10 Terrible Wrestling Matches (That Should Have Been Great)

6. Brock Lesnar vs. Goldberg (WWE WrestleMania XX)

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Strip away the knowledge that both men were leaving immediately after WrestleMania XX, and the match between Brock Lesnar and Goldberg in 2004 would have seemed huge beforehand. Here was WCW's greatest pet project going up against one of WWE's finest young stars. It looked like a match made in heaven.

As everyone knows, it turned out to be hell for both. Special Guest Referee Steve Austin was the most popular man in the match, and the hostile Madison Square Garden crowd decided to have fun at Lesnar and Goldberg's expense; intolerant of the match upon learning both men were leaving, New York booed it out of the building.

It'd take WWE more than 12 years to set things right. Survivor Series 2016's rematch played before the electric atmosphere 'Mania XX should have garnered. Best of all, Goldberg and Lesnar weren't rattled by an inhospitable, uncaring audience who couldn't wait for them to get the hell out of the ring.

Austin probably had fun though.

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