#10 Goldberg Vs. Brock Lesnar – Survivor Series 2016
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If you’re going to do a squash match, you need to make sure it really shocks the viewing audience out of their seats. It’s very well for a monster like Braun Strowman to come out and squash a jobber in under two minutes, but for the highest impact, it needs to happen when fans are least expecting it.
This was certainly the case with the main event of Survivor Series 2016 between Brock Lesnar and Goldberg. After defeating The Undertaker at WrestleMania 30, and annihilating John Cena at Summerslam later that year, Brock was at the beginning of one of the most dominant runs of his career, and indeed anyone’s career. There were even times when fans thought Vince was going too far, as it looked like nobody was ever going to be capable of defeating the Beast single-handedly.
So when Goldberg made his return a little under a year ago, the WWE Universe was understandably excited at the prospect of the two men meeting. This was a Superstar that made a career of crushing his opponents, and at least in his WCW days always looked pretty invincible. It was perfectly likely that Goldberg could be the one to finally vanquish the Beast.
Little did we know that the victory would take under two minutes. From the very start of the match, Goldberg brushed off Lesnar’s attack, delivered two spears to the Beast and finished him off with a Jackhammer. The crowd was left stunned with many of us asking what the hell we had just seen. It was a brilliant way to make Goldberg’s return feel special, and it led up to a very solid WrestleMania 33 match a few months later. As far as squash matches go, this is one of the most shocking, and therefore one of the best.
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