10 Wrestlers That Made Fans Change The Channel
4. Bill Goldberg (1998)
Blah blah blah WCW should have saved this for pay-per-view blah blah showed they were panicking blah blah.
You know that bit of the story (and have probably read it on this author page let along every other site on the internet), but not enough people stop for a second to enjoy the magic of one of the last great moments WCW managed to create. Not least because it was one that no WWE homer could remotely claim as their own.
'Hollywood' Hogan was the hideously wonderful creation of Eric Bischoff, Hulk himself and the WCW braintrust, and had maintained a vice-like grip on the company's beloved Heavyweight Championship for the better part of two years when Goldberg bulldozed him for it in July 1998. Big Bill was all theirs too - a unique offering when the company desperately needed one, the ex-NFLer clearly wasn't built for a long time but a f*cking really good one. And did many times look better than inside the packed Georgia Dome in July 1998?
WCW needed more than mere moments to reverse the company's ailing fortunes. But as a wrestling organisation ran by a television company, the 6.91 rating (translating to over 5 million viewers), this one glorious night confirmed their most recent creation as a bonafide smash hit.