AEW Tag Team Specialist Rick Knox

AEW Unrestricted

AEW

Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

AEW referee Rick Knox shares incredible stories from his 28-year journey in professional wrestling. He talks about his indie wrestling roots in SoCal and his long history with The Young Bucks, his legendary run in PWG, and his most memorable moments in AEW including Sting’s unforgettable retirement match and filming BTE skits! Rick also shares behind-the-scenes stories from Anarchy in the Arena, the reality behind being AEW’s “tag team specialist” referee, and how a surprise contract offer from The Bucks changed his life forever. Plus, Rick explains referee bumps in AEW, and reveals why persistence and kindness are the secret ingredients behind his three decades in pro wrestling. AEW Unrestricted is sponsored by Upper Deck. Get closer to the ring than ever before. Unwrap your favorite AEW wrestling trading cards and build your collection today! Visit https://UpperDeck.com to learn more. AEW Unrestricted video episodes available Mondays at 1pm Pacific on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ4e4Lb87XTzETPZyj7nZoJ4xPBjKdzgy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We about the party
0:01.1	AEDYW unrestricted, the
0:03.8	house now
0:04.7	We gonna turn it up,
0:06.5	up, bring the house down
0:08.2	Got that big space
0:09.9	Pump and make them bounce now
0:11.6	Flauses like they're bossing and the freaks are coming out now
0:15.3	AEW Unrestricted
0:17.1	The Official Podcast of All Elite Wrestling
0:19.6	I'm Will Washington.
0:21.2	She is Aubrey Edwards.
0:22.9	Don't forget, folks, that this podcast is sponsored in part by Upper Deck.
0:28.2	Yeah, we got these cards here.
0:29.9	We've got the cards.
0:30.7	And look, I've got the unified champion, Kazuchko Kata.
0:35.4	It's right.
0:35.8	You can collect your favorite wrestlers in 2025 Upper Deck AEW and start your trading car collection today. Unwrap, autograph, memorabilia, or premium tech inserts. Visit Uppardek.com to learn more. We love our sponsors at Upper Deck. I mean, look, I've mentioned before. I've got just a desk full of Upper deck cards. I could pull. You got to take a picture that and send it to me because you say that every week and I'm just like, I mean, like, I believe you because you've never scared me wrong. No, when I show you, you're going to be like, oh my God. Like, please clean, clean this up. Our sponsors would be very sad. Yeah, exactly. But look, they're all in perfect stacks. I just have so many. Look, I can pull Willow Nightingale from anywhere, right? I can pull Adam Copeland. I got Spurs Strickland. Current A.W. champion, hangman, Adam Page. Yep. Again, look, I can just pull Julia Hart. I can pull these from anywhere. Like, look at that. Just anywhere I've got cards, i can just pull julia heart i pull these from anywhere like
1:28.9	look at that just anywhere i've got cards i can just be like boom like ninja stars like a gunslinger
1:33.6	for trading cards yes exactly we have come off of quite a few major weeks in a e w we've had uh we've got
1:43.3	forbidden door coming up here soon we've got Forbidden Door coming up here soon. We've got some big
1:45.7	on sales coming up with Full Gear and World's End. And of course, we just had the big one in
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