Knox looks back on his time with Lucha Underground.
There is a Lucha Underground-focused podcast titled Goin' Underground. The third episode of the show was released and it featured current AEW referee Rick Knox.
Knox was part of Lucha Underground for the entirety of the show's existence. As the conversation went on, Knox recounted some of the injuries he worked through and suffered while there. He got through a few tapings with a broken arm and there was one occasion when he suffered a broken collarbone.
"I came in -- I wanna say just a couple weeks before, I had got cracked in the arm by Roderick Strong at PWG. I think that was that time and so I came in (to Lucha Underground) with it, with the cast on and yeah, I was a little bit of trepidating like, oh my God, should I say anything? Should I just show up? What do I do? You know, I think I’m just gonna show up and kind of just say, hey! I’m here. And to everyone’s credit, they trusted my belief in myself that I’d be okay and I was. Everything worked out fine. I had worked with a broken arm before. It was fine. We taped so many episodes in such a short time, it looks like I have a broken arm the entire first season almost but, in reality, it was probably just the first couple tapings. Then, fast-forward to season four, yeah, I remember there was a lot of things leading up. I think several referees were supposed to run in, get bumped, this and that and so I was supposed to take the chokeslam from Mil Muertes and so I’m like, okay, well, that’s a rough one but, it’s up and it’s down. I can do this. How hard could a chokeslam be? Up and then down, you know? What I kind of forgot and this is stupid because I mean, I’d been working with the guy for the last... when Mil Muertes did the chokeslam, he went up and spun around and kind of threw you around so, I went up and next thing I know, I lost all sense of where I was. Didn’t know which way was up, which way was down. Didn’t know which way I was going and then landed so awkwardly that my collarbone basically cracked and I had a little pyramid sticking out of my chest there, and you know, quickly got rushed off to the emergency room and unfortunately missed pretty much the rest of the season. I think I came back, maybe just did some run-ins on the last couple episodes but that was about it. Kind of was done for Knoxy. Yup."
Knox was present for his officiating duties at AEW Double or Nothing. To hear a review of that show, head over to the Fightful YouTube channel.
If the quote in this article is used, please credit Goin' Underground with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.
