Gillberg Almost Had a WrestleMania Moment

This week saw the unlikely return of an Attitude Era mainstay in the form of Gillberg. He unsuccessfully attempted to take on Kevin Owens during Raw’s Festival of Friendship, and had some things to say about the encounter in a recent podcast appearance.

In an interview on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast (transcript via WrestlingInc), Gillberg discussed possibly signing up for a new WWE contract.

“As far as I’ve heard I was brought in for RAW. God, I would love to sign a contract. No problem. I love wrestling and wrestling is my life. I’ll be a wrestler til the day I die and I would love to go back up. Even if it was for six months. It is a childhood dream.”

He also talked about a WrestleMania moment that never happened, due to WWE’s fear of a Goldberg backlash.

“I made it to WrestleMania one time and I made it to the curtain and I had three seconds to go and they stopped me. I was standing getting ready to go out of the curtain for the Gimmick Battle Royal and they stopped me three seconds before I walked through the curtain and said sorry you can’t go. They thought Bill was coming in for the first time and they didn’t know how he would react. They just kind of freaked out. I understand the business but you want to talk about crushing man, it killed me. It was a hard one to take and ever since then I want to go back. I’ve got to make it through that curtain. That’s why I am now doing #GillbergWrestleMania on social media. Everything is #GillbergWrestleMania please lets get me on WrestleMania and lets do this.”

Seems that Gill desperately wants another shot at the big stage, and it seems Goldberg won’t have much to say about it that time–though he did have some choice words for Kevin Owens after the segment.

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