re: A&E Biography WWE Legends: Bill Goldberg

I enjoyed the Lex Luger one a lot more than I thought I would. And those last 15 minutes or so of it were really incredible to see. He truly seems to be in a much better place now than he ever was when he was a superstar, even though he’s a shell of his former self.

I’d love for them to do one on Sting. He was my absolute favorite growing up.

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It's not as if Hogan was some in ring technical wizard either. All it takes is charisma to be a star.

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You ever see Hogans New Japan run? He was better than his American matches.

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I also still can't believe WCW put the Goldberg/Hogna title match on free f-ing TV and only promoted it for a week.

That's one of biggest booking blunders I've vee seen.

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WCW did far worse things

Honestly, with the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to say it should have been a program; however, in those days it was all about the TV ratings, especially for WCW which was owned by a television company.

Having gone back and watched a lot of old WCW PPVs on Peacock from 1998, what's worse to me is how Goldberg was handled as champion. He still played second fiddle to Hogan and the NWO.

He was just thrown into random feuds against guys like Curt Hennig, who while a great wrestler, was nowhere near a top-of-the-card program.

Aside from the match with Nash at Starrcade 98 (which he lost), he had a great feud and match with DDP, but that's about it. Probably should've been DDP that took the title off of him too.

Despite being one of the company's top draws, Goldberg never won the world title again for the remainder of the company's existence, which is just mind boggling to me. It'd be like when Austin lost the WWE title for the first time in 98 if he never won it again.

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Jericho beat him quickly in a real fight. Twice.

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Totally inaccurate, and Jericho will be the first to tell you that. Goldberg could've wiped his arse with Jericho if he wanted to.

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how did they "fake" a superkick

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With a real high side kick, you lock your knee out when you make impact with your opponent for maximum energy transfer into the other person.

With the Superkick, the kick is pulled and the knee is bent, thus taking almost all of the force out of the move. There is also no follow through, so kick eseentially molds around you opponent instead of trying to go through him.

Whole point is that Goldberg’s rep took a major hit because a guy not seen as a shooter / strongman was able to counter him twice in short order. (Jericho is notoriously a butt monkey amongst older veterans because he is a lot smaller than a normal star)

Bowing up like that and starting a fight you may not be able to win is a losing proposition for a top guy like Goldberg.

They had a similar thing happen on screen with Kurt Angle around that time by putting him out there to stretch the Tough Enough guys.


In that case, Angle wasn’t the first choice to do so but instead a lesser stat in Little Guido James Maritano. Angle had also been told which guys not to challenge yet he stupidly threw an open challenge after beating one guy just to get stuck in a ki lock by Daniel Puder.


Bullying your way through people only works as long as your ability to back up your shite. And once a guy seen as not on your level either beats your or stalemates you, it is a hit on your reputation.

It was during Goldberg's WWE stint in 03. They got into an argument backstage (largely thanks to shite stirring by Nash), Goldberg charged Jericho and got put in a guillotine choke, Jericho went down to his back, Goldberg got out of it and pulled his hair. That was about it.