WWE announced this week that Goldberg will be returning to the ring at the upcoming PPV event in Saudi Arabia.
On Wrestling Observer Radio (subscribe here), Dave Meltzer provided some insight into why WWE brought back Goldberg for this PPV.
Here is what he said (h/t to 411Mania for the quote below):
“The Bill Goldberg deal, they called Bill Goldberg obviously…Bill Goldberg didn’t call them. And the Bill Goldberg deal is to sign him to a deal, which they wouldn’t have done except they feared that he would go to AEW. And they wanted to make sure that there was no mainstream guy that they can add to that roster that might get them off, that curiosity that might get viewership or anything like that.“
Do you believe that WWE signed Goldberg to keep him from doing something with AEW? There were some rumors a few months ago that Goldberg was in talks with AEW so you never know.
On a related note, check out 5 potential opponents for Goldberg at the PPV event in Saudi Arabia.