AEW’s Ricky Starks recently spoke about his time spent in WWE doing “extra” work for the organization back in 2017.
Starks also commented on people asking if he had “retired” from wrestling during an interview on the Wrassle Rap Podcast.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
Ricky Starks on people thinking he’s retired: “I got a lot of messages asking if I am retired, and that s**t is hurtful dawg. That sucks to hear fans asking me if I am retired, you know because they don’t see me enough. I don’t ever want the sun to go down on me in that sense, you know what I am saying? I like doing commentary on Rampage, but I don’t want people to forget that I am still active, I don’t want people to think that I am just some young retiree because I am doing commentary.”
Ricky Starks on his time doing extra work for WWE: “I was doing extra work since like 2012. I don’t know which one it was, it had to be them seeing me so often that led to me getting that. But, I did extra work so many times to the point where I said, ‘there’s no point to me doing extra work anymore because they’ve seen enough of me. If they like something, they would have signed me by now, so I am done with this extra work stuff.’ So, I had the tryout in 2017, I want to say I did one more extra work after that. And that’s when I was just like, ‘yeah, I am over it, I am not doing that anymore.’”
Ricky Starks on being contacted by AEW for the TNT Championship Open Challenge: “It was someone else within the organization, I didn’t recognize the number. But they were just like, ‘hey, do you want to come to do this match, blah, blah, blah, open challenge.’ I went there thinking that this was a one-and-done because it was during the pandemic. So, I didn’t think that they were signing anybody. Then after the match was done everyone was like, ‘it was good, good job,’ then the day that it aired that night I got signed. It’s incredible.”
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