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Goldberg was booked to win over Morrus, and thus began a win streak that carried over onto WCW Saturday Night and non-televised house shows. The longer the streak became, the more popular the Goldberg character became. After rampaging through most of WCW's undercard of wrestlers, Goldberg faced Raven on the April 20 edition of Monday Nitro and ...
One of the most popular figures of the professional wrestling boom during the late 1990s and early 2000s, [8] Goldberg rose to fame in WCW with a lengthy undefeated streak in singles competition from 1997 to 1998, became the highest paid WCW wrestler, and led the company as its franchise player and public face until it was sold to WWE.
Since his debut, Goldberg started an undefeated streak, and won the title from Hollywood Hogan on the July 6 edition of Nitro. [3] At World War 3, Nash won a battle royal to earn a title match with Goldberg at Starrcade, and their feud began. [4] Heading into Starrcade, Goldberg had an undefeated streak of 173 matches. [1]
WCW continued to build the character of Goldberg with the continuation of his undefeated streak since his debut in 1997. On July 6, the undefeated Goldberg defeated Hollywood Hogan to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and remained the champion until the next Starrcade. [16] Starrcade drew a buy rate of 1.9, the best WCW ever achieved.
The 1999 Starrcade was the 17th annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on December 19, 1999, from the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. [3]
Goldberg first joined the WWE over 20 years ago in 2003 and like Rousey, he too harbours discontent for Vince McMahon. Back in late 2023, he labelled McMahon “a piece of s**t” for not giving ...
Hall of Fame pro wrestler Bill Goldberg isn't just another celebrity that coach Deion Sanders has walking along the Colorado sideline. Goldberg’s got a vested interest in the program with his ...
Bill Goldberg's winning streak helped WCW's ratings during 1998. Hoping to counter the McMahon/Austin feud, WCW divided the nWo into the Hollywood Hogan-led heel "nWo Hollywood" faction and the Kevin Nash-led face "nWo Wolfpac" faction. Although the Wolfpack proved popular with fans, the overall nWo storyline began to grow stale.