Stone Cold Steve Austin Says A Match With Goldberg Was Pitched When He First Joined WWE

Stone Cold Steve Austin comments on a dream match that seemed to just slip by for WWE when Goldberg signed with the company.

Stone Cold missed out on several dream matches in his career, particularly following walking out of the company in the early 2000s at a time were several fresh match ups were available, including the incoming signing of Goldberg. Now, Austin has addressed the idea of why the match didn’t happen.

While speaking on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Stone Cold Steve Austin was asked why a match with Goldberg never happened.

“I don’t know. I think we pitched it when he first came in, but he wasn’t at the level that he needed to be. He had just come into WWF, and he needed to get going or get over first. He was certainly over from his WCW days. I think a little bit of time had elapsed, but I watched him down there in Atlanta, but we were all on the road at the time, and that was during the Monday Night Wars. If you set your DVR to record back in the day, you kind of knew what was going on. I watched Dallas Page kind of go down a parallel path as me too as far as this timeline of getting over. But yeah, you know, Goldberg just needed to put some time in WWF before we could go, and then it just never happened. Bill is a good friend of mine.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Stone Cold Steve Austin spoke about some of the greatest ring workers of all time, in his opinion. You can read more about that here.

Thank you to Chris Van Vliet for the quote(s)