10 WCW Successes Nobody Talks About

7. The Rapid Rise Of Goldberg

You may be sitting there thinking, 'but Bill Goldberg is talked about today!', and you'd be right, he is. Sadly though, not many folks give WCW enough credit for what they achieved with the rookie. Bursting out of the WCW Powerplant development facility, and into the big time, Goldberg was a raging success. WWE have somehow managed to downplay just how well WCW initially booked Goldberg, and if you didn't live through wrestling in the 90s, it's understandable that you might not understand just how much of a phenomenon he was. To put it bluntly, WWE were not creating main event stars this quickly, and still don't to this day. That's something WCW deserve praise for. To take a raw beast like Goldberg, and turn him into box office money within a year is brilliant. It can't be that easy, otherwise WWE would have done the exact same with Ryback. One thing often put aside, as though it doesn't matter, is the natural charisma Goldberg had - to enter a promotion full of names such as Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan, and manage to stand out, takes a special 'it' factor. Bill Goldberg had that in abundance. Oddly enough, during his run in WWE years later, it was Vince McMahon who didn't know how to book him properly, which caused immense frustration for the wrestler himself, not to mention the fans who just wanted to see him let loose and run through everything in his path.