30 WWE Images That Defined 2016
2. Goldberg Shocks The World
Goldberg delivers a crunching Spear to Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series, en route to squashing the Beast Incarnate in under two minutes.
The most shocking moment of the year by far concerned the main event of Survivor Series, in which Goldberg defeated the indestructible Brock Lesnar in ludicrously short order. A pair of Spears and Jackhammer were all it took to put the hulking Minnesota native away, to the horror of Paul Heyman, and the unrefined joy of fans around the world.
It was a risky booking decision by WWE, cutting their own event short in order to maximise the shock value of the result, but one which seemed to pay off. Most assumed that Goldberg would lose to Lesnar in fairly straightforward fashion, allowing Brock to avenge the loss he suffered back at WrestleMania XX. That widely-held prediction couldn't have been more inaccurate.