10 Most Wasted Talents In WWE History

10. Goldberg

The Goldberg character books itself.

Famously limited between the ropes, Goldberg's arc in WCW was planned out meticulously. Learning as he went along, he was protected in the short, dynamic squash matches in which he carved out his fearsome aura.

When he ascended to the main event, even the legendarily inept latter-period WCW were astute enough to keep his matches as short as realistically possible. He was no Ric Flair in there, so he was presented as a wrecking machine accordingly.

His treatment in WWE was more wilful obstruction than oblivious bumbling. Tasked with wrestling standard back and forth bouts exceeding ten minutes in length, Goldberg, exposed as a worker, blended into the background.

Wrestling fans are notoriously hard to please, but one thing we're almost unanimously in favour of is recycling. Wrestling is - or should be - simple. If WWE had replicated Goldberg's streak, it's unlikely that fans would have cried unoriginality. Goldberg wasn't comfortable wrestling epic matches. Fans were bored watching them.

He left after just a year, citing creative frustration. His heart was never in the business, and moreover, nobody else could afford him or were willing to pay. Unlike some of the entries on this list, he shrugged off the experience...