AEW has a big roster filled with talent, but unfortunately not everyone can be used on TV. It’s been a while since fans have seen Ricky Starks on AEW programming as he last wrestled on the March 30 episode of Collision.
During a recent interview with WhatCulture, Ricky Starks was asked if he could be making an appearance at the upcoming Double or Nothing pay-per-view, but he acknowledged that it’s not in his control whether or not he appears on the show.
“I don’t know. I would hope so. But I really don’t know. Things are…every time I always predict something to go some way, it doesn’t go that way, and it kind of just leaves me being like, well, we’ll just figure out and see. I really have no clue. It’s just a very interesting time, I feel like. I wish that I was on Dynamite, or I wish I was on Dynasty. I wish I was on these things, but I think at a certain point, just for my own sanity, I can’t go too crazy about it because the proof is in my work and my effort that I’ve constantly given. I’ve constantly given 1000% effort. So at a certain point, it’s not in my control. I think that’s the biggest lesson I have. Things are just not in my control, but the things that are, I try the hardest.”
While talking about his absence from AEW programming Ricky Starks made it clear that he’s not currently injured while saying that he doesn’t know why he’s not being used.
“I’m not hurt. Even that night [on AEW Collision], I specifically stated, hey, I’m not hurt. I was just being cautious about it because at the moment, I didn’t know what was happening, especially with this side of my body. So I wasn’t hurt. I was never put on an injury list or anything like that.
I have no answers. People ask me all the time, ‘Well, why aren’t you…’ I don’t know. I have no clue. That isn’t up to me. It does suck, obviously, to not be on TV, but the support in people online and people sending me messages is very, very sweet and endearing, and very encouraging, from that standpoint.”
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