Referee Charles Robinson was with WCW
until the bitter end. He experienced all the pain and agony of watching
a company he loved take its last breaths. In this interview, Robinson explains
what happened during the final days of WCW, talks about his experiences
in the ring as the Little Nature Boy and tells how a misplaced elbow by
Randy Savage put him in the hospital.
You will also learn:
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Who throws a harder worked punch - Tank Abbott or
Scott Hall.
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What it's like to suffer through a collapsed lung.
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His thoughts on Vince Russo, Terry Taylor, Kevin
Nash and Johnny Ace.
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How the Little Nature Boy gimmick was developed and
eventually killed off.
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Which wrestlers are his favorites in the ring.
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Working on the set of "Ready to Rumble" and how it
still pays off - sort of.
These topics and others are addressed by Robinson
only
in Wrestling Perspective #99.
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Why Robinson thought
Eric Bischoff was going to be his boss again instead of Vince McMahon:
"I guess just a day or
so before Vince (McMahon) bought it. Bischoff came in and went to the pay-per-view
in St. Louis and did some other things. He was running the show. I talked
to him and I was excited about what was going to happen. Then all of a
sudden, Bischoff's deal fell through and we're off TNT and TBS and Vince
McMahon is going to buy it. It was a total shock to me."
Why WCW did so poorly
at the end of its run:
"I don't know. I don't
have an answer. I don't think anyone has an answer for it. If they did,
hopefully, they would have tried to fix it. I wish I knew. Maybe it was
the wrong storylines and people didn't want to see those or things that
just didn't make sense. We would try things for a few short weeks and if
it wasn't working, we'd just forget that it ever existed and start with
something else. Maybe the fans wanted to see something completed and finalized.
I would have loved to have seen the Little Nature Boy gimmick finalized
in some capacity."
What Robinson did in
between his time in WCW and the WWF:
"I went from making great
money to nothing. It was hard. I was out building decks, doing manual labor.
(laughs) It really makes you appreciate what you did before because when
you have a wonderful life with so much fine, you lose track and you take
it for granted. You think it's never, ever going to end. When it does,
it slaps you in the face."
What it's like to be
on the receiving end of a Randy Savage elbow:
"I was going to kick
out of Savage's elbow, (laughs) but since he hurt me, I thought it best
to lay there. I just thought the air was knocked out of me. I rolled out
of the ring. Aysa helped me to the back. I went up to my room because the
hotel's right there at the arena and 45 minutes later, I still couldn't
breathe. I called Jimmy Hart. He came up to my room. He said, 'Let's call
the E.M.T.s.' They called the ambulance, they came and got me and carted
me away. I spent the night in the hospital and flew home the next day to
Charlotte."
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"Who Are These People?" - A
wrestling primer like no other. Think you know who's who in pro wrestling?
Guess again.
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"A Little Pasta With Your Kielbasa"
- The Phantom of the Ring looks at the life and career of The Mighty Igor.
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