#1 Goldberg didn’t want to work with Chris Jericho
Chris Jericho and Goldberg successfully worked together on multiple occasions in WWE in 2003-2004, but their WCW rivalry five years earlier came to an abrupt end.
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As Jericho recalled on a 2018 episode of his Talk Is Jericho podcast, he felt that he and Goldberg were not given a fair shot in WCW after they were told to have two matches on weekly television instead of a high-profile match at a pay-per-view.
Jericho said a PPV match could have been a “moneymaker” for WCW, but he thought a long-term story needed to be told in order to prevent him from being yet another person who Goldberg squashed in quick fashion.
"I never, ever wanted to have a normal match. What I wanted to do was to just have Bill [Goldberg] kick the s*** out of me and, like I said, do this cool little squash match with all the bumps and bruises and stuff." [H/T Wrestling Inc.]
Eric Bischoff liked Jericho’s idea and even wanted to use Judge Judy as part of the storyline, but Goldberg did not agree with the suggestion and the rivalry ended without culminating at a PPV.
“When they wouldn't do that angle at the pay-per-view, as we know, as [Bischoff’s podcast host, Conrad Thompson] said, Goldberg canceled because he was going hunting that weekend and he wasn't booked for the pay-per-view, so he sort of skipped out.”
Unlike Gillberg and Matt Riddle, Goldberg went on to work with Jericho in WWE, both in 2003-04 and in 2017.
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