Goldberg, despite having been retired for over a decade at one point, seems to be finding a way to stay involved in wrestling these days.
As WrestleMania 36 approached this year, Goldberg, 53, was the Universal champion and Roman Reigns was to be his challenger.
Goldberg was much more successful in WWE the second time around
As it turned out, that match didn’t happen because Reigns wisely decided not to play for WWE due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Braun Strowman stepped in and took the win – and his very first world title – but it seems a bit of a poise remains for Goldberg.
A fan tweeted Reigns in January asking why there was a cushion when he hit the ground when he entered.
In his response, The Big Dog took a not-so-thinly veiled shot at Goldberg.
“Nothing to explain Nick,” he wrote on social media. “It’s a little piece of tampon. So I don’t break my hand on a steel grid. I have to play like a man 48 weeks a year. So that would be stupid. It would be like, my head banging on a door before my match level of stupid. Anyway, have a good day Nick.
All these months later, Goldberg was asked about this tweet in an interview with American Monster Productions and it didn’t punch it.
“Roman, you’re kidding, first of all,” he began. “Second, when he pestered me about the butt on doors and all that, you know, I never really explained my whole thinking process about it.
“In order for you to get the character that you had, I had to do certain things. Well, one of them knocked on the door. Right? And it might, on the outside, look like a stupid gesture, but as I mentioned we all weigh the positives and negatives, so it’s very positive to make it as violent as humanly possible, and as real. than humanly possible, and the whole negative is that you’re bleeding a little bit and hey, man, you’ve got another concussion and you’re cutting a week off your life.
Roman Reigns and Goldberg was originally the plan for WM36
Goldberg always seems to excuse a bad job and even poorer decisions with what he “has” to do to get into character.
He had a similar excuse for his terrible match with Undertaker in Saudi Arabia last year.
Reigns is still away from WWE and looks like he will be until the pandemic subsides.
