{"id":4216,"date":"2017-04-22T10:11:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2017-04-22T10:11:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:11:31","slug":"163-nxt-womens-champion-asuka-breaks-goldbergs-undefeated-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/04\/22\/163-nxt-womens-champion-asuka-breaks-goldbergs-undefeated-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"156: NXT Women’s Champion Asuka Breaks Goldberg’s Undefeated Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few months, wrestling historians and fanatics have been watching the Live Events results from NXT online with a passing fascination and viewing each televised match in wonder if they’ll actually do it. But “they”, we mean the NXT Creative and WWE brass. And by “it” we mean have NXT Women’s Champion Asuka<\/strong> break another one of pro wrestling kayfabe’s mythical records. The Legendary Undefeated Streak of Bill Goldberg<\/strong> in WCW<\/strong> during the Monday Night Wars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

WWE has been on a record breaking year for breaking records, first having John Cena<\/strong> tied Ric Flair<\/strong>‘s record number of World titles at 16, then having the New Day<\/strong> squeak passed\u00a0Demolition<\/strong>‘s 27-year old record for longest WWE Tag Team title reign, 483 days to Demolition’s 478. Asuka has set three NXT records this year already on her reign of domination in the women’s division. First in early January, she passed Paige<\/strong>‘s record for longest title reign for an NXT Women’s Champion, when she held on to the belt for her 277th day (she’s now past 380). A month later almost to the day, Asuka passed Finn Balor<\/strong>‘s reign as NXT Champion of 292 days, to become NXT’s longest reigning singles competitor. And then on March 31st, when she retained her title at\u00a0NXT Takeover: Orlando<\/strong><\/em> against favoured Ember Moon<\/strong> (in a shock to many), Asuka passed T<\/strong>he Ascension<\/strong>‘s record reign of 364 days as NXT Tag Team Champions, making her now the the longest reigning champion of ANY kind in NXT history. And when you look at the talent that has gone through NXT, from Seth Rollins<\/strong> to Charlotte<\/strong> to Finn Balor to Shinsuke Nakamura<\/strong>, is quite a feat.<\/p>\n

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Bill Goldberg became WCW’s unlikely saviour for much of the Monday Night Wars in the late 90’s when the former NFL player exploded onto the scene on\u00a0Nitro\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and defeated Hugh Morrus<\/strong> (aka Bill DeMott<\/strong>) in record time and annihilation. And thus, The Streak that preceded The Streak<\/em> was born (although Morrus was actually Goldberg’s 4th victim by that time – he’d crushed Buddy Lee Parker<\/strong>, Hector Guerrero<\/strong>, and John Betcha<\/strong> at previous Live Events). Goldberg would become a wrecking machine, knocking down wrestler after wrestler after wrestler, on his way to his first championship in WCW, taking the US Championship from Raven<\/strong>. His onslaught continued through the nWo<\/strong>, when he took the WCW World Heavyweight Championship title from “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan<\/strong> at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. His rampage was finally stopped in one of the most brutal angle botches in wrestling history (even Goldberg haters felt bad for him at the time), when recently appointed creative writer Kevin Nash<\/strong> pencilled himself in to take the World title off Goldberg in his first loss, thanks to the help of a taser from his party chum, Scott Hall<\/strong>.\u00a0But regardless, Bill Goldberg went on a tear of 155 straight victories – including WCW Live Events, television matches and PPV matches (although the kayfabe number is actually 173 although no one knows why. During the middle of his streak, Goldberg’s numbers started to jump in bunches, with WCW just assuming no one was keeping track of the Live Event results), from June 23, 1997 to December 27, 1998.<\/p>\n