Ricky Starks thinks he got here off fairly properly in his notorious promo with Adam Copeland.
On the October 14th, 2023 episode of AEW Collision, Ricky Starks engaged in a confrontation with the WWE Corridor of Famer. All of it started when Ricky Starks known as him “bug-eyed” and insulted the previous Edge’s gown sense.
Adam Copeland then accused Ricky Starks of stealing his type from The Rock, earlier than calling him a “vanilla midget model of [The Rock]”. The road acquired an enormous pop earlier than Starks remarked that the insult despatched him “over the sting”.
Ricky Starks just lately appeared on Perception With Chris Van Vliet the place he mentioned the notorious promo with Adam Copeland. He defined that he thinks he’s truly a fantastic heel for getting Copeland flustered in the course of the unscripted change.
The previous FTW Champion added that Copeland calling him a vanilla midget was “one of many worst insults you possibly can say”, and doesn’t assume he got here out of it trying unhealthy in any respect.
“Are you aware what he known as me? He known as me a ‘Vanilla Midget Rock rip-off’. You recognize, that clip goes viral on a regular basis. It’s so humorous as a result of on the finish of it, I wished to say extra however for those who see me smile and say ‘Effectively, that basically despatched me over the sting’, I solely did that as a result of I knew that this was about to get off monitor.”
“Right here’s the factor about that. You would possibly as properly name me a fantastic heel. I hate saying and speaking like this however you would possibly as properly name me a fantastic heel as a result of I acquired any person so flustered on dwell TV that they stumbled and stuttered their means into one of many worst insults that you would be able to say. That’s so passé, so 2000. A vanilla midget? I may have hit him with the ‘I’m black, you fool!’. I may have however I didn’t”.
“Personally, out of all that, I don’t assume Ricky Starks got here out of it trying very unhealthy. It wasn’t me that regarded unhealthy in that complete scenario and so it’s what it’s.”
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