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Le lutteur Ricky Starks a fait ses débuts à la AEW en août dernier, répondant au défi ouvert du champion TNT Cody Rhodes. Tout juste après le match, Tony Khan lui offrait de rejoindre la compagnie, et il a également été contacté par la WWE.
Dans une récente entrevue avec Chris Van Vliet, Starks a révélé que la compagnie l’avait contacté pour lui offrir un contrat après avoir vu son match. Même s’il était curieux de voir ce que l’organisation avait à lui offrir, sa décision était déjà prise.
“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.”
En fait, Starks a ajouté qu’il avait reçu la possibilité de faire un essai avec la WWE en 2017 et a révélé également les raisons pour lesquelles il pense qu’il n’a pas été embauché. Il croit que l’organisation ne voulait pas vraiment d’un lutteur, malgré les éloges de l’entraîneur en chef Matt Bloom. Même si Starks n’éprouve aucune rancœur envers la compagnie, il croit avec fermeté que celle-ci a raté une chance en or de saisir cette occasion à ce moment-là.
“I don’t think I was close at all and I’ll never understand why. I love wrestling. I’ve never played any sports, I never did anything, I only watched wrestling. And I have immersed myself and become obsessed with it and I love it to death. So when I did the tryout in 2017 and I was told and saw the reaction when I killed it in the promo class and I was keeping up with everybody when we were doing the workouts and even Matt Bloom was saying how good of a job I did, I realized that they didn’t want a wrestler. They wanted someone who wasn’t passionate about it that they could probably make into it. And I still don’t get why and that was a time period where I kind of went crazy; I died my hair and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. So I don’t know why that happened and I thought every time that I went to WWE I was like ‘This is going to be it. This is how I get in’ and it wasn’t and that’s fine. I’m ok with that.”
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