10 Greatest WCW Champions Ever
6. Bill Goldberg
Bill Golberg's lone WCW Title reign is defined almost entirely by its bookends, so entrenched as they are in contemporary wrestling history.
His hugely controversial World Title loss to Kevin Nash at December 1998's Starrcade brought about the end of the incredible (though laughably inflated) 173-0 winning streak that had enhanced his aura since debuting barely one year earlier, but time has been much kinder to his heroic dethroning of Hulk Hogan earlier that year.
Conservatively viewed as WCW recklessness at the time, Hogan and Goldberg's unadvertised Nitro main event may well have drawn an astronomic buyrate had the group saved it for pay-per-view, but why worry about economics when the white hot moment exists to enjoy?
Atlanta's Georgia Dome was at the time the company's home base, and with 41,000+ in attendance perhaps the biggest advert for the company's miraculous growth. Goldberg's broad shoulders had carried that momentum beyond the reach of the fizzling New World Order - there was no bad time to give him the title.