Goldberg was recently a guest on the Broken Skull Sessions with Stone Cold Steve Austin on the WWE Network.
Goldberg mentioned adding vulnerability in his wrestling character when returning in 2016:
“If you’re a power wrestler and you come back 16 years far removed, and you used to eat people and frickin’ spit them out their ass, you have to have an excuse to not be that guy, right?” Goldberg asked rhetorically. “So I added a layer to my character and I let my family in on it when I never in a trillion years would have let me family be on camera prior to the situation that I found myself in where Goldberg needed an excuse not to be 295 [lbs.]. I had to be vulnerable because what I presented was a different package that couldn’t attain what I attained before based upon his ferocity, his mental makeup, and his physicality because I wasn’t that guy. I needed a crutch.”
Goldberg mentioned on the show that if it wasn’t for Paul Heyman, Goldberg wouldn’t have returned:
“If it was not for Heyman, my comeback would not have happened,” Goldberg declared. “Not that he made the call to make it, it’s just that creatively, that’s part of my deal, right? And there are certain people that know you and certain people that don’t know you. And, therefore, you try to set the stage in a situation to where if things can go wrong, they go really wrong, they are the most qualified people that know you better than anybody on the planet. It’s not the time for a booker to come in and try to learn about you. We have to know what worked and apply it immediately. There’s no trial and error. I mean, I trust him exponentially with my career.”
Goldberg recalled defeating Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series and claimed it was the coolest thing:
“It was the coolest thing in the world,” Goldberg admitted. “And for Brock, man, and Heyman, they made it happen. And Vince and those guys made it happen and they made it work. And I am forever indebted, and let’s be honest, if they didn’t make money, they wouldn’t have f–king done it! Right? So I was in the right place at the right time again. And thank God that I have kept the mentality that I have kept throughout the years because it made it possible to step in that ring again.”
Goldberg also commented on WrestleMania 33 and how he really enjoyed the moment:
“This is my last WrestleMania ever. I’m going to try to enjoy some semblance of it. I was smiling! Usually, I’m going into gorilla position,man, I had already headbutted something. I have blood flowing. I’m doing my thing. I’ve got to be that apex ass-kicking person. It’s not easy. I can’t just turn it on and off. I have to have 20 seconds, 30. Just give me a little bit of time. But I walk in there, and I hug him, and I was laughing, and I’m like, ‘it’s all good. I’m going to have fun this time!’ And he’s worried, right? Completely worried. And I got through that curtain, man, and I took a couple of steps. And I looked down at all the people and I just smiled. And for the first time, truthfully, I think for the first time walking to the ring, I actually enjoyed it. I just enjoyed being in the moment at that time.”
Credit WWE Network’s Broken Skull Sessions and H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.
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