Professional wrestling star Ricky Starks dismisses ongoing speculations that an alleged incident involving a drunken brawl following his Owen Hart Cup victory in 2023 spurred his arrest.
The buzz of the supposed event first began floating around earlier in the year, suggesting that a celebratory night took a foul turn for Starks in Calgary, post his triumph at the Owen Hart Memorial Foundation Tournament, ending in a dispute which purportedly earned him a night behind bars.
During a fresh episode of the podcast “Insight with Chris Van Vliet”, the wrestling champ vehemently refuted claims of the incident occurring. He stated,
“I’ve never strayed away from working hard, and I will be damned if I have anyone put that into question. That is insane. I have worked tremendously hard, tirelessly hard, since 2020 in AEW, and even before AEW I worked hard. Even at NWA. There is no one at NWA that would tell you I was a lazy worker. Ask Nick Aldis. Ask Billy Corgan. Ask Eddie Kingston. Ask LA Knight. You’ll never find it. It’s unheard of. If anyone ever says that I’m difficult to deal with or that I’m lazy or that I’m an alcoholic and got arrested [laughs]. It’s all lies.”
In response to the rumors, he said, “It didn’t happen, but I will say that I sound like a total badass. I beat up a cop and got arrested, and was able to wrestle the following year. There’s been a few crazy stories, and they all come from a place of trying to tear me down. There are people in the industry, and people outside of the industry too, that are, so to speak, just p*ssies.”