AEW Star Says WWE Tried To Sign Him Right After His AEW Debut

It’s no big secret that WWE and AEW have both been trying to lock down wrestlers over the last few years, and both sides have signed some talented people.

Ricky Starks is one name who ended up signing with All Elite Wrestling shortly after he faced Cody Rhodes in his AEW debut during an episode of Dynamite back in June.

Starks recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet about his decision to sign with AEW, and he noted that WWE contacted him the day he wrestled Cody Rhodes on Dynamite.

“The funny thing is, the day that I wrestled Cody I got a phone call from WWE saying, ‘Hey, we’ve been watching you and we wanted to bring you in’. I said, ‘Oh really? Oh ok. Interesting. Of all days.’ And so I entertained that conversation because I was curious but I think I knew already which decision I was going to make. And I had a very dear, great friend tell me once: you should look at the people who want to invest in you and not know anything about you as opposed to the people who only wanted you when they saw someone else having interest. So that put things in perspective and I don’t hold any ill will towards WWE but I really think they dropped the ball majorly on that. I’ll never know why and I guess I don’t care now.”

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