Bill Goldberg has has a hell of a couple of years. The man who became a phenomenon for WCW in the late 1990s returned to WWE, became the third Universal Champion, had a dynamite WrestleMania match with Brock Lesnar, and just a couple of weekends ago headlined this year’s class of inductees to the WWE Hall of Fame.
Since leaving WWE after last year’s WrestleMania, Goldberg has been keeping pretty busy. He’s going to host a show about knives called Knife or Death, he’s been guest starring in The Goldbergs, and he’s even been all over your televisions in this weird Michael B. Jordan DirecTV ad, for no reason we can discern.
When Goldberg departed WWE after WrestleMania 33, he suggested he might come back, and he’s talked often about how much he enjoyed the hell out of his most recent run. But it now seems as though if he’s coming back to wrestling, it won’t be any time soon.
In an interview with the New York Post, Goldberg said he would come back if it was the right opponent and the right situation, but he’s currently “at peace” with his pro wrestling career as it stands right now.
“If I never stepped in the ring again, I’m content, dude. I’m completely at peace. I really am. Would I like to do it again? Who knows. It would have to be the right fit. I’d love to do it again for my son [Gage]. Let’s be honest. Everybody knows that. But at the end of the day, you have to be smart about it …
“There’s no question it would have to be the right opponent. What I was able to accomplish last year was really special, and I don’t want to take anything away from that by any stretch of the imagination, devalue my place in the Hall of Fame and my stature to the fans.”
In the interview, Goldberg also commiserated with Asuka, who suffered her first WWE loss at WrestleMania. Goldberg had been keeping tabs on Asuka’s winning streak, which surpassed his own WCW winning streak some time ago.
“It’s so hard. I felt bad for her. It’s a really cool accomplishment. It’s unbelievable, but there comes a time when you kind of question its tenure and when is it the right time to break it. Who is the right person to break it? I think it was done properly. I do. I think the pressure has been taken off of her. There was a lot of pressure on me at the end of the streak.”
So what we’re getting here, if we read between the lines, is that Goldberg vs. Asuka is happening at WrestleMania 35. Book your tickets now!
