During Bill Goldberg's torrid run through WCW, not everyone liked him, namely Chris Jericho.
"Y2J" recently opened up about his real-life beef with the former WWE and WCW Heavyweight Champion.
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It all started when Jericho worked a program with Goldberg, and used cheap heel tactics to generate heat for the feud without actually facing him. While the fans ate it up, it didn't quite get over with the larger wrestler.
"I kinda created this whole little angle of mine where I was brewing this feud with Goldberg that he wasn't really involved with," Jericho said on Ric Flair's podcast. "And he didn't like that, Goldberg. He thought it was comedy, and he was getting mad at me. And I was like, 'go talk to the bookers, I don't give a s--t.'"
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Jericho said the angle was originally intended to lead up to a pay-per-view match where Goldberg would get his revenge by squashing him. Instead of having the angle payoff on pay-per-view, the WCW creative team wanted Jericho to lose to Goldberg on free television, but he refused, going so far as to hide so that he didn't have to lose for free.
The angle eventually led to a meeting where Jericho and Goldberg had a war of words, sparking their heat. When Goldberg eventually came to WWE, the rivalry became physical.
Goldberg and Jericho engaged in a backstage fight during the former's first week in the WWE, which led to the Fozzy front man choking him out.
Jericho recently returned to WWE action and will be part of the Royal Rumble on Jan. 24, but he's probably happy that it doesn't appear as though his nemesis will ever return to Vince McMahon's company. Goldberg came close to rejoining the WWE in 2014, but he has since bashed the company publicly, while adding his time there in 2003 and '04 was terrible.
With Goldberg unlikely to make a return, Jericho is probably glad he doesn't have to confront him again.
"I'll never have a rematch with him," Jericho said. "It's gonna be Jericho 1, Goldberg 0 for the rest of time."
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