10 Wrestlers Who Should Have Stayed Retired
4. Bill Goldberg
Bill Goldberg was an unstoppable force in WCW during the late 1990s, to such a degree that even the wretched booking that defined the company's dying days couldn't quieten chants for his name in the years following its closure. That was ultimately the biggest creative crime attached his 2003/04 WWE run - the fans tired of the version of 'Da Man' they were given by the time he exited at WrestleMania XX.
His return to WWE in 2016 was subsequently met with trepidation rather than excitement, but a series with Brock Lesnar changed everything. At long last booked to perfection in his Survivor Series and WrestleMania matches with 'The Beast' his short, sharp, shock of an Undisputed Title reign looked and felt like the perfect way for him to put a bow on his career while exorcising the demons of his first failed run.
Then, frustratingly, on it continued. A disaster against The Undertaker in Saudi Arabia remains the headline, but the Super ShowDown 2019 contest wasn't the only stinker, and fans pounced on the lost magic. Save for a remarkably cool squash win over Dolph Ziggler at SummerSlam later that year as a rehab, his increasingly laboured efforts (and controversial creative decisions such as an easy victory over The Fiend Bray Wyatt ahead of WrestleMania 36) did much to undo the incredible Lesnar one-two punch.