Goldberg Talks the NFL, Pursuing MMA and the State of Wrestling

Bill Goldberg will be appearing at the upcoming “Legends of Wrestling” event at Citi Field, home of the New York Mets. While promoting the event, he spoke with Inquisitr to discuss different topics regarding his career and where he is now. Below are some of the highlights from the conversation.

Goldberg spoke on his experiences in the NFL and what he learned from them:

“Everybody who knows anything about me knows all I ever wanted to do is play pro football. But I didn’t have the talent and I got hurt a lot. I’d do anything to be out on the field.” said Golderg. “Jerry Glanville told me one day after practice ‘Goldberg, if I had 22 of you guys, I know we wouldn’t win every game but we’d sure beat the hell out of everybody.’ I had a great time in the NFL, to make it in the amount of time that I did was awesome, it’s a dream come true and hell it gave me the opportunity to go wrestle.”

He discussed how he nearly pursued a career in MMA, which is one of his main hobbies now:

“If the money was right then, absolutely but it wasn’t. I had the top guys training at my gym in Atlanta and there was no money to speak of whatsoever,” said Goldberg. “Finally, now that they’re getting the credit they deserve, most of the guys that put the sport on the map are done. There’s no pension, no union for them, nothing. Did I want to be one of those guys? Absolutely not.”

Goldberg has also been verbal in the past at pushing for there to be a wrestler’s union. However, he does not thing highly enough of the wrestling industry to feel it will be a reality anytime soon:

“The business stinks, the business stinks, period, end of story. If it was based purely upon competition, I’d be in favor of it. But at the end of the day, it’s about favoritism,” said Goldberg.