Goldberg Vs. Curt Hennig

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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.

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