WWE Posts Goldberg’s Full Retirement Speech Following 7/12 WWE SNME Show

Saturday’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show in Atlanta, Georgia featured Gunther defeating Goldberg to retain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in Goldberg’s retirement match. This match was notable for NBC going to an ad break right near the end of the show after the match and when it returned, Goldberg began to give a retirement speech that was quickly cut due to NBC’s hard out for the show.

WWE posted the full post-match segment featuring Goldberg’s retirement speech and Cody Rhodes appearance and speech that was cut off from the show’s broadcast.

Goldberg’s retirement speech:

“Every time I step in this ring, it’s with every one of you with me. All these kids, it’s the reason why I did what I did. I grew up wanting to be a professional football player. I was lucky enough to play at the University of Georgia. Go Dogs! I was lucky enough to play for the Atlanta Falcons. And I was lucky enough to beat Hogan in front of 45,000 of y’all. I’ve never thought about this moment because I never thought it would come. But I couldn’t have done it without you. Each and every one of you ...

Treat everybody with respect. Treat everybody the way you want to be treated. Black, green, purple, Christian, Jewish, I don’t give a damn. You treat every single human being with respect. And if I did anything in my career, I honored that. And I try to pass that down. And every single human being in this ring is of the same character. Because if I let them stay in the ring with me, that’s who they are …

And this goes out to my father-in-law who passed away last week. This goes out to all the flood victims 30 miles from our house in Texas, North Carolina, everywhere where people have been negatively affected. And the one thing that I’ve learned is that you’re never too good to lend a helping hand.

And again, treat everybody with respect. This can be a really crappy world if you let it. But if you stand up and you put your damn foot down and you lead by example, then it’s going to be one hell of a ride. And I want every one of you to take that ride with me.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com