Goldberg On What’s Next For Him After The Royal Rumble, The Finish To His Match With Lesnar

Everybody’s talking about Goldberg’s big return, including Goldberg himself. Sunday night at Survivor Series Goldberg decimated Brock Lesnar, then Monday on Raw he announced that he will be entering the 2017 Royal Rumble match.

Leading up to his return, Goldberg said that he was treating it as a one time thing. Goldberg recently spoke to ESPN, and he talked a little bit about why his thoughts on the matter have changed.

“It’s completely dependent if you are a smart businessman upon the return on your product,” Goldberg said. “I believe that you have to wait and see if that investment is going to pay off and I think each and every time I was given the opportunity, I hoped that I was able to carry the ball and give [WWE] the confidence to have me back and further include me in their plans.”

Goldberg and Brock Lesnar are two massive stars, and their collision at Survivor Series wasn’t what fans have come to expect from a typical WWE main event. Goldberg’s win over Brock Lesnar was unexpected, and as Goldberg said himself, nobody thought it was going to go down that way.

“I think at this time in my career, the best way to take [Lesnar] down was shock and awe, to do something that nobody would expect against a monster like that,” Goldberg said. “At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match. I don’t believe any of them thought that was going to be it.”

As far as what’s next for him after the Royal Rumble, Goldberg says he’s just focusing on the Royal Rumble match for now.

“I’m only as good as my next appearance and my next match,” he said. “I’m concentrating on the Royal Rumble and that’s it. I don’t have any plans of doing anything afterwards. My focus is on the 29 other men that I’m going to have to crucify to win that damn match.”

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