ERIC BISCHOFF: "THIS is the REAL story of the GOLDBERG vs REGAL DISASTER!"

Bro, it was Arn Anderson 🤣

Expose The agent goldberg sucks

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Eric needs to train him to shut the door behind him though 😂😂

I think Eric is being completely honest here.

why is regal to blame? because we never put the blame on someone else. just an enigmatic agent. someone so special we can't say oh they messed up? i've never heard someone so fiercely protected, but nonetheless why is that regal or goldberg gets the blame? cause we don't blame ghosts

From 98-99. I was with a lot of fans where Goldberg was concerned. My first issue with him was the heat he was catching from the veterans (Everyone's story about Jericho and him), second issue was his first run with the WWE, what made me turn on him was the match with the Fiend,"...don't think I should lose...". I was done with him at that moment but what made me utterly hate him? His spouting off about Bret Hart (who I was never a fan of-personally I always thought his matches were boring at best despite his incredible skills). Goldberg bough this own hype as if he was LITERALLY 173-0 like it was the UFC.

It wasnt Taylor

Arn Anderson

That stooge Rooster😅

Nobody seems to have noticed that they had Regal's first name wrong. This was WILLIAM Regal that had the match with Goldberg, not Steve Regal. Steve Regal was never in WCW!😮

the booker was Dusty

The funniest part is that Goldberg actually thinks people believe all of his botches are other people’s faults.

It’s sad that AEW is making all the same mistakes as WCW when they could just hire Bischoff.

It was the match that needed to happen for Goldberg at that time. Bischoff was pissed because it exposed Goldberg's weaknesses EVERY fan knows that Regal had far too much experience to not find and exploit his opponent's weaknesses.

Erics dry mouth is really great for audio. So good.

Love how Eric thought he could get an extra four and a half mins outta Bill who couldn’t wrestle his way out of a wet paper bag. That is what the powerplant was for ya muppet, you don’t do that with his green ass on live tv. He didn’t have the talent to do that on the fly..

I've seen so many videos where Regal is blamed for this mishap but what's dsicussed here feels much closer to the truth. Thank you to Eric for the honesty here. Clearly Bill was barely ready for even a 3 minute match at this time and he shouldn't have been put in that situation.

Eric will you consider going to aew and try to build the ratings with Shane McMahon?

Hope this isn't a dumb question, but what is an agent?

If anyone is to blame for it, its definitely Eric. Now i am a Goldberg fan through and through. He was the one that got me into professional wrestling but having Bill Goldberg come into the business with only 6 months experience at the power plant was the wrong idea when it comes to truly developing a wrestler. From a business standpoint, i understand because Eric said they were getting beat in the ratings and they needed a miracle and when he came across Goldberg, he felt that Goldberg was the guy to help get their ratings back up.

It takes a longer time than 6 months to get a person ready to become a professional wrestler. Bill was inexperienced at that time and the reason why he was looking so good in his first couple of matches and winning so many fans is because he was only having like 1-2 minute matches where he didnt have to do a whole lot.

Once he got a longer match, i think the pressure got to him because in longer matches, you got alot to remember on what stunts to do. So in my honest opinion, this all falls on Eric.

The problem was Bill Goldberg didn't know how to wrestle.

Will Eric or Regal ever reveal that agent's name one day?

Proper Englishman - honest, forthcoming and gentlemanly but can also fight. Well respected by all.

I'm glad Bischof vindicated Regal. He makes Goldberg look like a real a-hole for his version of events. Kevin Nash was right about Goldberg when he said that he was a mark for himself.

The thing that has been left out by Eric is that, while he touched on the fact that Steve Regal was from the old school of thought that the heel leads a match.

He DID say that Regal was the more experienced of the two and that he was expected to lead the match, but the problem was that Goldberg was never taught how to FOLLOW a match.

Not Goldberg's fault, not Regal's, thr management's fault.

I don’t why the agent isn’t named because it’s not that big of a deal… it’s not even the agents fault, Eric said that we were protecting golderg on what he couldn’t do, Yet Eric sent Goldberg out there

It’s WCW’s fault that Goldberg wasn’t trained to be able to have a basic match… Not Regals or the agent..

Arn, his liver spot and his dawg Spot were probably a bit tipsy and busy making sure Mongo got his rails to put a decent match together.

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when goldberg shot regal into the ropes and he stopped immediately, turned around and hit goldberg then that proves to me he was out to sabotage that match and not play along as a wrestler, if he did that to chris benoit of bret hart they would also not know what to do

do people in this comment section know wrestling is fake?

I think Eric owes Regal a public apology because he did all he could to get Goldberg over and Goldberg fucked it up. The agent in the match should have been fired and Goldberg should have been suspended.

Eric said still a prominent person today. ... so arn?

Regal has said he did what the agent had discussed with them and Goldberg forgot what to do. Regal never named the agent but others have said the agent was Arn Anderson

When bishoff won't name, "names". That means it was Hogan.

Lord Steven Regal was one of my favorite heels in WCW. I think I liked him more than other people liked him. I had a crush on him. He always looked clean. He looked like he smelled good. 🥰

What about when Sting suggested that Regal was gay? I didn't like that at all! 😡 (I have a lot of feelings).

I thought the match was fine

Who was the agent? Who was the agent? Who was the agent?

Basically it was dangerous & completely irresponsible to give Goldberg that big push.

He didnt have the IQ nor the skill set required.

He thought wrestling is REAL 😂

You can tell everytime he speared someone he still thought he was in the NFL & was trying to kill them. He hurt a lot of people , i bet most guys are just taking the high road & deciding not to air him out.

Kevin Sullivan?

So he lays it all at Arn Anderson

Goldberg has a fragile big man ego. The match was decent if not slightly awkward in some spots. To complain about it for decades shows how insecure Goldberg is. I use to train Judo. when you beat an inexperienced opponent who's a big guy, you can see the moment their ego is crushed.

Arm Anderson on his podcast recently admitted he was the agent, what I thought all along.

Regal is straight class

Arn Anderson has already validated Regals story; Anderson was the booker.

Arn Anderson just admitted the other day that HE was the unnamed agent. He said he passed on what he was told to, to them. He also took a good part of the blame because he knew Bill really wasn't able to do it but at the same time, he knew Bill needed to have a longer and more competitive match.(especially with a guy like Regal) It was a bad situation all around.

Can’t see what was wrong with match ? It was one of Goldberg’s best matches. Regal worked him.

The weirdest thing about this controversy in my opinion is that it's a good match. Not a great match, but it's one of Goldberg's better matches. He's wrestling a tough Brit, an unorthodox style he's never run across before, and to me, the story of the match is him running into something completely and totally foreign, and being surprised by Regal's technique and toughness. As for whose fault it is, how was Goldberg/Regal supposed to be a six minute squash match? Regan and Anderson say they were just following orders, which is probably true, but to me, Regal is 100% innocent. He did his job and preformed a good match. It obviously didn't hurt Goldberg's career, and perhaps if he'd had a few more matches like that at house shows or in practice, he wouldn't have been so green even five years into his career.

Arn

So what would Bill Goldberg have done if Regal did shoot in him and defeated him with a submission hold? Bill Goldberg’s streak would have ended right there and then. Period. Eric was at fault and needs to admit it. He didn’t know what he was doing, which led to the demise of WCW. Bischoff rode the coattails of the already proven talent from elsewhere Ted Turner was signing, and he caused it to plummet because he badly mishandled the NWO, which would probably still be a main dominant faction today had he done things correctly.