Basic Information About Bill Goldberg
Category | Athletes › Wrestlers |
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Professions | Wrestler, Actor, Football player, Sports commentator, Entrepreneur, Author, Presenter |
Net worth | $16,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1966-12-27 (57 years old) |
Place of birth | Tulsa |
Nationality | United States of America |
Curiosities and Trademarks | Finishing move: Jackhammer (Suplex Powerslam) Finishing move: Spear Trademark move: Pumphandle Drop Trademark move: Single Arm Choke into a Gorilla Press Powerslam Trademark move: Superkick Slaps self, to get psyched before entering the ring for a match |
Spouse | Wanda Ferraton - (10 April 2005 - present) (1 child) |
Gender | Male |
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.92 m) |
Social Media | ↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Bill Goldberg win?
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Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
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Bill Goldberg roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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The Longest Yard | Battle |
American Satan | Hawk |
Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Mr. Smith |
Universal Soldier: The Return | Romeo |
The Grand Tour | Self 1 episode, 2018 |
The Goldbergs | Coach Nick 9 episodes, 2017-2021 |
The Flash | Big Sir 2 episodes, 2018 |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Cupid 1 episode, 2007 |
Family Guy | Angry Bus Passenger 1 episode, 2002 |
Love Boat: The Next Wave | Lou 'The Pariah' Maguire 1 episode, 1998 |
Desperate Housewives | Inmate #2 1 episode, 2005 |
WWE Monday Night RAW | Goldberg 57 episodes, 2003-2021 |
Kim Possible | Pain King 1 episode, 2002 |
NCIS: Los Angeles | Lance Hamilton 4 episodes, 2018-2020 |
Modern Marvels | Self 1 episode, 2004 |
The Maury Povich Show | Self 1 episode, 2004 |
The Daily Show | Self 1 episode, 2000 |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self - Guest 1 episode, 1999 |
WCW Monday Nitro | Goldberg / ... 31 episodes, 1997-2000 |
Arli$$ | 1 episode, 2002 |
Punk'd | Self 1 episode, 2003 |
Bill Goldberg's Quotes
- Who's next?
Interesting Facts about Bill Goldberg
- Played college football with the Georgia Bulldogs. Played pro football with the Atlanta Falcons and the Los Angeles Rams, and then signed with the Carolina Panthers. Football career was ended by an abdominal injury when he tore all his abdominal muscles from his pelvis, and had them surgically reattatched.
- Trained in the World Championship Wrestling Power Plant wrestling school and entered the ring professionally on September 22nd, 1997.
- Became World Championship Wrestling United States Champion on April 21st, 1998 by defeating Raven. His reign lasted until July 26th, 1998 when he gave it up after winning the World Heavyweight title from Hulk Hogan.
- Was World Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion from July 6th, 1998 until December 27th, 1998 when he was defeated by Kevin Nash, ending his undefeated streak.
- Once worked as a bouncer.
- Has a degree in psychology from the University of Georgia.
- Is recovering from surgery to the shoulder as a part of an old football injury. [2001]
- Lost the tag-team match together with Sarge Dewayne Bruce against Totally Buffed, Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell, thereby ending his new winning streak and was subsequently fired from WCW.
- Went 176-0 after his WCW debut. Many believe that WCW actually lost count of the exact number of wins he had at one point, and just decided to use an arbitrary number.
- WWE claims his first loss was to Kevin Nash, however his first recorded loss was actually to Chad Fortune in a WCW dark match July 24th, 1997.
- His older brother Mike went to college with Nature Boy Ric Flair and former WWE/AWA wrestler Ken Patera .
- His first WWE match was against The Rock Dwayne Johnson at the 2003 Backlash Pay-Per-View. It was The Rock's last match before leaving to film Welcome to the Jungle (2003).
- Graduated from Thomas A. Edison High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- While filming Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), he intimidated Brendan Fraser so much that Fraser was terrified by having to hit him. Goldberg constantly told Fraser to go ahead and do it, telling him, "It's what I do for a living.".
- Won the World Heavyweight Title from Triple H at Unforgiven 2003 in September.
- The WWF (now WWE) developed the "Gillberg" character, played by Duane Gill as a parody of Goldberg.
- Ended Bret Hart's wrestling career when he botched a kick to Bret's head, giving Bret a concussion.
- Has three cats named Moe, Larry and Curly
- Former WCW Tag Team Champion with Bret Hart .
- Former United States Champion.
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