Goldberg talks potential retirement match, has rotator cuff injury that needs to heal first

[Hidden Blaze]

The match Jericho wanted 28 years later

I love Jericho talking about that also. Like dude was willing to just get straight up squashed lmao. He just wanted to do that program so bad lmao.

 

[Smart Marx]

I'm operating on the assumption that this retirement match if it happens will not be in WWE and you don't seem to be operating on the same assumption lol

If he thinks about doing this outside of a mainstream promotion, he’s a moron. He’s Goldberg someone is going to want to promote this match the right way.

 

[Butters]

he needs an opponent you say?

 

[Chris]

If he thinks about doing this outside of a mainstream promotion, he’s a moron. He’s Goldberg someone is going to want to promote this match the right way.

Well WWE certainly doesn't and no one besides AEW could afford it I'm sure

 

[Smart Marx]

I love Jericho talking about that also. Like dude was willing to just get straight up squashed lmao. He just wanted to do that program so bad lmao.

Yep there’s like three different times they were going to squash them on TV or just not do it at all and he kept reiterating just let us do it on pay-per-view make people pay for it and he said it’s not like he didn’t want to job he was willing to be the most expensive best looking job ever, but he thought that he should get a blow off and the fact that nobody in management even saw the potential in him being squashed he knew that he needed to move on. He said if he had just gotten that one match, he would’ve signed a new contract with WCW.

 

[Smart Marx]

Well WWE certainly doesn't and no one besides AEW could afford it I'm sure

I’ll be hard-pressed to see Hunter not seeing the potential in a final retirement Goldberg match down the line when Goldberg is actually healthy and ready to go. Never say never I guess.

 

[Chris]

Goldberg was being booked like shit after he won't the title outside of the DDP match too, the Jericho squash would have been good. Better than a broken down 3 minute Curt Hennig match.

Allegedly what happened is people (Hogan) got in Goldberg's ear about working with someone that small tho so he then said no

 

[Smart Marx]

Goldberg was being booked like shit after he won't the title outside of the DDP match too, the Jericho squash would have been good. Better than a broken down 3 minute Curt Hennig match.

Allegedly what happened is people (Hogan) got in Goldberg's ear about working with someone that small tho so he then said no

It was 100% Hogan who was playing with Goldberg so bad because he’d tell him behind the scenes not to do the program with Jericho but supposedly then he turned around and he’d be in the meetings between Jericho and Bischoff and he was supposedly agreeing with Jericho that a pay-per-view blow off would be money.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

Yep there’s like three different times they were going to squash them on TV or just not do it at all and he kept reiterating just let us do it on pay-per-view make people pay for it and he said it’s not like he didn’t want to job he was willing to be the most expensive best looking job ever, but he thought that he should get a blow off and the fact that nobody in management even saw the potential in him being squashed he knew that he needed to move on. He said if he had just gotten that one match, he would’ve signed a new contract with WCW.

Then he joins WWF, and goes on to become my GOAT

 

[Smart Marx]

Goldberg was being booked like shit after he won't the title outside of the DDP match too, the Jericho squash would have been good. Better than a broken down 3 minute Curt Hennig match.

Allegedly what happened is people (Hogan) got in Goldberg's ear about working with someone that small tho so he then said no

Yeah, the whole Goldberg title reign was honestly trash. Not only did they rush the belt on him because I don’t think they should’ve given it to him at that time and they wasted a proper pay-per-view build up with Hogan that would’ve probably drawn a bigger buy rate than the one with sting, imo, but then what did he even do?

Like you said his very first pay-per-view was a squash with Curt Hennig, which they were already was planning to do but over the US title, so if that makes you feel like that was definitely well thought and not at all important. Then he didn’t even have a match at fall brawl at all. Not a main event not a title match nothing. At Rd wild he was thrown into the NWO Hollywood versus NWL Wolfpack battle Royal. The very first time he actually main event of the pay-per-view was the one with DDP but even that show the television for months is all built around the Hogan and Warrior match. The pay-per-view that Jericho wanted do the squash on was World War III and Goldberg wasn’t even booked on it again, so why couldn’t he just done the squash instead of not being on the show?

 

[Chris]

Yeah Fall Brawl was the show Jericho caught the Goldberg mini instead and did that hilarious parody of the entrance where he got lost backstage

 

[Smart Marx]

Yeah Fall Brawl was the show Jericho caught the Goldberg mini instead and did that hilarious parody of the entrance where he got lost backstage

That’s where Goldberg was really getting his head fucked with because apparently he didn’t even care about that until apparently he got a bunch of texts from Hogan and Nash saying that Jericho is making a fool of him so apparently he almost got into a fight with Jericho and telling him was that worth it was that worth ruining a career over and Jericho was like dude I’m heating you up and they’re gonna pop bigger for you when you kill me. Do you not understand? He in fact did not.

 

[Chris]

That’s where Goldberg was really getting his head fucked with because apparently he didn’t even care about that until apparently he got a bunch of texts from Hogan and Nash saying that Jericho is making a fool of him so apparently he almost got into a fight with Jericho and telling him was that worth it was that worth ruining a career over and Jericho was like dude I’m heating you up and they’re gonna pop bigger for you when you kill me. Do you not understand? He in fact did not.

It's always the guys historically known as the "workers" that get worked the most huh then you got your Jericho, Storms and Steamboats who actually understood losing made money lmao what marks

 

[Smart Marx]

I get Nash and Hogan playing politics the way they did because it’s what gave them the money that they made but they definitely tried to kill Goldberg and they almost succeeded. I don’t think they killed him off completely because even in 2000 people would still chant Goldberg over anything else but if they had held off on Goldberg until World War III in 98, let Goldberg win World War III, and then he defeated Hogan at either Starrcade 98 or SuperBrawl 99, because the World War III winner usually changes between which pay-per-view that he gets a title shot at and then he won the belt from Hogan on pay-per-view after winning a proper royal rumble like event like you would build up a stone cold Steve Austin, Goldberg would’ve been the hottest star in 1999 if 1999 was like, basically all Bill Golderg’s title run. We’re talking a completely different ballgame for 1999 WCW and wrestling in general.

 

[Smart Marx]

And the thing to his, even without him, winning the world title the program with Jericho would still be just as meaningful because he would still be the star on the rise and he also still presumably be the US champion so you could even have Goldberg finally gets hands on Jericho in the World War III battle Royal.