Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg who is a former three times World Champion in WWE and a former WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently looked back at his Universal championship match against the Fiend Bray Wyatt which took place at the Super Showdown pay per view event in 2020.
WWE built the Fiend gimmick of Bray Wyatt extremely well. They had an amazing build up overall and it was one of the best built character of WWE in the recent history. Bray Wyatt won the WWE Universal Championship at the Crown Jewel pay per view event of 2019 after he defeated Seth Rollins in a Falls Count Anywhere championship match.
Goldberg Remembers Facing Bray Wyatt In 2020
Everyone was expecting to see him defending the Championship at WrestleMania 36 against some major opponent. Braun Strowman was the favourite name of many. But in came Goldberg before WrestleMania 36 who challenged him for the WWE Universal Championship at Super Showdown pay per view event.
Surprisingly Goldberg defeated Bray Wyatt in this match and this decision of WWE was vastly criticized by the world of professional wrestling. After losing this title match Bray Wyatt could never regain his lost fame. Somehow WWE buried him for almost no reason. Braun Strowman won the Championship at WrestleMania 36. They actually lost a golden opportunity to make such an amazing championship match for the event.
Goldberg who is a former three times World Champion in WWE and a former WCW World Heavyweight Champion recently spoke to SHAK Wrestling where he looked back at his Universal championship match against the Fiend Bray Wyatt which took place at the Super Showdown pay per view event in 2020. He said;
“Let’s put it this way. I’ve never said anything that wasn’t true in the wrestling business. I’m a talent and I do what the boss tells me to do. I flew to Saudi Arabia knowing that I was gonna lose. Then somehow it changed and the finish was different.
“And it surely wasn’t me. Because it’s an extremely selfish move, number one, to do. Number two, then truly it wouldn’t be about the business, it would be about myself. And number three, who the hell am I as a part-time guy to come in and demand anything. Truly I mean I’m not.”
“Vince gave me opportunities that, you know, maybe I didn’t deserve in the past. And I owe that man just about everything. First and foremost, I’ve never said no to put anybody over. Maybe back in WCW I didn’t agree with Jericho over or something like that, if I can remember correctly.
“Coz I didn’t think it was time for the character to be involved in any comedy. But not in a million years in that Fiend situation in Saudi would I have done that. No way in hell! And I’d love to get on the phone with Bray and tell him, I’d love to see him face-to-face and make sure there’s not one percent of his being that believes that I changed that match.”
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