for chaos in the double cage.