Why Ricky Starks Won’t Consider AEW Cold Shoulder As Punishment
Ricky Starks has finally opened up about his eight-month absence from AEW and admits he has no idea why he’s been frozen out by the company.
Ricky Starks hasn’t wrestled in AEW since teaming with Big Bill to take on Top Flight on the March 30th edition of Collision. At the time there were rumours Starks had suffered an injury, but he’s repeatedly denied that this is the case.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet, Ricky Starks has now opened up about his absence from AEW and said he’s been left confused by his extended absence from the company:
March was my last match. I’ve been home, I’ve been healthy. Never was injured. I did have a stinger. I got a stinger in that match against Top Flight in March. I got immediately checked out and everything was fine, but I was just concerned at the time. So that happened and then I was just home. That’s kind of where it’s been at. I’ve just been home.
It’s kind of a mindf*ck because I’m in my prime and it sucks when you’re on such a momentum, riding the wave, doing work and doing stuff, and then to just be at home for so long, you’re kind of like, whoa. It kind of throws it off.
I am not meant to be at home. I’m not meant to be a homebody in this current phase in my life. I’m not meant to be just chilling at home and doing not the thing that I’ve been busting my ass to do for the past 13 years.
Ricky Starks Has No Answers On AEW Future
Ricky Starks confirmed that he’s still under a contract with AEW but admitted he has no idea why he’s been left a home by the company for so long:
Beats me. I could have 1,000 theories about what’s really going on. The fact of the matter is that if I don’t have a definitive answer, I can’t just make up an answer for people and just assume. Would I love to know the exact reason? For sure. Do I have speculations about why? Absolutely. But that does nothing to speak on things that I speculate, does nothing for the situation.
So I think it’s just a matter of, it sucks, it’s been a very cold day here in Austin. It’s been a very cold day. May have been cold for the past nine months, not sure. But thankfully, I have a sweater, and I’m always ready to keep the warmth going.
Ricky Starks might be confused about what’s going on with AEW but claims he’s never thought of his time off as a punishment by the company:
I don’t think that’s ever crossed my mind of like you’re being punished, because that wouldn’t serve me at all to think like that. I would be depressed and angry. That wouldn’t serve me.
Ricky Starks will be making his debut in another company despite his continued absence from Tony Khan’s company. Starks was backstage at AEW Full Gear so there might yet be a way back for him in the promotion.