Goldberg On His Match With The Undertaker: “The Perfect Storm Of Crappiness”

Goldberg has broken his silence on his match with The Undertaker at Super ShowDown, and he’s pretty much summed it up perfectly.

Anyone who watched the match will still be having nightmares and waking up in cold sweats. It was undoubtedly a disaster, and during an interview on ESPN 97.5 “The Hall of Fame” with Booker T and Brad Gilmore, Goldberg said:

“I had the perfect storm of crappiness because, for me, people don’t know all the things that go into everything, right. At 52, going against The Undertaker and being Goldberg in the short period of time that I had, I can either do one or two things: I can get in good shape or I can try to get as big as humanly possible so I don’t look like an old Goldberg next to The Undertaker. So, it’s a compromise, it’s always a compromise.

“This last time, though I didn’t need the cardio, man, I didn’t concentrate on getting big at all in the four weeks that I had. I just tried to get in shape. I didn’t try to add a pound. I tried to lose weight this time. You know, every situation is different. It’s like trapping for a different team. I liken everything to football because I’m a meathead and was born into a football helmet.”

He continued:

“The ring post thing, hey man, that’s a spot that you know a couple of the bookers came up to me afterwards and said, ‘Well we called it. We knew you were gonna do that,’ because 50% of time I’ve done that spot I’ve not had good results.

“Here’s the deal man. I don’t profess to be an entertainer on the level of a Ric Flair that can go out and make people laugh, I mean I can but it’s not my way of doing things. My way of making people’s jaw’s drop is blurring the line between reality and fiction, you know? So everything I do has to be, okay, the kick that I took from Dolph? You know the first kick that I took? That felt really good. Because I had to react to it because it planted on me. You know, it was perfect.

“That’s the way that I work, man. I’m a reactionary guy and if I’m gonna be a defensive lineman that was an All-American, if I’m gonna be a guy that played a couple years in the NFL, if I’m gonna be guy that is known to be a thrasher, I’m not going to run into a turnbuckle and miss it and act like it killed me. I can’t do that so I have to make it look as close to it killing me as possible and sometimes unfortunately, the circumstances are such that I go a little overboard.”

As he mentioned, his match with Dolph at SummerSlam was much better, and much more what a Goldberg match should be. The rumour is that Paul Heyman is a huge fan of Goldberg, so expect to see a few more matches for old Bill before he hangs up his trunks for good.

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