Goldberg Vs La Parka WCW Monday Nitro 06-01-1998
I don't care for Goldberg.
I originally I said I hated Goldberg, but I thought about it and that's silly. Wrestling is stupid and to say you actively hate a person playfighting in trunks seems a bit silly. I definitely don't care for him though..Even before he kicked Bret Hart in the brain and ended his career, I was never a huge Goldberg guy. Even at the height of his powers, I just didn't get it. Sometimes in wrestling you just like a babyface the minimum amount. I liked Goldberg, that was about it. It wasn't even a WWF bias as I was a huge fan of Sting, but Goldberg just didn't do it for me. Any goodwill I did have for him was squashed ( yay jokes) with his recent returns. This is just like my opinion man, but I hated it. Obviously Goldberg will be showing up back in this blog, as he was pretty much the king of the squashes in the late 90s. However, I don't have high hopes. Maybe this is unfair of me, much like it was unfair of him to end Bret Hart's career, but I remember Goldberg matches all being the same and not in the fun way. No Sell, Spear, Jackhammer, Repeat. I'm probably a lot more forgiving of the formulas of other wrestlers, but for Goldberg I need something else to help me look past my bias
I need a Spooky Skeleton Man
When people talk about the misses of WCW, La Parka rarely comes up. H e should . In the most viewed time period in wrestling history La Parka, of all people, is someone who everyone remembers. I know of multiple friends who decided, you know what this is the year I'm La Parka for Halloween. Multiple, as in more than one. He was such a unique character that even people who casually watched WCW have to remember the Dancing Skeleton Man who hit people with chairs. To quote Strongbad, That's a primo gimmick. So If I'm going to ease into this Goldberg thing, I need someone to help me along the way. I need a Squash match Chaser to gargle down the Goldberg Shot. I need La Parka
I cannot deny how over Goldberg was even if I don't understand it. The Avatar of Pro Wrestling. I guess technically that was Al Snow, but you get my point. This episode of WCW Monday Nitro is from June 1998, shortly after Goldberg won the U.S Title but before his world title win later in the year. In what shouldn't be a shocker, the Goldberg entrance is longer than the match. We begin with La Parka teasing hitting Goldberg with the chair, and Goldberg urging him to do it. LA PARKA BRAINS GOLDBERG WITH THE CHAIR. Luckily it's a plastic chair because he absolutely waffles him. Goldberg N=no sells, because Goldberg. For whatever reason, La Parka then starts doing to the La Parka dance. Wait I know the reason, because La Parka rules. Goldberg SPEARS THE SHIT out of La Parka Holy Crap. My poor spooky skeleton man. One Jackhammer later and Goldberg wins. I didn't watch the match before I predicted the sequence, but what do you know I was right.
No Sell,
Spear
Jackhammer.
What's most remarkable is how loud the crowd is. I'm not sure any squash so far as gotten that level of reaction, but it was Goldberg and he was over man
What can I say, it's a Hall of Fame Squash. Listen I don't think Goldberg is the worst wrestler of all time, I just think he kind of sucks. What I can't deny is this match because it was awesome. Goldberg and La Parka both played their roles so well and the crowd was electric.
But did you know Goldberg ended Bret Hart's career?
TLDR Review
La Parka is awesome. Goldberg is reluctantly awesome. Bret Hart's the Goat
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