Goldberg Injured WWE Star After Assault With Flag

La Resistance (Rob Conway & Rene Dupree) once squared off against the WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg on the December 15, 2003 episode of WWE Raw.

 


 

Goldberg had just lost the WWE World Heavyweight Title to Triple H in a triple threat match that also featured Kane at WWE Armageddon. In an effort to keep him strong, Goldberg decimated La Resistance.

Goldberg hits Rene Dupree and dislocated his collarbone

Speaking on Cafe de Rene, Conway and Dupree reflected on the segment with Goldberg. Rene Dupree stated that he tries to “forget it.”

Conway went on to say: “We went over that match multiple times. The whole match consisted of us getting an entrance, him coming out, me meeting him in the entrance way and him kicking me. Going in, Rene getting on him, shoot, reverse, spear. Me coming in, him spearing me, him hitting me with the Jackhammer. Then, he was supposed to take our French flag and break it over his knee and they had a plant in the crowd with an American flag.

Before we went out, I went to Magic, the guy who used to carry our flagpoles and said, ‘We’re probably going to need a new one next week because Goldberg is going to break this over his knee.’ He said, ‘he isn’t going to break that over his knee. It’s treated wood. It won’t break.’ Now, I have to make this decision to try and let him break it and look weak. Of course, a company guy, and for the business, I was like, ‘give us a weaker broomstick.’ I told you the exact match, everything that happened.

It probably took hours to put that match together. The office wanted him to look strong because he had lost the championship. The other time, they had a bounty on him, and we tried to collect the bounty. We got bumped backstage on the concrete. We had to do two or three takes.

Dupree then recalled that Goldberg hit him with the flag and dislocated his collarbone. He said:

“He hit me with the flag and dislocated my collarbone. Each time he would [hit me], ‘Man, take it easy,’ but he just had one speed, ‘Go!’ He never learned how to work.”

Barry Russell
Barry Russell
A dedicated pro wrestling follower for more than a decade

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