Goldberg wrestled his final match in WWE at Saturday Night’s Main Event. Despite losing to GUNTHER and having his speech cut off, he looked good. He still received massive praise for the legacy he created in WCW. But what if he debuted in WWE?
Jim Cornette Explains Why Goldberg’s WCW Run Worked
On his official YouTube channel, Jim Cornette detailed why Goldberg worked in WCW and would not have worked under Vince McMahon in WWE. He said,
“He had the personality. But they were, because WCW had no direction. They had every kind of direction, multiple directions in the world.”
“Different people were doing different things. There was no quality control. There was no one voice behind everything like there was with the WWF.”
“So, Vince would have never put the guy out there to begin with unprepared. Just say I put him over on TV without a plan behind it.”
“And if he had a plan behind it, then he wouldn’t have changed that plan when Goldberg started to get over as a massive baby face.”
“He would have kept him as a heel or whatever. So, because it was so ad-lib and snatch and grab and no one person was in charge and sh*t like that got to happen, then they see Goldberg’s and then they start the streak.”
“But the thing is, Goldberg got over like that as a phenomenon because the people chose him. He was the right person with the right look.”
“And then they fed him people to keep that going. And they had an unlimited roster of cannon fodder.”
“Vince did a better job trying to kill him when he first brought him in a couple of years later and, you know, didn’t understand the whole deal.”
“But that’s the thing, he got over by himself by accident, not planned, and then they ran with it for a while, but then they started f*cking it up.”
“But before he was really dead, they went out of business. So he still got the aura, but in the WWE, where there was more top talent, there was more control over the booking.”
“There was more of a plan behind the way that people were being presented, whether it’s good plan or bad plan, it was at least a plan.”
“So, Vince wouldn’t have let him just throw Goldberg out there, and that whole phenomenon wouldn’t have happened.”
