According to DDP, if Dusty Rhodes had his way in WCW, Goldberg's first loss wouldn't have been to Kevin Nash but to DDP instead. Supposedly Eric Bischoff only rejected the idea because of a timing reason due to Entertainment Weekly releasing a new issue during that week which had Goldberg on the cover and with the WCW belt.
Dusty then tried to toss the idea of DDP winning but having a one day reign so Goldberg would get the belt back before the new magazine issue got released. Bischoff also rejected that idea as well.
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At the time Goldberg was still undefeated and defending his streak, as well as his WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Dallas noted that Dusty Rhodes had approached then-WCW President Eric Bischoff about possibly changing the title that night.
"Dusty would later tell me that he went to Bischoff and during the day of that pay per view he had said to him, you know E [Bischoff], this may be [Page's] night, he is ready. He tried to put that towards him. He said the reason why Bischoff didn't do it; I don't know why he didn't do it, and I don't know if Bischoff would say it is even true, but Dusty told it to me, he said that because in Entertainment Weekly that was coming out Goldberg was wearing the belt. Goldberg really gave that belt credibility, he worked like a champion. He said that was why he didn't do it that night, but I could have beat him that night and gave him the greatest loss ever and then he would have beaten me the next night. I would have done it in a heartbeat, but you know I'm so happy with the way things ended up."
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