5 Ideas Goldberg allegedly disagreed with in WWE

#2 Goldberg allegedly did not want to face Gillberg

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In the late 1990s, WWE made fun of Goldberg by creating their own version of the destructive WCW star: Gillberg.

Gillberg, played by former WWE enhancement talent Duane Gill, wore the same attire and performed the same moves as Goldberg. The highlight of Gillberg’s WWE run came when he held the Light Heavyweight Championship for 445 days between November 1998 and February 2000.

In 2020, Gill told Lewis Nicholls that he saw Goldberg at a convention in 2016. He pitched the idea of facing the WCW legend in a first-time-ever clash, but his dream match suggestion never came to fruition.

Gill also explained how Goldberg treated him when they met for the first time before their WWE segment with The Rock on RAW in 2003.

“We had a little segment that night and he did a bunch of pictures with me,” Gill said. “He was kind of cool about it but you could tell that he didn’t like me at all. All the boys always told me, ‘Goldberg really wants to kick your a**.’”

Goldberg said in an interview with Gamespot in 2018 that he “wanted to cut his head off” when he first saw Gillberg on WWE television. However, over the years, he has learned to appreciate the humor in WWE’s creation of the character.

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