Tony Khan thinks Ricky Starks is tremendous.
Former AEW World Tag Team Champion Ricky Starks has not wrestled since the March 30 episode of AEW Collision. He has confirmed that he is not injured, and there has been no word on his potential return.
Speaking with CBS Sports' Shakiel Mahjouri, Tony Khan was asked whether there were any plans for Ricky Starks.
“I really, really like Ricky Starks a lot. The last time we saw him here was in the World Tag Team Championship Tournament. He and Big Bill formed a great team, and they were the World Tag Team Champions. They had a great run, and it culminated in the last televised match of the legendary career of ‘The Icon’ Sting. I think it was a huge thing that Ricky and Bill, that their run culminated in such an important match, defending the World Tag Team Championship against one of Ricky’s greatest rivals ever in AEW, Darby Allin, and somebody else, Sting, when you think back, Ricky was part of Sting’s first match back in pro wrestling, and that began a journey that went from Revolution ‘21 to Revolution ‘24, three-year journey. We talk about five years of AEW, and maybe to me the most special part might have been that three-year run of Sting, what we were able to do to give him I thought the greatest sendoff ever in wrestling, and Ricky’s a huge part of that. Sting’s first match and his last televised match and Sting’s last-ever title win, these are all huge milestones, and Ricky’s a huge part of them. That’s only scratching the surface of all the great things Ricky’s done, and all the great matches he’s had with so many opponents up and down the card since he arrived here, and I think Ricky Starks is tremendous. I’d love to get him involved and back in AEW any time. He’s been a huge part of what we’ve done here for about four out of the five years," Khan said.
As of this writing, there is no word on when Ricky Starks will return to AEW.
Click here to see what Ricky Starks had to say about his absence from AEW.
Starks recently said that he would love to be back wrestling and doing something of substance. Check out his comments here.
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