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24th January 2017
08:44am GMT

"No. Not at all." He continued, "Here's the big thing - I'm no different from the guy in merchandise or the 15 vice presidents who got let go or the entire team in Canada that got shut down. I'm not the only guy who was let go by the new owners - well over a 100 people and good friends of yours and mine. "I'm the one being talked about because I had the high-profile job but I'm not going to sit here and weep because new ownership came in and I was one of the guys that got cut. I was one of the people - and there was a lot of good people - that got cut... "I watched everything around me be shattered. It took 15 years to build this wonderful and it felt like it was taking 15 minutes to destroy it."Goldberg was extremely stoic and noble during the lengthy interview and he said there were new job opportunities that he was looking into right now. There were 'no conversation, no contact' with UFC president Dana White after the axe fell, which Goldberg said was disappointing to him. This is surprising as Goldberg showed a lot of loyalty to the UFC in its formative years, most particularly when he turned down lucrative advances from the WWE. To sum up the family bond that existed during the UFC's Zuffa years, Goldberg told a nice story about how former owner Lorenzo Fertitta sponsored his son's baseball team for years. And, when it came to to say goodbye to his long-time co-commentator Joe Rogan after UFC 207, there were 'a few big hugs and tears'.
"There is one thing that will never be taken away," he declared, "and that's our friendship and the great run and the memories we've had together."
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