Ricky Starks has been absent from AEW television for quite some time. His last match was March of this year when he teamed with Big Bill to face Top Flight on Collision.
Rumors have spiraled about Starks’ standing in AEW. He hasn’t commented very much other than to say he wasn’t injured and was ready to go at any time.
Starks appeared at GCW’s Dream On show this afternoon and he had a lot to say.
Broski Jimmy LLoyd came to the ring calling himself the “Deathmatch Prince”. He demanded respect from the audience. He called American Dream a dump.
Ricky Starks’ music begins to play. Casually leaning on the railing, Starks came down on an escalator holding a Louis Vuitton shopping bag. On the way down, he slaps a kids’ hand who is going up on the opposite side of the escalator.
The crowd chants…Holy s–t! Holy s–t!
“What the hell are YOU doing here? Shouldn’t you be up the street and in catering? If you know what’s best for you, you’d get the hell out of here and go back to The Prudential Center,” bellows Lloyd referring to AEW’s Full Gear show tonight.
Starks DDTs LLoyd without saying a word.
The crowd starts cheering for Starks.
“I think everyone wants a statement from Ricky Starks. Well, the statement is I am standing right here in the middle of GCW ring and I’ve got a lot of things I want to get off of my chest,” he said.
Starks said fans have proven him wrong. They have accepted ‘Absolute’ Ricky Starks.
“Passion runs through my blood and I will be damned if I sit at home and I get frozen out! I will be damned if I sit at home and let my career dwindle at 34 years-old! I am healthy. I am god damn good looking and best of all I am a generational superstar! I do what I want! I say what I want! I dress how I want. If you don’t like that you can kiss my black ass!” declared Starks.
He said that he is returning to where he began his career, the very beginning: GCW.
“Here is a gentle reminder, Jimmy. I am the man! I am always going to be the man! And most importantly, I am ‘Absolute’ f—–g Ricky Starks!” he said tossing the microphone.
Jimmy tried to sideswipe Starks. Starks speared him before leaving through the crowd.
After Ricky Starks’ appearance. Matt Cardona came down to the ring. He is pissed that fans wanted to see Ricky Starks over him. The crowd starts rudely telling him to shut his trap. Cardona called Starks a coward for coming out when Cardona was in the back and leaving before Cardona came to the ring. Cardona says he has no sympathy for Starks because he got paid to sit home for months and months.
“I have been working my ass off for five years!” says Cardona calling himself “The Gatekeeper”.
