Ricky Steamboat Reveals He Changed AEW Collision Storyline

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WWE Hall of Famer Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat recently made numerous appearances on AEW Collision, where he served as the special referee for CM Punk’s ‘Real’ AEW World Championship match against Ricky Starks.

Steamboat played an important part in the slow burn heel turn of Starks on the show, when he attacked Steamboat with a strap after his loss to Punk.

Steamboat would eventually return after Starks challenged him to a match at All Out, instead revealing that Bryan Danielson would be Starks’ opponent on the show.

Steamboat recently spoke to Sportskeeda, where he revealed that he was originally planned to attack Starks, but he pitched to change the angle in order to help get Starks over.

He said:

“They suggested an outcome that I didn’t like. I said, ‘Look, you’re doing a slow turn with this kid, Ricky Starks, and trying to turn him heel and what you’re suggesting is, there’s not going to be any heat on him. So I made the suggestion of what everybody saw, and I said, ‘I’d like to put some heat on this kid’, and so everything carried out to the tee.

“They had a result where everything would go down as it was and then as he would spin me around and try to take a shot, I would block it and give him some big chops and he take a bump through the ropes out on the floor and then scurry up the ramp. It would be like a happy, happy moment. I’m thinking and I’m picturing this, and I said, ‘Well, where’s the heat there? Where’s the heat for the kid?’ Number one, I caught him with his foot on the ropes. So that was a happy moment. The referee got knocked down, so I did my job. I was the second, so I got in the ring and he got counted 1-2-3, so there’s another happy moment. Then to spin me around, I block the punch, the cheap shot, and then hit him with big chops and then a big double chop and he takes that bump on the floor, and then tail between his legs and scurrying up the ramp to the back. There’s absolutely no heat and plus the fact you know, I’m 70 and they’re gonna say,’God, Stark, a 70-year old man, you know, an old timer just whipped up on you.’ I said, ‘We got to turn this around to where, you know, he’s got to catch me off guard and sucker me and get me down and do something to where it’s almost to the point of disgusting and shameful.’”

transcription via WrestlingNews.co

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• AEW
• ricky starks
• Ricky Steamboat
• Collision

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