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WWE Releases Goldberg's Full Retirement Address Following Saturday Night's Main Event

Goldberg's farewell address has now been released in its entirety after being cut off from the NBC live feed at Saturday Night's Main Event.
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WWE Hall of Famer Bill Goldberg has wrestled his last match.

The 58-year-old came up short in his bid to dethrone World Heavyweight Champion Gunther at Saturday Night's Main Event, falling victim to a sleeper hold after connecting on the final Spear and Jackhammer of his career.

After the match was over, veteran WWE commentator Michael Cole conducted an in-ring interview with Goldberg as he was surrounded by close friends and family in attendance at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta. The problem was that only half of the speech was able to air live on the NBC broadcast.

Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select is reporting that the timing of the final 40 minutes of the show Saturday night was completely thrown off by the injury to Seth Rollins during his match with LA Knight.

Rollins was scheduled to beat the Megastar, but injured his knee on a springboard moonsault attempt when he landed on his feet. Seth ended up calling an audible and had LA Knight beat him with a quick BFT, which caused a major shift in the rundown. Both the main event match and Goldberg's farewell address were affected.

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"The NBC feed ended up cutting away mid-speech leaving many unable to see it," Ross Sapp reported Sunday afternoon. "This clearly wasn't intentional, and a number of people within the company felt bad that happened. It was claimed that at least one higher up apologized to Goldberg for that. WWE had a hard out on NBC."

WWE has now uploaded Goldberg's entire retirement speech to the company's YouTube channel. You can watch it in the video posted toward the top of this article.

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Rick Ucchino is the Assistant Editor & Content Coordinator for The Takedown on SI. He also works full-time for 700WLW Radio in Cincinnati, Ohio as a local news and sports anchor, in addition to his time covering the Cincinnati Bengals for Sirius XM. Rick has been on the professional wrestling beat since 2019, having provided coverage for a number of outlets, including Fightful, SB Nation’s Cageside Seats and the Bleav Podcast Network. With an educational background in theater, creative writing and journalism, Rick focuses primarily on the storytelling aspect of pro wrestling, but he’s no stranger to the squared circle himself. He had the privilege of training with former WWE & WCW cruiserweight Jimmy Wang Yang for nearly two years and retired early due to back issues with a perfect 1-0 record in singles competition. Rick is a married father of two incredibly adorable children, who are budding pro wrestling fans themselves. Much to the chagrin of their mother. You can reach Rick at rwucchino@gmail.com

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