Goldberg

[TravJ1979]

I wanted to just do the streak, but ended up doing his whole career.

 

WINS - 308

LOSSES - 27

NC/DRAW - 18

 

Most of the losses were 3-Way, 4-Way matches, Battle Royals or some other type of multi-man match. If anyone is interested in the raw data, I'll be happy to send you the excel file.

 

THE STREAK

 

SOURCE: THEHISTORYOFWWE.COM and DDTDIGEST.COM

 

20 Wins - The Giant (*21 counting handicap against him and Hogan)

 

10 Wins - Jerry Flynn, Perry Saturn

 

7 Wins - Curt Hennig

 

6 Wins - Brad Armstrong

 

5 Wins - Scott Hall, Yuji Nagata

 

4 Wins - Fit Finlay, Glacier, Meng, Steve McMichael

 

3 Wins - Bobby Eaton, Hugh Morrus (*4 counting handicap match against him and Barbarian), Raven, Rick Fuller, Sting, Van Hammer

 

2 Wins - Barry Darsow, Barry Horowitz, Buddy Lee Parker, Konnan, Renegade, Scott Norton, Sick Boy

 

1 Win - Al Greene, Bam Bam Bigelow, Barbarian (*2 counting handicap against him and Hugh Morrus), Brian Adams, Buddy Landel, Chavo Guerrero Jr., Chris Kanyon, DDP, Disco Inferno, Hulk Hogan (*2 counting handicap against him and Giant), Jim Powers, John Betcha, John Nord, Johnny Attitude, Kendall Windham, La Parka, Len Denton, Lodi, Manny Fernandez, Mark Starr, Mike Enos, Mortis, Ray Traylor, Reese, Roadblock, Rocco Rock, Scott Putski, Scotty Riggs, Steve Regal, Stevie Ray, Terrance Black, Vincent, Wayne Bloom, Wrath, 9-Person Battle Royal

 

No Contests - Disco Inferno, Chavo Guerrero Jr., Bam Bam Bigelow, and Kevin Nash/Bam Bam Bigelow in a handicap match.

 

Losses - Kevin Nash

 

From 6/23/97 to 12/27/98 - That gives me 148 Wins, 1 Loss, and 4 No-Contests. It is possible I missed quite a few house show matches, but I'm thinking the list started getting padded middle of the way through.

 

After his win over Perry Saturn at Spring Stampede 1998 (4/19), He is announced at 74-0 and the next night on Nitro when he wins the US Title over Raven it's 75-0. At this point I have 68 wins and 2 No Contests. It's highly plausible I'm missing seven House Show/Dark Matches and the record is legit.

 

After the 5/18/1998 Nitro win over Glacier, he is announced at 88-0.(+13) I have this as win 82(+14).

 

His Great American Bash PPV win over Konnan 6/14/1998 is announced as his 100th win.(+12) I have this as win 95(+13).

 

So far I've went from a difference of 7 (75/68), to a difference of 6 (88/82), and now 5 (100/95).

 

His Bash at the Beach PPV win over Curt Hennig 7/12/1998 is announced as win 112(+12). I have 105(+10). The difference is now back up to 7 (112/105).

 

On Nitro Xtra in early November 1998 a win against Meng is counted as 160(+48), but counting the results I have even the announced number would only be 150. My result count is 143(+38). Difference 17(160/143).

 

The night of Starrcade he is said to be at 174-0(+14), but results I have show announced number should be 165(+5) now with 4 total No-Contests. As of the night of his loss to Nash, results I found show a record of 148(+5).

 

So it looks like the streak was legit (+/- 5) until he won the title from Hogan. At that point it started to get a bit inflated, adding upwards of 25 phantom wins.

 

THE REST

 

Please excuse the formatting

 

Kevin Nash/Bam Bam Bigelow 12/29/1998 House Show Loss Triple Threat match

Kevin Nash/Giant 12/30/1998 House Show Loss Triple Threat match

Giant 1/2/1999 House Show Win

Giant 1/3/1999 House Show Win

Bam Bam Bigelow 1/6/1999 House Show Win

Scott Hall 1/17/1999 WCW Souled Out 17:36 Win Taser Match

Scott Hall/Bam Bam Bigelow 1/18/1999 Nitro Win

Scott Norton 1/25/1999 Nitro Win

Kevin Nash 1/29/1999 House Show Win

Kevin Nash 1/30/1999 House Show Win

Bam Bam Bigelow 2/3/1999 House Show Win

Bam Bam Bigelow 2/7/1999 House Show Win

Bam Bam Bigelow 2/21/1999 WCW SuperBrawl 11:39 Win

Scott Steiner 2/22/1999 Nitro Win

Bam Bam Bigelow 2/26/1999 Nitro Win

Bam Bam Bigelow 2/28/1999 Nitro Win

Scott Steiner/Buff Bagwell 3/1/1999 Nitro Win w/Rick Steiner

Bam Bam Bigelow 3/7/1999 House Show Win

Ric Flair 3/8/1999 Nitro NC

Hulk Hogan/Kevin Nash 3/15/1999 Nitro Loss w/Ric Flair

Meng 3/19/1999 House Show 7:00 Win

Meng 3/20/1999 House Show Win

Hak 3/22/1999 Nitro Win

Hugh Morrus 3/27/1999 House Show Win

Bam Bam Bigelow 3/31/1999 House Show Win

Meng 4/2/1999 House Show Win

Meng 4/3/1999 House Show Win

Ric Flair/DDP/Hulk Hogan 4/5/1999 Nitro NC Four-Way Match

Kevin Nash 4/11/1999 WCW Spring Stampede 7:46 Win

Kenny Kaos 4/12/1999 Nitro Win

Ernest Miller 4/15/1999 Thunder Win Shown 4/22

Meng 4/16/1999 House Show Win

Meng 4/17/1999 House Show Win

Meng 4/18/1999 House Show Win

DDP 4/19/1999 Nitro NC

Ric Flair 4/25/1999 House Show Win

DDP/Sting/Kevin Nash 4/26/1999 Nitro Loss Four-Way Match

Meng 4/29/1999 Thunder Win

Curt Hennig 4/30/1999 House Show Win

Curt Hennig 5/1/1999 House Show Win

Sting 5/9/1999 WCW Slamboree 8:16 NC

DDP 7/23/1999 House Show Win

DDP 7/25/1999 House Show Win

Curt Hennig 7/26/1999 Nitro Win

Sid Vicious/Rick Steiner 8/2/1999 Nitro Loss w/Sting

Rocco Rock 8/5/1999 Thunder Win

Kevin Nash/Sid Vicious/Rick Steiner 8/9/1999 Nitro Win w/Hulk Hogan/Sting Six Man Tag

Rick Steiner 8/14/1999 WCW Road Wild 5:38 Win

DDP 8/15/1999 House Show Win

Barry Windham 8/16/1999 Nitro :30 Win

Rick Steiner 8/20/1999 House Show Win

DDP/Kanyon/Bam Bam Bigelow 8/30/1999 Nitro 5:09 Win w/Hogan Handicap Match

Ernest Miller 9/2/1999 Thunder Win

Bam Bam Bigelow 9/2/1999 Thunder Win Shown 9/9

Rick Steiner 9/5/1999 House Show Win

DDP/Sid Vicious/Rick Steiner 9/6/1999 Nitro Win w/Hulk Hogan Handicap Steel Cage Match

Sid Vicious 9/10/1999 House Show Win

DDP 9/12/1999 WCW Fall Brawl Win

Sid Vicious 9/17/1999 House Show Win

Sid Vicious 9/18/1999 House Show Win

Sid Vicious 9/19/1999 House Show Win

Brian Knobbs 9/20/1999 Nitro Win

Hugh Morrus 9/27/1999 Nitro Win

Scott Norton 9/30/1999 Thunder Win

Sid Vicious 10/1/1999 House Show Win

Sid Vicious 10/2/1999 House Show Win

Sid Vicious 10/3/1999 House Show Win

Jerry Flynn 10/4/1999 Nitro Win

Horace Hogan 10/11/1999 Nitro Win

Lex Luger 10/18/1999 Nitro Win

Sid Vicious 10/24/1999 WCW Halloween Havoc 7:11 Win wins US Title

Sting 10/24/1999 WCW Halloween Havoc 3:09 Win was mystery opponent "won" title

Bret Hart 10/25/1999 Nitro Loss tons of interference

Sting 11/8/1999 Nitro Win

Scott Hall/Bret Hart/Sid Vicious 11/8/1999 Nitro 5:00 Loss Four-Way Ladder Match

Curt Hennig 11/15/1999 Nitro 2:36 Win

Lex Luger 11/19/1999 House Show Win

Sid Vicious 11/21/1999 WCW Mayhem 5:30 Win I Quit Match

Scott Hall/Kevin Nash 11/22/1999 Nitro Loss w/Sid Vicious

Kevin Nash 11/29/1999 Nitro Win

Bret Hart/Chris Benoit + Kevin Nash/Scott Hall 11/29/1999 Nitro Loss Triple Threat Tag Team Cage Match

Bret Hart 12/5/1999 House Show Loss

Jeff Jarrett 12/6/1999 Nitro Win Lumberjack Match

Creative Control 12/7/1999 Thunder 3:01 Win w/Bret Hart, Wins Tag Titles Shown 12/9

Kevin Nash/Scott Hall 12/13/1999 Nitro Loss w/Bret Hart, Lose Tag Titles

Kevin Nash 12/14/1999 Thunder Loss w/Bret Hart, Handicap, House of Pain Match, Shown 12/16

Bret Hart 12/17/1999 House Show NC

Bret Hart 12/18/1999 House Show NC

Bret Hart 12/19/1999 WCW Starrcade 12:07 Loss

Bret Hart 12/20/1999 Nitro 5:55 Loss Bret Hart wins vacant WCW Title

Tank Abbott 6/5/2000 Nitro Win Goldberg's return match after hand injury (12/99)

Kevin Nash 6/12/2000 Nitro NC Goldberg turned heel at Bash 6/11

Horace Hogan 6/19/2000 Nitro 2:36 Win

Tank Abbott 6/22/2000 House Show Win

Jim Duggan 6/26/2000 Nitro Win

Jeff Jarrett/Kevin Nash/Scott Steiner 6/26/2000 Nitro Loss Four-Way

Kevin Nash 7/9/2000 WCW Bash at the Beach 5:29 Win Hall's Contract at stake

Jeff Jarrett/Scott Steiner/Kanyon 7/10/2000 Nitro Loss Four-Way with winner being #1 contender to WCW Title

Scott Steiner 7/18/2000 Nitro NC

Booker T 7/24/2000 Nitro 3:03 Win subbed for Sting

Booker T 7/24/2000 Nitro Loss

Kevin Nash/Scott Steiner 8/13/2000 WCW New Blood Rising Loss Triple Threat

Scott Steiner 8/19/2000 House Show Draw DCO

Scott Steiner 8/20/2000 House Show Win

Shane Douglas 9/4/2000 Nitro Win

Triple Cage War Games 9/4/2000 Nitro 18:46 Loss Kevin Nash/Jeff Jarrett/Scott Steiner/Vince Russo v. Goldberg/Booker T/Kronik

Lance Storm/Elix Skipper 9/5/2000 Thunder Win Handicap Match, Shown 9/6

Scott Steiner 9/17/2000 WCW Fall Brawl Loss Lost via KO

Lex Luger 9/21/2000 House Show Win

Scott Steiner 9/25/2000 Nitro Win Steel Cage

Meng 10/2/2000 Nitro Win

Ron Harris/Don Harris 10/2/2000 Nitro Win

Big Vito 10/7/2000 Nitro Win Australia Nitro shown 10/9

Johnny the Bull 10/7/2000 Nitro Win Australia Nitro shown 10/9

Chuck Palumbo 10/7/2000 Thunder Win Australia Thunder shown 10/11

Shawn Stasiak 10/7/2000 Thunder Win Australia Thunder shown 10/11

Kronik 10/10/2000 House Show Win Handicap Match

David Flair 10/13/2000 Nitro Win Australia Nitro shown 10/6

Elix Skipper 10/13/2000 Thunder Win Australia Thunder shown 10/18

Shawn Stasiak 10/23/2000 Nitro Win

Jeff Jarrett/Kronik 10/23/2000 Thunder Win w/Booker T/Sting, Shown 10/25

Kronik 10/29/2000 WCW Halloween Havoc 3:44 Win Handicap match

Bam Bam Bigelow 11/6/2000 Nitro Win

Lex Luger/Bam Bam Bigelow 11/6/2000 Thunder Win Triple Threat, Shown 11/8

Disco Inferno/Alex Wright 11/10/2000 Nitro Win Handicap Match, Shown 11/13

Lex Luger 11/11/2000 House Show Win

Buff Bagwell 11/12/2000 Thunder Win Shown 11/15

Bam Bam Bigelow 11/13/2000 House Show Win

Kwee Wee 11/20/2000 Nitro Win

Mike Sanders 11/20/2000 Nitro Win

Lex Luger 11/26/2000 WCW Mayhem Win

Reno 11/27/2000 Nitro Win

Lex Luger 12/3/2000 House Show Win

MI Smooth 12/4/2000 Nitro Win

Shane Douglas 12/4/2000 Thunder Win Shown 12/6

Dewayne Bruce 12/11/2000 Nitro Win Shown 12/12

Lex Luger 12/17/2000 WCW Starrcade 7:20 Win No DQ

Buff Bagwell 12/18/2000 Nitro Win

Norman Smiley 12/18/2000 Thunder Win Shown 12/20

Mark Jindrak 12/22/2000 Thunder Win Shown 1/3/01

Lex Luger/Buff Bagwell 1/7/2001 House Show Win w/ Dewayne Bruce

Kronik 1/8/2001 Nitro Win w/ Dewayne Bruce

Lex Luger/Buff Bagwell 1/14/2001 Sin 11:00 Loss w/ Dewayne Bruce, Goldberg would retire if they lost. Goldberg's last WCW Match

Satoshi Kojima 8/30/2002 AJPW PPV 4:02 Win

Taiyo Kea 8/31/2002 AJPW PPV 3:56 Win

Rick Steiner 11/17/2002 AJ/W1 PPV 6:03 Win

Kronik 1/19/2003 AJ/W1 PPV 17:57 Win w/Keiji Mutoh

Rock 4/27/2003 WWE Backlash 13:04 Win WWE wrestling debut

Christian 5/5/2003 Raw NC

Christian 5/12/2003 Raw 6:50 Win Steel Cage

Lance Storm 5/19/2003 Raw Win

Rosey 6/9/2003 Raw 3:25 Win

Jericho 6/15/2003 WWE Badd Blood 10:59 Win

Christian/Chris Jericho 6/16/2003 Raw 9:12 Win

Rodney Mack 6/23/2003 Raw :26 Win

Lance Storm 6/30/2003 Raw NC

HHH 7/20/2003 House Show Loss

Stevie Richards 7/28/2003 Raw Win

HHH 7/28/2003 Raw Win Dark Match

Ric Flair 8/4/2003 Raw Win

Ric Flair 8/11/2003 Raw Win

Ric Flair 8/17/2003 House Show Win

Randy Orton 8/18/2003 Raw Win

Elimination Chamber 8/24/2003 WWE Summerslam Loss HHH, Chris Jericho, Shawn Michaels, Randy Orton, Kevin Nash other participants

HHH/Ric Flair/Randy Orton 9/1/2003 Raw Win w/Maven

HHH 9/7/2003 House Show 1:12 Win

HHH/Ric Flair 9/7/2003 House Show Win w/Maven

HHH/Ric Flair 9/8/2003 Raw NC w/Mystery partner (Randy Orton) -- All three jumped him at match start

HHH/Ric Flair 9/12/2003 House Show Win

HHH 9/21/2003 WWE Unforgiven 14:53 Win Wins WWE Title

Chris Jericho 9/22/2003 Raw 6:58 Win

Ric Flair/Randy Orton 9/28/2003 House Show Win

Ric Flair/Randy Orton 9/29/2003 Raw 5:48 Win w/Shawn Michaels

Mark Henry 10/6/2003 Raw 5:10 Win

Ric Flair/Randy Orton 10/11/2003 House Show Win w/Shawn Michaels

Ric Flair/Randy Orton 10/12/2003 House Show Win w/Shawn Michaels

Ric Flair/Randy Orton/Mark Henry 10/13/2003 Raw 6:08 Win w/Shawn Michaels

Ric Flair/Randy Orton 10/17/2003 House Show Win w/Booker T

Ric Flair/Randy Orton 10/18/2003 House Show Win w/Booker T

Shawn Michaels 10/20/2003 Raw 6:30 NC

Ric Flair/Randy Orton 11/7/2003 House Show Win w/Booker T

Batista 11/10/2003 Raw 2:16 Win

HHH 11/16/2003 WWE Survivor Series 11:43 Win

HHH/Batista/Randy Orton 11/17/2003 Raw 6:13 Loss 3-on-1 non-title Handicap match

HHH/Batista/Randy Orton 11/21/2003 House Show Win w/Booker T

HHH/Batista/Randy Orton 11/22/2003 House Show Win w/Booker T

HHH 11/24/2003 Raw 7:17 Win

Kane 11/28/2003 House Show Win

Kane 11/29/2003 House Show Win

Kane/Batista/Randy Orton 12/1/2003 Raw 13:49 Win w/Shawn Michaels and RVD

Kane 12/8/2003 Raw 5:28 Win Lumberjack Match

Kane 12/12/2003 House Show 6:52 Win

HHH/Kane 12/14/2003 WWE Armageddon 19:30 Loss Triple Threat, Loses Title (12/15/03 Raw) - Bischoff suspends for 30-days for attacking Conway/Dupree

Matt Hardy 1/12/2004 Raw 2:26 Win Return from 30-day suspension

Scott Steiner/Test 1/19/2004 Raw 5:17 Win

6 Man Battle Royal 1/19/2004 Raw 6:58 Win w/ Randy Orton, Chris Jericho, Booker T, RVD, Mark Henry

Royal Rumble 1/25/2004 WWE Royal Rumble 10:00 Loss Royal Rumble Match Eliminates: Charlie Haas, Billy Gunn, Nunzio

Mark Henry/Coach 1/26/2004 Raw 4:23 Win

Kane 2/2/2004 Raw 5:00 NC No Contest after Undertaker puts smoke/lightining in ring and Kane runs off (2/9/04 Raw) - Heyman and Austin speared. Vince suspends Goldberg

Brock Lesnar 3/14/2004 WWE WrestleMania XX 13:48 Win

[Sidebottom]

I have a lot of love for Goldberg. One of my biggest pet peeves is when some goof says he was the "Ultimate Warrior" of the modern era, that is to say he had an amazing look, but couldn't go. Frankly I couldn't disagree more. Goldberg vs DDP at HH98 is one of my favourite ever matches, as is Goldberg vs Scott Steiner at Fall Brawl 2000. The latter may even crack my top 10. His ladder match with Scott Hall was brilliant too. He had heated scraps with Nash, Bret, Hogan... the fact is Goldberg could go, he had serious chops, and with the right person he could create magic.

[Yo-Yo's Roomie]

I'm just at the beginning of Goldberg's run in my WCW ppv watching now (mid-way through '98), and so far what strikes me is what a poor job they did of protecting him on the big shows, in terms of choice of opponent. Throwing him out there against McMichael and Perry Saturn really didn't serve him too well this early in his career. Of course, it didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. I just thought it was odd.

[Sidebottom]

I'm just at the beginning of Goldberg's run in my WCW ppv watching now (mid-way through '98), and so far what strikes me is what a poor job they did of protecting him on the big shows, in terms of choice of opponent. Throwing him out there against McMichael and Perry Saturn really didn't serve him too well this early in his career. Of course, it didn't matter in the grand scheme of things. I just thought it was odd.

He wasn't booked as a big star in early 98 though which was kind of the beauty. He was boiling under the surface and that's why people got behind him. When he knocked off Raven (another amazing match) and slowly started climbing the cards, by the time he was nosing up with Hogan, the huge establish star, people had completely suspended their disbelief and wanted this unstoppable rookie to be the one to knock the mighty Hollywood Hogan off his perch. It was like seeing a young Mike Tyson destroy Michael Spinks...

[Yo-Yo's Roomie]

I dunno. Certainly with the Mongo feud when he was still a heel that could be said to be true (though they still put him over huge on commentary), but by the time he's wrestling Saturn (on two separate ppvs) it's clear they realise what they have with him. Of course, we all know that at this point ppvs weren't as special as they could and should have been in WCW, but I was still suprised with how Goldberg was used on them. Saturn wasn't the guy to be having semi-competitive squashes with him, in my opinion, and really the fans just wanted to see him mow through guys anyway.

 

Another thing that stood out though, was just how meteoric his rise was. He kinda knocks around doing not much for a couple of months, but then suddenly the rocket boosters were strapped on. What would be comparable pushes for a guy going from literally nothing to being one of the top two or three guys in the industry?

[Jimmy Redman]

Not to be a "Husky Harris" chanter, but...Ryback?

[Yo-Yo's Roomie]

But Ryback was knocking around for ages, and had the fairly high profile Nexus run before being repackaged. I'm talking about coming in from a cold start. Are we going back to Brock?

[Loss]

Considering how few long, competitive matches Goldberg had, that he was as good as he was is extremely impressive. I don't think he developed into a great worker, but the potential was absolutely there if he had someone working with him. He needed a Bill Watts type helping him put together the pieces in the ring and watching out for him politically.

[Grimmas]

Brock came in in April one year and went undefeated beating RVD, Hogan and both Hardy's and then won the title from The Rock in August.

 

That's about as heavily pushed as you can get from the start.

[Death From Above]

I thought his Starrcade match with Nash was shockingly good until that dumb ending. Of course that could just be my amusement at Tony Shiavone nearly having a heart attack at Kevin Nash trying an armbar.

 

Killing his character when they did was sheer insanity. The egg could not be unscrambled.

[Al]

nother thing that stood out though, was just how meteoric his rise was. He kinda knocks around doing not much for a couple of months, but then suddenly the rocket boosters were strapped on. What would be comparable pushes for a guy going from literally nothing to being one of the top two or three guys in the industry?

Kevin Nash went from Vinnie Vegas to WWF champion in the span of about 18 months.

[Sidebottom]

Just watched Summerslam 2003 on the Network. Watching Goldberg in WCW booking mode is such a delight. He powers through everybody in an explosive, impressive manner and gets over huge with the live audience in the process. I don't recall a time he was ever this over in the WWE.

 

Of course there are arguments about this type of booking not being sustainable in the long run; but it didn't need to be the case all of the time. Re reading my above posts: Goldberg was more than capable of having exciting 10 - 15 minute matches. It seems things dragged when he went over this time (i.e. his title matches with Hunter) the excitement was taken out.

[thebrainfollower]

If there's a better wrestler for taking the excitement out of matches partly by making them too long than 02-05 HHH I'd love to hear about him.

[Mad Dog]

Magnum TA's push in Crockett was very Goldberg like.

[thebrainfollower]

Was it? I've heard this as a talking point before and not agreed. Sure he won squash matches super fast even for JCP standards. But the moment he got into feuds with the top guys he stopped winning clean and went into the trade W's and L's and tons of DQ's of all the other top guys. He lost the best of 7 series to Nikita. It seems like they let him get to almost Dusty levels and then stopped him cold. A true Goldberg push would have ended with him beating Flair for the title the first time they met in 85.

[Mad Dog]

He steamrolled to the U.S. Title in a really short period of time. His matches were super short and and in tags/multi-mans he almost always scored the pinfall. On tv they hyped up how he was ending matches so quickly. They did slow down his push as time went on but there was a good 6-7 month period where it follows a similar structure to Goldberg.

[NintendoLogic]

A while back, I watched all the Goldberg matches that are generally considered his best (vs. DDP at Havoc, vs. Rock at Backlash, vs. Jericho at Bad Blood), and they all tell the same basic story: Goldberg dominates in the opening minutes, misses a spear and rams his shoulder into the post, gets his arm worked over, hits a spear but can't capitalize because of his injury, ends up winning with the Jackhammer. The Steiner match is an exception.

[The Chief]

Watched Golberg vs Christian in a cage from Raw in 2003. This is EXACTLY what Goldberg vs Jericho should have been in 1998. Christian is such a slaezy douche in this match, you can't wait for Goldberg to crush him. This is probably more of a Christian match than a Goldberg match, but I think it's worth mentioning.

 

Booking Goldberg against Rock in his first match was really dumb. Say all you want about his WWE run, but he really did get strong reactions against "real" heels. He should have toppled HHH right off the bat, but, you know...

[Mad Dog]

I've said numerous times but I would have done Goldberg vs. the newly unmasked Kane. Do it in December, have Goldberg run through Batista and HHH and keep Kane far away from Shane McMahon and feed him some over mid-carders. The match would have sucked but I bet they would have popped a good buyrate. It reminds me of how WCW fucked up Goldberg/Wrath.

[shoe]

In the history of wrestling I think Goldberg had the biggest bad ass aura about hiim. Some guys were close like Lesnar and Vader. Golberg was such a believable ass kicker.

[Petey]

Does ECW Taz count? Obviously Goldberg had it on a far grander scale, but Taz's aura at the smaller level was very comparable. I think where Goldberg benefited over Lesnar and Vader is that while Goldberg was a big dude, he looked more like "big dude you see at the gym" and less Viking Space Lord like Lesnar or fat tough guy like Vader.

[shoe]

ECW Taz had an aura about him too. It was similar, but different.