Check my Instagram, Goldberg95. I have been training with the biggest, baddest men on the planet. I’m not messing around; it’s not like I came around the idea of saying, hey, I’m going to be 49 and let me get off my couch after 12 years of eating sweets and getting into the ring and facing this monster of a guy, I will be perfectly honest with you, if people don’t think I know how to prepare for athletic competition at the highest level then they have something wrong with them. I take this crap very seriously, and it’s the world of professional wrestling and I take everything with a grain of salt and try to be the best that I can be at what I do, and I am doing this in front of all those people in my underwear, where the last time they saw me I was 290 and was blowing fire under my ears. I was able to press a 290lb Brock Lesnar over my head and my goal is to do the same thing when I walk in there. I won’t be 280lb when I used to be, but what I bring to the ring will be a different package than before, but I will be the same guy so, you know, I’m doing a lot of cross training and footwork, a lot of boxing work. I haven’t been in the ring in a while, so out of those 12 years it’s very important to reacquaint yourself with, but I’m going into one match. I’m not going to get into the ring for 20 days straight and try to familiarize myself again with the ropes. Hopefully, the only thing that will need to be hit is my fist in Brock’s face in the match. The reality is I will be taking some suplexes during this thing, and it is what it is. I may be old, but I know what I am getting myself into. It’s not like I am not training three times a day, three days a week, and twice a day the other days. I am eating 15,000 calories a day; I am trying to gain weight, but you know, I’m Goldberg, I have a standard I have to uphold myself to. I am greatly appreciate that anyone would think I am good at anything; I just try to push myself as hard as I do and hopefully people will come away being happy with it, but the only people I care if they are happy about it is my wife and son and am able to share something with him as a gift. If I can come in and be a superhero with them in that spotlight for a short period of time then that is something I value equally as giving my family that experience so, like I said, in the ring, there aren’t many superheros in the ring. There are a lot of pieces of crap that unfortunately kids look up to, they make missteps. There needs to be a superhero again, the Rock’s, the Goldberg’s, they were around back in the day but they’re not in the forefront anymore.
On His Place in Wrestling Today Compared to 12 Years Ago:
I’m a little older and a little more experienced and mature, but that doesn’t mean many things have changed in the 12 years since I was there, but a lot of things have changed since then. I am a husband and a father now, I can’t be that wreckless Goldberg headbutting everything. I mean, I still do that, but I think about things twice before I do it. Before I pull somebody over after they cut me off and give me the finger, I have to think twice about it now. So, now I am a completely different person. I base things on reality, not on emotionally feeling of the moment. Like I said, I look at this as a huge opportunity, period, nothing more and nothing less. I have no ill feelings for anybody or anything. I have said it a million times, I will sweep it under the table, but if you bring it up, I’m going to deal with it, I am who I am. I have a clean slate. I have a great relationship with them now. When I went there now, everyone showed me great respect. I am there for a short period of time. If they want me to impart knowledge and some big brotherhood and direction and do my job and leave, I will be as professional as can be. It is all up to them. I come and am social, at the end of the day, the camera man is just as important as the main event, because of he doesn’t get that shot in the main event where someone does a special move, and puts them in the move and isn’t caught camera then it doesn’t put that person over. It’s a team effort man, and everybody has to be involved. I can be this realistic softy-killer and be more realistic now that I am 49, but you can’t be that guy when you are in your 30’s, but now I am Terminator 2 with a heart; it’s a Kryptonite but I wear that with a badge of honor with pride.
