10 Best Wrestling Tweets You Must Read (Before Twitter Dies)

3. Ricky Starks Ends Brian Cage

Brian Cage, when he was vanished off AEW TV last year, disagreed when told that TV wasn't the platform for his incredulously fun in-ring work. He can in fact cut a promo, he reasoned.

He is adequate, and fared well enough with the belligerent Taz at his mouthpiece. He gets less screen time now that he's been brought back and paired with Prince Nana, and basically exists to put people over in cool matches that generate awestruck reactions when the spots happen.

He thinks he can do more, but Ricky Starks rather put paid to the idea that he's a main event-level talent capable of hanging in every aspect of the business - because if the above exchange took place in a live, televised promo segment, those reactions to his unreal strength would have disappeared as completely as he himself once did. He would have become this decade's equivalent to the 1999 Billy Gunn singles push.

Twitter rarely invites its users to imagine how a tweet might sound, but Starks does with this immortal post. You can almost hear the mocking, sassy, deadpan disdain. The word "bitch" has reached parody levels now, and should be retired forever.

Nobody is going to restore its old power like Starks.

 
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