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Ricky Starks says Adam Copeland “stumbled and stuttered” after getting “flustered” during their AEW promo segment

Aaron Rift

While speaking to Chris Van Vliet, Ricky Starks addressed Adam Copeland calling him a “vanilla midget” version of The Rock during the October 14th 2023 edition of AEW Collision…

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

Here’s the thing about that. You might as well call me a great heel, and I even hate saying and talking like this, but 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 passé, so 2000s, a vanilla midget? I could have hit him with the, ‘I’m black, you idiot.’ But I didn’t at the time. You know what I’m saying? I could have did that. I didn’t. Personally, out of all that, I don’t think that Ricky Starks came out of that looking very bad. You know what I’m saying? It wasn’t me that looked bad in that whole situation. It is what it is.

The funny thing is people say, AEW That’s where all the unscripted promos are. And then someone’s like, Ricky went off a script. Well, wait a minute. Hold on. How? What did I do? You know what I’m saying? I didn’t do anything. Yeah, what a great promo that was, right? There’s no script.”