Bill Goldberg's return to professional wrestling was nothing if not hit-and-miss. While fans were excited to see him again, the WWE Hall of Famer was clearly no longer at his best and was limited with what he could do in the ring.
Some of his lowest points included busting himself open while headbutting a locker room door on the way to the ring (which knocked him silly for the duration of the match which followed) and injuring The Undertaker during a botched Jackhammer.
The last time Goldberg wrestled was in a 2022 bout which saw him lose to Roman Reigns. He's said on multiple occasions that he'd like to end his in-ring career on his own terms, but will it happen in AEW?
AEW President Tony Khan has maintained that he'd be open to signing the WCW legend, but it seems Goldberg isn't remotely interested!
"I’ve talked to [Tony] a number of times throughout the past," he confirms in the video below. "This is where you’re gonna get the most blunt answer you’re gonna get from me. The product is too cheesy. The product is too cheesy."
"It doesn’t deserve to have, whatever, now you’re really gonna get me going. But if there was a comparable, viable option as a competitor that would allow me to still look myself in the mirror after I was a member of their roster? Yeah, then it would be a consideration. But not a chance."
The clock is ticking on Goldberg actually being able to have one more match, and unless he's willing to sign with TNA, then we're guessing that clash with Reigns is where his career ends.
"Vince [McMahon] is like Dana White," Goldberg said last year of not getting the retirement match he was promised. "He's the big boss and he makes everything happen, and in all honesty, he gave me the opportunity to put my wife and son on the front row and gave me the ability to perform again in front of them."
"So, I owe him everything, until we went to Saudi Arabia and he asked me to put Roman Reigns over, and I had COVID."
"I remember calling him from my house and said, 'Listen, here is the deal. I'll do it if you give me a retirement match.' I did what he asked. As a performer, I was 56 years old. As a human being, you're conscientious about how you look in a bathing suit, especially two months prior to being in that bathing suit, you couldn't work out because you had COVID."
"I put myself in a horribly shitty situation to get what I wanted to, but to satiate him and give him what he wanted," he concluded. "Problem is, he never held up his bargain. Vince is a piece of shit as far as I'm concerned."
Watch the full interview with Goldberg in the player below.