10 WWE Signings That Didn't Live Up To The Hype

by John Bills

1. Goldberg

Goldberg WWE
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If Scott Steiner signing with WWE in 2002 was a big deal, then Goldberg doing the same in 2003 was monolithic. Goldberg was the WCW star, the man that fans most wanted to see inside a WWE ring, and the one who could have made the biggest difference to the much-maligned invasion story. A host of fresh matches awaited Big Bad Bill, and the simplicity of his appeal almost guaranteed success.

But then nothing is guaranteed in professional wrestling, and less than a year after arriving in WWE Goldberg was gone. In fairness it would have been immensely difficult for Goldberg to live up to the hype, but calling his first WWE run 'disappointing' almost isn't fair to that word. The reaction to his final match, a much-derided dud against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania XX, was fairly apt.

Needless to say, Goldberg's second coming in WWE has successfully lived up to the hype, but in many ways it has come over a decade too late. The most hyped superstar in WCW history came over to WWE, and instead of fireworks we got only occasional sparklers.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.