4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (12 July - Results & Review)

3. Some Nice Touches

WWE sent Goldberg off to official retirement Saturday night with a World Heavyweight Championship bout in his adopted hometown of Atlanta, Georgia.

While the match itself was projected to be a decent carry-job at best, WWE had a great opportunity to send Goldberg off with some unique fanfare – and they did. Though hemmed in by the confines of a two-hour program, WWE aired two video packages tracing his careers in WCW and then WWE, showing several major titles and other milestones.

In the crowd, former WCW head of security Doug Dellinger, who walked Goldberg to the ring in those long, iconic backstage walks to the entrance ramp, sat with Diamond Dallas Page, who was one of Goldberg’s better opponents.

When it came time for Goldberg to make that long watch one last time, it was Dellinger knocking on the door to bring him to the gorilla position. With Doug, his son Gage, and Ernest “The Cat” Miller flanking him, Goldberg made his way to gorilla before making his entrance for the last time.

Goldberg didn’t get the largest possible send-off (a WrestleMania match or show-long special tribute with wrestlers standing on the stage), but the Hall-of-Famer received a worthy vehicle for the end of his in-ring career. Seeing Dellinger knock on the door to summon Goldberg alone was a great touch.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.