10 Most Unthinkable Comebacks In Wrestling History
7. Goldberg Returns To WWE
Goldberg's original WWE run was so unfathomably drab. Well, not unfathomably; he used to work for WCW and had to be put in his f*cking place.
In WCW, he wowed fans, stadium-sized for a mere TV show at certain points, against an incandescent, brightly-lit backdrop in short explosive bursts of intense badass energy. His aura was out of this world, and it didn't matter that he only did two moves half of the time because one of them most closely resembled a fatality in the history of the form.
In WWE, with one exception, he left crowds wanting, working long, unflattering matches against that god-awful stained red Raw backdrop, ordered to sell when nobody wanted to feel sympathy for him. Can the guy who breaks people in half with one move withstand the pain of a Triple H chin lock? is the question nobody asked. If you scan his Cagematch listing, the matches weren't strictly as long as you remember, but WWE had a way of making it feel that way. They were meant to feel like they way over in a flash of combat sports energy.
Goldberg hated it too, left, and Triple H spent the next 12 years, when asked, calling him worse than sh*t.
Luckily for WWE - or not, as the case may be - they were so bad at building new stars that they had to rely on the short-term boost in 2016 - and he got over this time when they copied WCW's approach.