Goldberg recently spoke to Ring Rust Radio about his WWE run, what he’s up to now and more. You can check out the full interview by clicking here and read a few highlights below.
Brock Lesnar is the biggest draw in WWE today, and you had the opportunity to lock horns with him in a dream match at WrestleMania 20, but it wasn’t necessarily received as well as expected by the live crowd since they knew both you and Brock were leaving WWE afterward. How do you view that match looking back? Were you happy with it? Is there anything you would’ve changed?
“No, I mean you play the cards you are dealt. At the end of the day, we were up against an impossible task to entertain a group of people that 100 percent know you are both leaving after that match. Utter distain is what we received from the fans. Would I change anything about? Yeah, I would change everything about it. At the end of the day, if you take it for what it was, it was an interesting match. The overtone was so skewed, it was just such a weird situation and insurmountable task. Would I change anything? Yes. Would I change everything? Yes.”
Mike mentioned the negative crowd reaction from WrestleMania XX and crowds of recent years have become very hostile and can throw out some pretty harsh chants. As a performer, what is typically the reaction to the crowd, do you just take it in stride or do you find it disrespectful?
“It’s a totally different crowd these days. I can’t speak to it since I don’t have much experience with them. Coming out at Citi Field and doing my thing and certain appearances, I interact with them. It’s a total different information age with the crowd out there now. It seems as if they kind of dictate things, but at the end of the day you go out and do your job and follow your directions.”
You’ve said in previous interviews that you never truly felt welcomed in WWE and never felt like you were “one of them” after making the leap from WCW. In your opinion, why did you and WWE never truly click? Why wasn’t the relationship as fruitful as it could have been?
“Because I was a football player and competitor in life and those were a bunch of fraternity boys.”
