During an interview on The Ariel Helwani Show, Goldberg was asked if he suffered any injuries during his retirement match against World Heavyweight Champion Gunther on Saturday Night’s Main Event. The WWE Hall of Famer revealed that he hurt his hand and also revealed other physical issues he dealt with during his training:
“I’m not gonna sit here and do a commercial, but there’s no way in hell I could have done that without going to get the stem cells. Absolutely no way. The body that I’ve lived with prior to that, they couldn’t have accomplished it. So yeah, man, just I woke up and my hand was swollen. I don’t know what happened. I think I might have gone through who knows? Who cares.
To be able to get out of that match… Because of my knees, I got a bad knee and everybody complaints about, ‘oh, he’s limping,’ and yeah. But I earned the limp. And if I gotta go in with shoulder pads and a helmet and a knee brace on, I’m going in. But I’m going out like a warrior, right?
So yeah, my knee’s bad, my shoulder’s bad, but the stem cells allowed me, my neck’s bad. Stem cells allowed me to go in there and and give it my best at whatever age that I am. And I could not have done it. There was no way I could have done it without it. So I am an absolute firm believer. What a difference. Just unbelievable.
I worked my a$$ off. Completely changed my diet for 5 months. I’ve never done that before, never done that. And I did everything to set the stage for the stem cells to do their thing. And you know, I tried to do as much Muay Thai as possible without hurting myself. The reality is every time I went in there, I had to pull back. Had to pull back because I knew I was going to hurt myself and that’s the last thing that I needed.
I got 100 cc of fluid taken out of my knee a month ago. Just the day before we were gonna train, something happened to it and that wasn’t in the playbook at all. So I’ve been nursing this thing. Couldn’t do legs for three weeks, couldn’t do cardio for three weeks, couldn’t kick. So there’s so much to deal with. But it was fun. I had a great time, man. I had a great time.”
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