#1 Winning the WCW World Title against Hulk Hogan on Nitro
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The date was July 6, 1998 and Goldberg was challenging Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Title on Nitro. It took place at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta with over 30,000 people in attendance. At that point, Goldberg was undefeated on WCW programming for about nine months.
Not only was he undefeated, but most of his wins came in matches that took three minutes or less. He also went into the match holding the United States Championship, so he was looking to hold WCW’s two biggest titles at the same time.
The match featured one of the hottest crowds in WCW history. Hogan was hated for two years, being the top guy in the company as the leader of the New World Order. Even though Hogan had put over the likes of Lex Luger and Sting, he always seemed to find a way to the top as the WCW Champion.
When he met Goldberg, though, Hogan was unable to take advantage of the undefeated monster.
Goldberg dominated the matchup as he came back from everything Hogan threw at him, nailed an impressive Spear on the veteran and as soon as he picked him up, the crowd went wild because they knew what was next. Goldberg hit a Jackhammer to win his first and only WCW World Title.
While it was a great moment for Goldberg and WCW as a company, it also made fans scratch their head wondering why they would give away this match for free on Nitro instead of making fans pay for it on a pay-per-view?
There’s no real answer to that question other than to say that WCW cared more about television ratings than they did in actually making money through PPV buys. Poor decisions like that are why the company died three years after this.
It was probably the loudest crowd reaction in WCW history and to this day remains the highlight of Goldberg’s career so far.
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