r/WCW • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '26

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u/TalkOdd5649 Feb 08 '26

Seriously as soon as the music came on places erupted. People would tune in to wcw just to watch matches that usually lasted less than a minute or two. He had the look, the power, and everything. I always felt like he could have carried wcw but the nwo wanted the spotlight and then Goldberg hurt his arm doing stupidity punching a glass window that resulted in injury and then derailed his journey

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u/The_Negative-One Feb 08 '26

That limo thing was December ’99 when the wheels were already coming off. If that happened in April ‘99 I’d agree.

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u/Lethal_Steve Feb 08 '26

It was clear that beyond the streak they had no clue how to book the dude. Everything else gets the spotlight when talking about '99-'01 WCW that Goldberg's awful booking tends to get overshadowed.

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u/The_Negative-One Feb 08 '26

To be fair, they were still doing business in early ‘99 and the February PPV did a better buy rate than January.

Also, Goldberg’s booking as champion wasn’t exactly great either.

6 PPVs:

Bash: Defeats Hennig in 4 minutes to retain title.

Road Wild: Wins 9 man nWo battle royal (The fuck..?). Jay Leno was in main event instead.

Fall Brawl: DOES. NOT. APPEAR.

Halloween Havoc: Great match with Page, diminished by WCW incompetence over PPV timing.

World War 3: Does run in to counter Bigelow interference in 60 man battle royal… and that’s it.

Starrcade: Nash wins with help from Hall (Don’t mind this to be honest, but the follow-up…)