He explained that he hoped to return to the league after rehabilitation but was not considered a major asset due to his lack of success. Goldberg's NFL career ended when he "tore his lower abdomen off his pelvis". He never played a game with the team, as he was the first player to have been cut by the Panthers. He was cut from the Falcons in 1995, so he was selected by the new expansion team the Carolina Panthers in the 1995 NFL expansion draft. He played for the Los Angeles Rams in the 1990 NFL season, followed by a stint with the Sacramento Gold Miners of the Canadian Football League in 1992 and the Atlanta Falcons from 1992 to 1994, where he became close with Deion Sanders. He was taken by the Los Angeles Rams in the 11th round of the 1990 NFL draft, with the 301st overall selection. Goldberg earned a scholarship to attend the University of Georgia and play college football for the Georgia Bulldogs as a defensive tackle. He acquired a love for football early in his life and, due to his large stature, began working as a nightclub bouncer at the age of 16. Goldberg had his Bar Mitzvah at a Reform synagogue, Temple Israel, in his hometown. His brother Michael later became the owner of a music club in Aspen, Colorado. His mother breeds flowers and created an award-winning hybrid orchid in 2000, which she named after Goldberg. His parents later divorced, and his father died in late 2006. His father was a graduate of both Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. He is of Russian-Jewish and Romanian-Jewish descent, with his Romanian-born great-grandfather having relocated to the U.S. William Scott Goldberg was born into a Reform Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on December 27, 1966, the son of classical violinist Ethel and OB-GYN Jed Goldberg.
He hosted 26 episodes of Garage Mahal on the DIY Network from 2009 to 2011 and has acted in various films and television shows, including Universal Soldier: The Return and NCIS: Los Angeles. Following his first retirement from wrestling in 2004, he began working as a commentator for the mixed martial arts promotion Elite Xtreme Combat before it closed down.
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He is also the only wrestler to have won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, WWE's World Heavyweight Championship, and the WWE Universal Championship.īefore he became a professional wrestler, Goldberg was a professional American football player. He headlined the WWE Hall of Fame in 2018 and is a five-time world champion in his career between WWE and WCW, with WWE counting his world title win at the 1999 Halloween Havoc. He has headlined multiple WCW and WWE pay-per-view events, including WCW's premier annual event Starrcade (in 19). After 12 years away from wrestling, he returned to WWE in 2016, winning the WWE Universal Championship for the first time in 2017 and a second time in 2020.
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Along with Hart, he is the fifth WCW Triple Crown winner.įollowing WCW's closure in 2001, Goldberg wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling between 20 and for WWE between 20, becoming a one-time World Heavyweight Champion in the latter.
During his time with WCW, he became a one-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, two-time WCW United States Heavyweight Champion, and one-time WCW World Tag Team Champion (with Bret Hart). He rose to fame in WCW with a lengthy undefeated streak in singles competition from 1997 to 1998, became the highest paid WCW wrestler, and led the company as its franchise player and public face until it was sold to WWE. He is credited with inventing the spear signature move in wrestling, which he popularized, and for which he gained a reputation for being the best at executing the move. One of the most popular figures of the professional wrestling boom during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Goldberg is widely regarded as one of the most intense wrestlers of all time. He is best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and WWE. William Scott Goldberg (born December 27, 1966), often known mononymously as Goldberg, is an American professional wrestler and former American football defensive tackle. * Offseason and/or practice squad member only
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