10 Wrestling Returns We Marked Out For

5. Goldberg

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It was all because of a video game that Goldberg came back to WWE.

He had left the business after WrestleMania XX, and appeared to be quite content with the fact that he would never return. He didn't seem to truly love wrestling, and top stars like Triple H and Shawn Michaels believed he wasn’t worthy of a Hall of Fame induction. Goldberg in the WWE in any form felt completely out of the question.

WWE2K17 basically laid the groundwork for his return, as he was chosen to be the featured legend of that year's entry. This got fans talking about him having one more match against Brock Lesnar, and things quickly began building from there.

When Randy Orton was destroyed at SummerSlam, it was Goldberg of all people, who the fans were chanting for, not any current wrestler on the roster. A couple of months later, the unthinkable happened as he agreed to terms with WWE. He closed out the 17 Oct. episode of Raw, and despite half the audience likely not watching him during his peak, he was treated as a returning hero.

Even the most jaded fans who didn’t want Lesnar/Goldberg: The Sequel were won over by his genuine emotion. For at least one night, we believed in him again, as he recreated some of that same incredible excitement that he had during his peak in the Monday Night War.

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