Ricky Steamboat Requested Ricky Starks Beatdown On AEW Collision

Last Saturday on AEW Collision, Ricky Starks lost to CM Punk in a “real” World Title match, with WWE Hall of Famer Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat being the special outside official. 

Post-match, Starks beat down Steamboat because Steamboat shoved Starks’ feet off the ropes at the end of the bout. 

While speaking with Nick Hausman for Haus of Wrestling, Cameron “Ceehawk” Hawkins of The Ringer noted Steamboat asked for the beat down (H/t Haus of Wrestling for the transcription.).

“A bit of a Collision note. So, in the original finish, like after the match, Ricky Steamboat was gonna chop Starks, and that was going to be it. Ricky Steamboat pulls Rick and Punk into a room and tells them the finish that we saw. It brought Rick to tears because he appreciated it so much. So, salute to Ricky Steamboat for making a good thing, a great thing,” Hawkins said.

“Well, I mean, you know, that’s my man (Ricky Starks). So we talked about how things go and, you know, especially after the match, I was like, ‘You killed it.’ He was like, ‘Cam, this is what happened,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s so cool.’ Yeah, man, salute to Steamboat. That’s dope. Because think about how cool and how physical and how visceral that was; Ricky Steamboat’s idea, and his whole thing was, ‘Look, man, this is supposed to make you look good. Not me.”

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