Bill Apter Says “What’s Old Is New Again” In WWE; Comments On Goldberg As The Universal Champion



Legendary pro wrestling journalist Bill Apter released the latest episode of his podcast Is Wrestling Fixed? this past Friday morning. It featured former WWE & ECW World Heavyweight Champion Rob Van Dam as his guest!

You can find a tease of some of Apter and I’s comments from the news section at the top of the show transcribed below.

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BA: A lot of stuff that’s new is old and it’s being recycled in terms of human beings right now. I am always looking at current movies. What I’m seeing is that in most of the new movies, even in the past five years, they are always using old music. Dean Martin songs, Tony Bennett songs and things like that. This is trending kind of in wrestling. I am not saying these people are old. They are not. It’s the old school that’s really holding everything together. Goldberg is the Universal Champion. That’s not a current guy anymore. Although Goldberg is now a current guy he is the guy who is from wrestling’s past. Correct?

NH: Yes, are you ok with that?

BA: Yes. For now I am.

NH: I don’t think a lot of people are mad at Goldberg. I think people are mad that Goldberg was put in the position to end what Kevin Owens was doing.

BA: This is pro wrestling. Chris Jericho is the person who made Kevin Owens lose the title.

Related: Bill Apter Asks If WWE Should Bring Hulk Hogan To WrestleMania (Video)

Former WWE & ECW World Heavyweight Champion Rob Van Dam joined Bill on this past week’s episode for a very candid interview discussing what he’s up to now, a potential WWE return, who on the current WWE roster he’d like to face and more.

Bill also took time to discuss a variety of headlines from this past week in wrestling including:

  • Rick Rude as the latest announced member of the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2017
  • Goldberg as WWE Champ? Undertaker back on RAW? A look at “What’s Old Is New Again In WWE”!
  • More on the road to WrestleMania
  • More…

This episode also included “classic audio” as well as Bill answering fan questions from the #AskApter mailbag.

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