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Originally Posted by Gerard
Never fails to amaze me just how shit the wwe version of goldbergs entrance is compared to this.
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Never fails to amaze
me just how shit the unneccesary switch to Megadeth was in WCW. If something like that was his theme to begin with, sure. He had something that stood out and felt epic, and then switched him up to yet another "chugga chugga chugga" guitar song, even if it was by an actual band instead of from a Turner Media music repository (that gave us such highs as "Satan's Sister" for the Hollywood Blondes to the depths of Jericho's fake "Evenflow"). The initial WWE change just felt like copied math homework, but that was comparably better than WCW writing social studies answers in the math textbook in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect
It’s incredible how WCW fucked up Goldberg. It shouldn’t be possible.
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US Champ Goldberg was peak Goldberg IMO.
It was still on the organic side, they weren't quite fucking with the streak numbers yet (multiple wins on every TV show from Nitro to WorldWide against guys like Blitzkreig or "Lightning Foot" Jerry Flynn to pad the resume isn't the same as just making up impossible numbers), he wasn't yet in the main event picture, so there wasn't much backstage politicking in the way of his clear upward momentum.
He was just allowed to be a "force of nature" in both gimmick and as a phenomenon of time and place. People were still allowed to buy into taking the ride.
Also, unrelated to any of the above, I would like to acknowledge the Xero sighting, even though I'm a couple days late.