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New York Post
a day ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Goldberg's WWE retirement ride is about more than him as AEW battle revs up
Goldberg began his career as a major weapon for WCW in the Monday Night Wars of the late 1990s. He will end it as a major chess piece in the next great battle in the industry between WWE and AEW. The three-time world champion returned to WWE television for the first time since a cameo at Bad Blood in October to challenge Gunther to a World Heavyweight championship match at Saturday Night's Main Event in Atlanta on July 12 for the start of the 'Last Ride' of his career at 58. Advertisement The city is a special place for the former Atlanta Falcon as it is also where he had his most famous match against 'Hollywood' Hulk Hogan and won the WCW championship at the Georgia Dome in July 1998 on Nitro, when he was lighting up the wrestling world and buying Ted Turner's company another year at the top of the industry against WWE before its inevitable collapse. Nearly two decades later, WWE will bank on Goldberg's star power again as the likely centerpiece of a weekend of counter-programming against AEW's biggest show of the year, All In from Globe Life Field in Texas.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Is WWE Still Being Run by the Spirit of Vince McMahon?
Is WWE Still Being Run by the Spirit of Vince McMahon? originally appeared on Athlon Sports. WrestleMania 40 featured one of the biggest feel-good moments in WWE history. Cody Rhodes had finally dethroned Roman Reigns for the WWE championship. Triple H was now running the company. This was the beginning of a new era that would lead WWE into a prosperous and fan-friendly future. Advertisement Just over a year later, WWE has squandered much of that goodwill with the fans. The company is still making truckloads of money and is the clear leader in the pro wrestling world. But the public relations department seems to have taken an extended vacation, with several moves taking place that evoke the cutthroat spirit of deposed WWE leader Vince McMahon. R-Truth (Getty) When R-Truth announced on Sunday that WWE was not renewing his contract, many fans thought he must be joking. After all, he had just wrestled John Cena on Saturday Night's Main Event. Truth's fans and co-workers poured out their love and support for the beloved and versatile star, who had just spent 17 years with WWE. Then, the other shoe dropped. Carlito announced that he was also being let go, despite appearing every week on TV as a member of The Judgment Day. Truth is 53 and Carlito is 46, and they can't be employed as wrestlers forever. But the timing and optics are terrible. Also, with the release of Braun Strowman, Dakota Kai, and several other wrestlers last month, we seem to be back in the Vince McMahon days when wrestlers and staff members are expendable and dropped from the payroll just to please the WWE (now TKO) shareholders. Advertisement Another example of WWE acting like the old days its aggressive tactics in counterprogramming AEW pay-per-views. WWE scheduled three shows on the weekend on Double or Nothing and will do the same in July against All In Texas. When AEW moved the All In start time to the afternoon, WWE scheduled the Great American Bash head-to-head! It all looks bad. WWE management is not acting like the confident leaders of the pro wrestling world. Instead, they are putting profits before people and acting like they are scared of any real competition. We'll see if they can right the ship or whether they continue to waste the goodwill they have built since WrestleMania 40. Related: John Cena Should Face a Different Opponent at Saturday Night's Main Event Related: Will Ospreay Issues Unique Challenge to Released WWE Wrestlers This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 2, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'There is no such thing as redemption': Hangman Adam Page is ready to rescue the AEW World Championship at All In
It's been three years since 'Hangman' Adam Page held the AEW World Championship. Having since experienced the most drastic character transformation in the promotion outside of possibly Toni Storm, Page's journey back to the top has seen his story unfold as a champion who lost his confidence, a deranged madman, and now a veteran who scratched and clawed his way back into the spotlight. He points to life experiences — serving as the perfect dance partner in gruesome battles with Swerve Strickland, ending the in-ring career of Christopher Daniels, and everything that took place onscreen over the past few years — as pivotal in getting him back to the doorstep at the top of the mountain. Advertisement As a Day 1 original in the promotion, there's perhaps no better character to rescue the AEW World Championship from Jon Moxley and the Death Riders at AEW All In: Texas on July 12. And he feels he's never been closer. 'In the past three years since I've lost the championship, I've had a title shot before, probably more than one honestly. But this feels, for me personally, the closest that I've been to regaining that championship," Page tells Uncrowned. "And that's just a personal feeling within myself. Now is my time. Now will be my time to regain that championship. 'So I'm incredibly excited about All In, excited about the biggest show of the year in the U.S., in a freaking baseball stadium. The whole atmosphere, a cowboy riding into Texas to win the World Championship.' Advertisement Page's journey back to the top ignited in 2023 with a verbal and physical slap in the face from Strickland, kicking off what became AEW's hallmark rivalry of 2023-24. In a span of a year, Page had gone from losing the world championship to appearing on the pre-show ahead of All Out 2023. Page calls it a low point in his career and admits he'd lost sight of who he was. 'I was previously the world champion and I was opening the show, and there's no shame in that,' Page says. 'The desire for more than that, maybe [Swerve] was right a bit, maybe that had been missing. But ultimately what he went on to do was what lit a fire under me. And I wish that had never happened, obviously. But it did bring out something in me that I don't think had ever been out of me before.' Advertisement The rivalry with Strickland gave Page something to sink his teeth into. It renewed a sense of passion and purpose. Page and Strickland pushed each other to levels we hadn't seen before in an AEW ring. Page says he let the rivalry 'consume' him and he 'wasted two years focusing on the wrong thing.' That blind rage led him on a path of destruction, leaving Strickland's blood, the ashes from Strickland's burned-down childhood home, and the final three-count of Daniels' career in his wake along the way. Daniels represented more than just a locker room vet who Page was putting out to pasture. Page recalls wrestling Daniels more than a decade ago at a small independent show. Daniels was the first person he'd ever wrestled who was 'somebody' who had made a career and a name for themselves. Advertisement 'So the whole show was in a cage and we're booked on a Saturday night. We ended up wrestling on a Sunday night because the show went so long. There were a thousand opportunities for him to have been an a**hole, a thousand opportunities for him to be a grizzled guy who, in front of a couple hundred people, didn't need this. This was beneath him,' Page says. 'But he never gave me that sense that I was beneath him. That my time, was beneath him. And it was a match and an experience in life that I learned a lot from, not just as a wrestler, but as a person. And that's something that I've tried to carry with me.' Page says at the end of Daniels' career, he didn't treat him with the same respect he was given so many years ago. Advertisement 'And I think in the moment of realizing that, it was kind of a grounding moment where I've got to really look at who I am, and how I will shape wrestling, how I'll shape the lives of the people around me,' Page continues. 'I'd realized that for so long I had been a negative. I had done nothing good. And looking at the material accomplishments, I had accomplished nothing with that. Nothing. I'd won nothing. I had nothing to show for any of it, and I didn't feel any better about any of it.' That was the ultimate moment for Page to look in the mirror and change his path forward. 'It has been a lot more difficult than to just focus on the negative and to take it out on others,' Page says. Advertisement 'That was easy. This has been a lot more difficult. But it's been a lot more rewarding, not just professionally now winning the Owen [Hart Cup] and going to main event All In, but on a personal level it's been rewarding as well.' Page says he's been able to refocus in 2025 in a way that he hadn't before his rivalry with Strickland. And if there's any positive to take away from the past few years, it's that. 'While I can say that [Strickland is] one of the worst humans that I've ever met or encountered in any way, I won't take away his wrestling ability, his passion, his desire for not just pro wrestling, but for AEW,' Page says. 'So in some ways I'm appreciative of what I've been through and the ways that it's shaped me, as much as it has destroyed a large portion of my life.' Advertisement Page's journey has been relatively atypical from your standard professional wrestler. He's introspective, vulnerable, and has shown it's OK to express emotion and admit fault. He's the epitome of what AEW represents. Hangman Adam Page (left) and AEW World Champion Jon Moxley have a long and sordid history. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) (USA TODAY Sports / Reuters) 'Maybe it's not typical for professional wrestling and maybe that's good," he says. "Maybe it's good that some of the things that the people in AEW are doing are not typical for wrestling. Because we've seen wrestling before, right? Maybe it's good to see it through a new lens, to allow yourself to be vulnerable, and I think that is ultimately more tough. Advertisement 'I'm not afraid to admit if I'm wrong. I'm not afraid to admit fault, and I don't think that's a negative quality as much as anyone might want to paint it as one.' Page's return as the resident good guy isn't your classic redemption arc story. He simply doesn't believe in that, unwilling to accept that somehow the good deeds of the past few months make up for escalation of his rivalries that knew no bounds. 'I think wrestling fans can call the story that they've seen unfold in front of them, as it relates to my life, whatever they like to call it, whatever they like to see in it. But I don't like to put that label on it. I said a long time ago that there is no such thing as redemption. And I still believe that to a degree,' Page says. 'A lot of the things that I've done in the past few years, they can't be undone. So the only thing that I know that I can do is to try to be a better version of myself going forward. I certainly won't forget what led me down those paths. And all I can do is try not to go down similar paths in the future.' Advertisement As much as Page has tried to shift away from the violence that the past three years have brought him, it's quite poetic that he'll meet arguably the most violent man in wrestling today in Moxley at AEW All In. They've had their battles, including one of the best matches in AEW history at AEW Revolution 2023. Now the stage is set for another knock-down, drag-out brawl. 'It is ironic that I end up in this position where I may have to be at my most violent," Page says. "I know 'Mox' has got the Death Riders behind him, apparently now he has Matt and Nick (Jackson) behind him, Gabe Kidd behind him and God knows who else. 'So I know this is an uphill battle. Even without all those others, I know what kind of competitor 'Mox' is. I know how violent he is firsthand. So I know what it would take to defeat him. And I know it actually very personally, having done it myself. The timing is odd as I try to move myself away from that approach to wrestling to now need it.' Advertisement Page says the difference between the violence he's committed in the past few years to now is intent. The past two years involved violence born out of hate and frustration with no clear end goal. 'There's a clear end goal here,' Page maintains. 'There's an end to it. And the end is retrieving the AEW Men's World Championship from that briefcase. And that is where it ends for me. If I'm going to have to go back to that, I can go back to it now with a goal in mind and with a different outlook on its intent.' Page has been here before. But this time is different. On the grand stage of All In, AEW's biggest domestic show, he's up for the challenge. And there's nothing more appropriate than a cowboy riding into Texas to win the world championship.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Report: Potential Location For Goldberg's Retirement Match With WWE Revealed
Goldberg will hang up the boots later this year as he steps into a WWE ring one more time. WWE Hall of Famer Bill Goldberg has been hard at work this year preparing for one final match. This will mark the end of his almost three-decade on-and-off-again career. Advertisement When speaking with My San Antonio this week, Goldberg revealed his final match will take place 'down south' before the end of the year. While his opponent is still unknown, we might have a good idea of where his final match will take place thanks to a new report. According to Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp (via Fightful Select), Goldberg's retirement match is tentatively being scheduled for Atlanta. This is the same city where Goldberg won the WCW Championship for the first time against Hollywood Hogan at the Georgia Dome on Nitro. He also played for the Georgia Bulldogs in college and the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL. While it has yet to be officially announced, WWE has a Saturday Night's Main Event scheduled for July 12 in Atlanta. The same day as AEW All In: Texas. Fans won't be forced to choose however as All In is scheduled to air Saturday afternoon. Sapp can't confirm that this is the night of Goldberg's retirement match. However, he can confirm that he's being discussed to at least appear on that show. Advertisement Stay tuned to WrestleZone for more information on Goldberg's last match with WWE as it becomes available. READ MORE: New Details On Goldberg's Retirement Match, Who His Opponent Might Be What do you make of this report? Are you excited for Goldberg's retirement match? Who would you like to see him face? Let us know your overall thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below. The post Report: Potential Location For Goldberg's Retirement Match With WWE Revealed appeared first on Wrestlezone.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Launches $5 Million Gold Card on Ugliest Website You'll Ever See
The website for Donald Trump's green card alternative has arrived—and it doesn't look like they spent a dime making it. The site, which fields information for individuals interested in obtaining a $5 million 'gold card,' is entirely black—save for an image of the card itself. Green cards have traditionally looked similar to drivers licenses, but if Trump's mock-up is anything to go by, his gold card will feature his own face and his own signature on a piece of plastic that looks more like a credit card than a piece of government identification. At the top, the site says that it is 'an official website of the United States government.' Trump announced the site on Truth Social Wednesday, writing that 'thousands have been calling and asking how they can sign up to ride a beautiful road in gaining access to the greatest country and market anywhere in the world. It's called THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!' For months, Trump and his team have pitched the 'gold card' as a replacement for the EB-5 visa program, which gives foreign investors a pathway to permanent residency. But the market for the gold card would almost singularly consist of rich foreigners due to its enormous price tag: $5 million a pop. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed in March that, in just a few weeks after initially announcing the idea, the administration had already made $5 billion off the gold card. 'Yesterday I sold a thousand,' Lutnick told the All In podcast, claiming at the time that the program would launch a couple weeks from then and that Elon Musk was developing the software to handle applications for the pricy legal papers. Lutnick explained that American billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson was the brains behind the visa replacement and had shared the details of the 'gold card' with Trump over the phone. If there was an iota of truth to Lutnick's claim, then that meant that people from around the world were willing to hand over $5 million for little more than a promise.
