Referee Charles Robinson reveals the worst bump he ever took in a wrestling ring

During an interview with Chris Van Vliet, longtime referee Charles Robinson revealed the worst bump he ever took in a wrestling ring…

“Randy Savage elbow. But it wasn’t a ref bump. I was a worker then, but that was the worst bump I’ve taken the elbow from Randy Savage. He put me in the hospital for 12 days. It was Ric [Flair] and I against Medusa and Savage, and he came off the top with the elbow and Ric Flair wasn’t going to take the elbow from Savage, so they let Little Naitch. Cracked my sternum, collapsed my lung. So two hours later, I went to my room and I said, Oh, man, I just can’t breathe. Went to my room, two hours later, still can’t breathe. I called Jimmy Hart lifesaver. He called the EMTs. They came to my room, took me to the hospital, said, ‘Hey, we need to put you in the hospital.’ So that hospital, I won’t say what city, they released me the next day to fly home to Charlotte, which with a collapsed lung you’re not supposed to do that. So I went straight to the hospital for 12 days. But Randy Savage called me every day just to check on me.”

“I love taking bumps. If I could take a bump every week, I would. Easy bump, I like punches. I love punches. I love clotheslines. I mean, Kevin Owens gave me one back a few months ago, Elimination Chamber, which was freaking fantastic. I mean, that just came out of nowhere. My thing about bumps, you have some referees, they’ll say we shouldn’t bump like the wrestlers, but to me, we should bump exactly like the wrestlers, because they’re bumping like it’s real life. So we should bump like it’s real life. So that’s what I try to do.”