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Originally Posted by snova031
Did you ever see that match with Goldberg vs. Regal? Regal was supposed to let Goldberg get the squash, but Regal started shoot wrestling him...it was funny.
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It may be on youtube, Regal got fired as soon as he went back to the locker room. That's the thing with old school wrestlers, you need to be able to defend yourself in the ring, Austin, Rock and especially Bret Hart were able to avoid this kind of treatment in the ring, they knew what they were doing.
Do you think, back in the Mid 80's, nobody tried to make a name for themselves by trying to shoot (shoot = wrestle for real or hit for heal, hurt for real in the ring) Ric Flair? That guy can defend himself and Arn Anderson was traveling with him just in case.
Remember that jobber who tried to shoot on Saturn during Heat or RAW? What happened? That jobber almost ended up at the hospital, Saturn went on him too hard and almost got fired but you see the point?
A good comparison point for Goldberg would be Lesnar. Lesnar was a GREAT wrestler and he would have been as way bigger than Goldberg, but Lesnar was suffering too much from the busy schedule and traveling. But Bob Holy tried to shoot on Lesnar during SMACKDOWN! AND HE GOT DESTROYED!!!! Believe me, Holy is a tough SOB, but Lesnar broke him like if Holy was a little girl.
I may sound like if I was a Goldberg basher, I'm not, I was enjoying Goldberg, the chartacter was great, but he had limitions, HUGE limitation when you want to be a top star. Plus, in real life, he was a major prick in the locker room (but very nice with the fans).
Hogan was another one who couldn't defend himself in the ring, but he was on the WWF and was protected by the ownership and he was an awesome politician so he was able to avoid the shooting. At WrestleMania VII (I think), Sid got fired the day before but still had to do the show vs Hogan... Hogan was able to talk his way out of a major shoot, but Sid still kicked out of the Big Leg Drop!!! Sid got disqualified for it!?!?! He got disqualified for kicking out of Hogan's finisher! LOL
But Hogan avoided a shoot before the match by talking with Sid like the good politician he is. Rick "the Model" Martel (a close Hogan's friend) told me about it one time.