You might remember back in the year 2000 Goldberg turned heel. He speared Kevin Nash and aligned himself with the New Blood (Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo). This occurred in June of 2000 and by the time August ended, Goldberg was back to being a babyface. Many wondered why we never got to see a strong Goldberg heel turn. He recently sat down with Stone Cold Steve Austin as a guest on his podcast. He spoke on a wide variety of things including why he never wanted to turn heel.
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Goldberg admits that he never wanted to turn heel because of the impact it had on his young fans, especially those who were sick:
“The heel run, I didn’t want to do it to begin with because of the kid thing. I did so much with Make-A-Wish. I did a lot of stuff, man, to where I knew it would crush these kids’ hearts. Ironically, the night that I turned heel, I had a Make-A-Wish girl who had cancer, okay? So what’s the night that I turned heel? What did I do? Do you remember? I wrestled Hacksaw [Jim Duggan]. What did Hacksaw come back from? [Cancer] Thank you very much. So what affect do you think I had on that little girl when I came into that locker room? Whether it was a shoot or whether it was a work or whether I was getting paid millions of dollars, I still got a heart, a big heart. And f*** everybody who can’t see beyond the things that they read because I really don’t care about those people, but I am a really caring person and that tore me apart”(Source: The Steve Austin Show, H/T: WrestlingInc).
You can listen to the full podcast here.
Pretty interesting comments on why we never really go a great Goldberg heel turn. To me this draws extreme parallels to John Cena and why I believe he will never turn heel. Sometimes the impact on the children far outweighs a heel run…Even though in some cases like Goldberg and Cena, it would be incredible as hardcore wrestling fans.
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