Ricky Starks tells fans at HOG event: ‘A lot of y’all have not seen anything yet’
Ricky Starks addressed the live fans in Chicago after making his House of Glory debut on Friday.ย
HOG Champion Mike Santana defeated Starks via disqualification in the show’s main event. After the match, Starks cut a promo and told fans that many of them “have not seen anything yet” from him.
“Every time I grab this (microphone), I somehow get in trouble,” Starks joked to start his promo.
“I’m going to say this as plainly as this: I cannot thank each and every one of you from sitting over there, the meet and greet, from reading your messages, asking that I’m mentally OK, asking if I’m good, checking on me. You don’t know me from —-, but that’s the thing about this wrestling s–t is that, hey, it don’t matter. We’re all a part of one thing, right?”
Starks noted during the promo that his last few years in wrestling have allowed him to purchase a home for his mother, which was a lifelong goal of his.
“I have loved wrestling since I was seven. I told my mom I would buy her a house off of this, and God damn it, I have done that, and I am close to giving her everything else that she wants. I don’t take anything easy. I take it the hard way. I take things the way that I want to. If the road ain’t paved for cement, guess what? I guess I’m putting on my construction hat and I’m going to work.”
“If you thought that I was somebody less than a year ago, guess what? You’re sadly mistaken because now I’ve evolved to a man four years from today. And that’s saying something because a lot of y’all, a lot of y’all have not seen anything yet from me.”
“With the last dying breath in this New Orleans heart, I tell you this: I’m gonna stay absolute till I D-I-E.”
Friday’s HOG event was Starks’ first match since a Glory Pro event in St. Louis on November 24. It’s been close to 10 months since he’s wrestled for AEW. His last match took place on the March 30, 2024, episode of AEW Collision.
In November, Starks made a surprise appearance at a GCW event and appeared to be building an angle in the promotion with Matt Cardona. However, AEW later pulled Starks from any future GCW appearances.
Our own Dave Meltzer has since reported that comments GCW’s Effy made on his podcast about Shad Khan led to Starks’s removal from the show.
“While nobody officially said anything, the strong belief, actually confirmed to us, is that it was the comments from Effy of GCW on Tony Khan, particularly a line he said about Khanโs father paying him to stay away, led to Khan feeling he didnโt want to do business with GCW,” Meltzer wrote.