Goldberg Makes Surprising Admission About Wrestling Career

Goldberg wishes he could have handled business a little differently.

After having his NFL career cut short, Goldberg found his way to WCW and by the time the company closed in 2001, he was one of the biggest stars in the world.

Throughout his career, the star took his character and presentation incredibly seriously, something that served as both a positive and a negative.

During a new interview with Ariel Helwani, Goldberg looked back on his match with Diamond Dallas Page at Halloween Havoc 1998. The bout is remembered as one of the star’s best to that point in his career, even if a pay-per-view mishap meant a significant portion of the audience was unable to watch it live.

While reflecting on the match, Goldberg went into detail about his mentality at the time and admitted he shouldn’t have been so protective over his character.

“Dallas came to me with 14 pages of a match and I think he wanted me to spear him seven times. Prior to that, I only speared anybody one time.

Sting, being Sting, said, ‘You know what Bill, I think that was one of the best matches and best decisions of your life.’ You can look at it myopically or you can look at it in its totality.

Business-wise, I should have made more of those decisions. I shouldn’t have been so protective of my character. A lot of people say, ‘You’re a mark for yourself,’ right? I was a mark for myself because nobody else had my back. Nobody.

I came in as a professional football player and I tried to take dudes jobs that have been in the sport and business since childhood because that’s the only thing they ever wanted to do, and it meant so much to them. I took that for granted a little bit. I always came in it with a different mentality.

At the end of the day, if I didn’t have that different mentality, I wouldn’t have been what I was, and what I was, was something different. I think I was fairly successful at it. I still haven’t seen people do some of the stuff I was able to do.”

Goldberg To Gunther Match

During the same conversation, Goldberg said he’d be unable to turn down the chance to face Gunther and “pass the torch” if a match became a possibility.

The pair got into a heated confrontation at Bad Blood, and this sparked rumours a match could be on the cards. However, this speculation has quietened down in recent months.

Goldberg recently picked up training after a short break where he underwent stem cell treatment to help deal with several nagging injuries. The star has since said he’s hoping to be cleared to wrestle soon.

H/t to Fightful