Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg who is the former three times WWE world champion and a former WCW World Heavyweight champion recently looked back at his epic WCW run and revealed what made it so great.
Bill Goldberg started his professional wrestling career back in 1997. He made his debut in WCW, back then, the Monday Night Wars was the hottest thing on television. WCW needed an answer for WWE‘s Stone Cold Steve Austin and other rising stars like The Rock and Triple H. But WCW mostly focused on big established names.
Goldberg Discusses His Epic WCW Run
In 1997 they came up with a solution and that was Bill Goldberg. His debut was amazingly planned. He debuted as an unknown against Huge Morrus who was also known as Bill DeMott. Bill not only defeated Morrus but completely humiliated him. It was something that wrestling fans never witnessed before.
His push was amazingly booked. He continued a menacing 173 match unbeaten run. He was one of the biggest inventions of WCW during the time of the Monday Night Wars. After the death of WCW in 2001, he came to WWE and became equally successful. In 2018 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Goldberg who is the former three times WWE World Champion and a former WCW World Heavyweight champion recently spoke to The Bump where he looked back at his epic WCW run and revealed what made it so great. He said;
“Oh, it meant everything for me to be different. It’s been documented a million times and I’ll be the first person to say it: I’m not a chain wrestler. I never aspired to be, I don’t have a wrestling background. I have a martial arts background, I have a football background, and so I applied my senses and my techniques in my background and informed a character.
“I mean, quite obviously the UFC was huge at that point, and it was getting nothing but bigger. It was gonna be the biggest thing going. It was giving professional wrestling a run for its money. And I figured I’d combine the two and everything I’d worked on throughout the years, and come up with this character. And I wanted to be completely different.”
“I knew I would feel the wrath of all the wrestling fans, and all the American wrestling fans in that I wasn’t the chain wrestler, I wasn’t the guy that came out and did sequential moves. I was the guy that came out and just ate you and left. And I wanted to emulate what Mike Tyson did in the world of boxing.
“And I think that I completed my task pretty well. I wanted to be the guy that no matter what had happened prior, you had to sit down and take two to five to eight minutes of your time and be solely invested on what’s on the screen. And I think I accomplished that.”
H/T and transcribed by 411 Mania