10 Weird Secrets To Wrestlers' Success

6. Goldberg - Famous Catchphrase Is Inspired By Waitress

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Goldberg and Steve Austin have a lot in common.

Both men are bald, wore black trunks, and rose to mega-stardom in the same year of 1998. Austin was a great worker where Goldberg wasn't, granted, but both men were also inspired to build their characters through the most mundane of circumstances: hot beverages.

Steve Austin's ex-wife urged him to drink his tea, lest it go "stone cold". This moment of serendipity spared him the fate of 'Chilly McFreeze', 'Fang McFrost' or 'Ice McCap', only one of which, somehow, is made up.

Similarly, Goldberg needed a catchphrase, and he found it when sat in a restaurant with his brother and a TV producer pal, who advised him that he needed a rallying cry. Just then, a waitress arrived at their table and asked "Who's next?"

It's a good job she said something cool and snappy, and not "Hey, you guys ready to order?" since Goldberg would have nutted a locker and pitched it.

Also, "Somehow got over despite being trained in the f*cking WCW Power Plant" also counts as weird, considering it was a platform on which for a sadist to indulge his kink masquerading as a wrestling school.

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