10 Bizarre WCW Stats, Facts And Coincidences That Really Happened

2. WWE Spent More Money On Goldberg Than It Did Purchasing The Whole Of WCW

Goldberg’s was WCW’s breakout home-grown star. His intensity and Streak captivated fans in WCW but he had a lacklustre tenure when he went to WWE in 2003. So when Goldberg returned to WWE for a one-off appearance at Survivor Series (2016), no one could have predicted it would lead to him wrestling on-and-off for the company for the next 7 years. His current contract ends in 2023, where he’ll wrestle two matches per year, and it’s one of the most lucrative deals currently in all of wrestling.

His 2019 earnings alone were reported to have been $3 million from working with The Undertaker in Saudi Arabia (in a match lasting less than 10 minutes) and Dolph Ziggler at SummerSlam (in a match lasting less than 2 minutes). You can grasp why Goldberg keeps coming back at the ripe age of 54 to perform with those dollar numbers behind him.

What’s interesting in comparison though is WWE bought the entirety of WCW for $4.2 million. Trademarks, talent contracts, its entire video library and all the legal fees that went along with it, everything; for less than $5 million.

Looking back now and considering how valuable the tape library is to the WWE Network, it has to go down in the history books as one of the most low-cost worthwhile deals ever put together for a huge corporation. And it essentially means WWE has shelled out more money on Goldberg in two years coming in to wrestle a few matches than it did purchasing its biggest competitor who at one-time in the ‘90s looked like they were going to run the WWE/F out of business.