Goldberg came around at a time when WCW needed a larger than life presence and how Kevin Sullivan utilized him by not allowing him to speak and just having him crush guys was brilliantly done. I had never heard a pop louder than the one in the Georgia Dome when Goldberg beat Hogan. That was insane.
The phrase “road warrior pop” comes to mind! Those guys got a pop when they came in any where. Loudest pop I ever heard besides Journey and that was 20k screaming women so that’s why it was Louder.
Me! Cause Goldberg was Da Man! He was a true phenom in the ring. The fans loved him because he looked super legit in the ring, an MMA fighter in pro-wrestling, that was his gimmick and it was beautiful to see.
@@ozthegreater9320 Bill was a ferocious powerful wrestler. I never seen anyone else lift the giant the way he did but...where he failed was not being able to make other wrestlers look good like the other greats.
Goldberg is someone who really deserved championship Title more than 10 times because he made WCW/WWE look real he really could kill an average humans within seconds
Met Ric at Monday after the Masters in Myrtle Beach! Is beyond approachable, even though I had a Clemson shirt, he gave me hell over! Great guy, didn't disappoint at all!
Met Ric back when he was with impact wrestling with my daughter. He shook my hand and signed a autograph for us. He was super nice to us but I found out shortly that he had turned everyone away that had approached him. I don't know if it was true or having a young child helped but he was as nice as a person could be so I have nothing bad to say about him. He's a legend in his own time.
If you were around to watch it back then you would know how bad it was after they had the nwo red, white, and Latino then they all came together after they beat him. Mark madden and Ric flair both worked for the WCW and they’re the ones saying it sucked
@@Maxx_d13 I was around to watch it back then. All those nwo antics like the finger poke just made you hate the nwo more, which was the point. Absolutely, they could have done stuff a lot better than they did around that point, but it didn’t get bad until Russo.
Love this podcast it's a perfect combo double M and the nature boy couldn't picked a better duo. I actually remember Hugh Morris being the first guy he beat
Your right, Warrior was a little more popular but i dont think that is your point. Also, i think Warrior took it more serious than Bill and he shouldve known how to wrestle more than Bill but i think he was trying too much to look like a super hero.
Flair was my favorite wrestler in the 80's and 90's. I was a HUGE 4 Horseman fan from day 1. But...I call him "Boomerang" now. Every story comes back to being about him.
Many legends said Goldberg was safe to work with even Ric Flair was speaking on his Wooooo Nation Uncensored Podcast, WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair was asked whether Goldberg was safe to work with. Flair stated that he still thinks Goldberg is a safe worker despite concussing Bret Hart. “Well, to me he was very safe. I have been kicked in the head by him too.Jan 6, 2022 but only Bret said he wasn't but the truth is he was it was just that on incident kick but what's also the truth, Bret Harts career wasn't ended by Goldberg, Eric Bischoff explained what truly was leading to Harts career ending... It was Bret who took it upon himself when he had a hardcore match and during the match he hit his head pretty hard on the concrete ground and continued to do more matches, not the kick from Goldberg that's not the main cause... Bret Hart could have taken time off but decided to do more matches, first Goldbergs match with the accidental kick was on December 19, 1999 than a match against Chris beniot on Dec 21, 1999 next match against Jerry Flynn on Dec 27, 1999 next a PPV hardcore match - against Terry Funk on Jan 4, 2000 next four more matches against Sid Vicious on Jan 6, 7, 8, 9, 2000 and finally his last match against Kevin Nash on Jan 10, 2000... But puts all the blame on Goldberg? C'mon man, lets be for real here... so it was the hardcore match what was leading to end his career because he kept on getting hurt by continuing to do more matches... The kick was accidental even Ric Flair said so that it's a risk and their are times you will get hurt if the match doesn't go as it's set in the ring and this is a guy who started in 1972 and who knows the business from inside and out of the ring... So who's the real person to blame, sure wasn't Goldberg... Like I'm trying to say is, Bret Hart forgave WCW for the caused of his brothers death, he forgave Vince Mcmahon for forcing Bret to loose the title Against Shawn Michaels when bret never tapped out, he forgave Shawn Michaels for stealing his latter matches when Shawn promise Bret he wasn't going to use his idea but lied and did it anyways, but yet cannot forgive Goldberg!!! I used to like him until he became a lier and wining saying GOLDBERG ended his career when he took it upon himself by continuing to do more matches, that Bret's fault even WCW'S, not Goldbergs otherwise that would have been his final match... according to Ron Simmons Scott Steiner Rick Steiner Booker T Edge Christian Vince Mcmahon Curt Hennig Bobby Heenan Sid Vicious Arn Anderson Diamond Dallas Page ( Kevin Nash on and off with Goldberg ) Lex Luger Sting The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin Brock Lesner Ric Flair John Cena Randy Orton The Undertaker Triple H Shawn Michaels Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff said he is one of the greatest because if he wasn't NONE of these guys would support him and say he is... Even Stone Cold Steve Austin said so on the Broken Skull plus he supported him and was right beside him during the 2003-04 era.. that's why He's in the Hall of Fame... Even the Rock loves Goldberg and it was him who got Goldberg to change his mind to come to the WWE in 2003 to make a new era and for Goldberg to be the main character since the Rock was leaving to continue his acting career and decided to play as a heel and Goldberg as the new WWE hero... The truth also is, If Goldberg was an unsafe and unprofessional wrestler, they would have ended His Wrestling career and no longer be rehired back into the business and or even brought back into the business in the year 2016... The true fans that continue to support Bill know it's B.S. on the lies and negativities on him... Accidents do happened and that many others have their career ended like for example what D.lo Brown did to Droz who got him completely paralyzed for life... And we don't hear from Droz saying, you ended my career and I will hold a grudge against you forever... What's truly sad is, Hart made Goldberg believed that for so many years and still today continuously saying to everyone that he ended his career and cost him millions and Goldberg constantly apologizing for something he didn't even do which was ending Bret Harts career but only an accidental kick to his face... Bret Hart could have taken time off to recover but wanted to continue Wrestling which made it worse... Everyone else said he was safe to work with and never gotten hurt by Goldberg, For example Goldberg asked Jericho personally on Y2J's talked show when he interviewed Goldberg and Goldberg asked, " Chris, did I ever hurt you" and Chris's response was, "no"... Said the person who had a problem with Goldberg in the beginning of their career Here are Goldbergs 35 plus three extra moves that he had done in his Wrestling career... 1. Back body drop. 2. Dragon screw leg whip. 3. Spinning back kick. 4. Diving clothesline. 5. Electric chair drop. 6. Gutwrench suplex. 7. Firemen's carry slam. 8. Clothesline. 9. Sidewalk slam. 10. Full nelson slam. 11. Belly to belly suplex. 12. Corkscrew dropkick. 13. Drop kick. 14. Spinebuster. 15. Belly to belly sideslam. 16. Big boot. 17. Shoulder block. 18. Scoop powerslam. 19. Crossarm breaker. 20. Front scoop powerslam. 21. Snap swinging neck breaker. 22. Kneebar. 23. Leg trapped spinebuster. 24. Avalanche gorilla press lam. 25. Superkick. 26. Gorilla press slam. 27. Gorilla press drop. 28. Gorilla press front scoop powerslam. 29. Headlock/underhook suplex. 30. Powerslam. 31. Pumphandle overhead suplex. 32. Gorilla press spinebuster. 33. Gorilla press power slam. 34. Spear. 35. Jackhammer. Bonus... 1.hip toss. 2. Kneedrop. 3. Judo takedown... Theirs a video on youtube of Goldbergs 35 top Wrestling moves Theirs another video of Goldbergs 48 Wrestling moves but the 35 are his best Oh can't forget the head smash ring bar move...
These WWE b*tt s*ck*ng marks will never get it. You ask anyone, anyone, who grew up watching wrestling in the 80's and 90's, and they'll tell you that Goldberg is one of the greatest pro-wrestlers ever. There is NO ONE that I knew that watched wrestling that I grew up with that thinks Goldberg was terrible, NO ONE. Haters are gonna hate.
I remember seeing Goldberg vs The Giant for Thunder in Casper, WY. The Giant was on his way out and even smoked a cigarette. They made him put it out eventually. Goldberg came, spear, jackhammer, 1, 2, 3 and the place never stopped going nuts. From the first second Goldberg's music hit and hours afterward, people were going nuts.
15:25 maybe not at the BEGINNING of Flair's career BUT in a previous generation that Flair was witness to and was instrumental in, The Road Warriors were what Goldberg was and to a lesser degree Nikita Koloff.
A wrestler during Flairs early career named Fred Curry drop kicked his opponent 15 to 20 times from the start to move time along and that was a workout for both guys.Most times the wrestlers grunted and worked 15,20 minutes but Goldberg did it every night.
I dont think bills kick is what did bret in. he had a multitude of concussions over the years and brain damage from dropping on the back of his head doing the turnbuckle figure 4. getting choked out by stu 1000 times. doing hair grab headbutts and abdominal headbutts. shaking his head running full blast into the turnble. doing a million Russian leg sweeps. bills kick was just the cherry on top
I remember clear as day his first match with Demott/Morris, i liked Morris's work and athleticism for a big guy. Then goldberg did a standing backflip and launched into a spear, and remember thinking "woah, that went quick."
Even Bobby Heenan said that Goldberg's run should've continued forever. WCW created something truly special that felt authentic when Goldberg had his streak. This was long before Undertaker's WrestleMania streak that caught traction after WM 20. Goldberg could've been champion for 4 to 7 years easily and had a modern reign that lasted as long as Londos, Thesz, Sammartino, Gagne. He was a invincible force like Sammartino and Hogan. Heck Hogan held the title for 4 years straight when he was white hot. These days it's unimaginable for anyone to have a title reign that lasts that long.
I was 17.. I saw his 1st match on WCW Thursday night thunder night while my mom shot pool in our pool room.. I remember it like yesterday. I was a kid saying he's gonna save us from the NWO.. lol
I a absolutely enjoyed Regal exposing Goldberg. Green asf who showed potential but couldn't go beyond 5 mins due to the lack of natural ability. Trier bullying a few times backstage and got his ass handed to him by Booker and Jericho.
I like ric flairs comment on not to comment if you haven’t been in the ring I trained for about a year when I was 13-14 years old normally they wouldn’t let you train till at least 16 but for some reason I guess my passion added the years I needed So here I am an under 16 skinny hardly got any muscle on me and I’m already doing all the basic bumps and moves, taking shots with weapons, spots ect Anyway Long story short after my first tiny spot show I started having some heath issues so I had to quit Well said ric the amount of people who comment on wrestling and haven’t even been behind the curtain of the show let alone taken a bump
I've always liked Mark. He has a great voice and he was always outstanding as a commentator. I wish he had lasted longer, and you never know, perhaps he might return?
Kevin Nash was in the booking commitee when Goldberg lost at Starrcade 1998, according to Kevin Sullivan, Terry Taylor, Disco Inferno, Konnan and Eric Bischoff!
I forget what podcast it was on, but Bret Hart said it best about Goldberg, "It wasn't his fault, it was the agents and producers after every match slapping a clipboard on his ass, telling him how great he was"
Rick should let it go once and for all. He has done his part and his fans love him. Chris Jericho is doing his own thing and paving his legacy after all these years, re-inventing himself when his different characters come to an end and he comes up with a different one and fans love it and him. Grow up Nature Boy.
The defeat of Goldberg could have heralded in a new direction in wrestling. It should have been something so big and significant that it MADE the guy that beat him... and steered the focus toward the convincing powerful wrestliers like Scott Steiner, Sean Ohaire, Wrath, Chris Benoit, Perry Saturn, Mike Awesome etc... which focused on hoss fights, and seperated them from all the celebrity big name types of guys that weren't as believable. We see the success that Lesnar has had for so many years... well, that same breed of wrestler could have become the new standard because the fans had become conditioned to the new style of Goldberg, and they wanted power and believability... It's still yet to really be focused on and I think a wrestling company could really break out by going in the direction of featuring only the most badass guys that could really bring back alot of fans and make new ones.
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Goldberg first match is well documented I didn't watch it live but he did that backflip and turned into somthing special quick as a young fan I did not realize his weakneses
Goldberg was so powerful,with devastating pile-driver n the destroying powerful spear Goldberg is a powerful wrecking machine n when he military pressed big wrestlers over his head like it so easy for him. Goldberg is the greatest wrestler in wrestling n Vince Mcmahon knows he's a great wrestler an still get the attention of the fans when he wrestled bobby lashley.😎🤘🤘❤🎸🎸🎸🏋🏋🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Don't get me wrong, Goldberg was HUGE when he showed up but for myself and others that I know, the whole 30 sec match/ 100-0 undefeated deal was getting very old at the time. It may have been different if he actually had some 20-30 min matches but they were just so predictable and over too quickly. It's like the old saying, "If you've seen one of them, you've seen them all."
I remember the match with Hugh Morris. Good match but Goldbergs finish didn’t seem believable, Morris had previously been very good and gone through much worse
Goldberg absolutely was green his entire wcw run. And hes lucky bret was the only career he ended. The guy was a 3 minute match guy. And to put him in longer matches than he really could handle was playing with fire. And that got bret burned. Could have happened to ddp or nash or hogan really anyone who didn't want to lose in 3 minutes.
Bill Goldberg broke Scott Steiner's orbital bone. He also kicked Bret Hart in the head and concussed him to the point where it ended his career. Everyone talks on how stiff he was in the ring. So that kind of tells you right there he wasn't the safest worker
Scott told him too punch him in the face and to do it for real... Now on Bret Hart it's time for the truth what truly lead to his career ending... First Many legends said Goldberg was safe to work with even Ric Flair was speaking on his Wooooo Nation Uncensored Podcast, WWE Hall Of Famer Ric Flair was asked whether Goldberg was safe to work with. Flair stated that he still thinks Goldberg is a safe worker despite concussing Bret Hart. “Well, to me he was very safe. I have been kicked in the head by him too.Jan 6, 2022 but only Bret said he wasn't but the truth is he was it was just that on incident kick but what's also the truth, Bret Harts career wasn't ended by Goldberg, Eric Bischoff explained what truly was leading to Harts career ending... It was Bret who took it upon himself when he had a hardcore match and during the match he hit his head pretty hard on the concrete ground and continued to do more matches, not the kick from Goldberg that's not the main cause... Bret Hart could have taken time off but decided to do more matches, first Goldbergs match with the accidental kick was on December 19, 1999 than a match against Chris beniot on Dec 21, 1999 next match against Jerry Flynn on Dec 27, 1999 next a PPV hardcore match - against Terry Funk on Jan 4, 2000 next four more matches against Sid Vicious on Jan 6, 7, 8, 9, 2000 and finally his last match against Kevin Nash on Jan 10, 2000... But puts all the blame on Goldberg? C'mon man, lets be for real here... so it was the hardcore match what was leading to end his career because he kept on getting hurt by continuing to do more matches... The kick was accidental even Ric Flair said so that it's a risk and their are times you will get hurt if the match doesn't go as it's set in the ring and this is a guy who started in 1972 and who knows the business from inside and out of the ring... So who's the real person to blame, sure wasn't Goldberg... Like I'm trying to say is, Bret Hart forgave WCW for the caused of his brothers death, he forgave Vince Mcmahon for forcing Bret to loose the title Against Shawn Michaels when bret never tapped out, he forgave Shawn Michaels for stealing his latter matches when Shawn promise Bret he wasn't going to use his idea but lied and did it anyways, but yet cannot forgive Goldberg!!! I used to like him until he became a lier and wining saying GOLDBERG ended his career when he took it upon himself by continuing to do more matches, that Bret's fault even WCW'S, not Goldbergs otherwise that would have been his final match... according to Ron Simmons Scott Steiner Rick Steiner Booker T Edge Christian Vince Mcmahon Curt Hennig Bobby Heenan Sid Vicious Arn Anderson Diamond Dallas Page ( Kevin Nash on and off with Goldberg ) Lex Luger Sting The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin Brock Lesner Ric Flair John Cena Randy Orton The Undertaker Triple H Shawn Michaels Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff said he is one of the greatest because if he wasn't NONE of these guys would support him and say he is... Even Stone Cold Steve Austin said so on the Broken Skull plus he supported him and was right beside him during the 2003-04 era.. that's why He's in the Hall of Fame... Even the Rock loves Goldberg and it was him who got Goldberg to change his mind to come to the WWE in 2003 to make a new era and for Goldberg to be the main character since the Rock was leaving to continue his acting career and decided to play as a heel and Goldberg as the new WWE hero... The truth also is, If Goldberg was an unsafe and unprofessional wrestler, they would have ended His Wrestling career and no longer be rehired back into the business and or even brought back into the business in the year 2016... The true fans that continue to support Bill know it's B.S. on the lies and negativities on him... Accidents do happened and that many others have their career ended like for example what D.lo Brown did to Droz who got him completely paralyzed for life... And we don't hear from Droz saying, you ended my career and I will hold a grudge against you forever... What's truly sad is, Hart made Goldberg believed that for so many years and still today continuously saying to everyone that he ended his career and cost him millions and Goldberg constantly apologizing for something he didn't even do which was ending Bret Harts career but only an accidental kick to his face... Bret Hart could have taken time off to recover but wanted to continue Wrestling which made it worse... Everyone else said he was safe to work with and never gotten hurt by Goldberg, For example Goldberg asked Jericho personally on Y2J's talked show when he interviewed Goldberg and Goldberg asked, " Chris, did I ever hurt you" and Chris's response was, "no"... Said the person who had a problem with Goldberg in the beginning of their career Here are Goldbergs 35 plus three extra moves that he had done in his Wrestling career... 1. Back body drop. 2. Dragon screw leg whip. 3. Spinning back kick. 4. Diving clothesline. 5. Electric chair drop. 6. Gutwrench suplex. 7. Firemen's carry slam. 8. Clothesline. 9. Sidewalk slam. 10. Full nelson slam. 11. Belly to belly suplex. 12. Corkscrew dropkick. 13. Drop kick. 14. Spinebuster. 15. Belly to belly sideslam. 16. Big boot. 17. Shoulder block. 18. Scoop powerslam. 19. Crossarm breaker. 20. Front scoop powerslam. 21. Snap swinging neck breaker. 22. Kneebar. 23. Leg trapped spinebuster. 24. Avalanche gorilla press lam. 25. Superkick. 26. Gorilla press slam. 27. Gorilla press drop. 28. Gorilla press front scoop powerslam. 29. Headlock/underhook suplex. 30. Powerslam. 31. Pumphandle overhead suplex. 32. Gorilla press spinebuster. 33. Gorilla press power slam. 34. Spear. 35. Jackhammer. Bonus... 1.hip toss. 2. Kneedrop. 3. Judo takedown... Theirs a video on youtube of Goldbergs 35 top Wrestling moves Theirs another video of Goldbergs 48 Wrestling moves but the 35 are his best Oh can't forget the head smash ring bar move...
Wrestling is a soap opera type ongoing storyline business. Bill Goldberg had his days, his prime. Reaching back to bring him back time and time again is only good for Goldberg and his bank account. It isn't good for the guys coming up and the business. Goldberg was not that great to keep coming back at his advanced age and fans know also that it is very short term. The story of wrestling again so his kid could see him in the ring was cute but that was so long ago now. Goldberg now is just Goldberg. But he did have a great run at one time, more than most definitely.
@@johndawhale3197 It's reality buddy. Who the hell would be jealous of Goldmark? Like Flair said he had no skills. Spear,Jackhammer. That's why his matches sucked!
