Rene Dupree Says Goldberg Dislocated His Collarbone With Flag Shot, ‘He Never Learned To Work’

It wasn’t an official match, but La Resistance (Rob Conway & Rene Dupree) did share the ring with Goldberg on the December 15, 2003 episode of WWE Raw. 

Goldberg had just lost the WWE World Heavyweight Title to Triple H in a triple threat match that also featured Kane at WWE Armageddon. In an effort to keep him strong, Goldberg decimated La Resistance. 

Speaking on Cafe de Rene, Conway and Dupree reflected on the segment with Goldberg. 

RC (Rob Conway): Do you remember our match with Goldberg?

RD (Rene Dupree): I try to forget it.

RC: We went over that match multiple times. The whole match consisted of us getting an entrance, him coming out, me meeting him in the entrance way and him kicking me. Going in, Rene getting on him, shoot, reverse, spear. Me coming in, him spearing me, him hitting me with the Jackhammer. Then, he was supposed to take our French flag and break it over his knee and they had a plant in the crowd with an American flag. Before we went out, I went to Magic, the guy who used to carry our flagpoles and said, ‘We’re probably going to need a new one next week because Goldberg is going to break this over his knee.’ He said, ‘he isn’t going to break that over his knee. It’s treated wood. It won’t break.’ Now, I have to make this decision to try and let him break it and look weak. Of course, a company guy, and for the business, I was like, ‘give us a weaker broomstick.’ I told you the exact match, everything that happened. It probably took hours to put that match together. The office wanted him to look strong because he had lost the championship. The other time, they had a bounty on him, and we tried to collect the bounty. We got bumped backstage on the concrete. We had to do two or three takes.

RD: He hit me with the flag and dislocated my collarbone. Each time he would [hit me], ‘Man, take it easy,’ but he just had one speed, ‘Go!’ He never learned how to work.

RC: I think that’s why he got so over. His stuff looked so real and is so explosive. It didn’t look like pro wrestling. It looked like football. An explosive athlete, you can’t teach someone to get over like that, it just happens.

RD: Guys like us, it’s our full time job. He never did house shows. The whole time he was with WWF, he did maybe one weekend of house shows.

RC: Yeah, he didn’t do a lot of house shows. When he did, he worked Hunter, then Hunter got injury, so it’d be Goldberg and Maven against Randy (Orton) and Ric Flair. Maven would sell the whole match and then Goldberg would tag in, do his moves, and win. If you’re over…if I had my choice, I would just do my offense and leave.

Goldberg did work a handful of live event weekends for WWE in 2003. He teamed with Maven at the September 2003 live events. 

Goldberg is currently a free agent and possibly putting together a retirement tour. 

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