[1999-10-24-WCW-Halloween Havoc] Goldberg vs Sid

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Sid is already bleeding, I guess from an angle earlier in the night. A lot of good security does when Scott Hall and Kevin Nash just power through them and attack Goldberg before the match anyway. Goldberg quickly goes all Taylor Swift and shakes it off. This wasn't any good or anything, but working it this way made for a much better match than it would have had they just gone straight up with no blood. Goldberg just decimates Sid and works over the cut but he doesn't have enough offense to keep it interesting. The visual of a blood-soaked Sid trying to fight his way back was great though. The match is stopped due to blood loss and Goldberg gets the win. Goldberg wins the U.S. title.

[Tim Evans]

Man Sid's bladejob is insane. Way above the Muta scale. Weird way to end Sid's big streak push.

[PeteF3]

Looks like they're turning Sid face because reasons. That said, it's an effective and interesting way of doing it. I mean, yeah, it's basically Austin at WM13 all over again, but if you're going to steal, steal from the best, right? Plus the match is worked completely differently than you'd expect going in, while still making psychological sense. I don't know if this was the plan before Russo got there and he left it alone, or if he booked this himself, but it might be the high point of his WCW run and one of the performances of Sid's career.

[Jetlag]

What the hell are all those guys that Goldberg comes to the ring with good for, anyways? The Outsiders assault Goldberg before the match and Sid comes after him, but he ends up busted open himself soon anyways. Sid tries to make a rally but Goldberg makes minced meat out of him pounding the cut with punches and elbows. Sid looks pretty great selling the blood and trying to make a comeback by pounding Goldberg with big boots and punches. Eventually Sid is done for though and the ref stops the match. The ref stop is not a common US finish but with Goldberg looking at the ref and being reluctant to beat Sid further it felt this was building to a ref stop. Sort of NJPW type match but with WCW going off the rails it was merely a hint at what kind of epics they could have produced.