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Forged In Fire: Knife Or Death

Season 1 History Channel (*186) 20:15 Reality

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Bill Goldberg is as deadly as the blades being used on his reality series Forged In Fire: Knife Or Death (2018- current). He played pro American Football as a defensive tackle from 1990 to 1995 and since 1997 has more famously been a WWE and WCW wrestler. The 52-yearold comes from far more peaceful and humble roots though…

His late father Jed was an obstetrici­an before passing away in 2006, while his profession­al violinist mother Ethel is an award-winning botanist who breeds orchids and in 2000 created the Phalaenops­is Bill Goldberg orchid. While he’s never hidden the fact that he is Jewish, Bill says that he only recently realised how much more there was to his faith, explaining that “I used to see Sunday school as torture. You learnt to recite passages. I’m learning who I am religiousl­y these days”. He’s got a giant 10cm scar above his right hip – that’s from surgery after he ripped his abdominal muscles off his pelvis, the injury that forced him to retire from the NFL. Bill jokes that while he’s all brawn (135kg) and very little brains, he earned a degree in Psychology while studying and playing American football at the University Of Georgia. He quit wrestling in 2004 after the WWE writers refused to alter his storylines. Bill claims that he only got back into the ring in 2016 because his son Gage (12) wanted to see him work. When he isn’t home with his wife Wanda in San Diego, California or working on shows and movies, Bill also runs a power lifting gym and fight training centre in San Diego.

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