Charles Robinson Reveals He Faked Having a Broken Rib After Goldberg Spear

Back in July, Charles Robinson took a spear from Goldberg on WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event, then later claimed he suffered a broken rib. He shared an x-ray of the alleged injury and thanked Goldberg. In an interview with Chris Van Vliet for Insight, Robinson revleaed that he faked the injury. Here are highlights:

On the worst bump he’s ever taken: “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.”

On faking a rib injury after a Goldberg spear: “I mean, normally he picks you up, lays you down, nice and soft. He went right through me. [And he cracked your rib?] Well, no, my girlfriend and I were in the movie. I said, What can I do to put this over to make Goldberg feel good. I said, Hmm, there’s an image of a broken rib online, so I just posted that. I called him to tell him what I was doing. He goes, ‘That’s a great idea.’ So he didn’t mind. I was sore, seriously, for about 10 days, coughing and stuff. They can’t do anything about a rib anyway, so why go get it checked?”

On his Ric Flair fandom: “Back in high school, we actually had a talent show when I was in the ninth grade, my brother was Ricky Steamboat, I was the Nature Boy. We had a hair versus hair match. I had a bathrobe, the ugliest bathrobe my mom had. I lost the match, but I didn’t lose the hair. I took the scissors and punched him in the head. Talk about having heat for about six months at school. That was fantastic.”