From @ronnypatel31: Who was a bigger bust coming over from WCW to WWE: Goldberg or NWO?
That's a tough call because both Goldberg and the New World Order failed in WWE. A big reason for that is that WWE didn't know how to book Goldberg the same way, nor did they understand why the NWO worked in the first place. Then again, by 2002 it's not like people were clamoring for the NWO again. It's just something WWE threw out there. The NWO group was the bigger bust because they were brought in as this "poison" to dominate WWE in February and they really didn't do much at all. They were done within a month because Hogan went babyface and Scott Hall was fired a few months later for being too drunk all the time. When they did a later incarnation of the group after the Hogan/Nash/Hall trio split, that was a colossal failure too. Goldberg's one year in WWE was very underwhelming. They did their best to push him by matching him up with great performers like Chris Jericho and The Rock as well as a boring feud with Triple H, but it just never worked. Part of it is because he was never that great of a wrestling character. He was just plain and boring. Another reason is because he never truly had a love of wrestling. The money probably made him happy, but did he love wrestling? I don't think so. It also hurt that WWE tried to give him a personality and didn't realize that fans loved him because he was booked like a killer, not a guy to tell jokes. The NWO and Goldberg were both failures in WWE, but the NWO was worse.
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