10 Wrestlers Cursed By Their Undefeated Streaks
9. Goldberg
God-among-men Kevin Nash has been heard rationalising WCW's infamous "Fingerpoke Of Doom" thusly: by creating an elite version of the New World Order for Bill Goldberg to steamroll, the company and Goldberg himself would be able to move on from the former footballer losing to 'Big Sexy' the prior December.
It'd all be believable too, if it wasn't for the assured motivations of the central antagonists.
Undefeated streaks are difficult to maintain and even more difficult to follow up on, but Goldberg's mythical 173-0 run was powerful enough to propel him to the top of the entire industry - a spot he shared with Stone Cold Steve Austin in a year that saw both WCW and WWE's profits and ratings skyrocket.
A bristling ball of permanent intensity, Goldberg may well have been reborn as the great oppressor of the revived heel nWo, but the revived heels enjoyed being revived a little too much - the rookie-turned-main eventer's redemption never came, and within 12 months of this sh*tshow, he was slicing his arm to ribbons putting it through a window and turning heel upon his return.