10. Triple H Vs Goldberg - Summerslam 2003 And Unforgiven 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbaE1QURlY Bill Goldberg isn't an especially hard character to get right, a destructive machine who just runs through his opponents. This is exactly the way WCW booked the star in 1997 and 1998, in doing so creating one of the most over acts of the Nineties. After an absence of a few years, Goldberg was fresh enough to get over in the same way with WWE audiences in 2003. The logical booking was a destructive streak which culminated in Goldberg dispatching of the hated and entrenched Championship reign of Triple H. The pair should have met at Summerslam, with Goldberg quickly defeating The Game in a 5 minute smash of the spear and jackhammer. What actually happened was far different. Triple H suffered a hematoma which left him barely mobile. As such, WWE booked an Elimination Chamber match for Summerslam. Shockingly, Goldberg lost this match after Triple H (who did barely anything) hit him with a sledgehammer. This was right up there with the atrocious WCW booking when Goldberg lost to a taser blast from Scott Hall. How could the WWE throw away Goldberg's streak and have him pinned just to protect an injured Triple H? It sucked. The errors were compounded when a still unfit Hunter faced Goldberg a month later at Unforgiven. This time Goldberg got his win, but WWE totally killed it in the booking. Firstly the company promoted it a title vs career match, meaning that the result was never in question. Secondly, instead of working to Goldberg's strengths of quick destructive action, Triple H instead wrestled a technical style that went on for 14 minutes. What should have been an authoritative start to the Goldberg WWE title era was instead a misjudged match which Triple H dictated to his own interests.