10 Surprising Wrestling Inspirations
2. Goldberg (A Waitress)
Goldberg's pro wrestling career relied as much on luck as Big Bill's intensity and natural aptitude for how to play a total f*cking bad*ss.
Lots of footballers don't make the jump after life in the NFL. Even more don't make it to the top level. Most of them weren't blessed with Goldberg's intangibles, but one of those has been having fairly kind fortunes.
Speaking on the Steve Austin Show just months before a 2016 WWE return that added a surprisingly great new chapter to a career that had lay dormant for a decade, Goldberg explained how the legendary "Who's Next?" catchphrase also came to be. He said;
“I’m in San Bernadino and we were doing TV tapings and this is before anything, right? I think it was dark. So I’m sitting down [at a restaurant] with one of the producers of the Love Boat and my brother, Steve. And we’re about to order and the producer looks at me and he says, ‘you know, you have to have a gimmick; you have to have a saying; you have to have a slogan; you’ve got to get people behind you’ and I said, ‘you know what? You’re right.’ You know where I’m going, don’t you? So the waitress comes up, and she looks, and she goes, ‘who’s next?’ and that was it. I swear to God, I looked at them, and I went, ‘that’s it! Who’s next?’ because after I beat the first guy, it’s open f*cking season! So it’s perfect! It’s plain, it’s simple, it’s straight to the point.”
Plain, simple, straight to the point - like a money-spinning Goldberg squash itself.