In his latest interview with ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin on The Steve Austin Show, former WCW and WWE Superstar Goldberg talked on a variety of topics including his streak, experiencing resentment from the WCW locker room, his travel buddies, and more.
On his entrance and streak:
“The cool thing is, and this is no bulls–t, man, I mean, and I’ve said it a million times, is that it was all organic.” Goldberg recalled, “it might have been [Doug] Dillinger’s idea [to have security guards in the entrance]. I don’t remember whose idea it was. [Tony] Schiavone had a lot to do with the streak itself and I know [Bobby] Heenan had a lot to do with it. I mean, it was all organic. He helped me tremendously.”
On where ‘Who’s Next’ came from:
“I’m in San Bernadino [California] and we were doing TV tapings and this is before anything, right? I think it was dark. It was just for me to train kind of like down in Orlando [Florida] at Universal Studios. And I can’t remember the name of the restaurant, so I won’t get into any legal trouble. So I’m sitting down with one of the producers of the Love Boat and my brother, Steve. And we’re about to order and the producer looks at me and he says, ‘you know, you have to have a gimmick; you have to have a saying; you have to have a slogan; you’ve got to get people behind you’ and I said, ‘you know what? You’re right.’ You know where I’m going, don’t you? So the waitress comes up, and she looks, and she goes, ‘who’s next?’ and that was it. I swear to God, I looked at them, and I went, ‘that’s it! Who’s next?’ because after I beat the first guy, it’s open f–king season! So it’s perfect! It’s plain, it’s simple, it’s straight to the point. I don’t like to be wordy. It gives to many options to people to tear you down.”
On experiencing resentment from the WCW locker room:
“I mean, there’s always the resentment. There’s always the Steven Regal match. How can you paint anything other than resentment on that match? I mean, the office didn’t tell him to go out there and try to take advantage of me and beat up a guy who had no idea what the f–k was going on! Dude, ask Steve. I have no idea. I just know he tried to kick my face in a couple of times and I was just giving him my face. At the end of the day, man, I still don’t know. It’s all good, man. He’s a shooter. He and the other dude who was there at the time, Dave Taylor. It’s all good. If that made him feel better, then fine, but I don’t get it. I’d love to f–king scrap with him right now. It’d be beautiful. I’d loved to, at the time, have known what he was going to do, but at the end of the day, it was resentment.”
His travel buddies on the road in his WCW days:
“I traveled with Hennig. I traveled with the Steiners, man. I traveled with Nash. Hennig, God rest his soul, was one of the coolest human beings. Rick Rude, I traveled with Rick Rude. So now you know these guys, they didn’t give a s–t about taking advantage of me, man. The Steiners, they knew I was a hard ass football player. I was a jock, okay? Hennig appreciated me because I was that jock, but I had a huge sense of humor and appreciated the [professional wrestling] business and would help people out. And inherently, I’m a nice guy because at the end of the day, I care about the kids. Rude, he was just a man’s man.”
On his relationship with Hulk Hogan:
“Hogan helped me out a lot because, through osmosis, in that it was not what he told me, it’s what he did and I watched. ‘Less is more’ is the biggest thing I learned from Hogan. Period. End of story. Less is more. Throw out every bit of the rest. My relationship with him was superficial in that I was the guy and I was money. But I like Hogan, man. I mean, there’s something about those Florida guys, man. He, [Brian] Knobbs, and all those goofs, there’s something wrong with them.”
