Goldberg was one of the most popular stars in professional wrestling during the Monday Night Wars and a lot of his success was due to his streak. Goldberg went undefeated for 173 matches before his streak was ended by Kevin Nash, who had a little help from Scott Hall who used a taser gun on Goldberg.
Goldberg recently appeared on the Steve Austin Show and he talked about his run in WCW and rumors that he was hard to work with. Goldberg acknowledged that he climbed the ladder quickly in WCW, but he also revealed that there was one star he wanted to put over.
Goldberg told Steve Austin that during his streak he wanted to put Bobby Eaton over in a dark match, but WCW wouldn’t let him do it.
I had a lot of power, quote-unquote, in WCW at one point … I always felt bad about guys who had been in the business for twenty fu–ing years and they’re jumping off a building for twenty bucks, and here comes Goldberg six months into the business, and I got the fu–ing belt, and I’m making whatever. So as a businessman if I had no fu–ing heart then I wouldn’t have given a sh-t and I would have said, ‘You know what, my bank account is getting huge, f–k these other schmucks, put ’em in the backseat and who cares about them.’ But I cared. Bobby Eaton, I wanted to put Bobby Eaton over in his hometown on his birthday in a dark match during my streak. They wouldn’t let me do it. Nobody fu–ing tells you about that fu–ing story. But it’s always, ‘Goldberg, he was selfish, he was this-and-that’ … At the end of the day I had power at times and I never used it maliciously.”
