Bill Goldberg infamously botched a kick in a match at Starrcade 1999, which ended up giving Bret Hart a concussion. The WWE Hall of Famer has long criticized Goldberg for being unsafe in that match and ending his career.
While speaking on the Michael Kay Show, Goldberg was asked whether he regrets what happened.
“As Goldberg — well, you know what? Yes,” he said. “As Goldberg the character and as Goldberg the human, there’s no question about it. I mean, when an accident happens and you tell your side of the story and nobody believes it — especially the person who was negatively affected by it? Yeah, it sucks. And I will take it to my grave, because I’m sure that he will never forgive me. But hey man, what else can I say? I’ve said I was sorry and that it was unintentional, and that it was the furthest thing from my mind, I don’t know. A million times? And of those a million times he’s come back with, ‘Yes, it was intentional, and he’s a punk, and he didn’t know what I was doing, and it ruined my career.’ So it sucks. You can lead a horse to water and you can shove their face in the damn water, but you can’t make them suck it up their esophagus.
“So if you can tell that I’m pretty pissed off that he still harbors it? Yeah, it sucks. But I truly believe that it just shows what a human being I am, and that I can forgive people accusing me of something that’s not true.”
Goldberg returned to WWE in 2016 and fought Brock Lesnar at Survivor Series. He’d later capture the WWE Universal Championship on multiple occasions.
Here is @Goldberg on @BretHart and the incident at WCW Starrcade 1999 #TMKSonYES pic.twitter.com/hb9jK8sHwd
— Kay Show on YES (@TMKSonYES) July 13, 2022
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