Former WWE Universal Champion Goldberg was a recent guest on Eric Bischoff’s “Bischoff On Wrestling” podcast. Goldberg spoke on the negative reactions that Roman Reigns receives & who he believes will be the next top star in the WWE & more.
Here are the highlights:
Goldberg On Roman Reigns’s Reactions: (excerpts by Comicbook.com)
“These fans are completely different! When I went out there, you always have an alternative worst case scenario for what you’re going to say and if you don’t you’re not prepared. The crowd these days, they like to be the ones who say “hey, look at me.” They like to dictate what’s going on and when they voice their opinion, its deafening. And they, for some reason man, have a disdain for him that is completely misguided because as you say, he oozes talent and oozes star quality. He’s like Rock, physically and he’s a good guy, too. How the crowd thing is handled is, I don’t know. I feel for this guy. I just don’t get it.”
Bischoff stated that he wished Roman would lean into the hate, nonetheless will be the top-star in the company.
“It seems to me that the natural heat that he has is either going to work for him or against him and I kind of think deep down inside that’s what’s going to happen. I think that at some point they’ll embrace the heat and he will embrace that reaction.”
Goldberg On Who He Believes Will Be The Next Top-Star In The WWE:
“Whatever the landscape looks like now, it can drastically change in the next 6-12 months, but if I had to just go based on a package and based on what can be done with it, I’d say Braun has a lot of potential. If every scenario everything was done properly, cultivated, I think with what he has to present against others, I think his package is pretty good. He’s got a high ceiling. He’s like the big guys from the past.”
