As the guest host on a recent episode of “The Snake Pit” podcast, Raven recalled dropping the WCW US Title to Goldberg after winning the title from Diamond Dallas Page at Starrcade 1998. Goldberg won the title the next night.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On not being told he would lose the title until the night of: “I don’t think so. Why would they though? I mean there’s no reason to make me worry about it until like you know, when I get to the show. Then you’re kind of already there. I mean, you don’t want people going insane and running off and trying to hold up the show and stuff like that. Which I would never have done anyway you know what I mean? But it’s just good company policy to not let people know until they need to know.”
On Goldberg’s rise in WCW: “I thought it would last. I mean, as long as it did. And it would have lasted longer if they wouldn’t have kiboshed him. It was just a — it was a freak. It was the right guy at the right time. It was like Nikita Koloff when Nikita Koloff first came on… a lot of it’s just the build, a lot of it’s the stiffness, looking at the work, you know.”
