10 WCW Stars That Would Have Saved The Invasion

4. Bill Goldberg

In fairness to the WWF, it would have taken a lot of money to buy out the rest of Bill Goldberg's contract with AOL/Time Warner. Numbers in magazines around the time of the Invasion even threw around figures as high as $3 million. That's more than it took for Vince McMahon to purchase WCW's tape library, and the 24 talent contracts he acquired as part of the deal. Regardless, fans would have trade virtually all of those incoming performers to see Goldberg. When the man did eventually sign for WWE in 2003, the Invasion was a distant memory, and there was no real purpose for the former WCW star to be there. He was just another guy on the roster going for titles, rather than the biggest home grown success story in WCW history. The financial rewards waiting for the WWF had they booked Bill Goldberg vs. Steve Austin during the Invasion would have been huge. That one Pay-Per-View match would have drawn wads of cash, because it was bouts like that fans badly craved. That was WCW vs. WWF in a nutshell, but the big money it took to buy out Goldberg's contract stopped it from happening.