Goldberg is without question one of the most popular and recognizable stars that the professional wrestling industry has ever produced, and there are millions of fans all over the world who support him.
However, Goldberg has been heavily criticized for his in-ring ability by his peers throughout his career, and during his Confessions Of The Hitman series Bret Hart noted that he liked Bill Goldberg personally, but felt his workrate is a 0/10.
“[Goldberg] was a gorilla. [Goldberg] was a guy that nobody seemed to have taught how wrestling really works. He seemed to think he could just pick a guy up and just slam him through the mat as hard as you could and that was good wrestling. But I always liked Bill as a person. His wrestling, his workrate was 0/10. Like, everything he did hurt – everything! He could tie up with you and hurt you. He’d tie up with himself and hurt himself!”
The Hitman didn’t stop there, as he also went on to say that Goldberg was “roided up.”
“Bill was one of those types of guys that I don’t think understood ever that it’s supposed to look like it hurt but it’s not supposed really hurt. And he had so many people praising him because he’d run you over like a car. Like, he’d football tackle you with no pads on. He’s all jacked up and roided up, and he’s about 280 lbs. You might as well have a real car just drive over top of you. He’d line up and just run you down, knock you down, and hurt guys. I asked, ‘how does he do that without hurting everybody?’ And everybody he worked with would come to the back holding their ribs. Guys would have tears in their eyes from how much pain they were in, and he was a really reckless and dangerous guy to wrestle.”
Goldberg last wrestled when he dropped the Universal Championship to Braun Strowman at WrestleMania 36 back in April. It’s not clear at this point in time when he will wrestle again, but he did confirm a few months ago that he has more matches on his contract.
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