5 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (March 27)

3. Brock, Goldberg Keep It Simple

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No one is expecting a four-star classic match between Brock Lesnar and Goldberg at WrestleMania. Let’s just level and call it like that.

But Brock and advocate Paul Heyman did a nice job Monday night selling the match for the WWE Universal Championship, with Heyman giving Goldberg credit as “Da Man,” but wryly noted that Lesnar is “Da Beast” and would chew up and spit out the champ. And then, Goldberg came out and declared that he wasn’t waiting for WrestleMania and would bring the Showcase of the Immortals to Philly.

Goldberg then promptly speared Lesnar and left him lying on the arena floor, continuing the theme that he has Brock’s number. The match at Mania might be – as Jim Ross would call it – bowling-shoe ugly, but it seems like WWE is aware that this won’t be a technical masterpiece and is focusing on the spectacle of it.

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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.