Eleven years ago, Goldberg slayed Christmas.

Prior to making his return to the ring at WWE’s Survivor Series earlier this month, the badass Bill Goldberg wrestled his then-final match back in March of 2004. Goldberg’s extended leave of absence from the wrestling business freed him up to take on a starring role in the 2005 horror flick Santa’s Slay, and reflecting on the film, Goldberg just revealed how it completely changed his life. No, the holiday horror-comedy didn’t turn Goldberg into a Hollywood superstar, but believe it or not, he actually met his future wife while dressed up as a killer Santa Claus!

Speaking with “Good Morning Football,” the former football star told the humorous story of how he and his wife met. We tip our hat to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing.

Goldberg reflected:

A Jewish director, a Jewish lead playing Santa Claus, killing people. There’s something funny about that. It was awesome man, I had a great time [filming the movie]. The best thing in the entire movie was not only did I kind of get to have a sleigh driven by a buffalo, but most importantly I met my wife on set. Three and a half months after we met I asked her to marry me, and its been the most wonderful time of my life ever since.

Digging deeper into the uniquely romantic story:

She was doing stunts. It was a strip club scene. I go into the strip joint, there’s like 50 naked girls there, and who do I come out with as my wife? The only girl who had clothes on. I’m Santa Claus, I come into the place, I kill a couple of people on my way in, then the bartender and a couple of patrons don’t like it very much, so they chase me throughout the bar. I hop up to the table, then I hop up to a swing, well she’s sitting on the swing, so I’m in an extremely precarious situation if you would look at the logistics of me hanging from the swing, she’s sitting on the swing, then I was very uncomfortable. And being ‘Goldberg’, I mean you’re supposed to be the guy, right?

So I’m sweating more than I am now, I couldn’t even look up at her and she taps me on the shoulder and she goes ‘are you alright, buddy?’ And I said ‘yeah, I’m fine’ but I couldn’t look up, obviously, and she says ‘usually before a guy and I get this close he buys me a beer first’. And I look up at her and I said, ‘I love you.’

You just never know where you might meet the one!