Goldberg’s Expected WWE Return Now Unlikely
Goldberg will have his last match in 2025 but suggestions that he’s set for an imminent return to WWE might not be accurate after all.
Just before WWE Crown Jewel went on the air in November 2024, Goldberg announced his intention to return to the ring for a retirement match in 2025.
The veteran hasn’t wrestled since being defeated by Roman Reigns in February 2022, while he later claimed he was screwed out of a promised farewell by Vince McMahon.
The announcement came after the WWE Hall of Famer got into an altercation with Gunther at Bad Blood. With Goldberg positioned in the crowd, the World Heavyweight Champion took the opportunity to throw some verbal jabs his way, telling him he hoped he was a better father than he was a wrestler. At this, the former WCW World Champion tried to jump the barricade to get at Gunther but security intervened to keep the peace.
Dave Meltzer previously reported that Goldberg was returning to WWE Raw on January 27 when the show takes place in Atlanta, Georgia. But since then there’s been no word if he will be on that show.
Goldberg Returning To WWE?
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer accepted that there’s now no confirmation that Goldberg will be back on WWE TV although doesn’t rule out a huge surprise:
So I don’t know about Goldberg, other than he was on the show. I have not heard confirmation that he’s on the show now, one way or the other, because he wasn’t advertised. Maybe they want to do a surprise.