WWE Royal Rumble 2017: 5 reasons Goldberg should not win

4. Goldberg shouldn’t be in a title match at WrestleMania 33

This might play a little bit off of the last entry but allow me to further explain.

Since we now know that Goldberg’s match at Survivor Series wasn’t a one-off, it’s safe to assume that he’ll be sticking around at least through WrestleMania 33 next April in Orlando. But we also know that the winner of the Royal Rumble gets a championship opportunity on the grandest stage of ’em all, and Goldberg belongs nowhere near the WWE World Championship or the Universal Championship. Period.

Yes, there are a lot of people who will want Goldberg to get one more shot at a title, and WWE is certainly playing that up, especially given his title run promo the night after Survivor Series. But that does not need to happen, and that’s why this kind of plays off of what I said in my intro. It’s not just me thinking that Goldberg shouldn’t be or doesn’t deserve a title match at WrestleMania (which is my thought process right now), it’s that they don’t need him to be in a title match at WrestleMania.

The nostalgia factor is there. Even as I’m writing this, I can picture him holding the Big Gold Belt (and the US title for that matter) after beating Hogan in Atlanta in the summer of 1998. But nostalgia will only take you so far. Sooner or later, Goldberg is going to have to have a real match, and let’s be honest with ourselves here, that’s really not his thing. Outside of his match with DDP at Halloween Havoc in 1998, I can’t think of one Goldberg match in either WCW or WWE that stands out as a classic.

So do we really want a guy like Goldberg wrestling for one of the biggest prizes in wrestling at the biggest show of the year? Nostalgia will only take you so far until it gets stale and the fans turn. Need an example?