While No Malice was proving that guys in their 50s can still go, Bill Goldberg was forced to compete in a lengthy, bloated match that did not play to his strengths. It wasn’t a “bad” match between Goldberg and Gunther, but there’s something wrong with Goldberg wrestling through a commercial break. There’s a certain air of “that’s it?” to the end of Goldberg’s legendary career. 

Goldberg retiring on a show that only exists to steal oxygen from the 7-hour AEW All In PPV just feels like a mistake, especially now that all has been said and done, and Goldberg’s retirement feels like an afterthought. The retirement of a WWE Hall of Famer probably shouldn’t have had me thinking “Oh yeah, I guess this is happening today, too,” and yet here we are. I love Goldberg. I love Gunther. I love that “Oz” star Chuck Zito got to be part of Goldberg’s entourage while wearing a t-shirt his own picture on it. It was still very hard to care. It was a long weekend of wrestling. Goldberg could’ve let Lesnar retire him in 2017. He could’ve let Reigns retire him in 2022. He instead went out on a show that felt like a hangover to most fans.