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Hi! Good to see you.
It's been since Saudi, huh?
Yes. Oh, my god.
Hi! Lita, you remember Gage?
Of course.
See Goldberg bringing his son, Gage,
into the ring to celebrate.
And what a moment for Goldberg and his family!
It's hard to not say those things like,
"You're getting so big!"
No, I know. I know. I'm so ...
It's too obnoxious. I resisted but ...
They come with the territory,
especially when you have a 16-year-old that's a Goldberg.
So you know he's going to change exponentially
from month-to-month.
So seems like it was just yesterday when he was doing
his homework backstage right before they called him out.
Exactly. My name is Gage Goldberg.
I'm the son of Bill Goldberg,
and I've been in the ring a couple times with him.
Gage! In the Hurt Lock!
And I got choked out by Bobby Lashley.
He's out! This is unbelievable!
It shows that he has no nerves, and I do.
So I guess you were born the cool, calm and collective one.
I'm just ... Yeah.
Someone has got to be, right?
Exactly.
Someone has got to chill this guy out sometimes, right?
Yeah, look at his face. I know.
So what's going on? What are we doing?
We're trying to get some tangible pieces
for the fans to see firsthand. I know sometimes in the moment
we don't realize these things are important and maybe ...
Like me giving my gloves away my last match
and not understanding that I might want them in the future?
We'll work on that.
So, yeah, I didn't know if you had anything from your career
that we could kind of take a little walk down Memory Lane.
I would imagine there's a couple things
probably hidden in the bowels of this home.
It is a weird thing I've been having that,
tracking down these items, and I remember the moments,
but then touching the things, it does ...
Immediately gives you a connection.
Yeah. That jacket from your debut, I think,
would be the piece that everybody would remember.
Motorcycle style ...
It was a Harley Davidson jacket.
I think if we look hard enough,
we might be able to uncover that.
Let's see what we can find. Let's go.
I'm already walking down Memory Lane.
Mid-jackhammer right here.
Halloween Havoc, Sting, the guy who made me who I was.
Sting was instrumental in bringing me into WCW.
He didn't do it actively. His presence made it happen.
And Goldberg sprints.
Sting didn't even know what hit him.
We moved in about 3 years ago,
but as you can tell, we haven't fully moved in
because there are boxes everywhere. Okay.
I know he's my dad,
but then sometimes you can go back,
and you can see how cool he was in his younger self
and how big he was. It's really cool.
That's Christmas stuff, and I'm Jewish,
so my stuff wouldn't be in there.
And another container over here, let me check in here.
We can all picture that Harley jacket
that he was marching down to the ring in.
It would be a great representation of his career
and his legacy.
The chances of me loaning that jacket out
are probably pretty slim, if we find it.
We got a box with a jacket in it.
Means a lot to me,
and I don't trust anybody with any of my stuff.
We're going to have to wait and see on that one.
Okay. Talk about Memory Lane, Tulsa Edison letter jacket.
Football means everything to me.
Yeah.
That's who made me who I was,
and this was the beginning of a journey.
The only thing I ever wanted to do
was play professional football,
and nothing else came into the equation.
I was fortunate enough to play for a short period of time.
Then I got hurt.
And then I segued into wrestling.
I think it was my destiny.
The success instantly at WCW was overwhelming,
but I already had been in the world of professional football.
I was prepared.
I was extremely lucky to be in that situation,
and I wanted to utilize what I had worked on my entire life.
Yeah.
That was the ferocity and the ...
Explosions, right, in football?
Yeah, an average play in football is 18 seconds.
Yeah.
So you've got to go from a docile person to Godzilla
and back again every 18 seconds,
and so I wanted to encapsulate what happened
in that short period of time and do it in a wrestling ring.
When they'd knock on my door,
I'd headbutt that door as hard as humanly possible.
There he is!
And after that I'd open the door, and I was to the ring,
and I would eat somebody, and then I'd come back.
Yeah!
Oh, he went down quick.
Goldberg, who just arrived to the arena,
has taken Jericho apart.
Guess what?
I got my right hand on it. We found it.
The orange stripe, yes! Gosh!
Look at that!
So this was the WWE debut.
Yeah, you spoke a minute ago about holding these things
and the feeling you get.
I just kind of got one. It was like a flashback.
Walking through my pyro and seeing Rock in the ring,
and it was my debut at the WWE.
It brings back some weird memories.
Mm-hmm.
It does, just when I look at it and touch it.
It's a conflicting time in my life.
Oh, is that so ... Look at him!
And Goldberg taking down The Rock!
Oh, my god!
I wanted to be there for the fans,
and I felt like I was sleeping with the enemy.
I will always feel like I was from WCW.
I also feel like I finally became a member of the WWE.
Yeah!
Goldberg has said The Rock is the next victim.
Rock was a huge deal at the time.
Rock!
He was a football player like myself.
I respected that exponentially.
Is Rock all right?
Goldberg may have broken The Rock in half with that Spear!
I've got some good memories in that jacket.
I got the first taste of Rock's blood wearing that.
Yeah! The Rock is next!
I know that fans will remember that day.
Would you be open to let fans see it.
I never thought this connection would resurface
the way that it just did,
but I'll reserve my answer for a couple minutes on that.
There's only one debut jacket.
I haven't said no.
Okay, fair.
The memory that holding that jacket evoked in my mind
was going through the pyro and walking down the ramp.
Those are the times when I can be me,
and I have to turn into Godzilla in 30 seconds.
I absolutely would love
if the fans could reconnect with you
and this chapter and your debut if you would be open to ...
You know how much I love you, Lita, right?
I respect you exponentially and, because of that reason,
I think we should let the fans get another look at this.
That's so cool. They're going to be so stoked,
and I'm so appreciative for this.
This is such a unique piece.
Well, you're very welcome.
You and Booker and Mick mean a lot to me.
You really do.
Thank you so, so much.
I know that it'll be in good hands.
Imagine the wrestling world
with no past historical artifacts.
I wouldn't for a million years want to deprive a fan
that was wanting to experience a piece of that
by withholding my own gear.