Ricky Starks changes the game.
During GCW Dream On, Ricky Starks came down the escalator, with a Louis Vuitton bag in hand, in the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and interrupted Broski Jimmy, who was trying to introduce Matt Cardona. Starks then got on the microphone and issued a statement about his career.
He spoke about being nervous the night that he defeated CM Punk to win the Owen Hart Foundation Memorial Cup Tournament because he didn't know if people would care, and they proved him wrong. He also said they proved him wrong by showing how much they cared at that moment when he came down the escalator. He proclaimed that he was 34 years old and healthy and that he would be damned if he was going to be frozen out or sit around and let his career dwindle.
He said he was going back to where he started from in the very beginning and was starting with GCW and thanked people for supporting him wholeheartedly. He finished by saying that he was always going to be the man because he is "Absolute Ricky 'Fuckin'' Starks. He delivered another Spear to Jimmy Lloyd, picked up his Louis bag, and split the scene.
Ricky Starks has arrived in GCW --#GCWDream
— GameChangerWrestling (@GCWrestling_) November 23, 2024
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Matt Cardona then called out Ricky Starks for "whining" despite getting a check every week.
After Cardona beat Manders with the help of John Layfield, it was announced that Cardona would face Starks at GCW Highest in the Room on December 14.
GCW Highest in the Room 3: Ricky Starks vs. Matt Cardona!
— Robert DeFelice (@dudefelice.bsky.social) November 23, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Ricky Starks has been employed by AEW since 2020. His last match, so far, under that company's banner took place on the March 30 episode of AEW Collision where he and Big Bill lost to Dante Martin and Darius Martin.
Fans can read Tony Khan's most recent comments on Ricky Starks' status with the company here.
