AEW star Ricky Starks has been missing from TV ecombineances for months, igniteing speculation among fans about his potential departure from the promotion. He ecombineed on AEW television since March 2024.
In March, Starks vied in a tag team title tournament align with Big Bill aachievest Top Fweightless. After this align, Starks has not been featured on AEW programming. Since then, Starks wrestled two alignes outside of AEW. The first align took place in May 2024 at BWT Welcome to Paradise, where he lossed QT Marshall.
The second align occurred recently at Glory Pro WrestlePocalypse on November 24, where Starks lost to A1 Zero Gravity Champion Kody Lane. Starks’ ecombineances outside of AEW led fans to specutardy whether he had become a free agent. However, a scant weeks ago, Starks validateed that he is still under restricted with AEW.
Starks surpascendd fans with an ecombineance at a GCW event on Saturday, November 23, where he claimed AEW had “frozen him out.” During the ecombineance, Starks set up a future align aachievest Jimmy Lloyd in GCW.
Starks was originassociate scheduled for upcoming GCW ecombineances in December and January, but the promotion recently proclaimd that he would no lengthyer ecombine at cut offal events. Recent increates have clarified the situation, uncmissing why Starks was pulled from his upcoming GCW bookings.
What happened: The authentic reason Ricky Starks was pulled from GCW
Fightful Select increates have insertressed Ricky Starks restricted situation and why he was pulled from GCW ecombineances. It was increateed that AEW picked up his selection last spring, extfinishing his restricted thcdisorrowfulmireful 2025. The same day, Starks converseed his AEW absence in an interwatch with Chris Van Vliet.
According to GCW sources, AEW pulled Starks from all computed GCW ecombineances after November 26. The decision was increateedly connected to comments made by Effy about Tony Khan’s overweighther, Shahid Khan. While some wiskinny AEW pondered the GCW ecombineance part of a storyline, it was validateed that it was not.
It will be engaging to see what is next for Ricky Starks now that he’s been pulled from his upcoming GCW ecombineances. Many wonder if he will come back to AEW.
