AEW star Ricky Starks appeared on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, where he talked about a number of topics including attending the 2023 WWE Royal Rumble PLE to support his friend Undisputed WWE Champion “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes.
Starks said, “You know what’s funny about that? First off, yes, I did go see a friend of mine for his match. It was an hour away. Secondly, they caught me walking to the bus. Third off, somebody who worked at Alamo decided to take a video and screenshot and post it. I’m very respectful of wrestling traditions and the hierarchy, but I’ll be damned, the minute that I am disrespected, you do not get that back. A veteran was telling me, ‘You think a McDonald’s worker is going across the street to Burger King.’ ‘What?’ ‘That’s such a bad look on the business.’ We have veterans who do podcasts where they openly talk about the storylines they are in currently and how they did a match. They’re telling me that walking to a bus, on security footage, that is more disrespectful to the business than them being on a podcast and being like, ‘This is the idea we had about this current angle.’ Give me a break. Ya’ll are crazy. It was simply visiting a friend. I was only on the bus. I stayed on the bus. I wasn’t trying to cause any type of issues. The whole purpose was, I was walking to the bus so I wasn’t seen by anybody.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
