2. Booking Team Felt Goldberg's Streak Was Stale After Only A Few Months
In 1998, Bill Goldberg was one of the hottest name in the wrestling business. Fans loved chanting his name, and the fact people were guaranteed to see the guy cream some poor schmuck made tuning into WCW shows a genuine treat. Unfortunately, WCW's creative team didn't feel the same, and plans were being made to kill the man's winning streak as early as mid-Summer. It's shocking to think, but some in WCW actually felt that having Goldberg remain unbeaten was a bad thing, because it'd only hurt his stature with the fans in the long run. That kind of thinking was terribly short-sighted, there was far more wrong with the nWo angle than with Goldberg. If anything in WCW needed freshening up, it was the New World Order. Eventually, Kevin Nash would beat Goldberg at Starrcade 1998, bringing to a close an epic winning run that fans had really enjoyed following. In the humble opinion of Bobby Heenan - who was working for WCW as an announcer at the time - beating Goldberg was the biggest mistake the company would ever make, because there was so much more mileage to be gleaned from his unbeaten run.
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