The WWE Royal Rumble is always one of the biggest shows of the year and back in January Cody Rhodes punched his ticket to WrestleMania 39 when he won the 30 man Royal Rumble match. Cody was one of the key figures who helped launch AEW, and his friend Ricky Starks was spotted backstage at the Royal Rumble.
Ricky Starks recently spoke to Stephanie Chase about being spotted backstage at the Royal Rumble, and he emphasized how important it was for him to be at the event to support his friend.
“It was important to me because that’s my friend. That’s a guy who has helped me out through a neck injury. That’s a guy who had helped me out through my career, even before AEW, when I was an extra at SmackDown. This guy talked to me and gave me advice when he didn’t have to,”
“That’s what’s important. I don’t give a shit, and I want everyone who’s watching this to do this verbatim. I don’t give a shit if there’s some tribalism from the fans. I don’t care if someone from my company or over there thinks it’s a bad look. I don’t give a f**k. That is my friend.
“One thing about me is I’m genuinely going to be a friend no matter what, and if you ride for me, I’m gonna ride for you. So it’s important that I go there and see a guy who is ultimately on the biggest chapter of his career. It was important for me to be there because I would want the same damn thing.
“Like I said, I don’t care what tribalism happens from the fans, from the people I work with, over there, it was important for me to go and support my friend on one of the biggest nights of his life because that’s what friends do.
“If there’s one thing about me, it’s that I’m a genuine down-ass person that will ride for my friends, and nobody will question me for that. I refuse to let anybody question me. Or even try to give me any type of pushback on it. Because I’m a grown-ass person, I can do that.”
H/T Fightful
