WWE SummerSlam 2019: Goldberg doesn’t need one more match
Goldberg has been announced as The Miz’s replacement and will face Dolph Ziggler at WWE SummerSlam 2019, even if we think that it’s unnecessary.
The go-home episode of Monday Night Raw right before WWE SummerSlam 2019 saw Dolph Ziggler sign his contract to face The Miz this Sunday. Except, unbeknownst to Dolph, it was not a contract for a match vs. The Miz. He signed a contract to face Goldberg.
According to The Wrestling Observer, Miz was never in the cards and WWE always planned to replace him as a swerve for SummerSlam. Goldberg was always planned to be that replacement, presumably as a means to wash the taste of that much vilified match of his against The Undertaker at Super Showdown some months back, a match that Bill is still beating himself up about to this day.
I totally understand why both he and WWE would want to use a match against Dolph Ziggler as a means to wipe our memories of that match in Saudi Arabia, especially if the SummerSlam match delivers the classic Goldberg squash match. However, the problem here is that “one more match” does not serve as a memory wiping device.
Even if the former WCW World Champion – thankfully – no longer has to call the Taker match his last match, the Dolph match merely piles on to his resume of matches. The resume is filled with good matches and some, well, not so good matches. Who’s to say that this Dolph match isn’t just as bad – or worse – than the Taker match? And if it is, will Goldberg just have yet another match to cleanse his mouth of it?
All taking on “one more match” does is dampen the former World Heavyweight Champion’s legacy, especially considering he had a splendid final run between late 2016 and early 2017. That run gave us not one, but two entertaining quick matches against Brock Lesnar, a solid showing at the Royal Rumble, and a Universal Title run.
All things considered, Goldberg had an excellent, well received goodbye tour and would have successfully rode into the sunset if he just stayed there. But he didn’t. And he still isn’t. All the while risking the sake of his own legacy.
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Goldberg doesn’t need one more match. He just needs to let us remember his fonder memories. No matter how bad that Taker match was, we’ll talk about his successes before we mention one failure. But if he keeps adding failures to his resume, that’s what hurts it. Not knowing when to say enough’s enough, that hurts it. Continuing to damage his body by continuing to wrestle after age 52, that hurts his it, and himself.
You’ve done your best, Goldberg. There’s nothing left to prove. It’s time to move on.