10 Wrestlers Whose Entrances Were Better Than Their Matches

2. Goldberg

Goldberg making his way to the ring from the backstage area is a spectacle that gets fans hyped. Where his ‘Invasion’/’Who’s Next?’ theme plays and the camera cuts to his locker room door where a member of security knocks, letting him know its time to go to war. He bursts out the room looking like the embodiment of adrenaline, with security surrounding him, and enters the arena in a profusion of fireworks and smoke. He looks like a beast ready to demolish his opponents as he enters the ring.

His matches, like Warrior, were quick affairs, with a Jackhammer and Spear being the majority of moves you’d see from Bill. It was a let-down if he ever started grappling. In fairness the Goldberg character was never meant to go marathons in the ring, he was built and used as a squash monster. His appeal was his fierce intensity. When WWE expected him to work longer matches in his Raw 2003 run it simply didn’t work.

Bret Hart has said of Goldberg “his work rate was 0/10” and Matt Riddle has (rightly) recently taken a few shots at Goldberg for his wrestling ability. With a lot of fans thinking his recent performances against The Undertaker at Super Show-Down 2019 and Braun Strowman at WrestleMania 36 for the Universal Championship were critically dire (they were).