AEW's Ricky Starks Talks CM Punk, WWE "insulting intelligence", Hook, And More!
WrestleTalk Podcast
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🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Luke Owen sits down with AEW's Ricky Starks!
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| 0:00.0 | Support WrestleTalk! |
| 0:01.8 | Give us a subscribe! |
| 0:03.0 | Hello and welcome to this very special edition of the WrestleTalk podcast. |
| 0:32.9 | I am Luke Owen D. A. D. and we are joined today by none other than AEW style your FTW champion, |
| 0:43.3 | absolute Ricky Starks. |
| 0:46.1 | How on earth are you on this fine, fine Monday morning? |
| 0:49.7 | I'm actually doing really well. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm very excited for this week. |
| 0:53.9 | I feel like this week is a huge, huge deal. |
| 0:57.7 | We have a banger of a dynamite coming up as well as rampage this week for AEW, so I'm ecstatic. |
| 1:06.7 | It must be an incredible time for all elite wrestling at the moment. |
| 1:10.7 | I think a lot of people are talking about within two weeks of each year that you had the debut as a punk, |
| 1:15.7 | Paul Danielson, Ruby Soho. |
| 1:18.7 | There was actually a report from PWInsider just last week that morale backstage is at its highest. |
| 1:24.7 | It's ever been in all of the wrestling. |
| 1:26.7 | I just wanted to ask how have you found the backstage environment just for the last few weeks? |
| 1:32.7 | I think he got that from me because I mentioned how punk was the big morale boost. |
| 1:38.7 | Dude, it's great. |
| 1:40.7 | It's a cool, electric feeling backstage just for the fact that there's a lot of great things that are happening for the company that's moving so fast. |
| 1:48.7 | I think the new addition of our roster members has helped out quite a bit. |
| 1:53.7 | Everyone seems to be clicking on all cylinders now. |
| 1:57.7 | So yeah, I love being back there. |
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