11. Hollywood Hogan vs. Goldberg (Nitro, 1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoSlh5p2Cro Anyone who tells you that WCW never created any stars is straight-up ignoring Goldberg. His legacy has been hurt by his relatively short tenure in the business, but for a time, at the peak of his streak, there was nobody hotter. And he was never hotter than on the night of 6 July, 1998. On that night, Nitro was live from the Georgia Dome, the arena where Goldberg had played pro football, and he was riding the biggest wave of momentum in wrestling history against Hollywood Hogan for the WCW championship. To say Goldberg enjoyed a hometown advantage would be a criminal understatement. Despite WCW's well-established history of neutering Hogan's challengers - Giant, Luger, even Sting - there was a feeling of inevitability in the air that night. The fans, all of them, knew that Goldberg's conquest of Hogan was inevitable. They basically ignored a Curt Hennig attempt at interference foiled by a professional basketballer, and they barely booed Hogan, even as he dropped three (!) Big Legs on their hero. Only when Goldberg stood up from this onslaught, basically unfazed, did they explode. And they exploded a second time when he speared Hogan. And a third when he applied the Jackhammer. And after that, they pretty much stayed exploded.