Ricky Starks sends a message.
Starks has been absent from AEW programming since March. He has confirmed that he has not been injured, and there has been no word on when he will return to AEW television. Starks competed at Glory Pro WrestlePocalypse, and while he was pulled from his GCW appearances, he is starting to make some appearances. Starks made his HOG debut at HOG Watch The Throne on January 17th, where his match against Mike Santana ended in a disqualification.
After the match, Ricky Starks grabbed a microphone and addressed the crowd.
"Every time I grab [a microphone], I somehow get in trouble. So I’m gonna say it as plainly as this, I cannot thank each and every one of you. I’ve been reading your messages, asking if I’m mentally okay, asking if I’m good, checking on me. You don’t know me, but that’s the thing about this wrestling shit, it don’t matter. We’re all a part of one thing. I have loved wrestling since I was seven. I told my mom I would buy her a house off of this, and damn it, I have done that, and I am close to giving her anything else that she wants. I don’t take anything easy. I take it the hard way. I take things the way that I want to. If the road ain’t paved with cement, guess what? I guess I’m putting on my construction hat, and I’m going to work. If you thought that I was somebody less than a year ago, guess what? You’re sadly mistaken because I have evolved to a man four years from today, and that’s saying something because a lot of y’all, a lot of y’all have not seen anything yet from me. With the last dying breath in this New Orleans heart, I tell you this, I’m gonna stay Absolute ‘til I d-i-e. You heard? You best believe that I’m gonna make sure I make a quick trip back here to Chicago," Starks said.
Ricky Starks is set to compete at DEFY Hundredth. More information is available here.
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