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00:05Gunther, a few months ago, you started something with me and my family in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:13Gage, I really hope for you that Bill is a better father than he is a professional wrestler.
00:23I am going to make sure that I end it in Atlanta, Georgia.
00:30Saturday Night Main Event, you're next.
00:41I am next.
00:45Usually being next means getting speared, jackhammer, one, two, three, but it is not 1999 anymore.
00:56And right now, I'm the guy.
00:59Bill Goldberg is not capable of taking the World Heavyweight Championship away from me.
01:05At Saturday Night's Main Event, I'm going to bully you.
01:09And the mist of Bill Goldberg forever dies.
01:28I don't care if I've got one foot in the grave.
01:30Nobody's ever going to talk to me like that.
01:36Gunther, you're next!
01:40Gunther!
01:43The legendary WWE Hall of Famer will make his final walk to the ring
01:49as Goldberg is set to class with the ring general, Gunther,
01:53and our main event next live on NBC.
01:59This November...
02:01It is quite the feeling here.
02:02It is electric.
02:04The Padres' home field gets a whole new lineup.
02:08When WWE...
02:09An absolutely incredible scene!
02:13It's Petco Park.
02:15A slugfest for the ages.
02:19Oh, my goodness!
02:25The epic performance that no one will ever, ever forget!
02:31WWE Survivor Series San Diego.
02:34Tickets on sale now.
02:41You know, WWE Late Night featuring Tony Hinchcliffe
02:45will take place at the Bergen Performing Arts Center
02:47in Englewood, New Jersey
02:48on Saturday, August 2nd at 11 p.m. Eastern
02:50as part of SummerSlam Weekend.
02:52Tickets for this closed-door, non-televised event
02:54are on sale now.
02:55Be a ticket master.
02:56Breaking news.
02:57Find out tonight that Cody Rhodes
03:00will be a featured guest
03:01for WWE Late Night.
03:04A lot of special guests in the house here tonight
03:08for Goldberg's final match-up,
03:10including this man, Ackbar,
03:12American Ninja Warrior host,
03:13back for an exciting new season.
03:15This Monday, he'll be joined in the loop
03:17by WWE legend Chad Gable.
03:19Don't miss American Ninja Warrior
03:20this Monday on NBC.
03:22It's streaming on Peacock.
03:25Well, there is Blake Monroe,
03:27the newest member of the women's roster on NXT,
03:29one of the hottest free agents in the business
03:32before she signed at NXT.
03:33Earlier today, Great American Bash,
03:35she pinned this woman,
03:37the NXT Women's Champion,
03:38J.C. Jain,
03:40who tomorrow night at Evolution,
03:417 Eastern, 4 Pacific,
03:43live on Peacock,
03:44from here in Atlanta.
03:46J.C. Jain will defend her NXT Women's Championship
03:49against Jordan Grace,
03:51live at Evolution.
03:52And the Women's Intercontinental Championship
03:55will be on the line,
03:56a triple threat match,
03:58three former friends,
03:59now bitter enemies,
04:00Bayley versus Lyra Valkyria
04:03versus the champ,
04:04Becky Lynch.
04:04Chris Stratus looks to win
04:06for historic eighth championship,
04:08but she's gonna have to knock off
04:10Tiffany Strat to do it.
04:11It will be Tiffany time or Trishy time.
04:13Come on out at Evolution.
04:15WWE Women's Tag Team Championship,
04:18Fatal 4-Way,
04:19one team from Raw,
04:20one team from SmackDown,
04:21one team from NXT,
04:22and the current tag champs,
04:25gold on the line in that Fatal 4-Way.
04:27They got into it earlier tonight,
04:28tomorrow,
04:30no holds barred.
04:32Queen of the Ring,
04:32Jake Cargill,
04:34Miss Money in the Bank,
04:34Naomi,
04:35go at it at Evolution.
04:36And of course,
04:37Bianca Belair,
04:38the special guest referee.
04:40And at the beginning of September,
04:41we will have Clash in Paris.
04:44Somebody is gonna win themselves
04:45a Women's Championship match.
04:47They're gonna do it tomorrow night
04:48at Evolution
04:49in a major battle royale featuring a who's who,
04:52including the returning legend,
04:54Nikki Bala.
04:55And the main event for the World Championship,
04:59EO Sky prevents the title against the woman
05:01who has never beaten her,
05:03Rhea Ripley.
05:04It's Evolution tomorrow night,
05:06live from Atlanta,
05:067 Eastern,
05:074 Pacific,
05:09exclusively on Peacock.
05:11Breaking news now.
05:13You heard Jelly Roll saying earlier tonight
05:15that he wants Logan Pro and Drew McIntyre.
05:17Well, he's gonna get his wish.
05:18It's gonna happen at SummerSlam.
05:20Tag Team matchup.
05:21Randy Orton teaming with Jelly Roll
05:24against Drew McIntyre
05:25and Logan Paul
05:27at SummerSlam.
05:34Other stars that are here tonight,
05:35including this man,
05:362 Chainz,
05:37Atlanta-based rapper,
05:38Grammy Award winner,
05:40multi-platinum.
05:412 Chainz getting set for our main event
05:43at Saturday night's main event.
05:48And Saturday night's main event
05:49is presented by Jimmy John's.
05:51Try Jimmy John's new toasted sandwiches today.
05:56Can we order Jimmy John's?
05:58I don't know what's up.
05:58I know you've worked up an appetite tonight
06:00with all of those reads,
06:01but what a night it has been thus far,
06:03and it's about to get even better.
06:23Well, ladies and gentlemen,
06:26Wade Barrett and I
06:26had a very interesting conversation
06:28with this man,
06:29the world champion Gunther,
06:30earlier today.
06:30I thought he'd be more humble
06:33when I asked him the question
06:34about how he felt
06:36having Goldberg's last match of his career.
06:38Yeah, well, you apparently frequently
06:40get the temperature wrong, Michael Cole,
06:42because sentimentality is a treat
06:44for weak men.
06:46Gunther told us,
06:47I am here to humiliate this man
06:50who has no place in my industry.
06:53I am here to extinguish
06:55this stain that is Goldberg for good.
06:59Wade, you have to wonder,
07:00is Gunther perhaps looking past
07:02the 58-year-old Goldberg tonight
07:05to the threat that looms on the horizon
07:07of possibly CM Punk
07:08or maybe Seth Rollins,
07:09depending on what happened
07:10with the injury tonight,
07:11but is Gunther looking past Goldberg tonight?
07:14There is a golden rule in the fight game.
07:16The last thing a heavyweight ever loses
07:19is his punch.
07:21We saw that this past Monday on Raw
07:23when Goldberg dropped the ring general
07:27with a sweet right hook to the jaw.
07:57Power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power,
08:23power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power,
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08:23power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power, power
08:27Oh, my God.
08:57Oh, my God.
09:34Oh, my God.
09:41Oh, my God.
09:42Oh, my God.
10:05And just a reminder, here in Atlanta tomorrow night, an historic evening, the all-women's premium live event Evolution gets
10:12underway at 7 Eastern, 4 Pacific, exclusively on Peacock.
10:16But now it is time for our main event on Saturday night's main event.
10:27The following contest is scheduled for one fall, and it is for the World Heavyweight Championship!
10:42Introducing first, the challenger, from Atlanta, Georgia!
10:49Weighing in at 270 pounds, WWE Hall of Famer, Goldberg!
11:10And his opponent, from Vienna, Austria, weighing in at 250 pounds, he is the World Heavyweight Champion, the ring general,
11:26Goldberg!
11:30From a humble beginning in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a massive star on the Georgia Bulldogs football team,
11:38to a professional football career, to a professional football career, to the summer of 1997, and the start of a
11:44professional wrestling career, and a 173-match undefeated streak, which included the biggest win of his career,
11:52nearly 27 years ago to the day, when Goldberg in Atlanta, Georgia, defeated Hulk Hogan for the WCW Championship, to
12:02multi-world titles in WWE.
12:04This is it, the final time we witness the awesome intensity, the power, the greatness, that is Goldberg!
12:12Goldberg, lost a class of generations of styles and legacies!
12:20An important note as well!
12:23Goldberg! Goldberg! Goldberg! Goldberg! Goldberg! Goldberg!
12:36The official in this match is the veteran Charles Robinson, the man who has refereed hundreds of matches in the
12:43career of Goldberg,
12:44including the historic night on July 6, 1998, when Goldberg defeated Hulk Hogan, Hollywood Hogan, to win the championship here
12:54in Atlanta.
12:55Charles Robinson on hand for the final match of Goldberg's career.
13:00So wait, early going, what does Goldberg have to do against Goethe?
13:03Well, I think Jesse, the body ventura, hit the nail on the head earlier tonight.
13:08Goldberg has to end this quickly.
13:11The longer it goes, the more this will favor the big Austrian champ.
13:16You don't get great gas mileage when you get up there in years.
13:20That is an athletic rule.
13:21And the longer this goes for Goldberg, those opportunities of victory diminish.
13:27Oh!
13:27All right!
13:30The top having a little effect on Goldberg who breaks out in that trademark smile and laugh.
13:37Gunther said he would not be intimidated by the intensity of Goldberg,
13:41but it's a different story when you're face-to-face with a Hall of Famer.
13:44Two men who are simply built forward.
13:47Whoa!
13:48Gunther now realizing perhaps the size of the task that lies ahead of him.
13:54What about the task that lies ahead of Goldberg?
13:56this is his first match in over three years his last match 2022 the elimination chamber here at
14:02wwe and goldberg taking the fight to gunther it's your hometown the family's here retirement
14:09hanging over you the end of a career you have to be a cold ruthless fighting machine in that ring
14:16but there's so much emotion bubbling inside of goldberg he has to keep that locked down
14:23the big heavyweight boxer coming out of retirement does he have that one one big blow left does
14:28goldberg have one spear left does he have one jackhammer left now you mentioned a little earlier
14:33that goldberg had said in an interview he has physical ailments one of which was that knee
14:39he's got a brace on the left knee well i thought that was absolute insanity you've got a prep thing
14:43like gunther who absorbs this kind of information immediately targeting that knee of goldberg and now
14:49the power of goldberg sending gunther to the center of the ring and the champ's in trouble yeah i'm
14:54impressed with goldberg in the early going that raw power coming to the floor and he's stalking
14:59gunther goldberg looking for a spear and gunther moving out of harm's way and gunther you see the
15:06the expression on goldberg's face realize that that may have been his opportunity that may have been his
15:11moment well that's frustration on goldberg you let that chance slip away you may not get another one
15:17against the competitor as good as well rounded as the world heavyweight champ gunther well i've been
15:22impressed so far with the the way that goldberg has taken the fight but again gunther's a bad knee
15:27now a chop to goldberg and goldberg trying to fight it off another chop by the champ and i'll tell
15:32you i've never seen anybody shrug off those chops quite like goldberg has thus far they're registering
15:38they're stinging but they're not dropping the big man and gunther sent toward the corner goldberg
15:43and goldberg through the barricade into the timekeeper's area gunther able to move out of
15:48harm's way goldberg exploding the barricade with a spear and goldberg's in trouble could be a golden
15:54opportunity for the world champ gunther has turned his attention to the injured knee
16:04that bracer covering the left knee of goldberg gunther has been attacking that knee throughout the break
16:09yes he has gunther is precision and discipline goldberg is destruction in karmic and we saw that
16:17destruction against our barricade a few minutes ago and it may well have destroyed goldberg's chances in
16:24this match he hasn't looked the same thing goldberg trying to dig down deep final time in his career
16:28in the ring this time for the world title and his adopted hometown of atlanta and goldberg fighting back now
16:39goldberg's got a little bit left tapping into the energy of this hometown audience
16:44one last dance for the jump yeah right dance maybe over here right back to the knee
16:51as goldberg collapses in the ring well gunther just did his homework did his prep work and has executed
16:59almost from the word go tonight that feeling out process early was all goldberg but it's changed in a big
17:05way now yeah this match so far has been the blueprint of country throughout his career intimidate
17:11physically overpower
17:16trash talk
17:18goldberg here but that may be a major error
17:21from the ring general the flurry from goldberg not enough to drop the world heavyweight champion it's
17:27hard to intimidate the master of intimidation and the power five buster by goldberg on one good leg there
17:34is still fight and the former champ in the legend he's hurting he's stumbling but this warrior is going
17:43to go out on his shield tonight win lose or draw again the knee buckling as he used it to
17:50deliver a blow to gunther
17:51now the body shots in the corner
17:56gunther with a chop and another one the world champ exploding out of the corner goldberg is just so
18:02hampered when he gets on the offense he sometimes is not able to follow up a flurry allowing
18:09the ring general to recover but that may have turned the tide yeah that's why goldberg's got to keep
18:15gunther close the separation does not help him goldberg notorious for those heavy hands those heavy
18:21boots and throwing it all the way of the ring general yeah but goldberg heavily favoring the uh
18:27the injured knee and again gunther now and goldberg able to back body drop the champ
18:34just as he was locked in for that power bomb that gunther is known for and wait on the stance
18:40goldberg now oh no sparing the official charles robinson inadvertently as gunther moved out of harm's
18:49way oh god charles robinson once again taking the breath of a major attack there you're right completely
18:57inadvertent such was the nimble feet of the ring general
19:01and now gunther from behind right back to the knee of goldberg the officials down
19:07and gunther can do whatever he wants now and we're going to need another referee charles robinson will
19:13not be getting up from that spear and goldberg in trouble as gunther looks to rip the protective
19:19knee brace from the knee of the icon just tearing away at will now is the ring general looking to
19:26humiliate goldberg well not just humiliate him but destroy him damage him gunther has previously been
19:35about the sport proving he's the greatest on the planet this is something very different refusing to
19:42be embarrassed by the return of a former great in goldberg this is a statement from the world heavyweight
19:50champ goldberg one of the toughest men in the history of professional wrestling but he has a
19:56vulnerability and that of course the injured knee and now the knee is exposed as gunther begins to use
20:03the protective brace as a weapon there's no official out here to stop any of this goldberg clearly out of
20:10his prime physically but the mind the body the heart wants to fight on you have to respect now
20:17right to the back of the head of goldberg hope really beginning to slip away now
20:23of a dream ending for a legendary career
20:37and gunther now uh over toward uh that is bill's son gage his his wife wanders out there as well
20:44get your hands down get your hands down what you mean come on get your hands down
20:52oh gage's not going to take that he's over the barricade remember he was at the home of this but
20:56it
20:56all began in atlanta last year when gunther humiliated goldberg and his family here in his hometown
21:02well i think it's lucky for gage and our security were on the ball for once that could have ended
21:07incredibly badly for goldberg's kick now goldberg spear goldberg hit the spear goldberg hit the spear on
21:37jackhammer jackhammer and there's a new official john bennett rested in the ring but again the bad knee
21:44not allowing goldberg to go into the cover right away dragging himself falls into the cover shoulders down
21:51gunther kicked out at two off the jackhammer by goldberg oh my god
22:03gunther completely taking his eye off the ball thinking this was a parade getting distracted
22:08by goldberg's kid at ringside goldberg pouncing now the big one-two whammy with that jackhammer but the
22:17landing on that knee preventing the pin in time and a sucker with a sleeper the sleeper locked in on
22:23goldberg the sleeper's in goldberg won't tap but there's gonna have to pass goldberg out here
22:30goldberg trying to fight back grabbing anything he can but that is 16 deep and goldberg now fading
22:37goldberg is fading goldberg with one last gasp to break the sleeper goldberg fighting back
22:44lost to his belly gunther still with the sleeper locked in gunther's got it in good
22:50goldberg goldberg doesn't have anything left all that oxygen cut off the blow cut off and fading
22:55it's goldberg and goldberg is out got the retains
23:02here is your winner and still the world heavyweight champion the ring general
23:13goldberg goldberg and with that it's over a 28-year career one of the most dominant in the history of
23:20professional wrestling an icon who threw millions and carried an industry on his back
23:26for goldberg it's not who's next anymore but what's next for goldberg outside the ring
23:50made in georgia
23:54bill tonight it's all about you go right ahead first off i don't think i've ever lost here in atlanta
24:02so
24:03i do apologize for going out a little subpar
24:10i've got over a hundred friends and family that came in from all over the world
24:16and i just gotta say i cannot thank you all enough
24:23the fans in atlanta have been absolutely wonderful i love you i couldn't have done it without you
24:33so
24:34there you
24:35are
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