#4 WCW Halloween Havoc 2000 – Goldberg vs. KroniK (3:35)
Much like the 2016 contest against Brock Lesnar, this incredibly short match main evented its Pay-Per-View. Bill Goldberg has star power but this was at a time that WCW was nearing its last legs, so this was a slightly bizarre choice to close out the show.
The company needed new stars but instead was trying their best to recapture some of the magic from the beginning of the Goldberg phenomenon.
KroniK were the first ones to arrive in the ring and said on the microphone that since Goldberg wasn’t cleared to wrestle, they needed to be declared the winners. Apparently, Bill was attacked and got his head bounced off a ring post on the previous episode of Thunder.
Right on cue, the camera cuts backstage to where a couple of medical personnel inform WCW officials that Goldberg was cleared right at that very moment, with less than 10 minutes remaining on the Pay-Per-View. Talk about cutting it close!
The highlight of this short match was when Goldberg eliminated Brian Adams from this elimination handicap match. He speared him through a table propped up against the corner and to be fair; the crowd was digging this.
The strangest part, when looking back at this match, is that this was during a period when WCW was trying to start a new undefeated streak as if Bill’s previous win/loss record didn’t count anymore.
He was announced at the start of this contest as 12-0 but somehow walked out 14-0, even though there were hundreds of contests under his belt by this point in his career. But hey, getting two wins in less than four minutes is not a bad deal at all.
