10 Wrestlers You Can Tell HATED Working For WWE

7. Goldberg

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To use a British idiom, WWE more or less p*ssed in Goldberg's chips.

Goldberg made his name as a short-round destroyer in WCW. He was an AK-47 of a professional wrestler. He didn't use rest holds. He didn't sell rest holds. He didn't get trapped in submissions. He Speared his opponents out of their boots before they could even work a leg. He was an über-intense warlord who kicked ass and didn't even bother taking names, because they were faceless drones on a list. The act was a major, perfectly-judged hit. WCW recognised Goldberg's star power and didn't bother training him as a complete pro wrestler. In a rare feat of acumen, they knew exactly what they had.

WWE either didn't, or did, and didn't care because that's not the way things work around there. Babyfaces need obstacles to overcome because that's how fans can get behind them. It was all so backwards: the fans were already behind Goldberg, and those obstacles only obstructed his popularity.

Eventually, annoyed at the damage inflicted on his character and having to sell for boring Triple H in boring Triple H matches, Goldberg decided to just phone it in and wait for WWE to become desperate for the real Goldberg years later.

And they reckoned he wasn't a good worker.

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