Goldberg Discusses Risks Surrounding WWE In-Ring Return

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Goldberg has shared his honest thoughts on the risk he faces in what appears to be his retirement match at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event.

With the WWE Hall of Famer set to face GUNTHER on the July 12 NBC special, it now appears this may be Goldberg’s retirement match.

During a recent appearance on The National Football Show, Goldberg reflected on what was the final match of his WWE career back in 2022.

Speaking about his WWE Elimination Chamber match against Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship, Goldberg reflected on the affair, which lasted around six minutes, while discussing why he wants a retirement match, saying:

“There’s a lot of reasons why I’m doing it. If push came to shove, I wouldn’t have planned it at 58 years old, but that’s just the way things go.

“Unfortunately, my last match with the WWE contractually, it was against Roman Reigns, it was in Saudi Arabia, there were a number of things that were wrong with that scenario.

“First and foremost, me coming off of COVID three weeks before. You know, I hadn’t trained for three months, I had COVID. So, to make an extremely long story short, it just wasn’t the right way for me to go out. That’s all.”

Looking ahead at the upcoming WWE World Heavyweight Championship match against GUNTHER, Goldberg was well aware of the risks involved with stepping back into the ring, stating:

“I ain’t freaking going out the way I went out — period, end of story. So at 58 years old, if I have to go in there hobbled, if I have to go in there 30 pounds lighter, I don’t give a sh*t. Because I have a point to make.

“And at 58 years old, can I still make that point? I don’t know, but I’m going to do my best. And my best — 50 percent of me is better than 99 percent of the pricks on the planet, I believe. So if I still give that effort and have the work ethic, though I’m not who I used to be, but (mentally) I am. I mean, we don’t lose that.

“So it’s a risk. It’s a huge risk. Am I risking the legacy of Goldberg in the ring? Yeah, I mean, always. Every time you step in there you risk that. But it’s risk versus reward.”

Goldberg would go on to share his thoughts on GUNTHER, describing it as an honor to be in the ring with the World Heavyweight Champion.

He would go on to note that, being in a World Heavyweight Championship match 1t 58 is also an honor, noting that he doesn’t know of any other stars who have “retired with a match like that.”

Transcript from F4W Online.

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