100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
4. Goldberg | Spear
Goldberg’s Spear was incredible.
You can see why countless other wrestlers lifted it - Goldberg was so over in 1998 that he challenged Steve Austin for Wrestler of the Year when WCW could not be less well-equipped to fight back against the WWF - but a lot of them, frankly, embarrassed themselves.
Goldberg was a dumb meathead with raw, animal power. He did not perform a running hug. He was, as Bret Hart is rather fond of reminding you, reckless. Goldberg was unable to settle his nerves without blasting his head against a locker.
Uncoordinated, jittery, wholly incapable of harnessing his immense power into anything approaching a worked contest, most of the time, Goldberg would simply sprint full-speed into some poor hapless prick and attack them like he was trying to fold them in half backwards at the hip.
A dumbass ex-football player treating a barely-worked wrestling move like he was in a high-stakes, game-winning situation: it was stupid, and yet utterly spectacular.
If ever a move defined the man, Goldberg’s spear was it.