William Scott Goldberg, also known by his stage name Goldberg, is a former defensive tackle for American football and a part-time professional wrestler in the United States.
His time spent in WCW and WWE is what made him most famous.
The son of OB-GYN Jed Goldberg and classical violinist Ethel Goldberg, William Scott Goldberg was born on December 27, 1966, into a Reform Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His Romanian great-grandfather immigrated to the United States from Bucharest via Ellis Island. He is of Russian and Romanian Jewish origin. His father was a graduate of both Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. His parents later split, and his father died in late 2006. His mother breeds flowers and created an award-winning hybrid orchid in 2000, which she named after Goldberg. His brother, Michael, later became the owner of a music club in Aspen, Colorado. Goldberg had his bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in Tulsa and attended Tulsa Edison High School. He acquired a love for football early in his life and, due to his large stature, began working as a nightclub bouncer at the age of 16.
How old is Bill Goldberg?
The WCW and WWE champion was born on December 27, 1966, and hence, will be 57 years as of 2023.
What is Bill Goldberg’s net worth?
The professional football player and wrestler have a net worth estimated to be $16 million dollars.
What is Bill Goldberg’s career?
William Scott Goldberg, better known by his ring name Goldberg, is a former American football player, actor, and professional wrestler from the United States. He is most well-known for his involvement with WCW and WWE. One of the most well-known personalities from the professional wrestling boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s is Goldberg.
He is recognized as the originator of the spear-finishing move in wrestling and is given credit for popularising and mastering it.
He gained notoriety in WCW thanks to a protracted winning streak in singles matches from 1997 to 1998. He won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship once, the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship twice, and the WCW World Tag Team Championship once, all while working for the organization.
After WCW’s demise in 2001, Goldberg competed in pro wrestling for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) from 2002 to 2003 and for WWE from 2003 to 2004, where he once held the title of World Heavyweight Champion. He rejoined WWE in 2016 after a 12-year absence, winning the WWE Universal Title twice, the first time in March 2017 and the second time in February 2020.
Several WCW and WWE pay-per-view events, notably Starrcade, WCW’s biggest annual event, have featured Goldberg as the headliner (in 1998 and 1999). In his professional wrestling career with WWE and WCW, he won four world championships and served as the event’s keynote speaker in 2018. Furthermore unique in his career history, he held the titles of World Heavyweight, World Heavyweight, and WWE Universal Champion.
What is Bill Goldberg’s height and weight?
The WWE Champion stands at a height of 1.93 m and weighs 129 kg.
What are Bill Goldberg’s nationality and ethnicity?
Goldberg is an American but belongs to a mixed ethnicity (Russian-Jewish and Romanian-Jewish descent).
Bill Goldberg’s wife and children
Goldberg married Wanda Ferraton on April 10, 2005, a stunt double he had met while filming Santa’s Slay. From 2001 to 2019, they lived in Bonsall, California, before moving to Boerne, Texas. The couple has one son, Gage, whom they gave birth to, in 2006.
