Charles Robinson: WWE's GOAT Referee On Brutal Bumps, His Viral Ramp Run, Iconic Matches, John Cena, Cody Rhodes

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Chris Van Vliet

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4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Get tickets for Insight LIVE in San Diego on November 28! https://cvvtix.com Charles Robinson (@WWERobinson) is a professional wrestling referee with WWE. He sits down with Chris Van Vliet in Indianapolis, IN to discuss his legendary career in both WCW and WWE, refereeing some of the biggest matches of all time, being the first WWE referee to ref in 4 different decades, his viral run at WrestleMania, taking a spear from Goldberg, a shoulder block from John Cena, getting to work with Ric Flair as Lil' Naitch, being hospitalized after getting bitten by a bat, the worst bump he ever took, and more!

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0:00.0	Chris Benfleet.
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0:19.0	All right.
0:20.9	Welcome back to another one here on Inside.
0:24.1	It's me, the three numbers in the back of your credit card, CVV, Chris Fanfleet.
0:29.1	Thank you for hitting play on this episode.
0:31.0	And thank you, as always, for helping to make Insight the number one wrestling podcast on the planet.
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0:42.0	Tuesday and Thursday and Ask CVV every single Friday.
0:47.6	The next Insight Live is happening in November to kick off Survivor Series weekend in San Diego.
0:55.4	If you've been to one of these before,
0:59.1	if you're a real, real, real one,
1:01.4	you know how fun these shows are.
1:02.9	And if you've listened to one of these episodes,
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1:07.0	So I hope to see you there.
1:15.8	Friday, November 28th, grab your tickets now at CVVTix.com. That's CVVTiX.com.
1:23.8	What a huge show we have today. We have the great Charles Robinson with us. And if you're making a referee Mount Rushmore, there's no question that Charles is on it.
1:28.7	He debuted in 1995.
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