This past Saturday at The Big Event Entertainment × Sports Expo held in the Suffolk Credit Union Arena in Brentwood, New York, wrestling fans lined up for autograph signings with legends like Sting, The Great Muta and Bill Goldberg among others.
However, what should have been a smooth celebrity-meet-and-greet turned into a public dispute with one vendor, K & S Wrestlefest, over Goldberg’s alleged failure to complete a private signing session.
K & S Wrestlefest had promoted a private autograph signing session with Goldberg, charging fans $80 for an item to be signed and then mailed to them. But the vendor later announced via Facebook (a post which has since been deleted) that the signing “did not happen.” They wrote:
“Unfortunately Goldberg PRIVATE Signing did not happen.. We had all our items laid out ready to sign as Goldberg was doing another Private for another vendor. After he was done, he got up and said he was done.. He walked out past our stuff, and left.. We are all super disappointed, and frustrated… My apologies to all…”
In response to the allegations, The Big Event Entertainment × Sports Expo promoter, Tom Unger, disputed the claim and offered a different version of events in comments on a Facebook post:
“No he wasn’t. He signed for the fans for 5hrs straight.. Ken (K & S Wrestlefest) wasn’t guaranteed anything. I told him if we had time we would get your items done.. He shouldn’t be posting this all over like the victim. This was my deal and my customers come first. Shouldn’t take mail order from all you not knowing if it was going to get done.”
The fake Bob Holly X account tried to stir up controversy regarding this situation by tweeting the following:
“I never refused any fan of my time in public, unless I was eating. Airport, hotel, wherever. Vince McMahon’s edict to us was to always do right by our fans. Certain individuals think they’re over. In reality, they’re miserable, ungrateful, frail little wimps who’ll never change.”
It should be noted that Bob Holly aka Hardcore Holly doesn’t have any social media pages, and this fake Bobby Holly account previously used to be a fake Sid Eudy account, which the owner renamed to Bob Holly after Sid’s death. Since the account has 68K followers, a lot of fans still continue to get fooled by the tweets.
