The 5 biggest insults to the WWE

5. Brock Lesnar vs Bill Goldberg, WrestleMania XX

Brock Lesnar and Goldberg stare each other down.

It’s been called the worst match in WrestleMania history, and it’s a match well deserving of that moniker. In 2004, at WrestleMania XX, a dream match was booked. The greatest destroyer WCW had ever seen would face off with the greatest destroyer WWE had ever seen. On paper, it was a match to be drooled over. Fans fantasized at the carnage they would witness, and were even more hyped when it was announced that the legendary “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was going to be the Special Guest Referee. Unfortunately, word got out not long before the event that both Lesnar and Goldberg were walking away from WWE, with Lesnar wanting to try his hand at pro football and Goldberg being unhappy with the handling of his character in WWE. The notoriously rambunctious Madison Square Garden crowd proceeded to heckle the ever loving hell out of both men for it, cheering and chanting exclusively for Austin, who was doing his best to not be the center of attention, to no avail. In a less than professional response to their reception, Lesnar and Goldberg, for whatever reason, had one of the most lackluster, disappointing, flat out embarrassing matches in WrestleMania history, taking a prolonged amount of time to lock up, phoning in their signature maneuvers and abandoning any pretense of entertainment before Lesnar finally dropped the match to Golberg after a Spear/Jackhammer combination.

Lesnar flipped Austin and the live crowd the double birds, Goldberg drank beers with the Rattlesnake, both men ate Stunners and it would be 8 years before we’d see Brock Lesnar in a WWE ring again.

We’re waiting on you now, Goldberg.