What Happened When CM Punk Met Robin Williams

By Andrew Pollard / June 7, 2022

Ever heard the one about the multiple-time World Champion, the legendary comedian and the punk rock frontman?

Speaking on the Wrestling Perspective Podcast, CM Punk has detailed a brilliant, bonkers story about how he briefly met Robin Williams at the home of Rancid’s Lars Frederiksen – and how the Second City Saint ended up on the receiving end of a Superfly Splash from the Academy Award winner.

As Punk explained:

“There was one time I was sleeping upstairs in Lars’ house and, I like to sleep, ladies and gentlemen. To this day, if I don’t have to get up and do anything, I don’t got to set an alarm, I’m a free spirit. Do you know what I mean? I don’t got planes to catch. I did a whole lifetime of that, so I just sleep until I wake up. And I was doing that at Lars’. I woke up because somebody had jumped on top of me while I was sleeping, and as I wake up and I turn around I’m like, ‘It’s f**king Robin Williams.’”

On how Williams decided to channel Jimmy Snuka, the Straight-Edge Superstar elaborated:

“This is the first time I’ve ever met Robin Williams and, I think, the story goes, he was just like, ‘Oh, the wrestler, he’s sleeping upstairs right now?’ Lars was like, ‘Yeah,’ and Robin being who Robin is, is like, ‘F** yeah, let’s Jimmy Superfly Snuka this mother**ker’. So he runs up and he splashes me in the bed. I wake up and I immediately think it’s Lars, so I just start charging after him. Halfway through running down the stairs, I’m like, ‘I’m pretty sure that’s Robin Williams,’ but I don’t give a f**k, I’m going to get this mother**ker now. I half-ass tackle him up and I’m airplane spinning Robin Williams.”

How did this encounter end, you ask?

“I just put him down and he’s like, ‘I got to go,’ and just f**ks off and runs away.”