The longer the streak became, the more popular the Goldberg character became.Īfter rampaging through most of WCW's undercard of wrestlers, Goldberg faced Raven on April 20 edition of Monday Nitro and captured the United States Heavyweight Championship. Goldberg was booked to win over Morrus, and thus began a win streak that carried over onto WCW Saturday Night and non-televised house shows. Behind the scenes it was WCW announcer Mike Tenay who came up with the concept of the Goldberg Win Streak. As such, he was "undefeated" when he made his televised debut on Monday Nitro on September 22, 1997. Now 5–1, Bill Goldberg had yet to be seen on television. His final pre-televised appearance was in a dark match on July 24 at a Saturday Night taping in a loss to Chad Fortune. He also faced and defeated Buddy Landell ( Saturday Night dark match), Hugh Morrus ( house show), Chip Minton ( Nitro dark match) and John Betcha (house show). Training under the tutelage of DeWayne Bruce, he made his debut as Bill Gold on a dark match at a Monday Nitro event on Jwhere he defeated Bruce (wrestling as Sgt.
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Although not a fan of professional wrestling, he saw it as an alternative to his fledgling football career and began training at the WCW Power Plant. He was spotted by Lex Luger and Sting who urged him to try professional wrestling.
The unprecedented win streak proved to be essential in making Goldberg the breakout star of World Championship Wrestling (WCW), propelling the rookie wrestler to main event status within a year of his first match, and would become a tool used by other promotions to build young stars into main event players.ĭuring the rehab following his NFL injury, Goldberg began powerlifting and mixed martial arts training.
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The Goldberg win streak was a lengthy series of victories that established the character of American professional wrestler Goldberg, following his debut on WCW Monday Nitro on September 22, 1997. Lengthy series of victories by Bill Goldberg
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