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00:00Intense.
00:03We have never seen a man quite like this.
00:07Dominant.
00:08I spare from out of nowhere!
00:10Explosive.
00:12Three words used to describe one of the greatest entities professional wrestling has ever seen.
00:17You're not gonna find any man in any walk of life in any sport more intense than Goldberg.
00:23Today we look back at the very best of the man known as Goldberg.
00:28Who's next?
00:29This is WWE's Greatest Moments.
00:37Acknowledge me.
00:39A nod!
00:40No call to the bear man!
00:42This is surreal!
00:45Look at this!
00:46He landed!
00:53Welcome everyone to WWE's Greatest Moments.
00:56I'm Michael Cole and on this edition we're looking back at the very best of the icon simply known as Goldberg.
01:04With an NFL career behind him, Bill Goldberg burst onto the professional wrestling scene some 30 years ago.
01:10The industry has never been the same.
01:14There is nothing like Goldberg.
01:16Oh!
01:18Or amazing by the victory!
01:20Just when you think you've seen it all from Goldberg.
01:23Goldberg ran a rough shot over the WCW roster and racked up an undefeated streak like no one before.
01:30The most talked about win-loss record in pro sports.
01:33But it all began with victory number one.
01:37After only like two or three months in the power plant, Bill had enough fundamentals that we could take him out of the power plant and now put him out in front of a live crowd.
01:54Humorous will face a newcomer here in Bill Goldberg.
01:59A man we know absolutely nothing about.
02:02No one knew who he was.
02:03Like you thought maybe Goldberg was the enhancement talent, but he just got shot out of a cannon.
02:10How about that backflip?
02:12Actually done by Goldberg.
02:16And a big power slam!
02:18And the crowd just went, whoa!
02:22What is this?
02:26Combination slam, one, two, three!
02:29He got it!
02:30Whoa! Bill Goldberg!
02:32Out of obscurity!
02:34The plan was to be so simple and so devastating and so quick that people are like...
02:42Did you just see that?
02:45I'm not sure I've seen anything quite like it actually maybe ever.
02:48Man, that's special.
02:49You absolutely got in there and manhandled him tonight.
02:54Sir, I've got to get a little bit more than that.
02:55I wanted to be something completely different than people have ever seen before.
02:59Very impressive, but who is this guy Goldberg?
03:03It became clear to us that Bill was now going to be on a very accelerated flight path.
03:09What a debut for Bill Goldberg!
03:15The entrance.
03:16The anticipation.
03:18Goldberg was truly nothing like anyone had ever seen before.
03:22And he was quickly climbing the WCW ladder, setting the professional wrestling world on fire.
03:28He is ready!
03:30In less than one year, he has run through the competition.
03:34Now with an impressive undefeated streak, the Atlanta Adonis look to capture his first singles title against the United States champion, Raven.
03:43The focus, the intensity, in the eyes of Goldberg!
03:49The match between Raven and I was definitely something to remember.
03:53It was the start of the new beginning.
03:55Look what Raven's doing, daring Goldberg to come get it!
03:58The match.
03:59Oh, that was awesome.
04:00I mean, even though the match only lasted a couple minutes.
04:02And now across the back!
04:04He can't get to it!
04:06The power goes back!
04:08He's a football player, so that's a natural instinct thing for him.
04:12You know, to come in with that explosive movement.
04:14That's a spear!
04:15The fans are up!
04:16It's going for it right now!
04:17No!
04:18Jack!
04:19Hammer!
04:20Two!
04:21Three!
04:22He got a new champion!
04:23Goldberg is open for business!
04:24He did his talking in the ring.
04:25And as the expression goes, he wasn't being paid by the hour nor the word.
04:27Talk of victory number 75 in a row!
04:35That was rewarded that night.
04:38Goldberg is the United States champion!
04:43The brute force of Goldberg could not be denied.
04:46Goldberg about to explode!
04:50He snorts out!
04:51With a spear!
04:52This imposing force literally ran through his opponents
04:56with the explosive move known as the Spear.
05:02Everybody that's been put in front of me, I've destroyed.
05:07The most amazing thing about Bill, he's really the originator of the Spear.
05:15He speared him out of his boots.
05:18Pretty easy, it's a football tackle.
05:20The only thing I've ever wanted to be is a football player.
05:24That's my identity.
05:25The Spear, I'm the worst downest man!
05:29That guy was absolutely on fire.
05:31The Spear was pure, just physical beatdown and intimidation.
05:38But the one that stands out for me is when he did it in the elimination chamber.
05:42It is 10 tons, 20,000 pounds, with two miles of change surrounding it.
05:51And nine, six men will go in and one will survive.
05:55The elimination chamber was just a hefty monster of a rig that you just could not break through.
06:00That's the force of a Goldberg Spear, as it goes through bulletproof plexiglass.
06:21He almost broke people in half.
06:27I mean, Goldberg was unbelievable.
06:29Poor Chris.
06:30My God, what a slobber knocker!
06:32The myth of Goldberg was something you had to be there to believe.
06:39No one dominated the sport and captured the audience's attention with such sheer presence.
06:46You're next!
06:47Which takes us to WCW's Halloween Havoc, 1998.
06:52Goldberg defended not only his World Heavyweight Championship,
06:55but the unbelievable undefeated streak of a now 149-0.
07:04The man is here!
07:08Bill had the it factor times a billion.
07:13The intensity level for this match is so high.
07:17He was such a natural athlete.
07:20Top whistlock by Goldberg.
07:22Do I see Goldberg just completely flip over and land on his feet?
07:25Diamond Dallas Page.
07:26He helped me out exponentially.
07:28Russian leg sweep!
07:29Well, he's trying everything!
07:30He's got a cover!
07:31He's got a two!
07:33Holy smokes, that was close.
07:35He'd done a lot of things that were mind-blowing.
07:38That was just sheer group power.
07:42Goes for the spear!
07:43Page avoided it!
07:44Goldberg hit the post!
07:46That could be it!
07:49But Goldberg took!
07:51I was a true defensive lineman in that night.
07:54Page has got the diamond cutter on Goldberg!
07:58One!
07:59Two!
08:00Goldberg's out at two!
08:02But it didn't end there.
08:04He kept going.
08:05Page gonna try suplex, forget about it.
08:08Goldberg's got him up!
08:10Jack Hammer did it down!
08:12One!
08:13Two!
08:14It's Goldberg!
08:15It's Goldberg!
08:16Well, he earned that one!
08:17That's why he is the man!
08:20That's why he is undefeated!
08:23That match, it brings one of the largest smiles to my face ever.
08:28An act of respect right there.
08:30This is what it's all about.
08:32That's what's great about this profession.
08:34He had a hell of a run, man.
08:35A hell of a run.
08:37And I'm super proud of him.
08:38That was a remarkable match.
08:41My God, I love this sport.
08:46If you're still doubting the explosiveness that is Bill Goldberg,
08:50then you haven't been paying much attention.
08:52The feats of strength this man was able to accomplish is something of legend,
08:56especially when it came to his finishing move,
08:59the dreaded Jack Hammer.
09:02And he Jack Hammer's in now!
09:04But there was one man,
09:06or should I say,
09:07one giant,
09:09that people doubted could be hoisted above the mighty Goldberg's head.
09:13Giant's got him!
09:14He's got him!
09:16Standing at an immersive seven feet,
09:19the giant stood tall over world championship wrestling.
09:23But was he any match for the king of the Jack Hammer?
09:26He wants to get his hands around the giant's neck.
09:34That's what Goldberg wants.
09:36I just wanted to come out there and I wanted to smash people.
09:39That was it.
09:40That's what people wanted to see.
09:42He's not going to spear!
09:44He took him down!
09:46541 and a half pounds!
09:49Now he's going to pick him up!
09:51The Jack Hammer?
09:52I can hold guys up there for as long as humanly possible.
09:55But the giant,
09:56I knew if I could do it to him,
09:58that I could do it to anybody.
09:59The biggest athlete in pro sports is over!
10:01He did it!
10:02He did it!
10:04He was a freakishly strong individual.
10:08He did it!
10:08He's the man!
10:10He's the man!
10:11He is the man!
10:12In 2001, world championship wrestling closed its doors
10:19and many of the top WCW stars found their way to WWE.
10:23Woo!
10:24But one man was noticeably missing.
10:27Goldberg.
10:28As The Rock was in the ring laying the verbal smackdown to a raucous crowd on Monday Night Raw.
10:32The Rock just went, don't give The Rock the finger.
10:34He'll come out and whip that candy ass just like that!
10:37The most electrifying man in sports entertainment
10:39was about to come face-to-face with the most dominant man in professional wrestling.
10:46You know, the fact of the matter is this.
10:48I left, I went to Hollywood, I came back, and I get booed!
10:52You can all kiss the people's ass!
10:56The Rock will tell you that's right!
11:01Wait a minute.
11:03It's Goldberg!
11:05I know, it's Goldberg, but where is he?
11:06He's here in Seattle!
11:08Ah!
11:09I think that coming from WCW to WWE and making that splash, it had to be with the right person.
11:19Goldberg and The Rock!
11:21What do you do once they're in there?
11:22And the idea with Goldberg, if you're going to play your cards right, he's got to run people over.
11:27You're next!
11:29What?
11:29Oh, God!
11:31Oh, that's not long enough!
11:32Goldberg, take it down!
11:33Goldberg!
11:34Goldberg came in just the way he should have come in, with The Rock.
11:38We welcome you to Backlash!
11:40I cannot wait for The Rock and Goldberg!
11:43It's going to be huge!
11:44With two individuals such as he and myself, that's all you need.
11:50Oh, no!
11:51And he's near The Rock!
11:53And Goldberg calling for it!
11:56Picks up the great one!
11:58Oh, my God!
11:58Oh, the jackhammer slam!
12:00The jackhammer slam by Goldberg!
12:03And he does it!
12:04I think he was instrumental in my success immediately at the WWE.
12:09A new era of Goldberg!
12:12As Goldberg speared his way past The Rock, he sent his sights to his next victim, World Heavyweight Champion Triple H.
12:21Triple H!
12:22That World Heavyweight title is mine!
12:25Goldberg vs. Triple H!
12:28One-on-one!
12:30Yeah!
12:30Unforgiven for the World Heavyweight Championship!
12:34In a match that pit the face of WWE against the face of WCW, Goldberg looked at the throne, the cerebral assassin, and Unforgiven 2003.
12:44This is what our business is all about!
12:51To see who's the best!
12:54You got the perfect bad guy in Triple H, and you got this monster over here in Goldberg.
12:58Oh, my God!
12:59Big fight feel!
12:59Goldberg coming out was a big fight feel!
13:01Oh, look out!
13:02Oh, Goldberg!
13:03Raw power!
13:04That's Goldberg's game plan!
13:06Believe the height!
13:07In the height of his career, I can remember working with Bill, you know, as much as it's a fight and the big fight feel and all those things,
13:14but yet the emotion of it is an enjoyable process that fans connected with, and I think they felt it.
13:21Winning a championship, it was the driving force.
13:24It was the meat and potatoes of the story.
13:26I don't believe it, but Goldberg is actually back to beat!
13:29The fear!
13:31Triple H is up!
13:33Will it be?
13:34Jackhammer!
13:35Jackhammer!
13:36The jackhammer!
13:37The hook!
13:38The count!
13:41Whoa!
13:41Goldberg!
13:43Goldberg!
13:44Goldberg!
13:45Anytime you're at the top of your profession, you have to step back for a second and kind of smell the roses and go, wow.
13:53It meant everything.
13:54Goldberg, by God, he has done it!
14:01Maybe I have one more ass-kicking left in me.
14:05After 12 years away from the squared circle, Goldberg announced the unthinkable.
14:09He was returning to WWE.
14:12His first opponent?
14:13The beast incarnate, Brock Lesnar.
14:16There's only one ass-kicker, and you're looking at him.
14:19If there was one superstar in history who could rival the brutality of Goldberg, it was certainly Brock Lesnar.
14:26With so much time passed, would Goldberg be able to prove he still had what it took to be in the ring with the very best?
14:33Being away from the business for a very long period of time, there's a lot of doubt, in all honesty, because the fear of the unknown sometimes can be very overwhelming.
14:51A surreal moment at Survivor Series.
14:55They gave that crowd something I don't think anyone in that crowd was expecting to see that night.
14:59No fear from Goldberg's spear!
15:03Goldberg hit Lesnar with a spear!
15:06A spear from out of nowhere!
15:08Goldberg may shock the world!
15:09Goldberg looking to end this early!
15:11Goldberg again with a spear!
15:14Two spears to Lesnar!
15:16I was overwhelmed.
15:19I knew Bill was going to pull it off.
15:21I just had no clue to what level he was going to do it.
15:29Goldberg's looking for a jackhammer!
15:31Goldberg's feeling it!
15:32He's looking for the jackhammer!
15:35A jackhammer to Lesnar!
15:37Here's the cover!
15:38Oh my God!
15:40Goldberg beat Brack!
15:43Survivor Series surprised us all.
15:46I would be a liar if I said anything different.
15:49It shocked people.
15:50And that's what you want from this business.
15:53A monumental upset!
16:00In 2017, Goldberg was fully back where he belonged.
16:04In WWE.
16:05Though since his last run, things have changed a bit.
16:08I want to thank my beautiful wife.
16:12I also want to thank my wonderful little boy.
16:15Because he gave me the desire to be that superhero again.
16:22So thank you, son.
16:25It's been 14 years since Goldberg held the world title.
16:29He now had a wife and a young son, all rooting for their hero to do it one more time.
16:34And at Fastlane, he took on Universal Champion Kevin Owens for one more shot at Championship Glory.
16:46I like this side of Kevin Owens, defiant.
16:58Working with Kevin Owens was awesome.
17:00It was short.
17:01It was sweet.
17:01Because his son got to experience it with him, it was so much more special for Bill this time around.
17:29Goldberg gets one more run as a superhero.
17:34Winning a championship and being able to show your 11-year-old son and your beautiful wife, it was a dream come true.
17:41Anybody who would tell you any different is a liar.
17:43I saw his son look so happy to hold the title, and my son got to do that.
17:49I got to share that with my son.
17:51And I'm glad Goldberg got to share that with his son and his wife.
17:55Your son?
17:55I'm welcome.
17:56That's the real one.
18:02Incredible.
18:02It's now time for our number one moment.
18:08And it's one that still has the world buzzing.
18:11We've seen what an unstoppable force Goldberg had been throughout his entire career.
18:16But longtime fans know that there was an irresistible force known as Hollywood Hogan.
18:21The champion of the world.
18:22Hogan was the reigning WCW World Heavyweight Champion in July of 1998.
18:28But Goldberg could not be denied his opportunity at World Championship Gold.
18:32Goldberg ain't nobody.
18:35He's not in the same league as Hollywood.
18:38Over 40,000 fans packed the Georgia Dome to see the undefeated United States Champion Goldberg take on Hollywood Hulk Hogan with the world title on the line.
18:49Goldberg has answered every challenge to date.
18:55With 107 victories.
18:58Despite the fact that this was the story for Goldberg, Hogan had been here for so long that it just seemed impossible that he would lose.
19:06And it could be the night where Goldberg walks away with the gun from arguably the greatest champion our sport has ever had in Hollywood Hogan.
19:15It's about being in the right place at the right time.
19:17Every bad guy needs a good guy.
19:20Hogan needed somebody.
19:22If I'm going to be the bad guy, we need another Hulk Hogan.
19:25Okay, there's part one.
19:27Now finish him off.
19:28Finish him off.
19:30What better way to be Hulk Hogan than beating Hulk Hogan?
19:33He's got him off!
19:36When Hogan is upside down for that jackhammer, it is chaos.
19:40Oh!
19:44One, two, three!
19:47Thank you, thank you, thank you!
19:50We've got a new NBA champion in the world!
19:52Hogan put me over in front of 45,000 people in my hometown at the time, Atlanta.
19:59I mean, what a cool deal that was.
20:01Bill Goldberg is on top of the wrestling world.
20:05It was the coolest night of my wrestling career.
20:06One thing is for sure, there's never been a man who took this industry by storm like Goldberg.
20:15And there never will be again.
20:18Well, that'll do it for this edition of WWE's Greatest Moments.
20:22I hope you've enjoyed this look back at the greatest moments from the man, Goldberg.
20:26It's been one hell of a ride.
20:29And there ain't never gonna be another Goldberg.
20:32...
20:33...
20:35...
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