Ricky Starks, who won the FTW Championship last month, is clearly excited about buzz surrounding All Elite Wrestling right now and the path it has been following.
In an interview with Alex McCarthy of TalkSPORT, Starks explained why he, along with the AEW locker room, believes that the company is turning the corner. He argued that AEW’s momentum is unstoppable, so the promotion should be viewed as competition to WWE.
“We’re all excited,” said Starks. So excited because it’s great to finally feel like we’re slowly turning the corner into the new phase of wrestling popularity, because wrestling is all cyclical. It has to come back around eventually.
“I think the sellout for the United Center, the sellout for Arthur Ashe stadium, this is all just like a snowball going down a hill. We cannot be stopped. We’re all just so excited for it because this is what everyone has been wanting and working towards. We just want to present the best product possible and to say that, hey, the other company WWE looks at us as competition? You damn right they do, because who else would they look at as competition?”
To elaborate, Starks stated that AEW is firing on all cylinders, and he argued that AEW’s success is good for the wrestling business because it offers fans a strong alternative to WWE.
“We’re making all the right moves, we got the ratings on lock; it’s just a hot time for us,” said Starks. “The fact that we’re still a start-up company and we’re going up against a tenured company like WWE, I think that’s pretty cool. “And it’s great for WWE as well because they have competition.
“We know that competition breeds better product, better wrestling; it brings out the best in anyone. If fans have an option to choose between AEW and WWE, if the wrestlers have the option to choose between AEW and WWE I think that’s great for the business as a whole.”
