10/13/2023 0 Comments Goldberg 3rd match wcw roadblockI’ll also be counting Pro, Saturday Night, and Worldwide with short or little description, due to the complexity of syndication and re-airs. I will use commentary as a baseline for the correct number and keep Mike Tenay in check. Throughout Bill’s career, there are dark matches and house show victories that I factor into his televised match victory total at the end. I refuse to be the ACTKHUALLY guy, even though I kind of just was. I find it convenient to disregard this un-televised run as Bill Gold and go with what’s recognized in Bill Goldberg canon. This is important to note because on Jin a dark match on WCW Saturday Night, a wrestler named Chad Fortune, also known as Troy, of Tekno Team 2000, DEFEATED Bill Gold, making Bill Gold 5-1. Goldberg wrestled as Bill Gold during this period before his TV debut. You could say he was 5-0 before his TV debut. Hector Guerrero was on July 14th’s Nitro, Chip Minton on July 17th at a house show, and John Betcha on July 21st’s Nitro were his next three defeated opponents. He then wrestled Buddy Landel, the next night, dark, on WCW Saturday Night. ![]() For instance, his first ever match on June 23rd, 1997, Bill GOLD wrestled Buddy Lee Parker in a dark match. I will be using the WWE Network, ProfightDB, CageMatch, YouTube, DailyMotion, and message boards debating the topic of Goldberg’s streak to follow it, watching each match and providing whatever interesting details I feel paint the story best. I will be looking at the first 100 matches of his career and see if we reach the pinnacle. With house show wins and dark match victories accounted for, it’s widely acknowledged as 173-0 when it finally ended. The official number of the win streak has much dispute. ![]() I wanted to discover when the crowd, commentary, and upper management went all in on Bill Goldberg. I wanted to catch certain pieces of minutia. I wanted to see the different stages of a meteoric rise. I started this project to figure out when different elements of Goldberg’s career became part of his character. Goldberg’s un-defeated streak sparked my interest in WCW as I know it did for many others.
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