10 Legendary Wrestlers Who Had Hugely Disappointing WWE Runs

6. Goldberg (2003)

Goldberg must have been concerned after watching what happened to former WCW rivals DDP and Scott Steiner in WWE, but he clearly believed he would dodge a similar fate when he signed in early 2003. 

Perhaps the biggest homegrown success story in WCW history, Goldberg took the wrestling world by storm in the late 90's as fans organically took to the musclebound former NFL player who smashed through the competition in convincing fashion. 

His winning streak lead to the WCW Heavyweight Title and from then until the company went out of business in March 2001, Da Man was The Man in World Championship Wrestling. 

He smartly collected on his Time Warner deal while doing select matches in Japan, before finally joining WWE. 

The company proceeded to book him the most un-Goldberg like way possible, having him appear in a backstage comedy segment where he donned a wig and then asking him to work long matches where he had to sell for extended periods. 

It wasn't a great start and, when Goldberg finally started to look like himself (at SummerSlam 2003), WWE had him easily fall to injured World Heavyweight Champion Triple H. 

He eventually beat The Cerebral Assassin for the belt, but a month too late, his subsequent run hardly setting the world on fire. His WrestleMania XX dream match with Brock Lesnar was a catastrophe but, in many ways, it was a fitting end to big Bill's first WWE run. 

Goldberg left the company very dissatisfied at the way it had went and wouldn't be back for over twelve years.