10 Times WCW Was The Best Wrestling In The World

3. The Streak

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On 27 September 1997, a debuting Bill Goldberg wrestled a match with perennial lower-midcarder Hugh Morrus. Unassumingly simplistic, with a bald head, goatee, black trunks and muscles on top of muscles, Goldberg wrecked the laughing man within a couple minutes, kicking out of his moonsault finisher and flattening the heavyweight with a Jackhammer before holding up a single index finger to the camera, saying "That's one." For the next 18 months, Goldberg could not be stopped.

Legend has it announcer Mike Tenay came up with the concept of The Streak. Equating it to passionate baseball and basketball fans that followed statistics, he postulated that wrestling fans would enjoy following something similar. In Goldberg, they found the ideal man to carry the streak. A hulking tank of a man with incredible agility, Goldberg was never a wrestling savant, nor was he supposed to be. The silent, mysterious aura of this asskicker enthralled crowds as he walked in with ferocious intensity, demolished the man in front of him, and left.

Goldberg's appeal could not be denied. Tearing his way through competition that saw him capture Raven's United States title, Goldberg would eventually conquer Hollywood Hogan himself on his hometurf in the Georgia Dome, becoming an undefeated double champion.

Not since the Ultimate Warrior had there been a wrestler who had mixed menacing mystique with unrelenting power. In a perfect world, Goldberg would have been the man to lead WCW against WWE's Attitude Era.

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