10 Wrestlers Who NEED To Get Out Of AEW

4. Ricky Starks

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Back to quite miserable wrestling creative.

Ricky Starks worked an interminable feud opposite Chris Jericho that peaked long before they wrestled again at Revolution in March. How did AEW follow up on that potentially star-boosting win? By booking Starks in a lesser rivalry against Bullet Club Gold members Juice Robinson and Jay White.

That's been trundling along on TV without much excitement since early-March, and it's another humdrum affair for the former Team Taz man. All of this stretched out stuff has caused some fans online to wonder if All Elite plans to let Ricky tread water forever. It says everything that even beating Jericho did bugger all for his standing on the roster.

Is that unfair? It might be unfair. However, yours truly has been waiting on something more from Starks for a while now. He has all the tools, but creative (despite some big wins) never seems to back him up for long.

Must be getting tiresome for the man himself by now.

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