Bill Goldberg is an American part-time professional wrestler and former American football defensive tackle. Bill Goldberg was born on December 27, 1966, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, into a Reform Jewish family.
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Bill Goldberg is the son of classical violinist Ethel and OB-GYN Jed Goldberg. He is of Russian-Jewish and Romanian-Jewish descent, with his Romanian great-grandfather immigrating to the United States from Bucharest via Ellis Island.
His father attended both Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. His parents later divorced, and his father died in late 2006. His mother is a flower breeder who named an award-winning hybrid orchid after Goldberg in 2000.
His brother, Michael, went on to own a music club in Aspen, Colorado. Goldberg had his bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in Tulsa and attended Tulsa Edison High School.
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Bill Goldberg is widely regarded as one of the most intense wrestlers of all time and was one of the most popular figures of the professional wrestling boom in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Following his first retirement from wrestling in 2004, he went on to work as a commentator for the MMA promotion Elite Xtreme Combat before it folded. From 2009 to 2011, he hosted 26 episodes of Garage Mahal on the DIY Network.
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