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Goldberg announced his retirement earlier this year after having an illustrious career in the world of professional wrestling. He became a professional wrestler back in 1997, and he was discovered by the scouts of WCW. He made his in ring debut in the mentioned year, and he became a huge fan favorite after making his WCW debut.
Goldberg started an undefeated streak after making his WWE debut, and he remained undefeated for 173 matches. He even won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship during this process. Kevin Nash broke his undefeated streak at Starrcade in December 1998. This streak is still considered one of the most iconic streaks in professional wrestling history.
Goldberg talked about his future plans after retirement from wrestling
He joined WWE in 2003 for the first time and spent a year in the promotion. He had been treated as a main eventer in WWE, and he also won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship one time during this run. After WrestleMania XX, he decided to leave professional wrestling over creative disagreements in WWE.
Goldberg had his retirement match at the previous Saturday Night's Main Event show
In 2016, he returned to wrestling and spent around a decade as a part time wrestler. He even won the World Championship in WWE twice during his second run in the promotion. Despite receiving a lot of criticism during his second run, WWE used him to sell out arenas since he has always been a huge attraction, even in his 50s. Recently, he talked about what he would do after his retirement while peaking on the “Real Talk with Mike Burke” podcast,
His final opponent was Gunther
“I don’t know, man. I’m just trying to relax right now. Everybody keeps asking me what’s next — nothing. I stopped. I took my underwear off, you know? My slogan was ‘Who’s next?’ Well, now it’s ‘Next’ or ‘What’s left,’ you know? I don’t know. I’m enjoying this. Yeah, I’m enjoying this YouTube thing with my cars because I need to start doing it more regularly.”
“I think I’ve done like three videos in six months because of the retirement match. But I’m just going to start fixing all my cars. No wrestling. Well, certainly not for Expendables 12. They’re not calling right now. Like I said, I’m just completely relaxing at the moment because I haven’t done this before.” said Goldberg.
