I remember last year when Bill Goldberg was upset that ‘some Japanese girl’ beat his undefeated streak in WWE back in 2017. Of course that Japanese girl is Asuka, whose name he couldn’t even bother to
correctly pronounce.
Well, Goldberg is back at it again. During an interview on Real Talk with Mike Burke, he remained quite salty about “some girl” beating his streak, which he says WWE did on purpose because he kicked their ass in the ratings so hard as WCW’s top star during the Monday Night Wars.
Before getting into it, Goldberg first likened his destructive appeal in the ring to that of Mike Tyson, in pushing back against the common criticism that he didn’t wrestle long matches.
Goldberg: “Here’s the deal. What kind of moron would a human being be if a guy goes, ‘Go out and beat’em in 30 seconds’ [and I say] ‘No. No, listen. I want to wrestle like everyone else. I want to chain wrestle. I want to be out there for 20 minutes, and I want to tell a story.’ My story is the Mike Tyson, you had no idea what’s gonna happen in this next minute and a half, or five minutes, or two minutes, or 30 seconds, whatever. That was my gig. So why in God’s name would I want to do what other people do?”
Burke: “Hey, what was your streak? You won like, what?”
Goldberg: “170 something.”
Burke: “Isn’t that ridiculous? Nobody’s ever gonna beat that.”
Goldberg: “They already did.”
Burke: “Who did?”
Goldberg: “Some girl at WWE. They did it on purpose.”
Burke: “No way!”
Goldberg: “Yeah. I have nothing against the girl, by any means, but yeah. The whole WWE experience was always…I was a part of WCW when we were kicking their ass in the Monday Night Wars. I didn’t know what was going on at the time. I was just on one of the sides. And now, one side dissolved, and the other one consumed everything, and so they can treat everyone and everything the way they want. And I think there’s always gonna be the bird in their ass that I was part of a company that, in a very short period of time, I was the champion and we were beating them in the ratings.”
I am normally open to the possibility that WWE can be very petty with booking decisions like this, but I just don’t really see it with Asuka. She broke Goldberg’s winning streak in NXT, which some people probably don’t even count as being a WWE record. From what I recall, NXT didn’t make a big deal about hyping up or acknowledging her record-breaking win on the night that it happened. If WWE wanted to be petty as hell and primarily book someone on a winning streak to screw over Goldberg’s most famous kayfabe accomplishment, it probably would have happened on a bigger stage, and it probably would have been in the men’s division.
The fact that Goldberg doesn’t even know the exact number of wins in his famous undefeated streak, or the name of the person who beat it, is a reminder that getting bothered about kayfabe records being broken is silly, especially when he doesn’t depend on it to make money anymore.
Do you think Goldberg is correct when he accuses WWE of having a bird in its ass over his undefeated streak from WCW? Let me know in the comments below, Cagesiders.
