Goldberg Vs. Curt Hennig
WCW Monday Nitro (November 15, 1999)
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00:00He is suspicious. I can't wait.
00:02By looking in his eyes, he means business.
00:05Now, top of the hour, Typer Goldberg and Hennig.
00:09Career on the line. Hennig!
00:12Hennig slammed the door right in the face of Goldberg!
00:15And Goldberg just, he walked over the door right through the door!
00:18And the match is starting in the back!
00:21No matter if Hennig is pinned, it's over!
00:24But if he can pin Goldberg somehow,
00:27then Goldberg, he'll get a new contract!
00:29He is fighting with all he's got!
00:32He's fighting for his life.
00:34Goldberg is fighting for his life.
00:36He's fighting to try to bring his career back.
00:40Because if he can win this time,
00:42a big twist from the powers that be.
00:44Kurt Hennig will be back in the thick of things in WCW.
00:47Well, knowing the Hennig family like I do,
00:49he is fighting for his life.
00:51Wrestling is his life. It was his father's life.
00:53It's now his life. This is how he lives.
00:56This is how he feeds his family.
00:58This is what he does. This is what he loves.
01:00It's in his blood.
01:01And it's going to take an awful lot to beat this guy.
01:04I'm talking about Kurt Hennig.
01:06And it's going to take an awful lot to beat Goldberg.
01:08Oh, you are kidding.
01:09As we know, Goldberg and Sid Vicious
01:12in an I-Quit match this Sunday
01:15at Mayhem on pay-per-view in Toronto
01:18in his only match six days away.
01:23And the fight goes on in the back.
01:25It hasn't even come to a break.
01:27Mickey J, the referee, standing there
01:29watching what's going on in the back.
01:31This is not part of the match.
01:32The bell hasn't sounded.
01:34But Hennig, I think, is doing the right thing.
01:37He's doing what he has to.
01:39This is what is called survival, Tony.
01:41The cameraman's a little bit too close to that action.
01:44When Kurt Hennig and Goldberg are going at it like that,
01:47just shoot what you can and stay close.
01:50Now they're coming towards,
01:52I believe they've made it into the arena here
01:55from the curtain area in the back.
01:57Now the bell sounds.
01:59Mickey J called for it, and they're out here.
02:02This is what it's like to fight for your existence
02:06in WCW.
02:09And think about the waves
02:13that the powers that be have made,
02:15the things that they have done.
02:17Kurt Hennig has been right on the front line
02:19with his career on Jeopardy,
02:21on the ride into every night
02:23he performs on this program,
02:25on Thunder, on WCW Saturday night.
02:28And now this has to be the ultimate obstacle
02:31for Kurt Hennig's entire career, Brad.
02:34Well, I tell you, you have a massive guy like Goldberg
02:37who I call the man,
02:39and we all know what he's capable of doing.
02:41But this man, like I said, Kurt Hennig,
02:43he's the man.
02:45But this man, like I said, Kurt Hennig,
02:47he is fighting for his very existence
02:49in this business.
02:51Back in October, Halloween heavy,
02:53Goldberg fought a man who would not give up at all,
02:56who kept coming and coming and coming,
02:58that man Sid Vicious.
03:00Well, much the same way tonight,
03:02a man who's fighting for a much different motive
03:04than Kurt Hennig.
03:06Now remember, Sid Vicious
03:08had a very jacked-up, big, sexy Kevin Nash
03:11later on tonight on this program.
03:14It's only gonna get better.
03:17Kimberlin against Asia,
03:19and who's the referee gonna be?
03:20We don't know that yet.
03:21I have no idea.
03:22On this program.
03:23And how about Dr. Def Steve Williams
03:24out here with, uh...
03:25Mr. Oklahoma over here.
03:27Will that take us back or what?
03:29That betrayals to you.
03:31Yeah, he better run back for his cause,
03:33his women's unit, whatever,
03:34because there's a lot of guys
03:36who want to beat that guy with a baseball bat.
03:37Or his puck board.
03:40As they finally get to the ring,
03:42this is not a match.
03:44This is a match,
03:46this is a fight for survival.
03:48You're right, this is no match.
03:54And Hennig is hitting with literally everything.
03:56But look at Goldberg as he gets stomped on,
03:59as he gets pounded,
04:01pulls himself back up,
04:02grabbing onto Hennig.
04:03Hennig helps him up,
04:04just to open up that ample chest
04:06to kick him back down again.
04:08But you have to understand something
04:09about Curt Hennig.
04:10He's a veteran.
04:11He's been to the war.
04:12He knows what it's all about.
04:14He's second generation.
04:15Larry the Axe is his father,
04:17and he knows what to do to survive.
04:19He has to do this.
04:20He has to fight tougher
04:22than he's ever fought before in his life.
04:24I don't think there's any question
04:25that he has all the ability in the world,
04:27but never will fall.
04:28It is a lustrous commercial
04:30to put it to this use,
04:31as he had to, Roy,
04:32do in a great attack.
04:35And he's worked on the knee of Goldberg
04:37and Goldberg seems to be hurting him.
04:39Well, like I said, he's a veteran.
04:41He's no slouch, Curt Hennig.
04:43He's no pushover.
04:45He's one of the top five men in this industry.
04:49And Goldberg knows it right now.
04:53Never before have we seen
04:55Curt Hennig this fired up.
04:56Never before have we seen
04:57Curt Hennig with this intensity.
04:59Never before have we seen
05:00anyone put a hold on Goldberg like that.
05:03A sufficient tight hold.
05:06And grind it in.
05:07Goldberg's in a tough spot here.
05:09Hennig!
05:10Like I said before, Tony,
05:11this is livelihood.
05:12This is life he's fighting for.
05:14What does somebody want to use, John?
05:16You've got that cowboy hat
05:17or you've got that guy?
05:18If you have to, wouldn't you?
05:20John, right.
05:24And now, as the fans try to get Goldberg motivated,
05:27getting pumped up,
05:28Hennig will have that up.
05:29Good wide vertical base.
05:31Curt Hennig!
05:33Oh!
05:34A little bit too close to that hard right hand.
05:36Right to the choppers.
05:39But Hennig circles around
05:40and goes back to the attack once again.
05:42I have never seen anyone, anyone,
05:45take the fight to Goldberg like this.
05:47And I know
05:48the upcoming IWGP match
05:50with Sid Vicious
05:51this Sunday at Mayhem.
05:53And we think back about
05:54at Halloween Havoc
05:56how vicious kept coming back and coming back.
05:59But Goldberg had the upper advantage
06:00and I would dare say
06:02that Hennig has had the upper advantage
06:04throughout this match
06:05which is unprecedented
06:06against a guy like Bill Goldberg.
06:08You're right.
06:09He's taken two and he slapped him in the face.
06:11But Goldberg's come alive now.
06:13He woke him up.
06:15You don't want to wake him up.
06:18Goldberg
06:20with a cross-legged workaround.
06:22Oh, no.
06:23Oh, no.
06:24Hennig gave up.
06:26He gave up.
06:27Submission hold and he quit.
06:29He quit on Goldberg
06:31but he did not bring
06:33let's call it for what we know
06:35he did not get his shoulders pinned.
06:38Oh, he didn't pin his shoulders the right time.
06:40He gave up.
06:42He had to
06:43and he gave up quick.
06:45I just got to show you
06:46how deadly
06:47that submission
06:48hold by Goldberg is.
06:50He showed you how deadly Goldberg is.
06:54Jack Hammer wiped him out.
06:57Look at
06:58now stop it.
07:01Hennig gave up
07:03but Hennig did not get pinned.
07:08Oh.
07:09What a moment.