Ricky Starks On Tony Khan’s Reaction To Him Attending WWE WrestleMania XL

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AEW star Ricky Starks appeared on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, where he talked about a number of topics including attending WWE Wrestlemania XL and how AEW President Tony Khan was fine with it.

Starks said, โ€œYou know who else was in the box with me? (Dustin Rhodes). QT Marshall. Aaron Solo. This is not me putting them on blast. They were in the box. Fans have footage of me celebrating. There was no issue about that. There was no issue at all. Before I went, Tony (Khan) said, โ€˜Hey, itโ€™s okay.โ€™ There was no issue. If he actually didnโ€™t mean that, okay, I donโ€™t know. There was no issue with that and I still, to this day, donโ€™t see a problem with it. I got into this because I am a fan. I love professional wrestling. Regardless of where I work, Iโ€™m going to support people that I love and Iโ€™m going to support wrestling in general. I was there to watch Jadeโ€™s first Mania match and was extremely proud. I was at Mania the year before that and saw Cody lose. There is no issue with somebody being at another show. Jay-Z isnโ€™t going to go to a J. Cole concert? I remember seeing quote tweets about how I was dickriding Cody because I was there. If you took this situation out of the scope of wrestling, people would think itโ€™s normal, but supposedly, for some reason, it is so taboo to not be over there when you work here. Who cares? Weโ€™re all getting paid, arenโ€™t we? There are people at NXT who are at AEW shows, all the time. Never an issue. When we did the Forum, there was people from WWE backstage. Sure, they werenโ€™t photographed, but you think Iโ€™m going to tell a fan, who paid for their seat, to not photograph me up in the box seat? I didnโ€™t give a fuck, and I still donโ€™t. I didnโ€™t care about the Rumble thing or the Mania thing. Nobody is going to make me feel like a bad person for doing something out of the goodness of my heart. I wanted to enjoy live wrestling and see my friends wrestle live, and thatโ€™s what I did.โ€

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