10 Times WWE Got Buyer's Remorse
9. Goldberg
Bill Goldberg's latter WWE appearances have highlighted how much the organisation has philosophically shifted gears since he was a dejected full-timer five years removed from his creative and commercial peak.
Coming at great expense - but to an organisation with money to burn - Big Bill has been paid handsomely for several short shifts since 2016. With one Saudi Arabian exception, they've been a hoot, too. Exhibition, big b*llocks moments without need for overwrought and overthought nonsense wrapped around them.
2003 WWE seemed to exist entirely on said stupidity.
The company had passed on Goldberg's lofty demands during their botched Invasion as the former Champion elected to earn the remainder of his deal doing nothing, but his arrival as a Triple H destroy-and-exit project during 'The Game's reign of terror highlighted how soon Vince McMahon had tired of his act. Not that he actually saw the f*cking thing.
No, Goldberg didn't plough through dorks one minute at a time en route to crushing the 'King Of Kings'. He went long in all his first pay-per-view feuds before getting pinned by Hunter before beating him a month later. McMahon hadn't made Goldberg to begin with - he couldn't be bothered to try when he got his turn.