Ricky Starks Responds To Claims That He Went Off Script During Awkward Promo With Adam Copeland

Adam Copeland officially joined the All Elite Wrestling roster last year and he quickly threw himself into the madness. The WWE Hall of Famer started crossing paths with many familiar faces in AEW and in October of 2023 he came face to face with Ricky Starks in the ring.

Things seemingly got tense during the exchange when Ricky Starks called Copeland “bug eyed” which prompted Copeland to accuse Ricky Starks of ripping off The Rock.

Starks has been absent from AEW programming for some time now, but he recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet about his perspective on his promo with Adam Copeland that still gets talked about to this day.

“That clip goes viral all the time, and it’s so funny because at the end of it, I wanted to say more but if you see me smile and say ‘Oh, that really sent me over the edge,’..I only did that because I knew this thing was going to get off track.”

“You might as well call me a great heel because I got somebody so flustered on live TV that they stumbled and stuttered their way into one of the worst insults that you could say, that’s so passe, so 2000. A vanilla midget?”

“Personally, I don’t think that Ricky Starks came out of that looking very bad, you know what I’m saying? I think it wasn’t me that looked bad in that whole situation and so it is what it is.”

“There was no script. Ricky Starks going off script? How is that possible if there’s no script to begin with? So to speak. I didn’t say anything crazy. I just called someone bug eyes. What’s wrong with that? That’s like, how is that any different than someone calling someone fat? Am I missing the point here?”

H/T F4Wonline.com