AEW Star Addresses Infamous Promo Segment With Adam Copeland

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An AEW star has addressed an infamous promo segment they had with Adam Copeland on AEW television last week.

Following Adam Copeland’s arrival in AEW after his WWE departure last year, he took part in a promo segment on an episode of AEW Collision with Bryan Danielson, Christian Cage and Ricky Starks.

The segment often gets shared online due to the barbs thrown between the two men, specifically with Copeland referring to Starks as a ‘vanilla midget version’ of The Rock.

Speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Starks discussed the promo segment, noting that he doesn’t believe he was the one who came off looking bad in the segment.

He said:

“He called me a ‘vanilla midget Rock ripoff’. That clip goes viral all the time. It’s so funny because at the end of it, I wanted to say more, but if you see me smile and say, ‘Well that really sent me over the edge’ – I only did that because I knew that this was about to get off track.

“Here’s the thing about that – you might as well call me a great heel, and I hate talking like this, but you might as well call me a great heel, because I got somebody so flustered on live TV that they stumbled and stuttered their way into one of the worst insults that you could say that’s so passé, so 2000s. A vanilla midget? I could have hit him with the, ‘I’m black you idiot’, but I didn’t at the time. I could have done that, I didn’t.

“Personally, out of all that, I don’t think that Ricky Starks came out of that looking very bad. It wasn’t me that looked bad in that whole situation. It is what it is.”

Starks has also addressed being spotted with Cody Rhodes at the Royal Rumble, which you can see here.

There has been an update on Starks’ current status with AEW amid his ongoing absence, which you can see here.

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