Bill Goldberg

So this certainly could be it, and we all know that Riyadh will write a blank check to WWE to make fantasy matchups happen.

Just talk to Shawn Michaels, right? [chuckles] Talk to Goldberg.

They come out of retirement for a lot of dollars, and I understand why, but this one has...

It has a lot of build behind the scenes for it because fans have been talking about this forever, and we should have gotten it at WrestleMania 40, but the fans said, "No, we want Cody," and they got Cody, obviously.

The babyface plays the part.

And in that moment, I felt like Bronson Reed, when he got his foot shoved off of him by Oba Femi, Bronson Reed had this look of bewilderment, as I would say, staring at Oba Femi as if he was trying to telepathically tell him, "What are you doing? Why are you, why did you do that?" And then rather than make a bigger deal out of it, rather than, like, if you look at WCW and NWO and Goldberg, when Goldberg did that and he shoved that Hogan and he shoved off everybody spray painting his bald head at that moment, Scott Hall got on top of Goldberg with the cattle prodder to make sure that you need to start, you need to keep selling for us, as if that was Scott Hall telling him physically to, "What are you doing, Goldberg? Keep selling for us.

I'm gonna make you sell for us by using the cattle plo- uh, prod." But this time, Oba Femi, when he shoved off Bronson Reed, Bronson just stared at him for, like, a good minute, a beat, and then he went back to selling to the hard cam.

Now- Like I said at the very beginning, you may be listening, you may be watching, it feels like a nothing burger.

He tore it up.

Hey, Goldberg, I'm about to show your girlfriend what it's like to be with a real man.

You're looking at the guy that made you.

Get to stepping.

Yes

... retains the title.

Goldberg, come out here and be a hero.

The Steiner Brothers are handcuffing Goldberg to the ropes.

Steve Borden's DDP.

Hook is Goldberg.

I'm with you.

All these things will certainly come to fucking fruition.

group.

That's strong.

kind of cool they they kind of made uh it's them and them and Goldberg that makes

WCW 1998 watchable

I don't know.

Goldberg.

Oh, yeah, okay.

I wouldn't have known that.

Gina, how's your Bret Hart impression coming along?

See, I think it takes me a long time to really get there because you need to really start to try to have that vitriol you have in your heart deep down for that Bill Goldberg.

You need to understand the importance of going after Bill Goldberg.

For everything you do, no matter what, that Bill Goldberg, that William Goldberg is a problem no matter what you think.

You hit it twice and then you didn't realize Goldberg was the part.

Bill Goldberg.

I can't do it like you, Gino.

I'm working on the Greenberg impression, my Chris Jericho one.

So Coach is holding a meeting of all the raw Royal Rumble entrants in the back.

I'm able to notice Matt Hardy, Spike Dudley, Booker T, Hurricane, Rico, Goldberg, RVD, Jericho, Test, Christian, Randy Orton, Mark Henry, and Rene Dupree.

Coach tells the assembled talent that since SmackDown got the number one entrant, Bischoff got the number 30.

Jericho says that Bischoff still owes him his Survivor Series favor, and he wants number 30.

They did not qualify for the Battle Royal because we don't say that.

We don't.

Now, the one match that we actually last week had built for this week was Goldberg versus Steiner.

And they're just like, nah, never mind.

I already know that.

He's my Goldberg.

Or as I call him, Oldberg.

Mm-hmm.

If WWE genuinely intends to put him opposite Roman at WrestleMania 43, like Dave Meltzer was reporting in the newsletter, Oba actually needs some vulnerability over the next seven months.

I think it's been tricky as we saw with the booking of Goldberg back in the late '90s of keeping someone throughout a run.

And Oba himself has lost.

It's not like he's undefeated on the main roster anymore.