Ricky Starks doesn't think he looked bad.
Ricky Starks has been involved in plenty of memorable moments during his time in AEW. One of them came on the October 14, 2023 episode of AEW Collision, as he went back and forth with Adam Copeland on the microphone. Starks called Copeland bug-eyed and took some shots at him. Copeland fired back by saying that Starks was a "vanilla midget rip-off" of The Rock, and Starls answered by saying that the line sent him over the edge.
Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Ricky Starks commented on his segment with Copeland.
"He called me ‘a vanilla midget Rock rip-off.’ That clip goes viral all the time. It’s so funny because, at the end of it, I wanted to say more. I you see me smile and say, ‘That really sent me over the Edge.’ I only did that because I knew this was about to get off track. Here’s the thing about that. You may as well call me a great heel, and I hate talking like this, but I got somebody so flustered on live TV that they stumbled and stuttered their way into one of the worst insults you can say that is so 2000. A vanilla midget? I could have hit him with the, ‘I’m black, you idiot,’ but I didn’t. Personally, out of all that, I don’t think Ricky Starks came out of that looking very bad. It wasn’t me that looked bad in that whole situation. It is what it is. People say, ‘AEW is where the unscripted promos are,’ and then someone is like, ‘Ricky went off-script.’ How? What did I do? What a great promo that was. There is not script. How is it possible to go off-script if there is no script to begin with? I didn’t say anything crazy. I just called someone bug eyes. What was wrong with that? How is that any different than calling someone fat? Bug eyes is very F-Tier," Starks said.
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